INQUIRIES
Mailing Addresses:
Main Campus: Extension Center: (mailing address) Trocaire College Russell J. Salvatore School of 360 Choate Avenue Hospitality & Business Buffalo, NY 14220-2094 6681 Transit Road Williamsville, NY 14221
Website: www.trocaire.edu
Telephone Directory Dial direct to the desired office. Area Code: 716
General Information (Switchboard) ………… 826-1200 Academic Programs Academic Affairs Office ………………………… 827-2471 Computer Network Administration …………….. 827-4300 Admissions Office ………………………………. 827-2545 Diagnostic Medical Sonography ……………… 827-2497 Advisement & Career Services Office ………... 827-2444 Echocardiography ………………………………. 827-2497 Alumni Services …………………………………. 827-4344 General Studies …………………………………. 827-2466 Bookstore ………………………………………… 827-2437 Health Information Technology ……………….. 827-2560 Chief Enrollment Officer………………………… 827-2450 Healthcare Informatics ………….……………… 827-2560 Communications Office (Public Relations)…… 827-4347 Hospitality Management ……………………….. 827-4304 Development & Community Engagement…….. 827-4344 Human Resource Management ……………….. 827-4309 Disability Services……………………………….. 827-2412 Massage Therapy ………………………………. 827-2492 Distance Learning Education Coordinator……. 827-2557 Medical Assistant ……………………………….. 827-2563 Financial Aid Office …………………………….. 827-2416 Nursing (A.A.S.) …………………………………. 827-2407 Help Desk ………………………………………... 827-4330 Nursing (B.S.) …………………………………… 827-2407 Health Office……………………………………… 827-2489 Nutrition and Dietetics…………………………… 827-4307 Human Resource Office ……………………….. 827-2559 Practical Nursing ……………………………...... 827-2407 Library, Rachel R. Savarino ……………………. 827-2434 Radiologic Technology …………………………. 827-2443 Mission and Service …………………………….. 827-2483 Surgical Technology ……………………………. 827-2454 Opportunity Program (TOP) …………………… 827-2562 President …………………………………………. 827-2423 Registrar …………………………………………. 827-2485 Registration Office ……………………………… 827-2415 Russell J. Salvatore School of Hospitality and Business …………………….. 827-4300 Seneca Street Building………………………….. 827-4320 Special Events (Fundraising) ………………….. 827-4344 Student Accounts (Billing)……………………… 827-2427 Student Affairs Office …………………………… 827-2481 Testing (Accuplacer) ……………………………. 827-2545 Tours, Campus ………………………………….. 827-2545 Transcripts ……………………………………….. 827-2469 Veteran’s Services …………………………..….. 827-2553 Workforce Development ……………………..… 827-4310
For updated information please consult the Trocaire College Website. 1 President’s Welcome
Welcome to Trocaire College, where lives are transformed. We work to ensure our students will be graduates of choice in career-oriented professions. By enrolling at Trocaire College, you are taking an important step in your journey toward a career of achievement and a life of purpose.
Unique benefits of a Trocaire education include: Excellent career outcomes and opportunities for lifelong education Personal attention and support services to help students succeed A comprehensive, quality liberal arts foundation A culture committed to personal enrichment and service in the spirit of the Sisters of Mercy A competitive private-college tuition coupled with financial aid resources Extraordinarily high alumni satisfaction rates
Whether they come straight from the halls of high school or are returning to the classroom after years in the workforce, our students are driven, determined and passionate about their futures. Your experiences here—the hands-on clinicals and internships, program-specific courses from faculty who are experts in their field, liberal arts classes that enhance critical thinking skills—will prepare you for the opportunities that await in the working world.
This catalog provides a comprehensive view to the academic offerings and student support services we provide at the College. It also includes information that can be helpful to you as you navigate your experience while you pursue your educational goals.
As president of Trocaire, I’m excited about the commitment our faculty, staff and administrators make every day to support you and your academic goals. You should be proud to be part of such a caring higher educational community that embodies the Mercy traditions of our founders. I wish you much educational and personal success this year!
Sincerely,
Bassam M. Deeb, Ph.D. President Trocaire College 2
Trocaire at a Glance
History: A private coeducational Catholic college with a strong liberal arts core, established by the Buffalo Regional Community of the Sisters of Mercy in 1958. Accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York.
Student Enrollment: Approximately 1,369 students
Student / Faculty Ratio: 11 / 1
Location: Main Campus: 360 Choate Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14220 – behind Mercy Hospital and adjacent to Cazenovia Park. 2262 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14210 Extension Center: 6881 Transit Road, Williamsville, NY 14221 (Mailing Address)
Residence: 94% of students are from Erie County 6% of students are from surrounding counties
Financial Aid: Over 96% of Trocaire Students receive some form of financial assistance.
Programs of Study: Bachelor Degree Programs: Healthcare Informatics* Nursing
Associate Degree Programs: Computer Network Administration* General Studies Health Information Technology Healthcare Informatics* Hospitality Management* Human Resource Management* Massage Therapy Medical Assistant Nursing Nutrition and Dietetics* Radiologic Technology Surgical Technology
Certificate Programs: Computer Network Administration* Diagnostic Medical Sonography Echocardiography Healthcare Informatics* Hospitality Management* Human Resource Management* Massage Therapy Practical Nursing
*For these programs, all courses except one are held at the Extension Center. The remaining course must be taken at the main campus. Workforce Development / Life Long Learning: Offering a variety of professional, credit-free and CEU courses.
While the catalog was prepared on the basis of the best information available at the time of publication, all information including statements of fees, course offerings, admissions and graduation requirements is subject to change without notice or obligation. Please check the college website for any updated information as it relates to this catalog at http://my.trocaire.edu/academics/registrar/ 3
Table of Contents
President’s Welcome ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1 Trocaire at a Glance ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 2 Academic Calendar ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 General Information ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 5 Directions …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8 Admissions ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 9 Workforce Development / Life Long Learning ………………………………………………………………………………… 12 Tuition ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 13 Financial Aid Information ………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 16 Student Services………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 26 Academic Policies and Procedures …………………………………………………………………………………………..... 30 Degrees and Programs of Study ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 43 Course Descriptions ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 82 Directories: Board of Trustees ……………………………………………………………………………...... 103 Administration …………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 104 Faculty …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 106 Clinical Affiliation Agreements ………………………………………………………………………………………… 108 Advisory Councils ……………………………………………………………………………...... 110 Index ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 112
NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY Trocaire College does not discriminate in admission, employment, in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other institutionally administered programs, on the basis of an individual’s actual or perceived, race, color, creed, religion, religious practice, national origin, ethnic group, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, political affiliation, age, marital status, military status, veteran status, disability, domestic violence victim status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by New York state and/or federal non-discrimination laws. Retaliation against an individual because he or she made a complaint, testified or participated in any manner in an investigation or proceeding will not be tolerated and is unlawful under Civil Rights laws.
Civil Rights Compliance Officer
Inquiries concerning the college’s non-discrimination policies should be directed to:
Compliance and Diversity Coordinator 360 Choate Avenue, Room 321 Buffalo, NY 14220 (716) 827-2461 [email protected]
For further information on notice of non-discrimination, please contact: New York Office Telephone: (646) 428-3900 Office for Civil Rights FAX: (646) 428-3843 U.S. Department of Education TDD: (800) 877-8339 32 Old Slip, 26th Floor Email: [email protected] New York, NY 10005-2500 http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/howto.pdf
SEXUAL HARASSMENT STATEMENT It is the policy of Trocaire College to establish an environment in which the dignity and worth of all members of the institutional community are respected. In keeping with this principle, the sexual harassment or sexual assault of any member of the campus community is considered unacceptable conduct and will not be tolerated. Retaliation against anyone who lodges a complaint or participates in an investigation will not be tolerated.
FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVACY Under the law, the College assures the student of access rights as specified in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Students may waive their rights of accessibility to references or records. In accordance with legislation governing privacy, the College does not make available any information regarding students, without written consent, other than verification of dates of attendance and directory information.
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2016-2017 Academic Calendar
All Academic Programs
FALL 2016 August 8 Scheduled Early Nursing Classes Begin 22 Regular Classes Begin 29 Last Day to Drop/Add September 5 Labor Day - No Classes, College Closed October 10 Columbus Day - No Classes, College Open 11 No Classes, College Open 12 - 18 Mid-Term Week 31 Last Day to Officially Withdraw November 23 - 27 Thanksgiving Break - No Classes, College Open November 23, College Closed November 24 - 27 December 6 - 12 Final Week of Semester; December 12 – Last Day of the Semester 16 Fall Commencement 24 - 31 Christmas Break - College Closed
SPRING 2017 January 1 New Year's Day - College Closed 16 Martin Luther King Day - College Closed 17 Classes Begin 24 Last Day to Drop/Add February 20 President’s Day – No Classes, College Open 21 No Classes, College Open March 8 - 14 Mid-Term Week 28 Last Day to Officially Withdraw April 12 - 16 Easter Break – No Classes, College Open April 12-13, College Closed April 14 - 16 May 2 - 8 Final Week of Semester; May 8 – Last Day of the Semester 16 Spring Commencement
SUMMER 2017 May 22 Summer Session I Begins; Classes Begin 29 Memorial Day – No Classes; College Closed 30 Last Day to Drop / Add June 13 Last Day to Officially Withdraw 22 Last Day of Summer Session I 26 Summer Session II Begins; Classes Begin July 4 July 4th – No Classes, College Closed (July 4 on a Tuesday – hold classes Mon) 5 Last Day to Drop/Add 18 Last Day to Officially Withdraw 27 Last Day of Summer Session II
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History Accreditation
Trocaire College, a private coeducational Catholic Trocaire College is accredited by the Middle States college with a strong liberal arts core, was established Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, by the Buffalo Regional Community of the Sisters of Philadelphia, PA 19104. (267-284-5000). The Middle Mercy in 1958 and is a member of the Conference for States Commission on Higher Education is an Mercy Higher Education. The College is governed by a institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Board of Trustees. It has a liberal arts core curriculum Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher which provides the essential backdrop against which all Education Accreditation. The Health Information programs of study are formed. Trocaire is chartered by Technology Program is accredited by the Commission the Regents of the University of the State of New York on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information and confers the degrees of Bachelor of Science, Management, a specialized accrediting agency Bachelor of Professional Studies, Associate in Arts, recognized by the Council for Higher Education Associate in Applied Science, and Associate in Science. Accreditation. Programs in Nursing are accredited by the It is also authorized to confer Pre-Baccalaureate Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, a Certificates. specialized accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Chartered in 1958, the former Sancta Maria Junior Secretary of Education. The Medical Assistant Program College opened with an enrollment of young religious is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of women preparing to be educators. The status of the Allied Health Education Programs, a specialized college changed in 1965 when the State Education accrediting agency recognized by the Council for Higher Department extended the charter to permit the Education Accreditation. The Nutrition and Dietetics admission of lay women. The curriculum was enlarged to Program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for meet the needs of the community which demanded Education in Nutrition and Dietetics, a specialized increased opportunities for postsecondary education. accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of In June 1967, Trocaire College graduated its first lay Education. The Radiologic Technology Program is students. A few months before, the name Sancta Maria, accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education had been changed to Trocaire, the Gaelic word for in Radiologic Technology, a specialized accrediting Mercy. The change gave the college a distinctive name agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and one significant for a Community dedicated by its and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The foundress, Catherine McAuley, to the works of mercy. Surgical Technology Program is accredited by the In 1971, Trocaire became a coeducational institution. Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education The first male students were admitted in the Fall of 1972. Programs, a specialized accrediting agency recognized In the late 1990s, Trocaire undertook major by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The renovations under the Support Hope capital campaign. A non-credit Phlebotomy Program is approved by the new four story wing was built at 360 Choate Avenue. All National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory classrooms, the library, and other offices housed at 110 Sciences, a specialized accrediting agency recognized Red Jacket Parkway were moved to Choate Avenue. by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. State of the art computer and science labs were added Information regarding a program’s accreditation status to respond to the needs of the 21st century. and any written correspondence or documentation In 2005, the Inspire Hope capital campaign was related to that accreditation can be acquired upon launched. Through the generosity of Russell J. request. This request should be sent to the Vice Salvatore, the Russell J. Salvatore School of Hospitality President for Academic Affairs and Planning in writing and Business at 6681 Transit Road, Williamsville, NY either through hardcopy or electronic formats. The 14221 opened in 2007. The site expanded with a second inquiry should identify the accrediting body and the floor in 2009. Trocaire’s charter was amended by the specific information needed. Expect a minimum of two Regents of the University of the State of New York in weeks from inquiry date for a response. 2009 to allow the college to confer the degree of Bachelor of Science. Trocaire now offers several programs at the Bachelor’s level. Academic offerings at Trocaire have continued to expand in response to community needs as determined through community surveys and analysis of local, regional and national trends.
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Trocaire College Mission Statement Consumer Information
Trocaire College, a private career-oriented Catholic The Consumer Information page, on the college’s College, in the spirit of the Sisters of Mercy, strives to website, provides prospective students, current students empower students toward personal enrichment, dignity and employees with information about Trocaire College and self-worth through education in a variety of in accordance with the Higher Education Opportunity professions and in the Liberal Arts. Act. Visit the Consumer Information page for more Recognizing the individual needs of a diverse student information: body, Trocaire College provides life learning and http://trocaire.edu/about/consumer-information development within a community-based environment. Trocaire College prepares students for service in the Buffalo universal community. Greater Buffalo, situated at the mouth of the Niagara Philosophy River and the east shore of Lake Erie, stands as the Empire State’s Gateway to the West and a starting point Catholic in tradition, Trocaire College is informed by for Canadian travel. the Christian belief in the innate dignity of the human Metropolitan Buffalo is home to the Albright-Knox Art person and a desire to further the growth potential of the Gallery, the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, student seeking the personal attention of a small college. the Buffalo Museum of Science, Kleinhans Music Hall, Our commitment to education is best demonstrated by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Shea’s Buffalo our focus on excellence in teaching. It is important to Center for the Performing Arts and twelve Colleges and provide a flexible structure in which students may Universities. explore their capabilities. Thus, they may become more Action abounds and surrounds / the “Queen City of the fully aware of themselves, of their potentialities and Lakes” – “The City of Good Neighbors” – the titles limitations as they encounter the complexities of a earned and worn proudly by Buffalo. rapidly evolving world. TROCAIRE’S MAIN CAMPUS Service Learning at Trocaire College Trocaire, located at 360 Choate Avenue, is sited in a Service learning is a teaching and learning approach residential area of South Buffalo adjacent to Mercy that integrates meaningful community service with Hospital and Cazenovia Park. It is readily accessible: instruction and reflection to enrich the learning three bus lines serve the campus; exits 54 and 55 of the experience, promote growth in compassion and critical New York State Thruway are a few blocks away; the Tifft thinking skills, foster civic responsibility, and strengthen Street exit from the Buffalo Skyway brings one to communities. Trocaire’s door. Service learning offers students immediate The South Buffalo locale is well noted for its proximity opportunities to apply classroom learning to support or to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens and enhance the work of local agencies to affect positive Conservatory, Our Lady of Victory Basilica, Erie Basin change in the community. Students engage in activities Marina, Coca-Cola Field, Ralph Wilson Stadium, First that address human and community needs designed to Niagara Center, and Father Baker’s institutions. achieve desired learning outcomes. Following their experience, students will complete a reflection exercise, Learning Facilities: Main Campus an essential element to service learning. Before completing each academic program, all The main campus is mostly situated on the campus of students must participate in a service learning Mercy Hospital in an approximately 89,000 sq. ft. experience as part of the graduation requirement. building at 360 Choate Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y. 14220. The type of experience is at the discretion of the The centerpiece of Trocaire’s main building is the academic program and/or professor in collaboration with Rachel R. Savarino Library on the fourth floor of the front the Coordinator of Service Learning. wing. This wing also houses administrative offices, In addition to enhancing academic learning, personal classrooms, language, computer and science growth, and meeting a community need, service learning laboratories, the Margaret L. Wendt Center, Admissions highlights the Mercy tradition of service to the universal Office, President’s Office and the Trocaire College community, an integral part of Trocaire College’s mission Bookstore. statement. The central wing of the college houses the Registrar’s Office, Financial Aid Office, Health Office, Student
Accounts Office, the Career Center, the McAuley Meditation Room, Trocaire Opportunity Program Office,
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Veteran’s Affairs Office, classrooms, laboratories, the Massage Therapy courses, as well as hands-on Palisano Center for Academic Success, and a student training in the massage therapy laboratory and student- lounge. run clinic, are offered in a 7,500 sq. ft. facility at 2262 The rear wing of the college houses classrooms, a Seneca Street. The space includes classroom/laboratory computer help desk, the Nursing Laboratories, the areas as well as six clinical massage rooms and a clinic Radiologic Technology Laboratory, faculty offices, staff office. offices, student cafeteria, and Student Affairs offices. The Surgical Technology laboratory is designed to In addition to the main building on Choate Avenue, the simulate an operating room setting. It is furnished with main campus includes a building at 2262 Seneca Street, equipment, instrumentation, supplies and furniture. Buffalo, NY. The Massage Therapy clinic, Massage The laboratory setting for the Health Information Therapy program and several multi-purpose classrooms Technology program is designed to simulate the actual are housed at that location. Shuttle service is available work environment of a hospital Medical Records to transport students to and from the Seneca Street Department. Equipped with computer work stations, the building and the main building on Choate Avenue. area is designed to facilitate skill building in functions common to management of health information. Computer Facilities: Main Campus The Medical Assistant laboratory simulates a physician’s office setting. Equipment, instruments and Trocaire College provides its students with a high supplies used in a medical office setting are available in quality computing environment. There are over 90 PCs the laboratory. available for student use. The PCs are located in three computer labs, the Palisano Center for Academic Extension Center: Russell J. Salvatore Success, and the Library. For instructional effectiveness, School of Hospitality and Business all of the classrooms and labs have state-of-the-art projection technology that allows the instructor’s screen The College presently operates an Extension Center at to be viewed by the class. All PCs in the labs are 6681 Transit Road, Williamsville, N.Y. The Extension networked to your student home drive (H:/drive). All Center, which hosts the Russell J. Salvatore School of student PCs run the Microsoft Windows 7 operating Hospitality and Business, is housed in a 15,000 sq. ft. system. Student PCs provide excellent high-speed building, and contains state-of-the-art educational Internet access through the college’s 50 Mbps internet facilities, including Smart™ enabled classrooms, state- connections. For those with mobile devices, wireless of-the art science lab, a fully-equipped culinary access is also available throughout the campus. instruction laboratory, a well-appointed computer In addition, all academic PCs have a robust array of networking lab, the Penfold Commons, and the Statler current software providing students with the up-to-date Foundation Hospitality, Food and Nutrition Service skills required by today’s technically demanding Learning Laboratory. workplace. Students may take most of the required course work in The Office of Information Technology Help Desk the following programs: Computer Network provides student support and manages the computing Administration, Healthcare Informatics, Hospitality resources of the college. Management, Human Resource Management and Nutrition and Dietetics at the Extension Center. Laboratory Facilities: Main Campus However, for all of these programs students must take at least one course at the main campus. In addition, Trocaire College has fully equipped laboratories which students may take general education courses as offered, support courses in the natural sciences, healthcare, and including some laboratory classes. business. The Natural Science department maintains Biology, Microbiology, Anatomy & Physiology, and all- Hours of Operation purpose labs. The Nursing and Practical Nursing programs are each During scheduled class sessions, the college opens supported by state-of-the-art, multi-dimensional one hour prior to the earliest scheduled class and closes laboratories equipped with computer-assisted one half hour after completion of the latest scheduled instructional programs, interactive software, teaching class. models, facilities and supplies for demonstration, Hours between semesters and during the summer vary practice and testing. There is also a nursing simulation and are posted. Anyone wishing to know the hours of lab. operation of an office or service should contact the The Diagnostic Imaging (Radiologic Technology) Suite campus receptionist. consists of two energized control areas including safety features, lead lined walls, a dark room, and state-of-the- art operational units.
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Location: Directions to Trocaire College Salvatore’s Grand Hotel and Russell’s Steaks, Chops and More Restaurant to the end of the lot.
