Medical Transcription • The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and Department of Defense (DOD) are preparing to launch a program introducing medical transcription as a mobile career of choice to thousands of military spouses nationwide. AHDI and MTIA represent the medical transcriptionists and business owners who provide the clinical documentation services to the U.S. healthcare delivery system.
• Medical transcriptionists specialize in medical language and clinical documentation. They interpret and transcribe dictation by physicians and other healthcare professionals regarding patient assessment, therapeutic procedures, clinical course, diagnosis, and prognosis for the medical legal record to ensure accuracy and completeness for reimbursement, patient safety and continuity of care.
• Upon successful completion of school (approximately 6-18 months depending on school), the military spouse is eligible to take an entry level credentialing exam to assess readiness for apprenticeship, and then can begin employment either through a two-year federally sponsored apprenticeship program with a medical transcription company, fast track training or job placement. Military spouses can live, learn, work, and service clients in multiple states, making this career a great match for the military spouse on the move. 80% of medical transcriptionists work from home
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Principles of Accounting I - 3 Credits
Overview
This course presents accounting principles and their application to various businesses. Covers income determination, asset valuation, and financial reporting. The course studies both service and merchandise operations including internal controls and analysis of financial statements. This course is designed to give the beginning business student a general understanding of the purpose of accounting, the capacity to perform basic accounting functions, and a working knowledge in financial statement preparation.
Objectives
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
Analyze routine business transactions and events, record them in journals and ledgers, summarize recorded data, determine effects of internal value changes within the business enterprise, and prepare financial statements.
Understand both accounting theory and practice which will prepare them for continued study in accounting or to acquire the ability to manage personal and career finances.
Materials
The required textbook for this course is:
Fundamental Accounting Principles, Volume I, 18th ed., by Larson, Wild and Chiappetta, 2007. Package includes FREE 2003 Krispy Kreme AR, TopicTackler CD, NetTutor, OLC with PowerWeb
Practice Set: Thunder Mountain Snowmobile
Types of at home careers - Book Keeping
Principles of Federal Taxation I - 3 Credits
Overview
This course presents the study of federal taxation as it relates to individuals and other tax entities. Includes tax planning, compliance and reporting.
Objectives
There are no prerequisites for this course. However, it is recommended that you have some prior accounting knowledge or income tax preparation experience.
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
Understand federal taxation as it applies to Individuals.
Understand current tax laws and concepts and apply them to actual situations affecting individuals.
Calculate taxable income and tax liability for individual taxpayers, with and without the actual Internal Revenue Service forms.
Follow instructions and prepare commonly-used IRS forms and schedules for individual taxpayers.
Minimize personal income taxes through application of concepts of tax planning.
Identify sources of current information on tax matters.
Keep the necessary financial data to prepare tax returns and do tax planning.
Answer CPA exam questions that relate to individual federal income taxation.
Materials
The required textbook for this course is:
CCH Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Topics 2008
by Smith, Harmelink, and Hasselback
Published by CCH Publishing
Copyright 2007
Types of at home careers - file individual tax returns
Introduction to Windows XP
(1 Credit)
Overview
In this course, you will learn the beginning functions necessary to operate Windows XP.
You will learn by following step-by-step instructions and corresponding screen shots for every step. Opening pages provide an in-depth perspective for each project and provides coverage of the features of Windows XP. A project-based approach provides a real-world context for learning skills. Three projects provide coverage of Microsoft Windows fundamentals.
What you learn in this course will benefit you by giving you the basic operating system knowledge to enable you to move on to application courses.
Objectives
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
Identify the objects on the Microsoft Windows desktop
Add and remove a desktop icon
Open, minimize, maximize, restore, and close a Windows window
Launch an application program, create a text document, and save the document on the desktop
Understand user accounts and user account types
Change a password and picture and switch between user accounts
Display icons in various views in a window
View the contents of a drive and folder
Expand drives and folders in Explorer
Display the contents of drives and folders in Explorer
Copy, rename, and delete files in Explorer
View bitmap images in a filmstrip and as a side show
E-mail files and share folders
Find files and folders using Searcn on the Start menu
Use the Run command
Materials
The required textbook for this course is:
For Windows XP: Microsoft Windows XP Introductory , Shelley, Cashman, Course Technology, 2002
Additionally, all students will need a data disk (blank formatted high-density disk, zip disk, or a writeable CD-ROM) to use to save all your assignments
Editing and Proofreading Skills - 3 Credits
Overview
This course is designed to develop skills essential to creating and editing business documents. It covers grammar, spelling, diction, punctuation, capitalization, and other usage problems.