Main Campus:
Coming from downtown Buffalo: Take the Skyway and exit at Tifft St./Fuhrmann
Boulevard. Proceed to the stop sign and turn left on Tifft Street. Continue on Tifft Street to McKinley Parkway – turn right. The second street on the left is Lorraine Avenue. Turn left on Lorraine and proceed to Abbott
Road. Turn right onto Abbott Road (South Buffalo Mercy Hospital will be on your right). Turn right on Choate Avenue which is the first street past the hospital. Trocaire College will be on your right.
Coming from north of Buffalo: Take NYS Thruway I-190 South to Exit 3 (Seneca Street). Follow the road (which is one way) to the first signal light. At the signal light, turn right onto Bailey Avenue. Once on Bailey Avenue, proceed to McKinley Parkway and turn left. Stay on McKinley parkway up through two signal lights and then turn left onto Abbott
Road. Stay on Abbott Road and turn right onto Choate Avenue (the first street past South Buffalo Mercy Hospital). Trocaire will be on the right.
Coming from the southtowns: Take NYS Thruway 90 East to the Lackawanna toll booths. After toll booths take first exit which is Ridge Road. Or, if approaching from Route 219, take Exit 55
West Seneca. Proceed through three signals to Potter Road. Turn left and travel approximately 2 miles through intersection of Abbott Road/Red Jacket Parkway/Warren Spahn Way. Follow Abbott Road to the first street on the left. Turn left on Choate Avenue. Trocaire College will be on the right.
Coming from northeast of Buffalo:
Take NYS Thruway 90 West to Exit 54 (Route 400). Once on Route 400 take the first exit – Seneca Street, West Seneca. Proceed to the signal light. Turn right on Seneca Street (Route 16 North). Stay on Seneca Street for approximately 1½ miles. Turn left on Cazenovia Street. Take Cazenovia Street to Abbott Road. Turn left on Abbott Road. Turn right on Choate Avenue (one street past South Buffalo Mercy Hospital). Trocaire
College will be on the right.
Extension Center – Russell J. Salvatore
School of Hospitality and Business
From Buffalo:
Take NYS Thruway 90 East to Exit 49. Turn left on Transit Road (Route 78 North). Proceed about a half mile to Freeman Street and turn right at the light. Freeman Street ends with a traffic circle. On the circle, take the second right and proceed down the drive of
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Admissions
Trocaire College seeks qualified men and women who completion of the academic requirements for their are able to profit from the educational opportunities desired program, the student may then be reviewed for available at Trocaire College. Qualified students are acceptance into that program. The admission admitted without regard, to actual or perceived race, requirements for each program are explained in greater color, creed, religion, religious practice, national origin, detail under each program outline found in this catalog. ethnic group, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, Students should speak to an Admissions political affiliation, age, marital status, military status, Counselor or to a Program Director prior to veteran status, disability, domestic violence victim registration to insure they understand all of the status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited academic requirements for advancement in the by New York State and/or federal non-discrimination program of their choice. laws. No person is denied admission or access solely 3. Transcripts because of any physical, mental, or medical impairment Official transcripts of academic work completed both which is unrelated to the ability to engage in the activities in high school and in all post-secondary institutions are involved in the educational requirements or occupation required before an applicant’s admission is complete. for which application has been made. Individuals requesting information or to schedule an Application Procedure appointment to tour the Main Campus or the Extension Center should contact: 1. Apply On-Line. Go to our home page at www.trocaire.edu Trocaire College - or - Office of Admissions Submit a completed paper application to: 360 Choate Avenue Trocaire College Buffalo, NY 14220-2094 Office of Admission Telephone: (716) 827-2545 360 Choate Avenue Buffalo, NY 14220-2094 Or visit our website: www.trocaire.edu Both application methods are FREE! General Requirements 2. Send an official secondary school transcript and/or 1. College Admission GED certificate to the Office of Admissions. In addition, Candidates for admission to the college must be official transcripts of work from any post-secondary graduated from an approved secondary school with a institution should be forwarded, if applicable. You may minimum of sixteen credit units or must provide evidence obtain a GED transcript request form from the Office of that an equivalent degree has been completed (or will be Admissions or visit the New York State Education completed in keeping with New York State Guidelines for Department website for online assistance at Equivalency Diploma or based on earned college credit). http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ged/. Candidates who have completed a homeschool program are also eligible for admission. Written 3. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that all forms documentation of this completion must be provided from are completed and forwarded to the Office of the collaborating public school district. Admissions.
2. Program Admission Personal Interview The ACCUPLACER placement test is administered to prospective or entering students to determine whether Although a personal interview is not required, it is they have acceptable college level competencies in strongly recommended to insure student success. To reading, writing, and mathematics. Appointments to take arrange for an interview, applicants may e-mail their the ACCUPLACER test can be made by contacting the request at [email protected], or call the office directly at Office of Admissions at (716) 827-2545 or (716) 827- (716) 827-2545. In certain instances when more 4300. information about an applicant is needed, the Office of Students applying for select programs may be Admissions may contact an applicant directly and required to participate in two stages of academic request an interview. In these cases, no admissions preparedness. Initial admittance the program may decision will be made until the interview process has require a student to be placed into a “general studies” or been conducted. “pre-professional” component. Upon satisfactory 10 Admissions
Action on Applications Residency Requirement
Trocaire maintains a rolling admissions policy, and A student must earn a minimum of thirty credits at thus, applications are processed throughout the calendar Trocaire College to be eligible for a degree and complete year. at least 50% of his/her course work at Trocaire to be Students will be notified of the action taken on their eligible for a Trocaire College Certificate. applications after completion of all admission requirements. All admission requirements must be Matriculation satisfactorily completed before an acceptance is considered final. A matriculated candidate for a degree or certificate is a Applications and all supporting credentials become the student who has filed an application to be admitted to a property of Trocaire College and will not be returned to degree or certificate program, has been officially the applicant. accepted, and has registered for the specific term for which he or she has been accepted. Matriculated status Re-application Procedure is terminated by graduation, withdrawal, or dismissal. Matriculated students may attend on a full-time or part- Students who have at one time applied to the college time basis. and wish to re-apply must file another application for A non-matriculated student is one who has enrolled in admission. If a student re-applies after two years from one, but not more than two courses for credit, and has the original date of application, new transcripts from high not been admitted as a degree or certificate candidate in school and colleges attended must be resubmitted. any registered program within the college.
Re-admission Foreign Student Admission Policy
Students who have left the college and wish to return, Foreign students who are applying: must file an application for re-admission to the Office of Admissions. 1. Submit an online application by visiting https://www.trocaire.edu Transfer Credit 2. All international transcripts must be sent through a credit evaluation service that will evaluate transcripts At the time of admission to the college, the Registrar’s to the American grading system and course Office evaluates the transfer of credits as indicated on equivalencies. You must send a set of transcripts to official transcripts from other institutions of higher the World Education Services at education. A minimum grade of “C” is required for https://www.wes.org/ and request a course by transfer. course evaluation. All academic programs that include course work in 3. TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). Anatomy & Physiology and/or Microbiology will require Students for whom English is not their first language that all courses be successfully pursued at Trocaire must take TOEFL and submit their test scores to the College. An exception to this policy is for the student Office of Admissions. The TOEFL website is who has successfully completed Anatomy & Physiology www.ets.org/toefl. and/or Microbiology at other institutions prior to 4. Once all official documents, TOEFL score (if enrollment at Trocaire College and has been approved appropriate) and WES evaluation are received by for transfer credit by the Registrar. the Admissions Office, you will receive an Individual programs may have age requirements for admissions decision. other course work. Contact the Registrar’s Office for 5. If you are accepted and you are applying for F-1 more information. status, you must provide a completed Proof of A matriculated student, who wishes to register at Financial Support Certificate. This form can be another college for course work while at Trocaire downloaded from our website. Once that is received, College, should consult with the Registrar’s Office to Form I-20 will be issued by the Chief Enrollment discuss the transferability of the course work. Officer. Students wishing to earn credits at other colleges have Foreign students seeking admission to Trocaire the responsibility of checking to see if these credits fulfill College shall follow the regular admission procedures. a requirement of their degree program prior to In addition, non-native English speaking students registration. They also have the responsibility to request seeking admission to Trocaire College must verify their that a transcript of those grades be sent to the Registrar. proficiency in English by taking the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). A minimum TOEFL score of 550 (213 on the computer based exam) is required for all programs. For the Internet-based TOEFL® iBT a minimum total score of 103 with scores of at least 23 in Admissions 11
listening, 24 in reading, 28 in writing and 28 in speaking Baccalaureate Degree with the assurance that credits is required. from Trocaire will apply at four year institutions. The For more information on testing centers or to schedule Dual Admission Agreement also provides a single at test, please visit the TOEFL official website at admission process for both colleges and academic www.ets.org/toefl. advisement from both institutions. In some instances, scholarships are provided based on a cumulative High School / College Articulation average. The following chart outlines Transfer Articulations and A number of articulation agreements have been made Dual Admission Agreements between Four Year between Trocaire College, BOCES Centers, and local Colleges and Universities and Trocaire College. high schools. These articulation agreements give Students are to keep in mind that new agreements students the opportunity to earn advanced credit or are negotiated annually and credits usually transfer advanced placement for certain courses they take while to most colleges, whether or not they are listed. This in high school. For students, the advantages of these is why is it important for the student to begin admission articulation agreements are: elimination of course regarding transfer with their academic advisor at duplication, earned college credit while in secondary registration or during their first semester at Trocaire. The school, and a smoother transition to college. For further Director of Advisement and Career Services is available information contact the Office of Admissions. to assist students in the transfer process.
Transitional Studies College Articulation Type
Transfer Articulation: Trocaire College Students who place into Transitional Studies graduates with an A.A.S. degree in Computer coursework will be assigned a dedicated advisor until Canisius College Network Administration, Hospitality they have been accepted into their program of study. Management, Massage Therapy, Medical Assistant, Nutrition and Dietetics, or Surgical Students will be required to take College Success Technology to baccalaureate program in (GS102) which will focus on the topics of Academic Professional and Technical Studies. Success, Career Exploration, and Life Skill. This course will be instructed by the Academic & Career Advisor for Dual Admission Program: Trocaire College Transitional Studies. graduates with an A.A.S. in Health Information A student’s performance on the ACCUPLACER Daemen College Technology, Massage Therapy or Nursing may placement test determines what courses are required in continue in appropriate B.S. program and the areas of developmental reading, writing, and math. complete such program in two additional years. Transfer Articulation in Massage Therapy: Massage Therapy (A.A.S.) to Health Care Transitional Studies coursework includes: Studies (B.S.) Transfer Articulation in Liberal Arts: Liberal GS102 College Success Arts (A.A.) to Humanities (B.A.).
EN095 Intermediate Reading (ACCUPLACER Reading Score below 70) Transfer Articulation: Trocaire College EN099 Basics of Composition graduates with an Associate’s Degree to (ACCUPLACER Sentence Skills score below 82) Hilbert College baccalaureate programs in Business Administration, Criminal Justice, English and MA096 Pre-Algebra Human Service. (ACCUPLACER Algebra score below 26) MA097 Introduction to Algebra (ACCUPLACER Algebra score between 26 - 57) Dual Admission Program: Trocaire College graduates with an A.S. degree in General Medaille College Studies may continue in baccalaureate degree Transfer Articulation and Dual Admission program in Biology, Business Administration, Communications, Criminal Justice, English, Agreements Mathematics, Psychology, Sports Management and Veterinary Technology. Trocaire College has signed agreements with numerous four-year colleges and universities within the Western New York area and beyond our geographic Nursing (A.A.S.), with New York State RN Niagara License, to Nursing (B.S.). Separate but similar region. University agreement applying to Trocaire graduates with a The transfer articulation agreement facilitates an Liberal Arts degree who wish to enroll in the B.S. effective transfer of credit for those students who wish to Nursing program. continue their education beyond an Associate Degree.
The Dual Admission Agreement provides the student State University Transfer Articulation in A.A. or A.S. Degrees: the opportunity to attend Trocaire for their Associate of New York at Trocaire College students with an A.A. or A.S. Degree and then to continue their studies for a Buffalo degree will fulfill general education requirements.
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Workforce Development / Lifelong Learning
The Department of Workforce Development and Growth Lifelong Learning offers non-credit classes and programs for the professional and personal development To help companies and small businesses tap into new of our alumni and the community. These classes are markets and grow nationally or globally. Through available at the main campus, at the Transit Road workforce development at Trocaire, companies are able Extension Center in Lancaster, NY, and online. Our goal to increase their business and cultural competence. is to build on our strengths in healthcare and related fields by offering continuing education classes in the Training fields of Nursing, Allied Health, Business, Education, and Technology. Workforce Development doesn’t just focus on the entire community, it also focuses on individuals. Through Listings of Workforce Development / Lifelong Learning Trocaire’s Workforce Development, individuals can class schedules and related online resources can be receive training that increases their competency and found at http://www.Trocaire.edu/WD; and makes them a greater asset in the workforce. http://apm.activecommunities.com/trocairecollege/home Benefits
Medical Offerings Workers who are finding it difficult to re-enter the workforce can benefit from services Trocaire’s EKG Technician/Cardiac Monitor Technician Workforce Development can offer. New York State Mandated Infection Control Sterile Processing & Distribution (SPD) Technician Leaders CPR/BLS Phlebotomy Leadership development is also essential to ensuring a Radiography Registry Seminar strong workforce. Through Workforce Development, the Registered Nurse Refresher Training Program capacity of local leaders is increased, and they are Perioperative Nursing better equipped to create new opportunities and recruit Licensed Practical Nurse Refresher Training more individuals into the workforce. NCLEX-PN Review Massage Therapy New York State Continuing Partnership Education Surgical Technology Review Working with local companies to form a long lasting Surgical Technology Continuing Education relationship between Trocaire and the community; Nursing Specialties partner rather than duplicate when possible.
Business Offerings Workforce Development Department Mission
CPCU: Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Workforce Department offers a wide range of training Multitude of business seminars and topics and educational opportunities for individuals getting SAT Preparation started in the workplace, furthering their current careers, Contract Training or working to meet licensure/certification requirements; ServSafe at the same time, creating contract training opportunities for all businesses in Western New York who need a To contact the Workforce Development Office, please catered program. call (716) 827-4310, or email: [email protected] Systematic
Workforce Development systems are market-driven; easily accessible to any individual who wants or needs a job, education, or training; supply well-trained people for all employers; and provide employers with assistance and support for life-long learning initiatives and for the creation of a high-performance workforce.
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Tuition Information
Financial Arrangements Expenses as of Fall 2016 (Subject to Change): When students register, they become liable for tuition Tuition for full-time students per semester and fees. Tuition and fees are due at the time of (12-19 credit hours)……………………………….. $8,225.00 registration each semester. Students paying in full Over 19 credit hours additional per credit hour… 200.00 Tuition for part-time students per credit hour …….. 680.00 should make checks payable to Trocaire College and mail to the attention of Student Finance Associate. The The above does not include cost of room and board either at home or College also accepts payments made by VISA, in independent off-campus housing, cost of books, uniforms, etc. (See MasterCard, Discover, or American Express. Financial Aid Section) The billing statement you receive prior to the start of
the semester will provide the option of paying your entire Summer Clinical Charges Diagnostic Medical Sonography…………………. $4,080.00 balance due (Option A), or signing up with FACTS Echocardiography…………………………………. 4,080.00 Management, a third party billing agency (Option B). If Radiologic Technology……………………………. 4,080.00 you choose this option, you will be required to complete a payment agreement with FACTS. You will then be Fees (Subject to Change) given two means of payment, either by automatic bank Practicum Fees, per semester……………………… $625.00 payment or by credit card. The fee to participate in (Includes: program fee, materials cost, malpractice insurance, etc.) Option B is $25.00 a semester, paid to FACTS.
Full and part-time students in the following programs: Diagnostic Your registration does not become official until you Medical Sonography, Echocardiography, Massage Therapy, Nursing have completed one of these two options. (A.A.S.), Practical Nursing, Radiologic Technology, and Surgical If you are receiving financial aid that does not fully Technology (This fee is charged for a maximum of four semesters, cover your tuition and fees, you are only required to pay unless a student is retaking a practicum.) the difference, whether you choose Option A, or Option
Malpractice Insurance, per internship………………. $45.00 B. Full and part-time students in the following programs: The College charges a $100.00 non-compliance fee Healthcare Informatics, Hospitality Management, and Nutrition and to all students that fail to complete their financial aid Dietetics paperwork or do not have a payment plan on file within three weeks of the date of your registration. College Fee, per semester Payments are deducted the fifth of every month 6 or more credit hours……………………………... $160.00 1-5 credit hours (per credit hour)…………………. 27.00 beginning in August for the Fall semester and January Summer……………………………………………... 25.00 for the Spring semester.
Includes: student publications, orientation, computer use, cultural fee, FACTS Payment Dates for the Academic Year ID cards, health services, employment references and referrals, library, accident insurance, graduation, registration fee, student activities FALL (student government, clubs and organizations, and opportunities that enhance the quality of student life), etc. First payment ……………………………………. August 5 Second payment ………………………….... September 5 Course Fee: Third payment ………………………………….. October 5 CNA101 Introduction to Computer Hardware…… $600.00 Final payment ……………..………………… November 5 This fee covers the cost of components needed to *** November 14 ………………….………… 5% Late Fee assemble a computer, which becomes the property of the student *** November 21 …………..……….. 30 Day Final Notice CNA210 Network Administration I…………………. $600.00 *** December 19 ……………….….. 30% Fee added and This fee covers the cost of components needed to account placed in collection assemble a server, which becomes the property of the student SPRING Laboratory Fee, per course…………………………. $45.00 Business, Computer, Science First payment …………………………………… January 5 Laboratory Fee, per course………………………….. $50.00 Second payment ………………..…………….. February 5 Anatomy & Physiology I and II Third payment ………………………..…….…….. March 5 Fee for checks returned for non-sufficient funds…. $25.00 Final Payment ……………………………..……….. April 5 *** April 17 ……………………….………..… 5% Late Fee TUITION AND FEES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE *** April 24 ………………….……….. 30 Day Final Notice *** May 22 ………………….……….. 30% Fee added and Account placed in collection
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*** Late fees will be added to the balance outstanding on outlined above. However, all fees are non-refundable, a student’s account as the dates indicated on the therefore the student is 100% responsible for all fees previous page. (If I am delinquent by 30 days, I when they withdraw. understand that Trocaire College will issue a final billing notice and place my account in collection. If Student Aid Disbursement Policy – Trocaire my account is placed in collection, I agree to College reimburse the College the fees of any collection agency, which may be up to 30% of my outstanding Policy: Financial Aid Disbursements are made after balance. I further agree to reimburse the College for all tuition and fees are paid. reasonable attorney fees and costs the College incurs in connection with such collection efforts.) The college’s goal is to disburse aid funds to students Students will not receive grades or transcripts of as quickly as possible. We understand the financial records until all financial obligations have been met. obligation that you incur by electing to go to college. Registration for a course(s) constitutes full financial However, the college faces certain restrictions when it liability. Failure to attend any classes or classes for comes to the disbursement of student aid. which students have registered does not absolve them For the college to be able to credit a student’s account from financial liability. Withdrawals/drops must be in with financial aid and then issue a disbursement to a writing. student, five requirements are necessary: Cost of transportation to clinical or internship areas, if required of students, is the responsibility of the student. 1. Your student aid file must be complete, meaning Books and supplies may be purchased at the College the Financial Aid Office has received all the Bookstore. VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and American necessary paperwork and documentation to Express are accepted. process your aid. Any damage to college property will be charged to the 2. The college has received the money from the student. The College will not be responsible for the loss funding source. of money or other valuables. 3. You are attending all of your classes consistently and your instructors are marking Insurance you “present”. Failure to attend classes could jeopardize your financial aid eligibility. All students in credit-bearing classes are covered by 4. You have incurred liability for tuition and fee the College’s accident insurance policy. Nursing, charges and the processing date has arrived. radiologic technology, massage therapy, practical See next page for processing dates. nursing, surgical technology, health information 5. The posting of aid creates a credit balance on technology, medical assistant, diagnostic medical your account. This means that the amount of sonography, echocardiography, healthcare informatics, aid on your account is greater than the amount hospitality management, and nutrition and dietetics the college is charging you for tuition and fees. students are required to carry malpractice insurance. Approximately two weeks after a credit This insurance is strictly limited to the time of clinical balance appears on your account, the experience connected with the college course. college will issue you a check for the amount of the credit balance. Remember, the college Tuition Liability Policy may not post all of your aid at the same time, and therefore you may receive more than one If a student withdraws from the College for disbursement per semester. unavoidable reasons, tuition will be refunded as follows:
Withdrawal within: Tuition Refunded First Week 100% Second Week 80% Third Week 60% Fourth Week 40% Fifth Week 20% After Fifth Week 0%
The schedule for tuition refunds is based on the date of official withdrawal from the College, that is, the date on which written notification of withdrawal is received in the Registrar’s Office. A student who has been granted permission to withdraw shall be liable for all fees and tuition within the limits of the Tuition Liability Policy Tuition Information 15
For the 2016-2017 school year, the earliest processing dates are as follows:
Type of Aid Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Student Loan, Pell, SEOG, Funded Aid 9/23/2016 2/17/2017 Student Loan: First Time Borrowers 9/30/2016 2/24/2017 Student Loan: Single Semester Student* 10/28/2016 3/24/2017 2nd disbursement
TAP, College Based Aid, Student Loan: 11/11/2016 4/7/2017 single semester nd students* 2 disbursement
* Please note: If you only attend one semester during the 2016-2017 academic year (ex. students graduating in Fall 2016), you will receive your loan in two disbursements on the dates indicated.
Business Office Holds
If you owe a balance over $900.00 at the time of registration for the next semester, your advisor will not allow you to register. You must see the Student Finance Associate to have the hold released. Business Office Holds are released under the following conditions:
1. A Financial Aid Representative is able to determine that the financial aid you are receiving can be credited to your account because all of the necessary information is now in and your
account is now paid in full as a result.
2. You pay the amount due with cash, check or credit card.
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Financial Aid
Students are encouraged to apply for financial aid, letter will be sent from the College or placed on the which is awarded in accordance with Federal and State student’s portal. Please follow the instructions on the Regulations. award letter and any requests for additional information. The majority of students at Trocaire receive some form Any questions regarding the available financial aid of financial aid such as scholarships, grants, loans, or programs should be directed to the Financial Aid Office. employment. The college provides general information, The office is located in Room 113 or by phone at (716) applications, and assistance in seeking funds; however, 827-2416. It is important to apply early (March 1). Some most of the funds come from outside agencies. The two of the aid programs have limited funds. major sources are the Federal Pell Grant Program and The FAFSA assists the College in determining the the NYS Tuition Assistance Program (TAP). student’s need for financial aid. The family contribution is Please Note: Anyone convicted and having completed an important factor in arriving at the student’s need. Any incarceration for a forcible or non-forcible sexual offense questions concerning available programs and/or is ineligible to receive a Federal Pell Grant. applications should be directed to the Financial Aid To apply for these programs, you must complete a Office (716) 827-2416. Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You may apply free at www.fafsa.gov. The previous PIN Applying for Aid number used to sign the FAFSA form is being replaced with a FSA ID, which will be comprised of a user- When you apply for financial aid under any program, selected name and password. Refer to StudentAid.gov you should become familiar with all of the rules, for further information. Following the completion of the requirements, obligations and deadlines which apply to FAFSA you should apply for the New York State’s you. Here are a few points to keep in mind: Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) by clicking on a link on the FAFSA Submission Confirmation page. To Each program falls into one of three categories: qualify for TAP, you must be a full-time student (12 or more credits). The Aid for Part-Time Study form (for part- Grants are outright gifts of money. You do not have to time students registered for 6-11 credits) is available on pay them back. Trocaire College’s website at www.trocaire.edu. Work-study lets you work part-time to earn money for college. Expenses Loans are borrowed money which you must pay back.
An estimate of educational expenses is the first step in Trocaire College’s Financial Aid Office is committed to planning a financial aid program. helping students understand and find the best solutions For a full-time student, the tuition and fees for the to making a college education affordable. Accordingly, 2016-2017 academic year are $16,868 for most the college has no arrangements with any lender that academic programs. The following items included in a directly benefits the college or employee financially. student’s cost of attendance are approximate and will You must complete the FAFSA form. You may do this vary due to the individual student situation; books and online at www.fafsa.gov. Please be sure to file your supplies will be $1,000 per year; room and board forms early and be aware of any deadline dates. You are $7,000; personal expenses will be $1,000 and responsible for checking the status of your application to transportation $1,300. be sure that it has been processed. You will receive a College costs vary according to the academic objective FSA ID from the Department of Education. Keep this and the enrollment status. Financial need for the federal FSA ID as you must reapply each year. Aid from these programs considers the cost of attendance, the student’s programs does not automatically continue from one year resources and eligibility for other financial aid programs. to the next. More specific information is available in the Financial Aid Office, or on Trocaire College’s website, Transfer Students www.trocaire.edu. 1. If you transfer from or to another college, your How to Meet Expenses financial aid does not automatically go with you. You must take the action necessary to continue The College uses a congressional mandated system to receiving aid at your new college. As soon as help determine the student’s family resources that can possible, please contact our Financial Aid Office to be used to meet the cost of attendance. After submitting determine which procedures must be accomplished the FAFSA and the NYS TAP applications, an award to insure that financial aid eligibility can be reviewed, changed or revised for attendance at the college.
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2. If your Student Aid Report (SAR) does not contain Federal Pell Grant the name of Trocaire College (002812), please add the college’s name by going on line to Pell is a federal grant program that is applied for by www.fafsa.gov or contact the office for additional completing the FAFSA. Awards range from $598 to instructions. $5,815. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012 3. The New York State’s Tuition Assistance Program limits the duration of a student’s eligibility for Pell to the (TAP) is institution specific. If your award notice equivalent of six years. does not contain Trocaire’s name, please contact the office for instructions on how to change the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity name on the award certificate. Grant (FSEOG) 4. If you have a Federal Direct Subsidized Loan, Unsubsidized Loan or a PLUS Loan, you must A federal grant program for Pell eligible students reapply through the Financial Aid Office at Trocaire. demonstrating exceptional financial need. 5. If you are currently receiving Federal Work Study benefits, you must reapply. Federal Work Study (FWS)
Financial Aid Programs Work study is available to students who meet the need requirements established by the federal government and All of the programs listed on the following pages are maintain satisfactory progress and program pursuit. The described only briefly. More information is available from majority of students are employed on campus. For the the Financial Aid Office in Room 113 or on Trocaire current hourly rate of pay, contact the Financial Aid College’s website. Office or online.
Federal Programs William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program - Federal Tax Benefits for Higher Education studentloans.gov
American Opportunity Credit Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized Loans
This credit permits you to directly reduce the amount of This loan program is available only after all other grant your tax by up to $2,500 per eligible student. You may and work resources have been applied. Dependent be able to claim the American Opportunity Tax Credit if students may borrow as freshmen up to $5,500 per year. you paid qualified tuition and/or expenses for a student In the sophomore year the limit is increased to $6,500. In who was enrolled at least half-time as a degree-seeking the junior and senior years, the limit is increased to or certificate-seeking freshman or sophomore. This $7,500. Independent students can borrow up to $9,500, expanded credit now features higher income limits. $10,500, and $12,500 respectively. Information Now, single taxpayers earning up to $90,000 adjusted regarding the loan interest rates can be obtained from gross income and married, filing jointly taxpayers the Financial Aid Office. There is an origination fee earning up to $180,000 modified gross income may charged for this loan. Repayment of this loan does not qualify for the credit. start until 6 months after a student has graduated, *Please consult your tax preparer for additional withdrawn or dropped below 6 credits. information about this tax credit. Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan Lifetime Learning Tax Credit The terms, fees, and conditions for the Federal Direct This credit permits you to directly reduce the amount of Unsubsidized Loan are the same as the Direct your tax up to $2,000. It has been expanded, allowing Subsidized Loan, except: you are responsible for the more taxpayers to qualify. You may be able to claim the loan interest while you are in college. These loans are Lifetime Learning Credit if you paid qualified tuition called unsubsidized loans because the federal and/or expenses for a student who was enrolled in an government does not pay the interest. You can either eligible educational institution. The IRS defines qualified pay the interest or add it to your loan principal (capitalize expenses. Eligibility is dependent on income, filing the interest). status and other factors. *Please consult your tax preparer for additional information about this tax credit. Taxpayers may use only one of these credits for each eligible student per tax year, but more than one benefit may be claimed in the same year for a different student’s expenses.
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Federal Direct Parent Loan for Undergraduate state programs. Even if you are receiving full Students (PLUS) tuition (reimbursement) it is in your best interest to maximize the amount of financial aid available This loan is for parents of undergraduate dependent to you. students. A credit check is required. Parents may borrow 5. Once accepted to the college, register for up to the cost of education not covered by financial aid. courses for the semester you plan on attending. The interest rate for this loan can change annually Make an appointment with our Department of around July 1. Veterans Services and bring the following paperwork: Federal Aid to Native Americans Copy of your DD214 and your VA education certificate of eligibility (COE). TAP and Pell applications must be filed. Applications Any other paperwork from the VA regarding your are available from the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs education benefits. Office. Any financial aid correspondence from any/all federal or state offices. Department of Veterans Affairs - Education Benefits Additional Programs and Benefits for Veteran and Dependent Students Trocaire College was one of the first colleges in the Western New York region to provide tuition assistance to Tutorial Assistance – Veterans who need individual our returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. In academic help may receive up to $1,200 a semester at appreciation for the hard work and sacrifice our military no charge to the student’s basic entitlement. This has endured during our nation’s most recent conflicts, program will work with college established tutors at the Trocaire will potentially cover OIF and OEF veterans Palisano Center for Academic Success. Restrictions do with additional tuition costs that the VA will not apply. reimburse. Contact the Office of Veterans Services for additional information. Our school is very proud to have VA Work Study – Any student receiving educational veteran and dependent students here on campus and benefits are eligible for this program provided you are at this number continues to grow each year. least ¾ training time and can give a part time availability Thanks to the support of federal, state, and local during the applicable semester. There may also be financial aid programs, veterans and their dependents federal work study positions available for those that do can attend Trocaire College with little or no financial not qualify, would like to work in another office, or if there obligation. Our hard working staff continues to go above are no longer positions open at the Veteran Services and beyond to help the military veterans and their Office. families that have served our country. There are a variety of financial aid programs available Website – There is a great deal of information that our to students based on their service time, military branch, veteran website page can offer for our veteran families and deployment location(s). To help in determining and community. Please visit this site for student updates, which financial aid program(s) you may be eligible for, links, forms, and more during the course of your contact our department of veteran services or financial academic career and to stay informed about all the great aid office to make an appointment. services we provide to our veteran and dependent students. The following steps can be used as a reference checklist to all students intending to use the GI Bill New York State Aid Programs education programs at Trocaire College: New York State Tuition Assistance Program 1. Apply to Trocaire College (online or mail- see (TAP) the Admissions section) 2. Submit all official copies of high school, military, New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) is or other college transcripts to the Admissions a state grant program available to eligible residents. The Office. awards for undergraduate students range from $500 to 3. Apply for education benefits through the VA $5,165 per year. Eligibility requirements, award Buffalo Regional Office by completing an online estimator and other provisions for this and other state VONAPP application at www.gibill.va.gov. awards can be obtained at the website 4. Complete the Free Application for Federal www.hesc.ny.gov. Student Aid (FAFSA), the New York State The TAP Code is 2144 for all Associate and Certificate Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), and the New Programs. The TAP Code for Baccalaureate Programs York State Veterans Tuition Award Supplement. is 6144. This will determine eligibility to all federal and Financial Aid 19
New York State Aid for Part-Time Students Regents Award for Child of Deceased Police (APTS) Officers, Firefighters or Corrections Officers
A grant program for students taking 6-11 credit hours This program is intended to provide financial aid to per semester. For information on eligibility criteria, children of police officers, firefighters, and correction deadlines, and applications see the Office of Financial officers of New York State or any of its political Aid. You may apply online by going to the Financial Aid subdivisions, who died as a result of injuries sustained in page on the Trocaire College website, or the line of duty. www.hesc.ny.gov “Students, New York Residents, Apply for TAP”. NYS Regents Award for Children of Deceased or Disabled Veterans (includes children of former NYS Arthur O. Eve Higher Education POWs) Opportunity Program Scholarships available to children of veterans whose (Known at Trocaire as the Trocaire Opportunity Program death or 50% disability occurred during specific war-time –T.O.P.) periods. Awards are $450 per year for full-time study. This is a program, jointly sponsored by Trocaire Additional information is available at www.hesc.ny.gov. College and New York State Education Department. Its primary objective is to provide a broad range of services NYS Aid to Native Americans to the student, who has the potential and desire to obtain a college degree, yet is unable to attend college Must be a member of the official tribe roll of a New because of academic and economic circumstances. York State tribe or child of a member. Applications and The eligible T.O.P. student receives a full-need additional information available from: financial aid package, including TAP and the Pell Grant. Native American Education Unit Additional grants and stipends are also available to the New York State Education Department, T.O.P. student. Eligible T.O.P. students begin their Room 461 EBA, college education during a five-week pre-freshman Albany, NY 12234 summer semester. This semester is mandatory for all (518) 474-0537 first time T.O. P. students entering Trocaire College. Adult Career and Continuing Education Service Say Yes to Education Scholarship Program – Vocational Rehabilitation (formerly known as VESID) Trocaire College is pleased to participate in the Say Yes to Education Scholarship Program. The college Any resident of New York State who has a substantial provides a total of 12 openings for Buffalo City or emotional, mental, or physical disability, who can Charter School students to receive a Tuition Scholarship become employable, may apply for assistance through at the college if they meet the following conditions of the ACCES-VR. Say yes to Education Program: Individuals should contact the local office listed below . Be a resident of the City of Buffalo 508 Main Street . Continuously enroll in a Buffalo Public or Charter Buffalo, NY 14202 th th high school from at least 9 -12 grades. (Or be 1 (888) 652-7062 legally designated as having refugee status on an Arrival-Departure Record (I-94) from U.S. New York State Primary Care Service Corps Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) or be an otherwise eligible noncitizen). The New York State Primary Care Service Corps will . Graduate from a Buffalo Public or Charter provide scholarships for education and training in School in June 2013 or after. selected health professions for individuals who agree to . Enroll as a full-time student (12 credits per work in state-operated or not-for-profit facilities. The semester) within one academic year after purpose of the State Service Corps is to provide a graduation. resource of well qualified and committed health care . Maintain an academic GPA of 2.0 or better professionals. For information go to . Apply and remain eligible for financial aid each www.health.ny.gov/funding. year by not defaulting on a student aid program, refuse to register for Selective Service as required by law, or are ineligible noncitizen. Apply for the Say Yes Tuition Scholarship online at: www.sayyestoeducation.org/chapter/buffalo
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Institutional Aid Trocaire Grant
The following scholarships are available through An institutional grant is awarded to students Trocaire College. You must complete a FAFSA form to demonstrating need. be considered for these scholarships. Please check Trocaire College’s web site for additional scholarships. Statler Foundation All Federal and State financial assistance is applied before scholarship funding is awarded. You must be enrolled in the Hospitality Management program to be eligible for this scholarship. To apply for To determine eligibility for the following scholarships, this scholarship, contact the Director of the Hospitality final high school transcripts must be received before the Management Program. start of the Fall and/or Spring semesters. The Vincent H. Palisano Scholarships Presidential Scholarships These are administered by the Buffalo Foundation and Awarded to high school seniors. The scholarship is awarded annually to students in the Nursing program. based on GPA, community service and recommendation The awards are based on academic ability and financial from either a guidance counselor, teacher or principal. need. The scholarship award is for $3,000 each and is awarded by the Admission’s Office. The Presidential Scholarship Opportunities through the Military Scholarship is available for 4 semesters if the student maintains a 2.5 average or higher. The award will be A variety of programs are available through the military prorated if the student drops below full time. for persons who wish to consider enlistment. For more detailed information contact local military recruiters. Academic Achievement Awards Other Student Financial Aid Programs Awarded to transfer students or first time college students who have been out of high school for a A large number of special-purpose programs exist in a minimum of one year. The scholarship is awarded based variety of types: direct aid, scholarship, loans, and work- on GPA and financial need. Students must complete a study. Many are administered through specific FAFSA form prior to review. The scholarship award institutions, and for this reason the Financial Aid Office is ranges from $1,000-2,000 each and is awarded by the the single best source of information on the subject. Admission’s Office. The Academic Achievement Award Most of these programs would be of interest to is available for 4 semesters if the student maintains a 2.5 relatively small numbers of students and prospective average or higher. The award will be prorated if the students, by virtue of need, or special interest, or both. student drops below full time. Some are available only to graduate or professional students in certain fields. Some carry with them periods The Presidential Scholarship and the Academic of obligated service. For further information contact the Achievement Awards are renewed for the second year Financial Aid office in Room 113, contact our office at up to four continuous semesters. (716) 827-2416, or www.trocaire.edu. Conditions: Terms and conditions of financial aid are subject to Recipient should be a full-time student for four change without notice. All information contained herein continuous semesters of study. is believed to be current as of May 1, 2016. However, Scholarship will be continued for second year if the college cannot be responsible for information about the established criteria and a 2.5 semester state and federal programs which are subject to average are maintained. interpretation and change at any time. Only one scholarship awarded per student. If a student who receives an award/scholarship SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS and drops to part-time study, the award/scholarship will be pro-rated for that These are examples of donor based scholarships that semester. have been previously awarded. Funding varies from year to year and awards are only available to currently Trocaire Partial Scholarships enrolled students. Applications are available at the beginning of each spring semester and are applied to A limited number of scholarships are awarded at the following academic year. Please see the Financial Honors Convocation. Applicants must have completed Aid Office for more information. one semester at Trocaire College to apply. These scholarships are available by application in January.