Objectives
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
Locate and correct:
Errors in names, addresses, and numbers.
Omissions, repetitions, and transpositions.
Misspelled words and errors in word usage.
Errors in capitalization and punctuation.
Errors in plurals, possessives, and word division.
Errors in number style.
Errors in grammar and sentence structure.
Style and format errors.
Errors in statistical and technical documents.
Inconsistencies.
Demonstrate the ability to recognize and edit the following:
Substandard English.
Difficult words.
Trite language.
Passive voice.
Wordliness and redundancies.
I-attitude and negative words.
Biased language and stereotypes.
Errors in final copy.
Materials
The required textbooks for this courseare:
Proofreading & Editing Precision, 5th Edition, Pagel, Thomson/South-Western
A Writer's Reference, Hacker, Bedford St.Martin's, 5th Edition
| Medical Coding The medical coder's job is to abstract services rendered from patient's medical records after their healthcare appointment into standardized alpanumeric codes. These codes are used for billing insurance companies, and worker's compensation carriers for medical services from doctors, licensed healthcare provieders, and therapists in healthcare clinics, hospitals, and spas.
Diagnosis and Service Codes
Medical coders analyze the healthcare provider's documentation to assign universal alphanumeric codes that are vital to medical billing, medical research and healthcare statistics, as well as the reimbursement process for the provider. Furthermore, accurate coding makes the medical record keeping and practice management processes more cost-effective and reliable.
Diagnosis Codes:
In medicine, diagnostic codes are used to group and identify diseases, disorders, symptoms, and medical signs, and are used to measure morbidity and mortality.
Reimbursement Process
Medicare, Medicaid and 3rd party insurance companies have strict compensation guidelines, which must be followed. All types of encounters, services, tests, treatments, supplies and procedures provided to a patient have a code which consists of a set of numbers and combinations of sets of numbers.
Even encounters with patients who have seemingly simple complaints such as a headache, indigestion, bruised toe, or runny nose have specific service codes. To find the codes, the medical coder uses standard industry code books: ICD for diagnoses codes, CPT for procedure codes and HCPCS for Medicare claims. The medical coder is also responsible for entering these codes into databases and submitting associated claims electronically for each encounter in a timely manner.
Coding for Services
Coding for medical and healthcare services, operative reports, and discharge summaries in health care is complicated. Therefore employers prefer to hire trained and often, certified individuals to ascertain that their coder is proficient and familiar with different types of insurance plans, regulations, and codes. In the end it's a win-win situation for everybody, because when the provider gets paid—so does the medical coder! Nationwide studies show that the average starting pay for a medical coder is $30,000 - $33,000 per year and substantially increases based on training, qualifications and experience in the field. Careerstep www.careerstep.com
User Support/Help Desk Principles
Overview
Introduces a variety of tools and techniques that are used to provide user support in help desk operations. This course includes help desk concepts, customer service skills, troubleshooting problems, writing for end users, help desk operations, and software, needs analysis, facilities management, and other topics related to end user support.
Entry Level Competencies: ITE 180 - Help Desk Support Skills
Objectives
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
Support help desk operations
Provide essential customer service
Address troubleshooting problems effectively and efficiently
Develop reports and needs analysis
Manage operations and facilities
Give end user support in related areas of software and hardware
Materials
The required textbook for this course is:
A Guide to Customer Service Skills for the Help Desk Professional, Second Edition , Donna Knapp, Thomson Course Technology, 2005, 0-619-21641-7
Help Desk Support Skills (3 Credits)
Overview
This course emphasizes instruction in customer support techniques required for analyzing and coordinating software and hardware solutions for end-user needs. This course includes evaluation and communication techniques required to provide help desk support necessary to transfer knowledge and enable implementation of a solution.
Course Prerequisites: IST 115 or equivalent - Introduction to Computer Applications and Concepts
Objectives
If you complete this course and do well, you will be able to:
Assist users in selecting microcomputer hardware systems.
Assist users in selecting microcomputer software productivity packages..
Communicate with vendors.
Provide hardware and software system setup and support.
Train the user to employ the tools and create applications.
Consult with the user to solve hardware and software problems.