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The Alfred & Irene Dobrak Scholarship Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to implement The Alumni Scholarship new guidelines effective July 1, 2011 regarding SAP. The Auxiliary to the Medical Society Scholarship The Belasario and Sara Paladino Memorial Scholarship SAP Federal Aid Standards include: The Berna Savarino Scholarship A qualitative component (Grade Point Average The Carney Family Hospitality Scholarship or “GPA”) The Ciarico Family Scholarship Two quantitative components (Pace and The Coppola Family Memorial Scholarship Maximum Time Frame) The Dennis & Mary Downey Family Memorial Scholarship o Pace Scholarship Fund Pace is calculated by dividing the The Dr. Susan Lombardo Community Health Nursing student’s earned credit hours by the Scholarship Fund student’s attempted credit hours for each semester. The Dr. Teresa Lawrence Scholarship o Maximum Timeframe The Garman Scholarship The maximum time frame in which a The Grace C. Mecca-Diina Family Scholarship student must complete his or her The Georgette G. Cordera Memorial Scholarship program of study cannot exceed 150% The Hudack Memorial Scholarship of the published length of the program The Joseph N. Desmond Memorial Award as measured in credit hours. (Example: The Linda J. Heintzman Memorial Award Students in the Registered Nursing The Lisa and Tara Scholarship Program that requires 67 credit hours The Lorraine O’Donnell Scholarship are eligible to receive Federal financial The Mary C. and Urban J. Pauly Trustee Scholarship aid for no more than 100.5 credit hours.) The Mary C. Sturniolo Scholarship Fund The Pano’s Restaurant Scholarship Please refer to the Federal Aid Program SAP Standard The Patricia Byrne Myslinski Scholarship Chart to determine the student’s placement. The Patricia Diggins Wilhelm Scholarship The Patricia E. Powers Memorial Award Transfer Credit Hours The Pellicano Specialty Foods Scholarship The Russell J. Salvatore Scholarship for Transfer credits evaluated by the Registrar’s Office Hospitality Management and posted to a student’s transcript are counted as both The Russo Family Scholarship attempted and earned credit hours for their individual The Sister Mary Ernestine Downey Memorial Scholarship program. The Sisters of Mercy Scholarship Credit hours that have been granted Academic The Susan M. Heintzman Memorial Award Amnesty/Bankruptcy (marked with a ‘Z’) are counted as The Trocaire College Community Award attempted credit hours. The Trocaire College Faculty Association Scholarship Your grade point average (GPA) is not transferrable. The Vincent and Harriet Palisano Foundation Scholarship The Virginia and John E. Spara Nursing Scholarship Successful Completion of a Course
To be counted as successfully completed or earned Satisfactory Academic Progress credit hours for Federal aid, the student must receive a (SAP) grade of A, B, C, D or S, unless there are specific program of study / major grade requirements. The Federal and State Aid Programs – Pell Grant, Please see the College Catalog regarding the program Supplemental Equal Opportunity Grant (FSEOG), Direct of study / major grade requirements. Stafford Loan Program, TAP, and APTS require that you meet standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress, Repeat of Course Work heretofore written as SAP, to be eligible to receive aid from these sources. Students have the option to repeat courses in which they have earned an A- or lower. In cases of repeated Federal Aid Programs – PELL, FSEOG, Direct courses, the last grade earned is used in computing the Loans grade point average (GPA) but the course credit hours earned will count once for Federal aid. On October 29, 2010, the U.S. Department of A student may only repeat a previously passed course Education published final regulations (668.16 and once. Failed courses with a grade of WF, F or FX may 668.34) in the Federal Register that require institutions be repeated until successfully passed.* that participate in student financial aid programs under
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*Note: Trocaire College’s Repeat Course Policy states # of Transfer Credit Hours Assigned Payment Value a student may repeat a course only once, unless they 1 – 14 1 have a signed authorization from the director of the 15 – 29 2 academic program in which they are enrolled, to repeat 30 – 44 3 a course for the second time. 45 – 59 4 60 – 74 5 New York State Programs – TAP, APTS 75+ 6
The number of New York State payments a student Successful Completion of a Course has received will determine the student’s placement on the SAP State Aid Program Standard Chart as follows: To be counted as successfully completed or earned Each semester the student uses TAP at Trocaire credit hours for State aid, the student must receive a College it counts as one payment (1). grade of A, B, C, D, F, S or U. Each semester the student uses APTS at Trocaire College it counts as a half of a payment Repeat of Course Work (0.5). Earned credit hours at Trocaire College are The student’s minimum full-time course load (12 credit calculated as is. (Example: If registered for 15 hours) can include repeated courses under certain credit hours in a given semester, and the conditions: student earns 15 credit hours, that is what is If the student is repeating a failed course used in the SAP determination. However if a (grades of WF, F or FX). student registers for 15 credit hours and earns If the student is repeating a course in which the only 12 credit hours, then 12 credit hours is grade earned would ordinarily be passing but is used.) a failure in a particular curriculum. Students in a Certificate / Associate’s Degree A student may only repeat a previously passed course program can have a maximum of 6 payments. once. Students in a Bachelor’s Degree Program can If the student chooses to repeat a course that they have a maximum of 8 payments. have passed but want to improve the grade, the credits for the repeated course cannot be included in Academic Progress (ACP) determining a student’s full-time status for the purpose of awarding New York State TAP. Each student must maintain a required cumulative grade point average and accumulate a designated Incomplete Grade number of credit hours at each payment in order to maintain SAP. The number of payments used to Incomplete courses are counted as credit hours determine ACP is the payments received while in attempted for Federal and State aid. attendance at Trocaire College. The incomplete grade must be removed from the student’s records within 30 calendar days after the Program Pursuit (PP) incomplete grade was received or it will automatically convert to an F. To meet the program pursuit requirement, a student When the incomplete grade is changed to an actual must complete a certain percentage of his or her course grade, the course will be considered complete and the load each semester. The number of payments used to student’s GPA will be reviewed for SAP purposes. determine PP is the payments received in the student’s whole college career. Withdrawal (W, WF) / F or FX Grades
Transfer Students If a student earns a W, WF, F or FX grade for any class within the semester the credit hours for each Placement on the SAP Standards chart is determined course is counted as attempted credits but are NOT by the number of payments a student received at counted as earned hours for Federal and State aid. WF, Trocaire College and number of credit hours transferred F, and FX grades affect the student’s GPA. in to Trocaire College. If a student has received TAP/APTS previously and Change of Major / Program of Study the college has accepted transfer credit, additional points are assigned based on the number of transfer The student may find it necessary to change their credits as follows: major / program of study and when the student does this, the College will ‘reset’ the student’s accumulated, earned credit hours, and GPA based on the new major /
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Please refer to the charts below for SAP standards for Federal and State aid:
SAP Standards Chart
FEDERAL AID Programs Overall rate of completion Credit Hours Earned Minimum Cum. GPA (Earned Cr. Hrs. / Attempted Cr. Hrs.) 1 – 14 1.3 50% 15 – 29 1.5 50% 30 – 44 1.8 67% 45 – 59 2.0 67% 60 – 74 2.0 75% 75 – 89 2.0 75% 90 – 104 2.0 75% 105 + 2.0 75%
STATE AID Programs Program Pursuit Number of TAP / APTS Academic Progress (Percentage of course Payments Received completion within semester) Minimum Cum. GPA Minimum Earned Credit Hours 0.5 1.1 2 1.0 1.3 6 50% 1.5 1.4 10 2.0 1.5 15 2.5 1.7 21 3.0 1.8 27 75% 3.5 1.9 33 4.0 2.0 39 4.5 2.0 45 5.0 2.0 51 5.5 2.0 55 6.0 2.0 60 6.5 2.0 66 7.0 2.0 75 100% 7.5 2.0 81 8.0 2.0 90 8.5 2.0 96 9.0 2.0 105 9.5 2.0 111 10.0 2.0 120
Process For Regaining Eligibility For Federal SAP is reviewed by the College at the end of each Financial Aid semester. If a student fails to meet the conditions of SAP, the following steps can be taken to avoid losing At times a student may find that it is difficult to maintain federal financial aid: academic progress towards their degree. Health issues, family circumstances or unforeseen personal matters Financial Aid Warning (one semester) may contribute to academic difficulties. The College Financial Aid Appeal recognizes that these life issues do occur and can Financial Aid Probation (w/Academic Plan) contribute to academic stress but are not necessarily a Loss of Financial Aid measure of a student’s academic ability. Accordingly, the College provides a process by which a student can return to good academic standing and avoid the loss of federal financial aid.
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Financial Aid Warning The Director of Financial Aid shall notify each student that he or she is in need of an Academic Plan. The Students who fail to meet SAP for the first time in any student must contact the Director of Advisement & semester will be given a one semester written warning Career Services to initiate this plan. The Director of by the Financial Aid Office. The student will not lose Advisement & Career Services will monitor each plan financial aid but should seek either academic assistance and the progress of each student. or address any issues that may have contributed to the If at the end of the payment period a student continues deficiency. to not meet SAP or does not follow their Academic Plan, If the student receives a Warning letter at the federal financial aid to the student shall be discontinued. beginning of the semester and is able to make SAP by A student who fails to initiate these actions will be the semester’s end, then the student’s federal financial denied federal financial aid. aid is reinstated. However, if during the reinstated semester the student fails to maintain SAP, then they Timeline may receive another Warning letter at the end of that semester (Example: A student receives a Financial Aid First semester of failure to meet SAP (warning warning for the fall semester and then successfully only) completes the semester. If the student is then Second semester of failure to meet SAP - unsuccessful in the spring semester, they will receive Probation (appeal & academic plan). If not another Financial Aid Warning). approved, federal financial aid is denied. Third semester (meet SAP, follow academic Financial Aid Appeal plan, or discontinuance of financial aid). In the event of failure to meet SAP in future If students fail to meet SAP for a second consecutive semesters a student may appeal again if semester, they will be notified that they must file an warranted. appeal with the Appeal Committee-Attention: Director of In order to regain federal student aid eligibility a Financial Aid to avoid the loss of aid. Appeal forms are student must accumulate enough earned credit hours available in the college Financial Aid office or can be and achieve a high enough grade point average during mailed upon request. Appeals are approved based upon the semester of ineligibility. evidence that extenuating circumstances (death in the family, personal illness, etc.) have interfered with a Process for Regaining Eligibility for State student’s ability to maintain SAP. However, it is the Financial Aid decision of the Appeal Committee to determine the appropriateness of extenuating circumstances. At times a student may find that it is difficult to maintain academic progress towards their degree. Health issues, Filing an appeal does not guarantee approval. family circumstances or unforeseen personal matters may contribute to academic difficulties. The College Financial Aid Probation recognizes that these life issues do occur and can contribute to academic stress but are not necessarily a If a Financial Aid Appeal is granted to a student, they measure of a student’s academic ability. Accordingly, the are then placed on Financial Aid Probation. This is a College provides a process by which a student can status assigned to a student who fails to meet the SAP return to good academic standing and avoid the loss of review, who has appealed, and has had eligibility for state financial aid. federal aid reinstated. An academic plan must be SAP is reviewed by the College at the end of each created to insure that the issues that caused a lack of semester. If a student fails to meet the conditions of SAP are addressed. Depending on the circumstances, a SAP, the following steps can be taken to avoid losing student may have to demonstrate what academic state financial aid: interventions or changes in their academic program will take place to address improvement. If the deficiencies Financial Aid Appeal were caused due to personal or family matters, the plan State Aid Re-instatement should address what changes will occur that will lead to better academic success. Academic plans will be in **New York State Legislation allows for ONE State writing and clearly identify the outcomes and aid appeal per student.** benchmarks identified for improvement. The academic plan will be monitored to determine progress or needed changes.
At the end of that payment period, the student must either meet SAP standards or meet the requirements of the academic plan by a specific point in time.
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Financial Aid Appeal
If students fail to meet SAP for a second consecutive semester, they will be notified that they must file an appeal with the Appeal Committee-Attention: Director of Financial Aid to avoid the loss of aid. Appeal forms are available in the college Financial Aid office or can be mailed upon request. Appeals are approved based upon evidence that extenuating circumstances (death in the family, personal illness, etc.) have interfered with a student’s ability to maintain SAP. However, it is the decision of the Appeal Committee to determine the appropriateness of extenuating circumstances.
Filing an appeal does not guarantee approval.
State Aid Re-instatement
Students whose appeal has been approved must sign a State Aid Re-instatement Contract with the Financial Aid Office before any holds are removed and aid is placed back on the student’s account.
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Student Services
Academic Support Services Testing Services
The Palisano Center for Academic Success (PCAS) is The PCAS provides testing services. Prospective and currently expanding its collection of study aides for incoming students take the online ACCUPLACER® student use. Students also have access to an open placement tests. Prospective RN students take the anatomy and physiology lab where they can study the online TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills) test. physical form of the human anatomy using various Testing accommodations are provided to students with learning modalities. Tactile learning is especially disabilities. They include, but are not limited to: emphasized as students have the ability to assemble extension of time for testing, quiet/separate testing area, and disassemble parts of the human anatomy models to test readers, and test scribes. examine. Please contact the coordinator for disability services The PCAS offers individualized sessions and for more information about other student disability workshops on academic skills development focusing on services. such topics as test-taking, time-management, overcoming test anxiety, and TEAS and ACCUPLACER Testing Policies test preparation. In order to ensure the highest level of academic Tutoring Services integrity while administering exams, PCAS requires that test-takers adhere to the following guidelines: Free tutoring services are offered as one-to-one and in 1. A photo ID is required in order to sign in to take the group settings by professional tutors, peer tutors, and test. academic coaches. 2. The following items are not allowed* in the testing Professional tutors are degreed in the academic area: subject(s) or skill(s) they tutor. electronic devices Peer tutors are fellow students; they meet certain bags academic standards to tutor in a particular subject or notebooks/books academic program area. purses Academic coaches are degreed professionals; they jackets meet certain academic standards and provide other personal belongings assistance in general learning and study strategies such *(Unless permitted by a course instructor) as note-taking, test-taking, time management, and 3. All materials – including scrap paper – must be information technology. returned to the proctor upon completion of the exam. The PCAS also offers a writing drop box service where 4. In order to uphold academic standards, test-takers students can email their papers or writing projects any may not leave the testing site during the examination time of the day to a professional writing tutor who will and will forfeit the ability to complete their test in so review their work. doing. 5. If a student will be late or unable to attend at the Tutoring is offered, but not limited to the following scheduled test time, please inform the PCAS as soon subjects: as possible.
6. If a proctor suspects that a test-taker is cheating, the Accounting Medication Essentials test will be stopped and confiscated, and the incident Anatomy and Physiology Nursing will be reported. Biology (human biology) Philosophy
Chemistry Preparatory Physics English/writing Psychology Advisement and Career Services Health Information Technology Radiologic Technology Information Technology Sociology Advisement and Career Services provides Math Surgical Technology comprehensive assistance to students throughout and beyond their academic career at Trocaire College. Personal and academic advisement is provided by an Advisors assist students in developing a plan to help academic coach for students on academic probation. them meet their academic and career goals. Advisement sessions emphasize critical problem solving Academic and Career Advisors meet with students to and self-assessment of academic, social, and personal discuss study habits and attitudes beneficial to the issues that impede students’ academic progress. student’s academic progress. Time management, use of college resources, and students’ overall career
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development goals are discussed at the start of their Crime Statistics academic career. Advisors also assist students in planning their program of study and choosing classes for Security records information relevant to any crime- each term. related activity occurring on campus. Statistics are Academic and Career Advisors assist students not published annually. The College’s Security Advisory only with academic planning but also with students’ Committee will provide all campus crime statistics upon specific needs related to their careers and looking for request through the Director of Facilities & Security at employment. Assistance is available to students and (716) 827-2564. Information is also available on the U.S. alumni with individual career counseling, including Department of Education website various career assessments. Part-time and full-time jobs, (http://surveys.ope.ed.gov/security). When necessary, along with other online job search resources, are posted security alerts are posted throughout the campus. at http://my.trocaire.edu/advisement-career-services/. The annual Trocaire College Security Report and Academic and Career Advisors also help students with Crime Statistics can be found at developing resumes, learning appropriate interview skills http://trocaire.edu/about-trocaire/consumer-information/ . and effective job search strategies. Opportunities to meet and network with employers are arranged every Disability Services semester for students and alumni. Reference files are maintained in cooperation with each graduating student. Rehabilitation Act Transfer advisement for students desiring to transfer to Rehabilitation Act prohibits federal agencies and their four-year institutions is provided on an individual basis. grantees and contractors from discriminating against people based on disability in employment, programs and Alumni Association activities.
The Trocaire College Alumni Association represents Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (ADA/504) more than 10,300 Trocaire alumni throughout Western A federal statute that guarantees the rights of disabled New York and beyond. Managed by the Alumni Board of people to equal opportunity in all programs and activities Directors in partnership with the Office for Development that receive federal financial assistance. It prohibits and Community Engagement, the association provides a discrimination against qualified individuals solely on the variety of benefits to college Alumni. Whether a student basis of disability. Section 504 regulations apply to state is graduating with an associate’s degree, bachelor’s education agencies, elementary and secondary school degree, or certificate, lifetime membership includes systems, colleges and universities, libraries, vocational career support, access to the Trocaire library, invitations schools and state vocational rehabilitation agencies. to special events, communications such as the college Inquiries regarding application of and compliance with magazine and newsletters, and more. For more Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 should be information about the Trocaire College Alumni directed to the Associate Director of Academic Support Association call the Office for Development and and Retention. Community Engagement at (716) 827-4340, email [email protected], or visit us online at Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 www.trocaire.edu/alumni. ADA was signed into law to protect individuals with disabilities against discrimination in employment; in Counseling programs operated by city, county, and state entities; public and private transportation, public The counseling services in the college are designed to accommodations and telecommunication services. The help students recognize their abilities, assist with 2008 amendment act of ADA emphasizes that the problem solving, and to direct their efforts towards the definition of disability should be construed in favor of attainment of realistic goals. broad coverage of individuals to the maximum extent The Student Counseling Office is located at the permitted by the terms of the ADA and generally shall Choate Avenue campus in Room 112. Students are free not require extensive analysis. to walk in or schedule an appointment to discuss any problems: academic, relational, stress, family, General Guidelines for Documentation alcohol/substance abuse, social services issues, etc. If a Trocaire College is committed to ensuring all students needed service cannot be provided, an appropriate have an opportunity to pursue a college education referral will be made. regardless of the presence or absence of a disability. Services are scheduled by appointment at the Trocaire College will make reasonable accommodations Extension Center. in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008. No academically qualified student with a disability shall be denied access
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to or participation in the services, programs and activities All students are informed of these health regulations of the College. when they are accepted into the college. Each is mailed To receive services the student must contact the a health packet with instructions. These immunizations Coordinator of Disability Services. The student is are to be brought with them when they register. Any expected to identify themselves as having a disability questions regarding this, needs to be discussed with the and will be asked to provide documentation that includes Health Office. Students beginning a Health program a diagnosis or an assessment of a disability. need to hand in their completed Health Packet before Documentation can be given prior to or at the initial they begin their clinical experience. Students who fail to intake and must be from a licensed professional complete these requirements will not be permitted to (psychologist, psychiatrist, medical specialist, etc.). High attend classes if immunizations are not submitted within school IEP’s and 504 plans are not sufficient 30 days of the first day of classes. documentation. If the student has no prior documentation, they will be referred for an appropriate Health Services evaluation. For more information regarding Disability Services and Except in emergencies, students in need of medical testing accommodation procedures please contact the care usually consult their personal physician. The Health Coordinator of Disability Services in Room 112 at the Office can refer a student in need of medical care, who Choate Campus or at (716) 827-2412. is without a physician, to an existing Health Center. Emergency help is summoned on campus by calling Confidentiality 911. Information regarding a student’s disability is considered confidential and will be shared only with Libraries@Trocaire those at Trocaire College who need to know. That includes administrators, faculty and staff who have The Libraries@Trocaire strive to provide the Trocaire access to disability related information, only in so far as community with the tools and resources needed for it affects their functioning with a student who has a academic and professional success. Through our disability. mission, we are dedicated to the development and success of our students, faculty, and staff. We empower Accommodations students by promoting the skills needed to effectively Students with disabilities may be eligible for a variety find and use materials in all formats by providing access of reasonable accommodations; they include but are not to the latest information resources and by teaching limited to: effective finding techniques. We assist diverse users in
their preparation for lifelong personal enrichment, dignity The use of audio textbooks and self-worth. Extension of time of quizzes/tests/exams We offer two credit-bearing courses (GS101 and The use of note takers GS201), and regularly present Library Research and Preferential seating in the classroom or lab Information sessions and workshops to make certain A quiet or alternate testing area users obtain the highest levels of information literacy, The use of recording devices crucial in today’s academic environment and future The use of test readers employment markets. When the Libraries are open, a The use of test writers librarian is always present to assist users in accessing Use of technology, including assistive information and research. When the library is closed, technology users can email [email protected]. Emails will be answered the next day the library is open. We have two locations to serve the Trocaire Health Records and Immunizations th Community. The Rachel R. Savarino is located on the 4 New York State Public Health Law 2165 requires floor of the Choate Avenue campus. The second library students to show proof of immunity to measles, mumps, is located in the Transit Road Learning Commons. Both and rubella. Students must furnish the college with locations offer computers with Internet access and appropriate certification of immunity or provide Microsoft Office. documented statement of medical or religious exemption For scholarly research we offer online article and before classes begin. Persons born prior to January 1, image databases, streaming video, program guides, 1957 are exempt from this requirement unless required tutorials and eBooks. Most of these resources can be by their academic major to meet clinical placement accessed through the library’s website at requirements. If you are exempt you must provide proof http://library.Trocaire.edu. These materials can be of age. New York State Public Health Law 2167 requires accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. On- colleges to distribute information about meningococcal campus, users need only to log onto a Trocaire disease and vaccination to all students. Students must computer. From off-campus, users will be prompted to indicate, on appropriate form, their compliance with this. log in with their Trocaire network ID and password to Student Services 29
access library resources. Users with network ID Employment and Continuing Education problems must visit the Help Desk in room 360 on the Summary Choate campus. Library users must present a valid Trocaire College ID To obtain the latest graduation, employment, and to borrow any type of library material, including books, continuing education information, contact Director of academic journals, magazines, and DVDs. Most items Advisement and Career Services at (716) 827-2444. can be checked out for home use but Reserve items must be used in the library. For articles and books we do not own, the Libraries@Trocaire offer two solutions; Interlibrary Loan and Academic Share. For more information on any of the above and library hours, see http://library.trocaire.edu.
New Student and Transfer Orientations
New and transfer students participate in orientation programs designed to introduce them to college life. This program acquaints students with both the academic resources of the college and the support services that will assist them in making a smooth transition to college life. Through the orientation program, students meet administration, staff, and current students and also become acquainted with the mission and purpose of the college.
Phi Theta Kappa
Alpha Pi Eta, the Trocaire chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society for two year colleges, accepts new members in each semester. Phi Theta Kappa challenges students to intellectual pursuit and community service. Membership is based upon a GPA of 3.5, course work leading towards an Associate degree, and completed one semester of intended major. Full time and part time students must have earned 12 or more credits in order to be inducted into this prestigious society. The induction ceremony of candidates traditionally takes place during the spring Honors Convocation.
Student Life
Various clubs and activities open to all students are managed by the Student Activities Office. Each club has a separate advisor who oversees its function. Clubs help sponsor many activities each semester, provide a forum for the development of student leaderships skills, and present opportunities to form relationships with other students. Trocaire College encourages all students to be registered to vote. Voter registration forms are available anytime in the office of the Chief Student Affairs Officer, Room B15. The college will mail in the registration forms for all students. Students can also go on line to print out a registration form at: www.erieboe.com/content.aspx?id=6
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Academic Policies and Procedures
Inherent in the Mission and Philosophy of Trocaire D. Buying or selling of term papers, homework, College is the commitment to provide our students with examinations, laboratory assignments and more than the sum total of the coursework needed to computer programs/assignments. complete a program of study. The collaborative goal of E. Falsifying of one’s own or another’s records. the career and liberal arts faculty and administration is to F. Knowingly assisting someone who engages in engage students in a learning process designed to items A-E above. promote learning beyond the classroom and program completion: learning for life. Penalties: Penalties that may be imposed include, but are not Academic Policies and Procedures limited to the following: A. Faculty may impose the following penalties
Trocaire publishes a one-year catalog. Therefore, within the context of a course, 1. Lowering of a grade or failure for a particular students, especially those applying for an academic year assignment. beyond the current catalog, are advised to discuss 2. Lowering a grade, failure and/or dismissal current curriculum information with Admissions or the appropriate Program Director. from the course. The student is responsible for knowing the B. The Program Director responsible for the academic standards and for complying with the student’s curriculum may impose harsher Academic Policies included in this catalog. While the measures within context of the College such as, 1. Disciplinary probation – may include faculty and staff are available to assist the student, the mandatory repeat of a course, etc. responsibility for meeting standards and policies as outlined in this catalog is that of the student. A 2. Dismissal from the program. requirement or policy is not waived because a C. The Program Director may recommend to the student claims ignorance or claims that a member of Vice President for Academic Affairs and the College community did not inform the student of Planning that the student be suspended / the requirement. dismissed from the College. D. The Vice President for Academic Affairs and Adherence to College policies and awareness of academic services is integral to student success. Planning may suspend the student from the Faculty and staff assist students in meeting their College for a period of one semester or more. When deemed appropriate the student may be academic and personal goals by defining the following dismissed from the College. policies and services.
Academic Integrity Policy Academic Amnesty
Academic Amnesty is designed to provide former Academic endeavors demand personal honesty from all participants in order to foster an environment in which students an opportunity to return to Trocaire for a different academic program without the burden of past optimal learning can take place. Academic integrity is academic difficulties. Students are eligible for amnesty if consistent with Trocaire’s mission and culture. they experienced academic difficulty while enrolled in a Definitions: particular academic program, left the college, and who Academic dishonesty may be defined as: now desire to enroll in a different academic program. If A. Cheating – giving or receiving answers on approved, a student may have previously completed required/evaluative material, using materials or courses eliminated from the computation of his/her aids forbidden by the instructor, alteration of cumulative grade point average. These eliminated academic records, unauthorized possession of courses may not apply toward program requirements for examinations, or the falsification of admissions, graduation. registration or other related college materials. Note that academic amnesty cannot be used for B. Plagiarism – the offering of someone else’s work federal aid satisfactory academic progress purposes. as one’s own, using material from another Students should visit the Financial Aid Office for advice source without acknowledgement including the regarding financial aid requirements. reprinting and/or importing in whole or in part term papers found on internet sites without Conditions for Amnesty: The student seeking amnesty acknowledgement. must meet all of the following conditions: C. Interference – interfering with the work of Have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of another student either by obtaining, changing, or less than 2.00 for coursework taken at Trocaire. destroying the work of another student. Academic Policies & Procedures 31
Must have been away from the college for two full calculation of the cumulative GPA. Similarly, courses for semesters (either as a result of dismissal or which amnesty has been applied will not be counted voluntarily). At least two full semesters (not including towards requirement for the certificate or degree. summer) must have elapsed before the student may Note that the college is required to maintain a record of be granted amnesty. Students may, however, submit all courses taken and grades received, irrespective of their application for amnesty before two full whether amnesty has been granted. Therefore, courses semesters have elapsed. for which amnesty has been granted and their Students who have been granted Academic associated grades will remain in the student record but Bankruptcy are not eligible for Academic Amnesty. will not be counted towards program completion Students who have been granted Academic requirements or the cumulative GPA. Amnesty previously are not eligible to apply again. There is no guarantee, expressed or implied, that Academic Amnesty applies to all courses taken academic amnesty will be recognized by any other prior to the point in time the academic amnesty is college or university. approved, regardless of the grade earned. That point in time must coincide with the beginning of a Academic Bankruptcy
semester. Academic Bankruptcy is designed to give matriculated Academic Amnesty will apply to no more than the students an opportunity to maintain good academic first 30 credit hours attempted. standing by “bankrupting” all courses in the semester The 30 credit hours to which amnesty applies may immediately completed. If approved, a student will not be accumulated over more that the first three have all previously completed courses in the preceding semesters of enrollment. semester eliminated from the computation of his/her
grade point average. Application for Amnesty: The student seeking amnesty Note that academic bankruptcy cannot be used for must submit a formal Academic Amnesty Application federal aid satisfactory academic progress purposes. to the Dean of Admissions. The application should Students should visit the Financial Assistance Office to include information demonstrating that the conditions complete an appeal form if financial aid eligibility is previously affecting academic performance have affected. changed or been mitigated, and also provide evidence that there is a reasonable expectation of satisfactory Conditions for Bankruptcy: The student seeking academic performance in the future. In addition, the bankruptcy must have a cumulative Grade Point application should include the academic program the Average (GPA) of 2.5 or higher in the semester student was enrolled in when the academic difficulty preceding the requested semester for bankruptcy. The occurred, the academic program the student wishes to student must have completed at least 2 semesters enter now, and should stipulate the semesters for which successfully (not including summer) before requesting amnesty is being requested. bankruptcy. Academic bankruptcy applies to course
work taken in the semester immediately preceding the Review Process: Upon receipt of the application, the registration for new course work. Academic bankruptcy Dean of Admissions will review the application and send will apply to no more than 18 credit hours attempted. a copy of the request to the Vice President for Academic Bankruptcy will apply to all courses taken during the Affairs and Planning. The Vice President for Academic period for which academic bankruptcy is granted Affairs and Planning will forward a copy of the regardless of the grade earned. Before academic application to the Dean and Director of the Program the bankruptcy is approved, the student must complete at student wishes to enter. The Dean and Program Director least six credit hours with a minimum of a 2.0 GPA after will review the student’s prior record and make a requesting academic bankruptcy. recommendation about awarding amnesty. The Vice All course work taken (and grades received from) President for Academic Affairs and Planning will review Trocaire College will remain on the student’s transcript. the recommendation and will make a final determination A notation on the transcript will indicate the semester for to approve or deny the request. The student will be which academic bankruptcy has been granted. There is notified by letter regarding the amnesty decision. no guarantee, expressed or implied that academic Amnesty Procedure: If amnesty is approved, the student bankruptcy will be recognized by any other college or must first successfully complete at least six credit hours university. of college coursework and must obtain a minimum of a In keeping with academic policy a student may not use 2.0 cumulative GPA in these courses. Grades on these bankruptcy to substitute for failure to meet program courses will apply towards the cumulative GPA. requirements. Assuming these six credits are successfully completed, Academic bankruptcy will be granted to a student only the Registrar will then apply amnesty to the prior courses once. A student may not request bankruptcy if an as identified in the amnesty application. Those courses amnesty has been previously granted. for which amnesty is being applied will receive a special designation on the transcript and will not be included in 32 Academic Policies & Procedures
Process for Applying for Bankruptcy: The student must Course Load Limitation submit a formal Academic Bankruptcy Petition to the Chief Enrollment Officer. The petition should include an The normal class load of a full-time student each explanation of the conditions affecting the GPA in the semester is 12-19 credit hours. A student must obtain semester for which bankruptcy is being requested. permission from the Vice President for Academic Affairs Included with the petition should be a letter of and Planning to carry more than 19 credit hours during recommendation from the student’s current faculty one semester. Part-time students are those carrying advisor. Copies of the petition are sent to the Vice fewer than 12 credit hours per semester. President for Academic Affairs and Planning who will Students taking more than 19 credit hours of study will forward them to Dean and Director of the program the be assessed an additional tuition charge for overload student is in. The Dean and the Program Director will hours. review the student’s prior record and make a determination about awarding bankruptcy. Course Prerequisite Enrollment Policy
Attendance Trocaire College publishes prerequisites for courses and programs in this catalog. The college may delete the Students are expected to attend and to be on time for registration of a student from a course for which he/she all classes, clinical experiences, laboratories, and does not meet these published course prerequisites. internships. Instructors are required to maintain Issues of safety and health may also necessitate a attendance records and to report absences. Excessive student’s de-registration from a course, regardless of absences will result in a grade of “FX” and may affect prerequisites. financial aid eligibility. Excessive absence is defined as being absent from class/lab/clinical in a given semester Course Waiver and/or Substitutions more than twice the number of times a class meets in a given week. A student may, in certain instances, be granted a Students are required to complete all assignments and waiver of a required course. The permission for a course examinations. Absence does not constitute an waiver must be signed by the Program Director and Vice exemption. It is the student’s responsibility to take the President for Academic Affairs and Planning. initiative in making up work. Students are expected to When a student does receive this waiver, he/she is notify the college of absence in accord with the program required to take an equivalent course to fulfill the credit policy and/or the instructor’s directives. hour requirements of the curriculum. A waiver does not lessen the credit hours required, but alters the required Course Cancellation courses of the program of study.
While every effort is made to offer all courses Credit Hour Policy advertised in the course schedule each semester, at times, conditions exist which may prevent the offering of 1. All semester / credit hours awarded by Trocaire a course. Conditions under which the college has the conform to federal and state requirements and right to cancel a course include, but are not limited to the definitions. In general, a credit hour is an amount of following: work represented in intended learning outcomes and Insufficient student enrollment verified by evidence of student achievement that is Lack of appropriate faculty an institutionally established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than – (1) one Lack of financial resources hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a When a course is cancelled, the college will make minimum of two hours of out of class student work every effort to assist students in enrolling in an each week for approximately fifteen weeks for one alternative course so that the student may meet semester. A semester hour means a credit, point, or graduation requirements. other unit granted for the satisfactory completion of a Course Disclosure Policy course which requires at least 15 hours (of 50 minutes each) of instruction and at least 30 hours of At the beginning of every course, the instructor supplementary assignments. distributes a written course syllabus and/or program 2. At least an equivalent amount of work as required in manual to all students taking the course. The course paragraph (1) of this definition for other academic outline is a course disclosure and describes the activities including laboratory work, internships, objectives and content for the course and the method by practica, studio work, and other academic work which students’ work will be evaluated for grades. leading to the award of credit hours. Students should refer to these on a regular basis during the semester. For further information, please see the college’s website at http://my.trocaire.edu
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Grade Notification If a student chooses to repeat a course that they have passed but want to improve the grade, the Grade reports may be accessed through the student credits for the repeated course cannot be included portal at the end of each semester. Grades are not given in determining a student’s full-time status for the out via the telephone. Grade reports will be mailed upon purpose of awarding New York State TAP. request. Students may not take a Directed Study, Independent A mid-semester evaluation of each student’s academic Study, or Challenge Exam to replace a course in which a achievement is made, and the student is notified if failing grade was earned. midterm grades are below “C” (2.0). Registration Policy Leave of Absence Students must register during the registration period A student in good academic standing, with a GPA of noted in the course schedule. Failure to adhere to this 2.0 or higher, who wishes to take a Leave of Absence requirement will result in the student forfeiting their must request this in writing to the Vice President for guaranteed placement in the next semester. No Academic Affairs and Planning. In any calendar year, a student may register after the “Add & Drop” period student may be granted no more than one leave, and during the first week of classes. ordinarily it may not extend beyond one full semester. A Students are required to follow the College’s student who does not return at the end of a Leave of withdrawal procedure for changes in registration after Absence will be considered withdrawn from the college. the “Add & Drop” period. This withdrawal will be effective as of the beginning date Students are required to take all courses in a program of the Leave of Absence. Except for serious reasons, a curriculum. Exceptions to the requirements in the Leave of Absence will not be granted after Add & Drop prescribed curriculum are permitted only under day in each semester. Students granted a Leave of extraordinary circumstances and require written approval Absence for medical reasons must have a doctor’s of the Program Director and Vice President for Academic release to return to the college. Affairs and Planning. Students are responsible for any scheduling conflicts and/or lengthening of program Program Change Policy that may occur when courses are taken out of sequence. Students wishing to transfer out of their current major and into a new major must file a Program Transfer Notification of Rights under Family Educational Request Form available through the Advisement & Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Career Services Office. This form must be completed by the student’s academic advisor, and approved by the The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act director of the program into which the student wishes to (FERPA) affords eligible students certain rights with transfer. respect to their education records. (An “eligible student” A program transfer may necessitate adjustments to under FERPA is a student who is 18 years of age or those courses not applicable to the new program. older or who attends a postsecondary institution). These Adjustments to measure academic progress will be rights include: made at the end of the first semester in the new curriculum. 1. The right to inspect and review the student’s education records within 45 days after the day Trocaire Repeat Course Policy College receives a request for access. A student should submit to the registrar, dean, head of the academic Students may repeat a course in instances where they department, or other appropriate official, a written have received grades of “C-“ (where a program’s policy request that identifies the record(s) the student wishes to requires a minimum grade of “C”) “D+”, “D”. “F”, “FX”, inspect. The school official will make arrangements for “W”, “WF”, and “U”. A grade of “W” in any course counts access and notify the student of the time and place as an attempt at taking a course but does not count as a where the records may be inspected. If the records are failure. Students will be allowed to repeat a course for not maintained by the school official to whom the request which they have received a grade of “W” only once. was submitted, that official shall advise the student of Students may repeat a course only once, unless they the correct official to whom the request should be have a signed authorization from the director of the addressed. academic program in which they are enrolled to repeat a course for the second time. 2. The right to request the amendment of the student’s In cases of repeated courses, the last grade earned education records that the student believes are is used in computing the grade point average (GPA). inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise in violation of the However, all grades earned for courses taken at student’s privacy rights under FERPA. A student who Trocaire remain part of the student’s permanent record. wishes to ask the school to amend a record should write
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the school official responsible for the record, clearly To authorized representatives of the U.S. identify the part of the record the student wants Comptroller General, the U.S. Attorney General, the changed, and specify why it should be changed. If the U.S. Secretary of Education, or State and local school decides not to amend the record as requested, educational authorities, such as a State the school will notify the student in writing of the decision postsecondary authority that is responsible for and the student’s right to a hearing regarding the request supervising the college’s State-supported education for amendment. Additional information regarding the programs. Disclosures under this provision may be hearing procedures will be provided to the student when made, subject to the requirements of §99.35, in notified of the right to a hearing. connection with an audit or evaluation of Federal- or State-supported education programs, or for the 3. The right to provide written consent before the college enforcement of or compliance with Federal legal discloses personally identifiable information from the requirements that relate to those programs. These student’s education records, except to the extent that entities may make further disclosures of personally FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent. Directory identifiable information to outside entities that are Information may be released without the student’s designated by them as their authorized consent. Trocaire College designates the following items representatives to conduct any audit, evaluation, or as Directory Information: student name, address, e-mail enforcement or compliance activity on their behalf. address, telephone numbers, photograph, date and (§§99.31(a)(3) and 99.35) place of birth, major field of study, grade level, name of In connection with financial aid for which the student academic advisor, participation in officially-recognized has applied or which the student has received, if the activities, dates of attendance, enrollment status, information is necessary to determine eligibility for degrees, date of graduation, honors and awards the aid, determine the amount of the aid, determine received, and most recent previous school attended. A the conditions of the aid, or enforce the terms and student who wishes to have Directory Information conditions of the aid. (§99.31(a)(4)) withheld must notify the Registrar’s Office. Forms To organizations conducting studies for, or on behalf requesting the withholding of Directory information are of, the school, in order to: (a) develop, validate, or available in the Registrar’s Office. Trocaire College will administer predictive tests; (b) administer student aid assume a student’s failure to request withholding of programs; or (c) improve instruction. (§99.31 (a)(6)) Directory Information as their consent to the release of To accrediting organizations to carry out their this information. accrediting functions. (§99.31(a)(7))
Disclosure Without Consent To parents of an eligible student if the student is a FERPA permits the disclosure of personally identifiable dependent for IRS tax purposes. (§99.31(a)(8)) information from students’ education records, without To comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued consent of the student, if the disclosure meets certain subpoena. (§99.31(a)(9)) conditions found in §99.31 of the FERPA regulations. To appropriate officials in connection with a health or Except for disclosures to school officials, disclosures safety emergency, subject to §99.36. (§99.31(a)(10)) related to some judicial orders or lawfully issued Information the school has designated as “directory subpoenas, disclosures of directory information, and information” under §99.37. (§99.31(a)(11)) disclosures to the student, §99.32 of FERPA regulations To a victim of an alleged perpetrator of a crime of requires the institution to record the disclosure. Eligible violence or a non-forcible sex offense, subject to the students have a right to inspect and review the records requirements of §99.39. The disclosure may only of disclosures. A postsecondary institution may disclose include the final results of the disciplinary personally identifiable information from the education proceeding with respect to that alleged crime or records without obtaining prior written consent of the offense, regardless of the finding. (§99.31(a)(13)) student - To the general public, the final results of a To other school officials, including teachers, within disciplinary proceeding, subject to the requirements Trocaire College whom the school has determined of §99.39, if the school determines the student is an to have legitimate educational interests. This alleged perpetrator of a crime of violence or non- includes contractors, consultants, volunteers, or forcible sex offense and the student has committed other parties to whom the school has outsourced a violation of the school’s rules or policies with institutional services or functions, provided that the respect to the allegation made against him or her. conditions listed in §99.31(a)(1)(i)(B)(1)- (§99.31(a)(14)) (a)(1)(i)(B)(2) are met. (§99.31(a)(1)) To parents of a student regarding the student’s To officials of another school where the student violation of any Federal, State, or local law, or of any seeks or intends to enroll, or where the student is rule or policy of the school, governing the use or already enrolled if the disclosure is for purposes possession of alcohol, or a controlled substance if related to the student’s enrollment or transfer, the school determines the student committed a subject to the requirements of §99.34. (§99.31(a)(2))
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disciplinary violation and the student is under the Academic Probation age of 21. (§99.31(a)(15)) 4. The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department Academic probation results when a student’s semester of Education concerning alleged failures by Trocaire grade point average (GPA) falls below 2.0. A student College to comply with the requirements of FERPA. placed on academic probation is expected to make an appointment with a member of the Academic The name and address of the Office that administers Advisement Office to discuss the student’s academic FERPA is: progress. The student should make this appointment Family Policy Compliance Office as soon as possible. U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Academic Dismissal
Washington, DC 20202 Academic dismissal from the College and loss of
matriculation results from any of the following: Support Services a. Falling below the cumulative grade point Trocaire provides quality and diverse support services average indicated for dismissal on the chart for tutoring, counseling and basic skill development. below. These services, in addition to Academic Advisement, b. Failing (F or FX) three (3) or more courses in a allow students to reach their academic goals in an single semester. individualized learning environment. c. Showing withdrawal (W or WF) from more than Tutoring and advisement services are offered for one-half of courses attempted in two students who qualify under HEOP (Arthur O. Eve Higher consecutive semesters not counting summer. Education Opportunity Program) and Perkins III. d. Being placed on academic probation for two consecutive semesters not counting summer.