Materials
The required textbook for this course is:
TEXTBOOK: A Guide to Computer User Support for Help Desk & Support Specialists, third edition, Fred Beisse, Course Technology, Copyright 2004, ISBN 0-619-21510-0
Types of at home careers - IT -Customer Support
Web Page Design I - 3 Credits
Overview
This course provides a working knowledge of web page design and construction using headings, lists, links, images, image maps, tables, forms, frames, and scripts. It is designed to be practical and provide experience designing and implementing the concept of a page on the internet.
Entry Level Competencies:
The student must be able to read and write at a college level. You should know how to use the windows operating system, including Notepad and Windows Explorer. In addition, you should have successfully completed ITE 115 -Introduction to Computer Applications and Concepts
Objectives
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
Explain technical aspects of the Internet pertaining to Web Page Publishing;
Describe the processes involved in establishing content on the World Wide Web;
Apply current Internet publishing standards when developing web page;
Utilize Web Page enhancements and extensions beyond the basic standard.
Materials
The required textbook for this course is:
Site Development Foundations - Version 1.1 , by Prosoft Learning - Thompson Publishing - ISBN - 978-159-3021689.
The data files that are needed to complete the homework exercises are included on a CD that accompanies the textbook.
For information on how to order your textbooks, go to http://eli.nvcc.edu/books/
Print this page and take it with you to avoid confusion.
Additional Software & Hardware Requirements
Text Editor - NotePad or Text Pad
Netscape Navigator 4 (or higher) and Internet Explorer 4.0 (or higher).
A 486/66 PC (Pentium recommended) with at least 16MB of RAM (24MB Recommended) and enough room on your hard drive for a full installation of Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.
A monitor set up for at least 256 colors and 800 x 600 resolution.
Word Processing I - 3 Credits
Overview
This course is designed to teach you the basic skills and concepts of word processing using Microsoft Word 2003 or 2007. You will learn the concepts, functions, and terminology that apply to word processing programs as well as perform those functions with your software.
This course design assumes that you have access to a personal computer with a printer, and an installed copy of Microsoft Word 2003 or 2007 . It also assumes that you have a basic familiarity with the operating system of the computer. If you do not, you should familiarize yourself with it before beginning this course, either by talking with a knowledgeable friend, or by reading an introductory book.
Objectives
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
Create, edit, and print letters, reports, memorandums, manuscripts, tables, and outlines.
Create, edit, and use macros to automate frequently-repeated tasks.
Merge primary documents with secondary data files to produce multiple copies of a letter addressed to many different individuals.
Create and edit documents using columns.
Use a spell checker, thesaurus, and grammar checker.
Explain word processing concepts and functions using correct terminology.
Critically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of word processing software.
This course will also contribute to your ability to:
Use library and other appropriate resources to retrieve useful information.
Use appropriately the instruments of modern technology.
Use a computer system, both hardware and software, appropriate to your discipline or program of study.
Freely express your own viewpoints while maintaining respect for the viewpoints of others.
Generate and evaluate alternative solutions to problems.
Make valid judgments and rational decisions.
Materials
Required Texts and Software
Required Textbooks and Software (Word 2003)
Shelley, Cashman - Microsoft Office Word 2003: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques, with SAM Assessment (3.1) for Office 2003 CD. Course Technology. (If the SAM CD is not shrink wrapped with the text, it will be sold separately in the bookstore)
Microsoft Word 2003. You can purchase Microsoft Office Professional, which includes Microsoft Word, at the student rate. Go to the bookstore link and look for an orange Save Big box. Click on it to find the purchase price and directions.
SUPPLIES: 1 - 3 1/2" high density formatted disks or CD or other storage device for your files.
Required Textbooks and Software (Word 2007)
GO! with Microsoft® Word 2007 Volume 1 by Shelley Gaskin and Robert L. Ferrett, ©2008, published by Pearson Prentice Hall.
ISBN 0-13-512952-4
Storage device for saving files (any of the following: multiple diskettes, CD-RW, flash drive, etc.)
| Information Technology Introduction to Computer Applications and Concepts - 3 Credits
Overview
Computers are important tools in nearly every profession, so almost everyone can benefit by knowing how they work and how to use them. In this course, you will learn the basics of computer hardware, software, and networking. You will also develop basic skills in using Windows and Microsoft Office, and for creating your own web pages. Finally, you will learn how to use computers safely, and you will consider ethical issues related to computer usage.