Academic Standards Dismissed students may not re-apply to the College for readmission for a period of one (1) Trocaire College maintains academic standards to calendar year. facilitate academic progress and to assist students in reaching their educational goals and program Total Credits Attempted DISMISSAL requirements. Cumulative GPA Below Faculty advisors and college counselors are available 6 – 15 1.00 to assist students. The Academic Standards clearly 16 – 30 1.25 define requirements for degree/certificate completion, 31 – 45 1.50 and also provide routine interventions to help students 46+ 1.75 reach their goals. Academic interventions include academic advisement Any extenuating circumstances will be reviewed by the and support services as well as early alert notification Vice President for Academic Affairs and Planning upon and midterm warning letters. request by the student.
Academic Year Academic Warnings
Trocaire College generally follows a semester system At the completion of the fifth week of the semester, with fall and spring semesters consisting of a minimum students who are identified by the faculty as “at risk” in of 15 weeks, which includes one week for exams. any course are sent an early alert letter by Advisement Summer terms are typically less than 15 weeks but and Career Services. This letter suggests interventions adhere to the requirements in terms of the total amount to assist the student. At mid-term, students who have a of instructional time and outside work required. For grade below “C” are sent a warning letter by the Director certain academic programs (for example, those offered of Advisement & Career Services. These letters do not via compressed schedules), term length may be less affect the student’s status and the grades do not appear than 15 weeks but nonetheless adhere to the on the student’s transcripts. The purpose of these requirements in terms of the total amount of instruction / academic warnings is to encourage the student to work required. contact instructors and/or academic advisors to discuss appropriate strategies to facilitate improvement. Academic Probation and Dismissal Policy Classification of Students A student is in good academic standing if he/she is matriculated at this institution and is considered by the A full time student is one who carries a minimum 12 faculty to be making satisfactory progress toward a credit hours per semester. A part time student is one degree or certificate. carrying fewer than 12 credit hours per semester. A matriculated student is one who is enrolled in a program 36 Academic Policies & Procedures
of study as registered with New York State. A non- Semester Grade Point Average (GPA) and Quality degree or non-matriculated student is one taking classes Points but who is not enrolled in a registered program of study. Grades received earn quality points as indicated in the following table. A grade point average is computed by Copyright Infringement and File Sharing dividing the number of quality points earned by the total number of credit hours for which the student is All faculty, staff and students are expected to comply registered. A semester grade point average is computed with federal copyright laws. Persons found in violation of based on courses attempted during the semester. US Copyright Law (www.copyright.gov/title17) are subject to penalties which may include but not limited to Cumulative Grade Point Average being banned from access to specific technologies or The cumulative grade point average is computed for all facilities, loss of computer and network privileges, be of the courses a student has taken at Trocaire. It required to make full restitution and/or prosecuted if changes whenever a new semester’s grades are criminal activity is found. For more information see the calculated and is a reflection of student progress in all college’s student handbook, listed under Technology – work. In cases of repeated courses, the last grade Acceptable Use Policy. A copy of the college’s earned is used in the cumulative GPA calculations, if the administrative regulation (Regulation No. 191) pertaining course is repeated at Trocaire. to copyright infringement and file sharing can be obtained by requesting it through the office of the Vice Grading System President for Academic Affairs and Planning. The following system of grading is in effect: Cross Registration Quality Letter Letter # Students may cross register at colleges which are Points Grade Range members of the Western New York Consortium of 4.0 A 95-100 Higher Education. Students are only eligible to cross 3.67 A- 92-94 register, during the normal academic year (September to 3.33 B+ 89-91 May), at participating colleges. Please see the 3.00 B 85-88 Registrar’s Office for the detailed Cross-Registration 2.67 B- 82-84 Agreement guidelines and a registration form. 2.33 C+ 79-81 Trocaire College students seeking to cross register 2.00 C 75-78 must follow the criteria below: 1.67 C- 72-74 1. Student must be matriculated full-time at Trocaire 1.33 D+ 69-71 College for the semester he/she is seeking to cross 1.00 D 65-68 register. 0.00 F 64-0 2. Student may only register for a course that is 0 FX Failure, Unsatisfactory Attendance required for their program of study. 0 W Withdrawal (without academic penalty) 3. The desired, regularly scheduled course is not 0 WF Withdrawal Failing available during the semester the student is 0 I Incomplete requesting cross registration either due to course S Satisfactory closure or cancellation. U Unsatisfactory 4. Student must fill out a cross registration form AU Audit available in the Registrar’s Office and be approved Z Academic Amnesty/Bankruptcy by both institutions.
There is no additional fee for courses taken through the Consortium. A limit of 6 credit hours is permitted in Course Withdrawal (W, WF) an academic year – one course per semester.
It is the responsibility of the student to contact Evaluation of Student Work his/her advisor and the Director of Advisement & Career Services when officially withdrawing from An evaluation system is required for each course. any course. Official withdrawal forms must be Examinations are ordinarily part of the evaluation processed through the Registrar’s Office. system, but alternative methods of overall evaluation may be employed. At the first class period of the The weeks following Add & Drop Period and last day of semester, the instructor will inform students through the the tenth week constitute the withdrawal period (W). A course syllabus or program manual of the type of grade of “W” counts as an attempt at taking the course evaluation system that will be used for that course which may affect the number of times the student can throughout the semester. repeat the course.
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If a student withdraws after the tenth week, he/she interaction must satisfy minimal criteria for awarding of receives a withdrawal failing grade (WF), except in credits. extenuating circumstances. Please note: A student who ceases to attend classes Directed Study and does not formally notify the college in writing will receive a grade of “FX” in the course. In addition to Directed Study is available to students in their last receiving a grade of “FX” students with unexcused semester for designated courses that are not available absences equal to twice the number of times a course during the semester in which they need to register for meets per week may be denied further admission to the coursework in order to fulfill their program class by the instructor. In each case the student will be requirements. In some instances, this may apply to liable for full tuition and fees as originally incurred. students registered for evening programs and need a Non-attendance will not release the student from course offered during the day. financial liability. Directed Study is arranged by contract, with the student meeting with the instructor in a seminar setting (I) Incomplete at regular intervals. Students must have the approval of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Planning to An Incomplete grade is given only for a good and register for a Directed Study Course. The college has sufficient reason as determined by the instructor. It is the right to restrict the availability of Directed Study completed in a manner determined by mutual agreement course work. Note: Directed Study must satisfy all of student and instructor. relevant federal regulations, including the federal credit An Incomplete must be removed from the hour requirement. Student work and instructor student’s record within 30 calendar days after the interaction must satisfy minimal criteria for awarding of Incomplete was received, or it will automatically credits. convert to an F. The 30 day completion requirement can be waived, Graduation Honors under extenuating circumstances, with written permission of the Vice President for Academic Affairs Honors at graduation are given on the basis of the and Planning. cumulative grade point average. The certificate with merit – a cumulative GPA of 3.4 (AU) Audit The degree with distinction – a cumulative GPA of 3.4 The degree with high distinction – a cumulative GPA of A student desiring to audit a course must receive the 3.6 approval of the appropriate instructor and the Program The degree with highest distinction – a cumulative GPA Director. Only officially audited classes will appear on of 4.0 the transcript. Students who audit are expected to attend classes but their work is not subject to review by the Graduation Requirements instructor and they receive a grade of “AU” (no credit) at the completion of the class. No student may change Students apply for graduation with the Registrar. To be from audit to credit after the last day of Add & Drop eligible, the student must have fulfilled the following period. The college attendance policy applies to audit requirements: courses. Completion of the minimum number of semester hours of credit and courses required by the Independent Study program for which the degree is granted. A minimum average of “C” which is equal to a Instructors may provide opportunities for qualified cumulative quality point average of 2.0. students to engage in independent study. A guide and A 2.0 cumulative index or a minimum grade of appropriate forms are available in the Office of the Vice “C” for program requirements. President for Academic Affairs and Planning. A grade of “C” in the College Seminar course. Students may take a maximum of nine credit hours of Students with previous college credits may be Independent Study in required programs. exempt from this requirement. The purpose of Independent Study is to provide an Residency Requirement as outlined previously. opportunity for a student, under the direction of a faculty Students completing their requirements in the member, to explore a topic of interest to the student fall semester are asked to participate in the which will enhance the achievement of program learning December Commencement Ceremony. objectives in his/her field of study. All policies related to Students completing requirements at other times Independent Study are included in the Independent are asked to participate in the May Study Guide. Note: Independent Study must satisfy all Commencement Ceremony. relevant federal regulations, including the federal credit hour requirement. Student work and instructor
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Appeal of Academic Decisions Outcomes of Step One: If the respondent(s) find that an error has been made, or that a compromise can be The college provides for procedural steps by which a reached, the respondent(s) may take appropriate steps student may appeal an academic decision. Students for correction. On the other hand, the respondent(s) may may file an appeal based upon the following grounds: uphold their decision, in which case the student may 1. A practice/policy at variance with accepted College either accept the decision or proceed to Step Two. practice/policy. 2. Computer/calculation error. Step Two – Discussion with Program Director or 3. Inconsistent application of grading standards within Supervisor an instructor’s sections of the same course. Step two must be initiated within ten (10) business 4. Capricious or arbitrary application of standards days of the completion of Step One and must be concerning grading, curriculum, or placement status. completed within the next ten business days of its 5. Allegation of academic dishonesty not supported by initiation. In summer sessions, the administrator or evidence. Director may take up to 20 days. Step Two may not be skipped. The following definitions apply within the academic If the student feels his/her grievance is still valid after appeal process: conferring with the instructor or other professional, Academic decisions – decisions affecting the he/she may present the complaint in writing to the assignment of course grades, academic level Program Director or Supervisor of the Director if the placement, curriculum status, and academic decision has been made by a director. There shall again dishonesty. be an attempt at mediation. The complaint in writing must state the grounds of appeal, as explained in the Business day – day when the administrative Policy of this regulation. offices of the college are open. Outcomes of Step Two: A mutually agreeable resolution Administrator – the administrator is the director might be reached. Or, the Director or Supervisor may of designee. find that the appeal is not timely, is without merit, or does not meet the appeal criteria set forth within the appeal Appeal of Academic Decisions Form (AADF) – procedure. Or, the Director or Supervisor may find that form originated in the director or other or Dean’s he/she cannot sustain the academic decision. office of the academic area in question In any case, the Director or Supervisor will note the documenting the results of each step in the outcome on the Form, sign it, notify both the student and appeal process. the respondent(s) of the outcome, and secure their signatures on the AADF. A copy of the form will be given Respondent(s) – the person or persons making to all parties. At this time, if appropriate, the student will the academic decision. be reminded of the right to proceed to Step Three and of any impending deadlines in the appeal process. Appealing Academic Decisions: The Appeal Process must be followed in sequence as described below. The Step Three – Appeal Committee only exception should be the lack of availability of the Step Three must be initiated within five business days respondents. In that case the student would begin with of the completion of Step Two and must be completed step two. within the next ten business days of its initiation. In summer sessions this may take up to twenty days. Step One – Meeting with the respondents If the grievance remains unsettled the Director or Dean shall refer the decision to the Vice President for Step one must be completed within thirty (30) business Academic Affairs and Planning (VPAA). The student days of the date when the student received the making the appeal must provide details of the appeal in academic decision. The date shall begin 2 days after the writing and shall describe the decision from which the last day of the term, or the date shown in any letter or appeal is taken, name of the respondents, if known, and other written communication advising the student of any state the reason for the appeal (noted in policy above); other academic decision. include any documents to be relied upon, including The student consults with the respondent(s), the grades, reports, correspondence, themes or other instructor or other persons responsible for the academic papers; and be signed by the student. Upon receipt of decision, to discuss the issue in question. This step shall the completed written appeal, the VPAA shall appoint an not be skipped unless the respondent(s) are unable to Appeal Committee to hear the case. meet with the student. Upon notice, the supervisor of the respondent(s) shall make every effort to notify the If the appeal concerns a grade only, then the appeal respondent(s) concerning the appeal, but if that is committee shall consist of three faculty members. For all unsuccessful, the student may proceed to step two. other academic decisions, the committee will be supplemented by a Director or Dean (appointed by the Academic Policies & Procedures 39
VPAA) and one other professional. Irrespective of the are not required to complete the Elementary Algebra nature of the appeal, the mandated three faculty on the portion of ACCUPLACER. committee will be selected in the following manner: If entering students have previously earned 24 a. The student selects a faculty member. college credits and a minimum GPA of 2.0, they are b. The faculty member or other respondent selects not required to complete the Reading a faculty member. Comprehension portion of ACCUPLACER. c. The VPAA selects a faculty member. Transfer students who are ready to be ranked for the Efforts shall be made to avoid conflicts of interest for A.A.S. nursing program will be required to complete any member of the Appeal Committee. the Test of Essential Academic Skills or TEAS test Prior to the Appeal Committee meeting, the VPAA and the Elementary Algebra portion of the shall send copies of the appeal to the respondent, the ACCUPLACER. supervisor of the respondent, committee members and Transfer students wishing to enter the A.A.S. other named parties. Attendance at the Appeal Surgical Technology Program or the A.A.S Committee meeting shall be limited to only persons with Radiologic Technology Program are required to pertinent information. The student and the respondent(s) complete the Elementary Algebra portion of the are not present when the other party is presenting. ACCUPLACER before they are reviewed for admission into either program. Outcomes of Step Three: The Appeals Committee (AC) Please note that the College reserves the right to ask must render its decision within three business days of any student to take the placement test as part of the the date of the hearing(s). admissions criteria if his or her academic record does 1. The AC may reverse the decision in the previous not provide clarity on his or her academic ability. step, with a two-thirds or greater vote of the Committee. The student and respondent(s) will be Prior Learning Credit informed in writing of the ruling of the AC. 2. The AC may meet informally with either or both Trocaire College realizes that students learn through parties and obtain a written resolution. Such employment and life experiences. There are several resolution may grant the student’s request or ways a student may demonstrate prior learning and establish a compromise solution. receive college credit. Credit for prior learning is 3. The AC may decide that the appeal is not timely, is approved by the Vice President for Academic Affairs and without merit, or that it does not meet the appeal Planning. Policies and procedures for assessment of criteria set forth within this administrative regulation. prior learning experiences include: The student and respondent(s) will be informed win writing of the ruling of the AC. Advanced Placement Trocaire College participates in the Advanced Irrespective of the outcome of Step Three, the AADF Placement Program administered by the College Board. shall be completed and signed by the respondents, the A high school student becomes eligible for consideration student, the supervisor of the respondent(s), and the for advanced placement and credit by achieving VPAA. This shall terminate the process. satisfactory scores ( a rating of 3 to 5) on the Advanced Placement Examination. Placement Testing and Basic Skills Academic Policy Course Challenge A Course Challenge is allowed by the College in As part of the enrollment process, all entering students special and exceptional cases in which it has been are required to participate in placement testing. Any clearly determined that prior educational and/or entering student directly applying for the A.A.S. Nursing vocational experience has provided a learning Program must complete the Test of Essential Academic experience equivalent to that of the particular college Skills or the TEAS test. The conditions for testing for all course. entering students are as follows: Application and guidelines are available from the Vice First time freshman students are required to President for Academic Affairs and Planning and complete the Reading Comprehension, Sentence Program Directors for matriculated students who have Skills, and Elementary Algebra portions of the presented documentary evidence of their prior ACCUPLACER. experience. Applications should be submitted no later If entering students receive transfer credit for than the official registration days in the fall and spring Trocaire’s required English, they will not need to semesters. complete the Sentence Skills portion of The application and accompanying evidence will be ACCUPLACER. evaluated by the Vice President for Academic Affairs If entering students receive transfer credit for the and Planning, and/or the Director of the program math required for the program they are applying for involved. or if the desired program does not require math, they
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Following the approval of the application, the Program Guidelines and fee structure for portfolio assessment Director will arrange a time and place for the applicant to are available from the appropriate Program Director. take the examination before the semester’s end. Advanced Placement in Nursing Credit by Examination Licensed Practical Nurses may apply to receive The college shall, in certain cases, grant credit by advanced credit for the first semester nursing program. examination. The following types of examination are Applicants need to: approved: 1. Submit a copy of the LPN License 2. Meet the specific admission requirements of the 1. College Level Examination Program (CLEP) nursing program The College Level Examination Program (CLEP) 3. Have completed, with minimum grades of “C” or established by the College Board enables students to better, the following general education/science demonstrate competencies attained by non-traditional courses (by the application deadline) in accordance means. with the College’s transfer credit policy. The courses Trocaire College grants credit under the same are: conditions which apply to the Regents College . Biology and Chemistry with a grade of 75 or Examination. Further information can be obtained on line higher; minimum score of 58 on the algebra at www.clep.collegeboard.org portion of the ACCUPLACER test . Anatomy & Physiology I with lab and Anatomy & 2. Excelsior College Examinations Physiology II with lab The New York State Education Department in . English Composition cooperation with colleges and universities throughout . General Psychology New York State has established a program of . College Seminar examinations by which individuals who have achieved college level knowledge outside the formal classroom *If LPN applicants have not been employed in nursing can demonstrate their abilities and receive credit for for two or more years, they will be asked to take the them. Nursing Skills test to demonstrate skill proficiency. The State Education Department itself does not grant The number of positions available in the second course credit. This is left to the individual college or semester nursing classes varies with each class university to do, or not to do, in a manner consistent with depending on the number of students continuing the its own standards. progression. Applicants will be ranked in descending Trocaire College does participate in the Excelsior order according to cumulative GPA, grades in Anatomy College Examination Program and will grant credit to & Physiology I with lab and the TEAS score. Only official students who successfully complete Excelsior College transcripts and/or verification of final grades will be used. Examinations in accordance with the standards Applicants meeting the designated deadline will be given established by Trocaire College. first consideration for admission. Applicants not meeting The Vice President for Academic Affairs and Planning the deadline cannot be guaranteed consideration for in consultation with the appropriate Program Director will admission. All selected and non-selected applicants will consider individually the cases of applicants who request be notified in writing by the Nursing Department. credit. Graduates from all Practical Nursing programs must successfully pass the NCLEX-PN boards and submit a Military Experience copy of the LPN license before their application will be Experience gained in the military may also be considered for entrance to the nursing program. reviewed for credit at the time of application. This is especially true in military technical programs and Scholastic Honors and Awards specialty schools.
Portfolio Full time matriculated students (carrying 12 credit A student may submit a portfolio to demonstrate hours or more) and part time matriculated students knowledge gained through work and life experience. (carrying 8-11 credit hours) who have a semester Grade The portfolio contents will include: Point Average of 3.4 and no grade below a “C” merit a place on the Dean’s List, which is published at the end Review of life and work experiences of each semester. Identification of career and educational objectives The Trocairian Award is given annually to a student Verification of prior learning and its correlation to the whose outstanding leadership and participation have course for which the portfolio is submitted. made Trocaire’s “community of learning” a lived reality. Documentation The award is based on faculty, staff, and student Authorized request form for portfolio assessment nominations. (available from the Program Director) Each year graduating students whose academic Upon completion, the portfolio is reviewed by standing, service to the school, and community appropriate faculty and if accepted, credit is conferred. leadership in extracurricular activities have been Academic Policies & Procedures 41
outstanding are nominated for inclusion in Who’s Who withdrawal forms must be processed through the Among Students in American Universities and Registrar’s Office. Colleges. The student’s financial status will be reviewed during the withdrawal process. Transcripts The college reserves the right to request the withdrawal of any student whose academic work is An official or student copy transcript will be sent upon unsatisfactory or conduct not in accord with the spirit and receipt of a written request. At least 24 hour notice is aims of the college. required for all official transcripts. No phone requests will be honored. No transcripts will be issued until all Retention and Persistence Rates financial obligations to the college are met. Annual Fall-To-Fall Retention Rates*: Transfer to Other Institutions Fall 2014 to Fall 2015 Full-Time Part-Time Students who plan to transfer after graduation are First-time Bachelor’s Cohort advised to make an early choice of college and to from Fall 2014 N/A** N/A** familiarize themselves with the requirements of transfer First-time Associate/Certificate- institutions. Seeking Cohort from Fall 2014 53.1% 77.8% The Director Advisement and Career Services and the students’ Academic Advisor will assist students with their *Retention Rates reflect the percent of first-time students plans, but primary responsibility for transfer rests with enrolled during the initial fall semester who re-enrolled during the student. the subsequent fall semester, or who graduated prior to the subsequent fall semester. Withdrawal **The Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008) requires Withdrawal from a Course institutions to publish the fall-to-fall retention rates of first-time bachelor’s degree-seeking students entering in fall 2014. It is the responsibility of the student to contact a staff Although Trocaire College did enroll students in bachelor’s member from the Advisement and Career Services office degree programs in fall 2014, none of the students enrolled when officially withdrawing from any course. Official were first-time students. As a result, no retention rates for the withdrawal forms must be processed through the bachelor’s degree-seeking cohort can be calculated. Since the Registrar’s Office. The weeks following Drop & Add majority of students enrolling at Trocaire in any given fall semester are seeking either an Associate’s degree or a period and the last day of the tenth week constitute the Certificate, the college has voluntarily displayed the fall-to-fall withdrawal period and the student will receive a grade of retention rates for the first-time Associate/Certificate-seeking “W” if they withdraw from the course during this period. If cohort entering in fall 2014. a student withdraws after the tenth week, he/she receives a withdrawal failing (WF) grade, except in Persistence Rates*: extenuating circumstances. During the process of course withdrawal, the student’s financial status will be Full-Time Part-Time reviewed. Fall 2015 to Spring 2016 78.2% 71.4%
Note: A grade of “W” or “WF” counts as an attempt at the *Persistence Rates reflect the percent of students enrolled in course and may impact the student’s ability to repeat the the initial fall semester who re-enrolled during the subsequent course. spring semester, or who graduated prior to or during the subsequent spring semester or prior to August 31. Withdrawal from a Program
A student who wishes to withdraw from a program but remain in the college should contact his/her advisor and the Director of the Program. A student withdrawing from a program may apply to another program.
Withdrawal from the College
In order to withdraw from the college, a student must contact a staff member from the Advisement and Career Services Office. Date of official withdrawal from the college is the date on which written notification of withdrawal from the college is coordinated through the Office of Advisement and Career Services. Official
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Graduation Rates (Student Right-to-Know Act)
The Federal Student Right-To-Know Act (SRKA) requires institutions to publish the graduation rates of entering full-time first-time students according to a standard methodology developed by the U.S. Department of Education. As part of the Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008), institutions of higher education must provide their completion and graduation rate information disaggregated by: Gender, major racial and ethnic subgroups as defined by IPEDS, recipients of Federal Pell Grants, recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant, and students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Stafford Loan. The most up-to-date rates for Trocaire College are presented below.
Graduation Rates for Full-Time, First-Time Degree/Certificate-Seeking Undergraduates – Cohort Entering in 2009*
Bachelor’s Degree-Seeking Certificate or Associate’s Degree-Seeking Completion Rate Completion Rate Category Number of Students 150% of Normal Time Number of Students 150% of Normal Time Overall Total – Entering Cohort 0 N/A 159 27.0% Gender Female 0 N/A 130 26.9% Male 0 N/A 29 27.6% Race/Ethnicity (New) Hispanic / Latino 0 N/A 8 25% American Indian or Alaska Native 0 N/A 0 0% Asian 0 N/A 1 0% Black or African American 0 N/A 43 14% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0 N/A 0 0% White 0 N/A 103 32% Two or more Races 0 N/A 2 50% Non-Resident Alien 0 N/A 0 0% Ethnicity Unknown 0 N/A 2 50% Financial Aid Status Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant 0 N/A 117 65.1% Recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant 0 N/A 30 27.9% Students who received neither a Pell Grant nor a subsidized Stafford Loan 0 N/A 12 7%
*Note: Trocaire College did not begin to offer Bachelor’s Degree programs until 2010, so therefore had no Full-Time, First-Time Bachelor’s Degree- Seeking Students in 2009. Graduation Rates reflect the percentage of full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking students from the entering cohort who graduated within 150% of normal time to completion for their particular academic program.
Student Diversity
Under the Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008), institutions must provide information about student body diversity, including the percentage of enrolled, full-time students in the following categories: Gender, Self-identified members of major racial or ethnic groups, and federal Pell recipients.
Student Characteristics for Fall 2015
Full-Time Part-Time Category Number of Students Percent of Total Number of Students Percent of Total Overall Enrollment Total* 621 45.4% 748 54.6% Degree/Certificate-Seeking 612 44.7% 618 45.1% First-Time Freshmen 110 8.0% 7 0.51% Gender Distribution** Female 536 39.2% 556 40.6% Male 76 5.6% 62 4.5% Race/Ethnicity Categories (New)** Hispanic / Latino 34 2.5% 30 2.2% American Indian or Alaska Native 7 0.5% 7 0.50% Asian 13 0.95% 4 0.29% Black or African American 90 6.6% 80 5.8% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 1 0.0% 1 0.0% White 410 29.9% 446 32.6% Two or more Races 11 0.80% 9 0.66% Non-Resident Alien 1 0.0% 0 0% Race/Ethnicity Unknown 45 3.4% 41 3.0% Federal Aid Status** Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant 389 28.4% 298 21.8% * Includes high school students (non-matriculated) taking college courses for credit ** Includes matriculated students only
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Degrees and Programs of Study
General Education Courses The college is chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. It is authorized to Mathematics award the degrees of Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of MA107 Logical Reasoning & Decision Making Professional Studies, Associate in Arts, Associate in MA111 College Algebra & Statistics with Business Science, and Associate in Applied Science. It is further Applications MA112 College Algebra with Trigonometry authorized to confer Certificates as well. MA120 Statistics I MA130 Calculus I Trocaire College General Education MA200 Statistical Methods Requirements MA220 Statistics II MA230 Calculus II Trocaire College is committed to preparing its students MA455 Quantitative Research Methods for academic and career success through a strong Natural Science foundation in General Education. In keeping with New BIO105 Human Biology York State Educational Requirements each degree BIO109 Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology with lab offering requires a minimum number of General BIO180 General Biology I with lab Education credits of Liberal Arts course work as follows: BIO181 General Biology II with lab BIO205 Environmental Science B.S. 60 credits (1/2) from Liberal Arts courses BIO208 Nutrition and Wellness with lab B.P.S. 30 credits (1/4) from Liberal Arts courses BIO333 Pathophysiology A.A.S. 20 credits (1/3) from Liberal Arts courses CH111 General Chemistry I with lab A.S. 30 credits (1/2) from Liberal Arts courses CH112 General Chemistry II with lab CH250 Organic Chemistry with lab A.A. 45 credits (3/4) from Liberal Arts courses PHY111 General Physics I with lab PHY112 General Physics II with lab Students pursuing a two-year General Studies degree will complete a minimum of one-half of their credits in Social Science General Education. Students seeking a four-year EC201 Principles of Macroeconomics transfer degree will complete as many credits of General EC202 Principles of Microeconomics Education course work as possible depending on their GS499 Multiculturalism degree choice as noted above. PSY101 General Psychology Degree candidates must complete course work in the PSY102 Developmental Psychology following areas in order to complete the General PSY201 Abnormal Psychology PSY202 Human Sexuality Education requirements. Individual programs may PSY301 Health Psychology require particular course work to accommodate for the PSY303 Organizational Psychology academic areas indicated below: PSY315 Social Psychology PSY320 Research Techniques College Seminar or College Success (1-3 credits) SOC101 Principles of Sociology Basic Communication (3-6 credits) SOC207 Contemporary Social Problems EN101 English Composition SOC301 Sociology of Health & Medicine SOC311 Coping with Illness EN200 Advanced Composition
Humanities (3-9 credits) American History (also counts as a Social Science) Literature Elective (3-9 credits) HI201 The American Experience: Pre-Contact to the Electives (0-6 credits) Civil War Philosophy/Religious Studies (6-9 credits) HI202 The American Experience: Reconstruction to the Social Science (Economics, History, Psychology, Contemporary Period Sociology) (6-9 credits) HI206 Issues in the American Experience Mathematics (3-8 credits) Western Civilization (also counts as a Social Science) Natural Science (3-8 credits) HI101 Western Civilization I HI102 Western Civilization II
World Cultures (also counts as a Social Science) HI103 World Civilization I HI104 World Civilization II
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credits and courses in a curriculum composed primarily Humanities of courses in liberal arts and sciences, including the ART100 Art Appreciation General Education core requirements. ART101 Art History EN101 English Composition Associate in Science EN102 Introduction to Literature EN201 Readings in World Literature The Associate in Science degree is used primarily for EN206 Children’s Literature EN209 American Literature transfer to programs leading to a Bachelor of Science EN211 Explorations in Poetry degree. It may also be used for learning and skill EN213 Short Story enhancement in the workplace or for helping those who, EN217 Drama while working, are preparing for a new career. EN225 Film as Literature It is awarded upon completion of the minimum number EN240 Creative Writing of semester hours of credits and courses in a curriculum EN304 Race, Gender, and Literature composed primarily of courses in liberal arts and MU100 Music Survey Course sciences and including the General Education core MU101 Music Appreciation requirements. Less broad in scope than the Associate in MU114 Class Piano and Basic Musicianship SP101 Beginning Spanish Arts, this degree is for students who wish to concentrate SP102 Intermediate Spanish either in the sciences or mathematics.
Philosophy and Religious Studies (also counts as Associate in Applied Science Humanities) PH103 Introduction to Philosophy The Associate in Applied Science degree is awarded PH107 Logical Reasoning & Decision Making upon completion of the minimum number of semester PH201 Ethics hours of credits and the General Education core PH205 Ethics in Health Care requirements. PH207 Marriage & Family PH208 Death and Dying Intended primarily for career oriented programs it may PH215 Logic be appropriate for transfer toward a Bachelor of Science PH301 Philosophy of World Religions degree in some areas, such as nursing. PH304 Social/Political Philosophy PH350 Topics in Bioethics Bachelor of Science RS100 Introduction to Religious Thought RS101 Introduction to Scripture The Bachelor of Science degree is awarded upon RS103 Introduction to Christian Thought successful completion of the minimum number of RS108 Major World Religions semester hour credits and courses in a curriculum
Basic Communications composed of courses in liberal arts and sciences EN101 English Composition including the General Education core requirements as EN200 Advanced Composition well as didactic and clinical course work specific to the EN205 Communication Arts major field of study.
Transfer of A.A.S. Degrees The College Seminar course (GS100) is required of matriculated students during their first semester. The A.A.S. Degree is designed primarily for career Students who have previous college work may be programs. Trocaire maintains articulation and dual exempt. admission degree requirements with many four year A cumulative quality point average of 2.00 is required colleges to facilitate transfer of these programs to a four for graduation, as well as a cumulative index of 2.00 in year institution. The student is encouraged to discuss program requirements. transfer options with their academic advisor to provide a maximum transfer of credits. Associate in Arts Requirements for Receiving More than One Primarily this degree enables students to transfer their Degree Associate in Arts into a variety of four-year Bachelor of Arts programs. While used for such transfer programs, If a student wishes to receive 2 associate degrees the degree also provides an opportunity for new from Trocaire College, he/she MUST: knowledge and skill enhancement, both in the workplace - Fulfill the degree requirements for each degree. and for those who are searching for new careers. - Complete 30 credit hours beyond the basic The Associate in Arts degree is awarded upon requirements of the first degree completion of the minimum number of semester hours of - Discuss this option with the Director of each program.
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Program Learning Outcomes: COMPUTER NETWORK ADMINISTRATION A.A.S. Program level student learning outcomes are outlined (HEGIS Code 5199) below. At the completion of the AAS degree in the Computer Network Administration Program, the student Computer networks enable computers to communicate will be able to: with one another, thereby allowing users to share 1. Apply knowledge of hardware concepts, standards, computer resources. Computer networks have become tools and test equipment, and best practices to the backbone of every business, education, and properly administer an organization’s computer, government institution that uses computers. Computer network, and server equipment. network professionals create and support networks to 2. Apply knowledge of operating system concepts, ensure they operate efficiently and securely. standards, and best practices to properly administer Candidates for this program should be naturally an organization’s computer, network, and server curious and passionate about computers. Computer systems. Network Administration students need to be committed 3. Design, develop, and implement network, system, to a lifelong learning experience as this is an extremely and IT security policies and procedures to protect dynamic field. This is not a program of study where you the organization’s resources. will learn how to use computers or sit in front of a 4. Develop the network administrator’s relationship to computer inputting data into pre-programmed business and management for effective application applications. of computer and network technologies to business Students in this program will learn how networks needs. enable computer users to share computer resources and 5. Apply customer service and soft skills for effective study how network information is transmitted through network administration. various media. Instruction includes such areas as: 6. Ensure appropriate ethical considerations are used network architecture, data integrity, troubleshooting, during network administration activities. system administration, protocol, security, and future networking trends. In addition to the program specific learning outcomes students achieving an associate’s degree will also Admission Requirements: achieve the following general education outcomes: High school diploma (minimum 75% average) or GED 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral Diploma with a minimum score of 2500 communication. 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through Minimum Degree Requirements: written communication. 1. A total of at least 70 semester hours with a Quality 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information Point Average of 2.0. and ideas. Normal Time to Completion: 24 months 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives 2. General Education Requirements: and experiences. GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems Basic Communication (EN101) using statistical or arithmetical methods and Humanities (Literature Elective: 3 credits) communicate information verbally, numerically or Mathematics (3-4 credits) graphically. Natural Science (3-4 credits) 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to Philosophy/Religious Studies (PH103, PH204) solve problems and make effective decisions, and Social Science (6 credits) draw conclusions. 3. Other Requirements: 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it Business* (BU106, BU207, BU300) critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. Liberal Arts (3 credits) 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of 4. Program Requirements:* technology to solve problems or compile information. CNA101, CNA105 CNA112, CNA115, CNA208, CNA210, CNA260, CNA264, CNA274 Business or Computer Network Administration elective (3 credits)
* A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required.
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CURRICULUM
st First Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits BU106 Business Communications…...... 3 CNA101 Intro to Computer Hardware…...... 4 CNA105 Intro to Computer Networking.……… 4 EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 GS100 or College Seminar or GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 Mathematics Elective………………… 3 / 4 Semester Total 18 / 21
nd First Year – 2 Semester Courses Credits
CNA112 Operating Systems…………………… 3 CNA115 Network Infrastructure…………...... 3 Business or Computer Network Administration Elective…………….. 3 Literature Elective………………...... 3 Natural Science Elective………...... 3 / 4 PH103 Introduction to Philosophy…………… 3 Semester Total 18 / 19 st Second Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits
BU300 Project Management…………..……... 3 CNA208 Linux/UNIX…………………………….. 3 CNA210 Network Administration I.……..…….. 4 Liberal Arts Elective……………...... 3 PH204 Business Ethics…………..…………… 3 Social Science Elective…..………….. 3 Semester Total 19
nd Second Year – 2 Semester Courses Credits
BU207 Introduction to Management………… 3 CNA260 Network Administration II……………. 4 CNA264 Computer Security……………..…….. 3 CNA274 Seminar & Internship/Capstone Experience…………………………… 2 Social Science Elective……..……….. 3 Semester Total 15
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COMPUTER NETWORK CURRICULUM ADMINISTRATION – CERTIFICATE st (HEGIS Code 5199) First Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits CNA101 Intro to Computer Hardware…...... 4 This certificate program prepares graduates with the CNA105 Intro to Computer Networking.……… 4 same Computer Network Administration courses as the GS100 or College Seminar or degree program minus most of the General Education GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 requirements, Liberal Arts and Business courses found Semester Total 9 / 11 in the degree program. The Computer Network nd Administration Certificate program is part-time, four First Year – 2 Semester semester program offered only in the evening which can Courses Credits be completed in one year. CNA112 Operating Systems…………………… 3 CNA115 Network Infrastructure………...... 3
Business or Computer Network Admission Requirements: Administration Elective…………….. 3 High school diploma (minimum 75% average) or GED Semester Total 9 Diploma with a minimum score of 2500 Second Year – 1st Semester Minimum Certificate Requirements: Courses Credits 1. A total of at least 37 semester hours with a Quality BU300 Project Management…………………. 3 Point Average of 2.0. CNA208 Linux/UNIX…………………….………. 3 Normal Time to Completion: 24 months CNA210 Network Administration I.……………. 4 Semester Total 10 2. General Education Requirements:* GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success 3. Program Requirements:* Second Year – 2nd Semester BU300, CNA101, CNA105 CNA112, CNA115, Courses Credits CNA208, CNA210, CNA260, CNA264, CNA274 CNA260 Network Administration II………...….. 4 Business or Computer Network Administration CNA264 Computer Security……………………. 3 elective (3 credits) CNA274 Seminar & Internship/Capstone Experience…………………………… 2 * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. Semester Total 9
Program Learning Outcomes:
For more information about our graduation rates, the Program level student learning outcomes are outlined median debt of students who completed the certificate below. At the completion of the Computer Network program and other important information, please visit our Administration Certificate Program, the student will be website at able to: http://trocaire.edu/academic-program/computer-network- 1. Apply knowledge of hardware concepts, standards, administration/ tools and test equipment, and best practices to
properly administer an organization’s computer,
network, and server equipment.
2. Apply knowledge of operating system concepts,
standards, and best practices to properly administer
an organization’s computer, network, and server
systems.
3. Design, develop, and implement network, system,
and IT security policies and procedures to protect
the organization’s resources.
4. Develop the network administrator’s relationship to
business and management for effective application
of computer and network technologies to business
needs.
5. Apply customer service and soft skills for effective
network administration.
6. Ensure appropriate ethical considerations are used
during network administration activities.
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DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL Program Learning Outcomes:
SONOGRAPHY – CERTIFICATE Program level student learning outcomes are outlined (HEGIS Code 5207) below. At completion of the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Certificate Program, the student will be able The Diagnostic Medical Sonographer is a skilled to: person qualified by academic and clinical preparation to 1. Demonstrate entry-level clinical competence through perform ultrasound exams under the supervision of a utilization of appropriate diagnostic medical qualified physician. The Sonographer may provide this sonographic procedures and equipment. service in a variety of medical settings, where the 2. Provide competent and compassionate healthcare to physician is responsible for the use and interpretation of culturally diverse populations. ultrasound procedures. 3. Utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills Specifically, the graduate in Diagnostic Medical necessary to practice within the diagnostic medical Sonography will be prepared with the skills necessary to sonography profession. perform ultrasound examinations, provide patient care 4. Demonstrate professionalism and ethics in the and record the anatomic, pathologic and/or physiologic diagnostic medical sonography profession. data for interpretation by the physician. The program of study includes thirty-six (36) credit hours of didactic, college laboratory and clinical CURRICULUM sessions. Learning experiences emphasize ultrasound physics, abdominal, and OB/GYN sonography. First Semester - Fall Sonography related to small body structures and special Courses Credits procedures is also included. Extensive clinical DMS300 Cross Sectional Anatomy………..….. 3 DMS301 Introduction to Diagnostic experience is provided at WNY health care facilities. Medical Sonography………………... 3 Transportation is the responsibility of the student. DMS306 Physics of Ultrasound I…………..….. 2 The graduate is eligible to sit for the American Registry DMS310 Abdominal Sonography I………..…... 2 of Diagnostic Medical Sonography Certifying DMS311 Abdominal Sonography Lab. I……..... 1 Examinations for Physics, Abdominal and OB/GYN DMS315 Pelvic Sonography………………..….. 2 sonography. DMS316 Pelvic Sonography Lab………………. 1 DMS320 Sonography Clinical Practicum I……. 3 Specific Admissions Requirements for Diagnostic Semester Total 17 Medical Sonography Program: Second Semester - Spring Courses Credits Candidates for admission to this program must be a DMS405 Obstetrical Sonography…………..…. 3 graduate of an A.A.S., B.S. or Diploma Diagnostic DMS406 Physics of Ultrasound II…………..…. 1 Radiologic Technology Program. DMS410 Abdominal Sonography II……..…….. 2 Minimum of 3.0 cumulative average. *Diploma DMS411 Abdominal Sonography Lab. II …….. 1 Graduates: Transcripts will be reviewed to DMS415 Seminar/Research Course………..… 1 determine compliance with academic DMS419 Special Sonographic Procedures…... 2 requirements. DMS420 Sonography Clinical Practicum II…… 3 Semester Total 13 Official transcripts from secondary and post- secondary institutions required. Summer Session Courses Credits Minimum Certificate Requirements: DMS430 Sonography Clinical Practicum III….. 6 A total of 36 credit hours with a Quality Point Average of Summer Session Total 6 2.0.