Learning requires understanding and remembering new ideas and information, and the first assignment in each unit provides presentations and exercises to help you do this. But meaningful learning also requires analyzing and comparing new ideas and information to what we and others know, applying new ideas to real life, and assessing the value of what we are learning. Therefore, the course includes assignments that involve applying and discussing what you are studying. This requires that everyone work through the course on the same weekly schedule, and, participate during the designated parts of the week for interactive assignments.
Objectives
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
Identify and discuss the four main functions of computer hardware: input, processing, output, and storage.
Identify and describe major hardware components.
Identify, describe and use communications and networking terminology and technology to include Internet operations and its uses.
Describe the major operating system functions and demonstrate usage of operating system services to include: disk management, file management, and memory management.
Identify career opportunities in the IT Field.
Identify major milestones in the history of computers.
Identify and discuss computer ethics and security issues.
Identify, discuss and use important categories of application software: word processing, spreadsheet, database management, and presentation graphics.
Identify and discuss software development processes and programming languages.
Create a Web site with xhtml tags and post to a Web server.
Materials
The required textbook and software for this course are:
There are two textbooks required for this course as follows:
GO! Office 2007 (Introductory) by Gaskin, Ferrett, Vargas, and Marks; Prentice Hall, 2008
Technology in Action, 4th edition (Introductory), by Evans, Martin, and Poatsy; Prentice Hall, 2008
(The two books listed above are bundled in one package. The textbooks also come bundled with a myitlab student access kit containing an access code to use myitlab. Note that access codes cannot be reused.)
You will also need the following software to complete this course:
Windows XP or Windows Vista
Office 2007 Professional Edition. Make sure you get the professional version of Office 2007. The standard version does not include Access. NVCC students can purchase Office 2007 Professional at a greatly reduced rate.
Windows XP Professional (3 Credits)
Overview
This course covers Microsoft Windows XP Professional content in one semester. It will empower students to successfully pass the MCSE/MCSA certification exams, and its hands-on approach will also prepare students to face the real-life challenges of a Microsoft networking professional.
You should have a basic understanding of computer use. The terms cut, copy and paste should be familiar to you. You should also know basic file management on your computer; how to create folders and save files where you can find them later. You should also feel comfortable using the Internet, browsing the web and using e-mail.
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Objectives
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
▪ Introduction to the Windows and Networking
▪ Installing XP Professional
▪ Managing Network Protocols
▪ Adding and Configuring Devices and Drivers
▪ Managing Disks and Data Storage
▪ Creating and Managing User and Computer Accounts
▪ Managing File System Access and Security
▪ Implementing and Managing Network Printing
▪ Windows Security Features
▪ Implementing Terminal Services and Remote Access
▪ Performing Network Administrative Tasks
▪ Administrating Web Access
▪ Implementing and Managing Backups and Disaster Recovery
Materials
The required textbook for this course is:
Simpson, DiNicolo, Stewart, Tittel, 70-270, 70-290: MCSE/MCSA Guide to Installing and Managing Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003. Course Technology Incorporated, 2006, ISBN 0-619-21749-9
Other Materials Needed: (Optional)
Windows XP Lab Simulation CD: ISBN 0-619-13090-3
Word Processing II - 3 Credits
Overview
This course is designed to teach you the advanced skills and concepts of word processing. You will learn how to use many of the capabilities of Microsoft Word 2003.
This course design assumes that you have access to a personal computer with a printer, and an installed copy of Microsoft WORD 2003. It also assumes that you have a basic familiarity with the operating system of the computer and the basic features of Microsoft WORD. If you do not you should familiarize yourself with your operating system before beginning this course, either by talking with a knowledgeable friend, or by reading an introductory book.
Objectives
If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
Create a watermark
Use advanced table formatting features
Manipulate pictures and text boxes
Create a newsletter
Use advanced desktop publishing features
Insert fields and bookmarks
Create and import charts
Add, view, edit, copy and change endnotes and footnotes
Create and collapse an outline
Create a table of contents
Format and compile an index
Create and share master documents
Create comments
Create hyperlinks
Create web pages
Create, edit, and use macros to automate frequently-repeated tasks.
Merge primary documents with secondary data files to produce multiple copies of a letter addressed to many different individuals.
Materials
Required Texts
The required textbooks for this course are:
Microsoft Office Word 2003: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques, with SAM Assessment for Office 2003 CD. Shelley, Cashman and Vermatt. Course Technology. (If the SAM CD is not shrink wrapped with the text, it will be sold separately in the bookstore)
Software: Microsoft Word 2003
3.5" diskettes, zip disk or writeable CD on which to store your documents. |