Normal Time to Completion: 12 months
For more information about our graduation rates, the median debt of students who completed the certificate program and other important information, please visit our website at http://trocaire.edu/academic- program/diagnostic-medical-sonography/
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ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY – 3. Utilize critical thinking and problems solving skills necessary to practice within the echocardiography CERTIFICATE profession. (HEGIS Code 5217) 4. Demonstrate professionalism and ethics in the echocardiography profession. Echocardiography is a specialized concentration within the field of ultrasound applied to heart structures. The cardiac sonographer is a skilled person qualified by CURRICULUM academic and clinical preparation to perform echocardiography exams under the supervision of a First Semester - Fall Courses Credits qualified physician. DMS306 Physics of Ultrasound I………………. 2 The demands of the cardiac sonographer requires a ECH300 Introduction to Echocardiography….. 1 working knowledge of detailed anatomy and physiology ECH301 Echocardiography I………………….. 2 of the heart and its echogenic appearance as it is ECH302 Echocardiography College presented as a 2-D image, as well as scanning Laboratory I………………………….. 1 techniques to obtain the optimum image. ECH303 Echocardiography Principles The program of study includes thirty-six (36) credit and Instrumentation………………... 3 hours of didactic, college laboratory and clinical ECH304 Anatomy & Physiology of the Heart… 3 sessions. Upon successful completion of the program, ECH320 Echocardiography Clinical Practicum I…………………………... 3 the graduate is eligible to sit for the American Registry of Semester Total 15 Diagnostic Medical Sonography Certifying Examinations for Cardiovascular Principles and Instrumentation, Adult Second Semester - Spring and Pediatric Echocardiography. Courses Credits DMS406 Physics of Ultrasound II……………... 1 Specific Admissions Requirements for ECH401 Echocardiography II………………….. 4 Echocardiography Program: ECH402 Echocardiography College Laboratory II…………………………. 1 Candidates for admission to this program must be an ECH403 Seminar/Research Course………….. 2 ECH404 Pathology of the Heart……………….. 4 Allied Health graduate of an A.A.S., B.S. or Diploma ECH420 Echocardiography Clinical program, (i.e., 2 years - Diagnostic Radiologic Practicum II………………………….. 3 Technology and possess ARRT(R), Radiation Therapist, Semester Total 15 R.N., Occupational Therapist, Physician Assistant, M.D., or O.D. credential.) Summer Session Minimum 3.0 cumulative average. * Diploma Courses Credits Graduates: Transcripts will be reviewed to ECH430 Echocardiography Clinical determine compliance with academic Practicum III…………………………. 6 Summer Session Total 6 requirements.
College Preparatory course in Physics or
equivalent
Official transcripts from secondary and post-
secondary institutions required. For more information about our graduation rates, the
median debt of students who completed the certificate Minimum Certificate Requirements: program and other important information, please visit our A total of 36 credit hours with a Quality Point Average of website at http://trocaire.edu/academic- 2.0. program/echocardiography/
Normal Time to Completion: 12 months
Program Learning Outcomes:
Program level student learning outcomes are outlined below. At completion of the Echocardiography Certificate Program, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate entry-level clinical competence through
utilization of appropriate echocardiographic
procedures and equipment.
2. Provide competent and compassionate healthcare to
culturally diverse populations.
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GENERAL STUDIES A.S. General Studies (GS201, GS212) Literature Elective (3 credits) (HEGIS Code 5649) Mathematics (MA107 or higher)** Philosophy/Religious Studies (PH103) The General Studies curriculum is designed to provide 3. Program Electives (Choose from): students with a high level of flexibility in selecting Humanities Elective (3 credits) courses to meet their individual needs. The curriculum Free Electives (24 credits) provides a solid foundation in the liberal arts and Mathematics (0-4 credits) sciences. Students who already have earned an Natural Science (3-8 credits) academic certificate or those students who have spent Philosophy/Religious Studies (3 credits)** time in a program, but have decided not to continue in Social Science (9 credits) the program, may earn a degree in General Studies. Students may enroll in the General Studies program in * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. order to take time to explore their career options, ** PH107 may not be taken if credit is granted for determine which of our health care programs is the best MA107. fit, or allow them time to improve academic skills before beginning their chosen career program. Students can Program Learning Outcomes: also build an individualized program in close consultation with an advisor. Program level student learning outcomes are outlined below. At the completion of the AS Degree in the Career Exploration General Studies Program, the student will be able to: Students unsure about their career options and 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral aptitudes may choose to enter the General Studies communication. program in order to explore their options. 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through
Health Care Career Exploration written communication. Students interested in health care but unsure of which 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information field is best for them might enter General Studies in and ideas. order to begin their education while exploring their 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives options and aptitudes. and experiences. 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems Transitional Studies using statistical or arithmetical methods and Students who may need to improve their academic communicate information verbally, numerically or skills before beginning their chosen programs may begin graphically. in General Studies until the time that they are ready to 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to begin their programs. solve problems and make effective decisions, and draw conclusions. Individual Studies and Transfer Opportunity 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it Students who would like to determine their own critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. programs of study may choose this option. 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of Students who choose this degree option should do so technology to solve problems or compile information. in close consultation with an advisor. Those who choose this option as a means to transfer to a four year college should review the requirements of that college in close consultation with an advisor and a transfer counselor.
Admission Requirements: High school diploma (minimum 75% average) or GED Diploma with a minimum score of 2500
Minimum Degree Requirements: 1. A total of at least 61 semester hours with a Quality Point Average of 2.0. Normal Time to Completion: 24 months 2. Program Requirements:* GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success Basic Communication (EN101)
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CURRICULUM
st First Year – 1 Semester
Courses Credits
EN101 English Composition…………………. 3
Free Elective………………………….. 3
Free Elective………………………….. 3
GS100 or College Seminar or
GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3
Mathematics Elective**………………. 3 / 4
Social Science Elective………………. 3
Semester Total 16 / 19
nd First Year – 2 Semester
Courses Credits
Free Elective………………………….. 3
GS201 Information Fluency & Research……. 2
Literature Elective………………...... 3
Natural Science Elective…………….. 3 / 4
PH103 Introduction to Philosophy…………… 3
Semester Total 14 / 15
st Second Year – 1 Semester
Courses Credits
Free Elective………………………….. 3
Free Elective………………………….. 3
Humanities Elective..…………………. 3
Math or Natural Science Elective…… 3 / 4
Social Science Elective……………… 3
Semester Total 15 / 16 nd Second Year – 2 Semester
Courses Credits
Free Elective………………………….. 3
Free Elective………………………….. 3
Free Elective………………………….. 3
GS212 College to Career Seminar………….. 1
Philosophy/Religious Studies……….. 3
Social Science Elective………………. 3
Semester Total 16
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HEALTH INFORMATION immediate employment, this program also appropriate for transfer to a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in TECHNOLOGY A.A.S. Health Information Management. (HEGIS Code 5213) Accreditation: Health Information Technology (HIT) is a combination The Associate degree, Health Information Technology of health care and information technology. The Health Program at Trocaire College is accredited by the Information Technology Program prepares students in Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and the methods of collecting, organizing, analyzing and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). protecting traditional and electronic medical information essential to providing quality patient care. Health CAHIIM Information Technicians compile statistics for health 233 N. Michigan Avenue st information indices, disease registries, and research 21 Floor studies, review clinical documentation to assign codes to Chicago, IL 60601-5800 diseases and procedures, use storage and retrieval www.cahiim.org systems to manage the release of patient health information and retrieve health data. In addition, Certification: students will obtain the necessary technological skills Graduates may apply to write the national certification required to perform the daily activities in the examination administered by the American Health management of health information. Information Management Association (AHIMA). Upon passing this exam, the individual earns the credential of Potential Work Sites: Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT). With their training and knowledge of information Students may also apply to write coding certification management, the electronic health record (EHR) and exams offered by AHIMA and the American Academy of healthcare delivery systems, health information Professional Coders. management professionals are able to work in a variety of healthcare settings, which include: Admission Requirements: Hospitals, physician offices, nursing homes, home 1. High school diploma (minimum 80% average) or GED health agencies, and ambulatory care clinics, etc. Diploma with a minimum score of 2625 Insurance companies and HMOs 2. High School or College Biology with a lab – minimum Research and Government Agencies grade of “C” (75%) Accounting, legal and consulting firms 3. 2.0 cumulative GPA with minimum grades of “C” There are numerous job titles and career paths in laboratory sciences for current and transfer available in this field, which affords the health students. information management professional with many options and opportunities for growth. For more information about Minimum Degree Requirements: careers in health information, please visit: 1. A total of at least 74 semester hours with a Quality www.ahima.org and www.hicareers.com. Point Average of 2.0. Normal Time to Completion: 24 months Professional Practice Experiences (Internships): 2. General Education Requirements: Students build competencies in two Professional GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* Practice Experiences offered during their course of Basic Communication (EN101) study. Through these practice internships, students will Humanities (Literature Elective: 3 credits) obtain “hands-on” experience in actual health care Mathematics (MA111)* settings. These non-paid, internships are completed Natural Science BIO130/BIO130L, BIO131/BIO131L, during regular business hours. Transportation to and BIO140, BIO333)* from the practice site is the responsibility of the student. Philosophy (PH103, PH205) Social Science (6 credits) Course Schedule: 3. Other Requirements*: All Health Information Technology courses are offered BU132, MB119, MB265 in the evening, thus supporting the working professional 4. Program Requirements*: in their quest to enhance their career options. Since HIT101, HIT103, HIT104, HIT200, HIT202, HIT204, Health Information Management departments are HIT208, HIT209, HIT216, HIT220, HIT222, HIT225 generally open during regular business hours, students will be required to complete their Professional Practice * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. experiences one or more days of the normal work week. Every effort is made to accommodate student’s work schedules so they will be able to complete the required hours. While intended to prepare individuals for Degrees and Programs of Study 53
Program Learning Outcomes CURRICULUM Program level student learning outcomes are outlined st below. At the completion of the AAS degree in the First Year – 1 Semester Health Information Technology Program, the student will Courses Credits be able to: BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I……………… 3 BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab………… 1 1. Apply the policies and procedures of data, BU132 Information Technology I……………. 3 documentation, classification and reimbursement EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 methodologies to health information. GS100 or College Seminar or 2. Analyze clinical databases to identify trends that GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 demonstrate quality, safety, and effectiveness of HIT101 Intro to Health Information Systems... 4 healthcare. MB119 Medical Terminology…………………. 3 3. Interpret the legal and regulatory requirements of Semester Total 18 / 20 healthcare delivery systems, patient privacy and First Year – 2nd Semester confidentiality. Courses Credits 4. Demonstrate the use of technology applications in BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II……………... 3 all aspects of health information. BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab……….. 1 5. Incorporate leadership skills in the management of HIT104 Legal Aspects of Health organizational resources. Information Technology……………. 3 6. Employ and promote ethical standards of practice. HIT202 Health Statistics………………………. 3 MA111 College Algebra & Statistics with In addition to the program specific learning outcomes Business Applications………………. 3 students achieving an associate’s degree will also PH103 Introduction to Philosophy…………… 3 achieve the following general education outcomes: Social Science Elective………………. 3 Semester Total 19 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral communication. Second Year – 1st Semester 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through Courses Credits written communication. BIO140 Pharmacology……………………...... 3 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information HIT103 Health Information Systems…………. 3 and ideas. HIT200 Clinical Practicum I……………………. 2 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives HIT204 Inpatient Coding Systems……………. 4 and experiences. HIT208 Quality Assurance & Improvement….. 2 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems English Literature Elective……………. 3 MB265 Insurance & Reimbursement using statistical or arithmetical methods and Processing……………………………. 2 communicate information verbally, numerically or Semester Total 19 graphically. 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to Second Year – 2nd Semester solve problems and make effective decisions, and Courses Credits draw conclusions. BIO333 Pathophysiology……………………….. 3 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it HIT209 Clinical Practicum II…………………… 2 critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. HIT216 Ambulatory Care Coding……………... 3 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of HIT220 Management Principles for Health Information…………………… 2 technology to solve problems or compile information. HIT222 Survey of Healthcare Delivery……….. 1 HIT225 Health Information Seminar………….. 1 PH205 Ethics in Health Care…………………. 3 Social Science Elective……………….. 3 Semester Total 18
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12. Demonstrate an elevated level of professionalism HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS that will ultimately engage human resource personnel within the job market. Healthcare Informatics focuses on the management, 13. Successfully transcribe knowledge base, analysis and reporting of data and information from professional and technical skills into an attractive healthcare systems including hospitals, medical offices, well written resume that self-promotes. health insurance plans, government healthcare providers and medical research facilities, with the goal of using In addition to the program specific learning outcomes such data to improve patient care delivery. Students are students achieving an associate’s or bachelor’s degree prepared to turn healthcare data into useful information will also achieve the following general education which will help improve patient care and enhance fiscal outcomes: and system efficiencies. This is accomplished by 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral creating or implementing databases and other communication. technology systems, recommending informatics 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through solutions, and effectively collecting, storing, and written communication. accessing medical data for operational assessment. 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information Students will understand and use data interfaces within and ideas. and amongst healthcare department and providers. 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives The program is offered as a College Certificate, and experiences. Associate in Applied Science and Bachelor of Science 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems options and are offered on an evening/weekend format. using statistical or arithmetical methods and communicate information verbally, numerically or Program Learning Outcomes: graphically. 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to Program level student learning outcomes are outlined solve problems and make effective decisions, and below. At the completion of the AAS, BS degree or draw conclusions. certificate program in Healthcare Informatics, the student 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it will be able to: critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. 1. Evaluate their knowledge and skills interactively and 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of exhibit confidence in displaying and interpreting technology to solve problems or compile information. health care data and understanding medical terminology. 2. Develop a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing quality and efficiency HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS – improvement to yield better health care outcomes CERTIFICATE using real life claims data within the informatics field. (HEGIS Code 5199) 3. Manipulate and understand health care data using appropriate graphical techniques. The certificate program is designed for those who have 4. Identify and describe some of the main trends, earned a baccalaureate degree in healthcare, current technologies, and management issues in engineering, business or computer science. Depending quality health care management using key data on the baccalaureate previously obtained, upon informatics standards. graduation from the certificate program students may 5. Distinguish between data models and how they are enter professional fields in Nursing Informatics, used to capture the nature and relationships among Healthcare Informatics, Medical Informatics, or data. Bioinformatics. 6. Determine required and available health care data Graduates may apply to write the national certification and identify an appropriate database design. examinations* administered by American Society of 7. Manipulate healthcare data using appropriate data Health Informatics Managers (ASHIM); Certified Health modeling techniques. Informatics Systems Professional (CHISP); Healthcare 8. Explain SQL and provide a historical perspective of Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS); and the development of SQL and its continuing Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and development and use within health care informatics. Management Systems (CPHIMS) 9. Define health care data and its uses. *Certification requirements include certain professional 10. Demonstrate proficient in Microsoft Office programs years of experience to sit for exam. including Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Word. 11. Present publicly using professional skills and strong health care informatics knowledge base.
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Admission Requirements: nd 1. Minimum of a Baccalaureate degree typically in fields First Year – 2 Semester of healthcare, business, engineering or computer Courses Credits science. HCI300 Business Systems Analysis & Design in Healthcare………………………… 3 2. High school or college level Biology and Algebra. HCI310 Healthcare Administration & 3. A 2.0 GPA is required for transfer credit. Management………………………… 3 4. All incoming students will be required to purchase HCI330 Clinical Decision Support Systems…. 3 a laptop computer running the most current version of HCI400 Database Healthcare Management Windows software or its equivalent. As computer Systems………………………………. 3 specifications change rapidly, the exact HCI410 Healthcare Informatics Practicum….. 3 specifications for the laptop computer will be provided MA455 Quantitative Research Methods…….. 3 to students at the time of their admission into the Semester Total 18 program.
Minimum Certificate Requirements: For more information about our graduation rates, the 1. A total of 35 semester hours with a Quality Point median debt of students who completed the certificate Average of 2.0. program and other important information, please visit our Normal Time to Completion: 12 months website at 2. Program Requirements* http://trocaire.edu/academic-program/healthcare- BU300, HCI101, HCI102, HCI200, HCI210, HCI300, informatics/ HCI310, HCI330, HCI400, HCI410, HIT208, MA455
* A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS – A total of 15 credits (no more than 50%) can be transferred into the program through college study or A.A.S. work experience in the fields of computer science, (HEGIS Code 5199) engineering, business or healthcare. These credits may be earned through the College Level Examination The Associate degree program focuses on many of the program (CLEP), Excelsior Exams and/or DANTES same healthcare informatics curriculum goals found College Examinations (DSST). A student cannot within the certificate program. However, since students duplicate earned credit through an exam. In sequential are entering college for the first time, the program also courses a student who has taken a higher level course emphasizes computer science courses, mathematics cannot earn credit by taking an exam for a lower level and liberal arts. Students entering the healthcare field course. with an Associate degree will operate in a support role to existing systems and workflows within healthcare informatics settings. Graduates of this program will develop skills leading to positions as Healthcare CURRICULUM Informatics Research Assistants and Healthcare Systems Analysts. st First Year – 1 Semester Graduates may apply to write the national certification Courses Credits examinations* administered by American Society of BU300 Project Management…………………. 3 Health Informatics Managers (ASHIM) and Certified HCI101 Healthcare Systems & Operations…. 3 Health Informatics Systems Professional (CHISP). HCI102 Introduction to Healthcare Informatics…………………………… 3 *Certification requirements include certain professional HCI200 Legal, Regulatory, & Ethical Issues years of experience to sit for exam. in Healthcare………………………… 3 HCI210 Healthcare Informatics Data Standards…………………………….. 3 HIT208 Quality Assurance & Improvement.. 2 Semester Total 17
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Admission Requirements: 1. High school diploma (minimum 80% average) or CURRICULUM GED Diploma with a score of 2625 st 2. High School Biology and Algebra. Those lacking one First Year – 1 Semester or more of the high school courses must take a Courses Credits college equivalent course and receive a grade of “C” BU132 Information Technology……………… 3 CNA105 Introduction to Computer Networking. 4 (2.0) or better. These courses must be taken prior to EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 the start of the first semester or within the first GS100 or College Seminar or semester of study. GS102 College Success……………………. 1 / 3 3. 2.0 GPA is required for transfer credit. HCI101 Healthcare Systems & Operations…. 3 4. All incoming students will be required to purchase a HCI102 Introduction to Healthcare laptop computer running the most current version of Informatics……………………………. 3 Windows software or its equivalent. As computer Semester Total 17 / 19 specifications change rapidly, the exact specifications First Year – 2nd Semester for the laptop computer will be provided to students at Courses Credits the time of their admission into the program. BIO109 Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology.. 3 BIO109L Ess. of Anatomy & Physiology Lab…. 1 Minimum Degree Requirements: BU106 Business Communications………….. 3 1. A total of at least 70 semester hours with a Quality EN200 Advanced Composition……………… 3 Point Average of 2.0. HCI200 Legal, Regulatory, & Ethical Issues Normal Time to Completion: 24 months in Healthcare………………………… 3 2. General Education Requirements: HIT103 Health Information Systems………… 3 College Seminar (GS100 or GS102)* MA107 Logical Reasoning & Decision Basic Communications (EN101, EN200) Making………………………………... 3 Semester Total 19 Humanities (3 credits) Mathematics (MA107, MA200)* Second Year – 1st Semester Natural Science (BIO109/BIO109L)* Courses Credits Philosophy/Religious Studies (PH205) BU207 Introduction to Management…………. 3 Social Science (EC202, PSY101) HIT202 Health Statistics……………………….. 3 3. Program Requirements* MA200 Statistical Methods……………………. 3 BU300, HCI101, HCI102, HCI200, HCI210, MB119 Medical Terminology………………….. 3 4. Other Requirements* MB265 Insurance & Reimbursement BU106, BU132, BU207, CNA105, HIT103, HIT202 Processing……………………………. 2 PSY101 General Psychology…………………... 3 HIT208, MB119, MB265 Semester Total 17 * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. Second Year – 2nd Semester Up to 15 credits can be transferred into the program Courses Credits for the academic core courses and 15 credits for BU300 Project Management………………….. 3 General Education courses. Candidates who have work EC202 Principles of Microeconomics………... 3 experience in the fields of computer science, HCI210 Healthcare Informatics Data engineering, business or healthcare may qualify for Standards…………………………….. 3 course credit. HIT208 Quality Assurance & Improvement… 2 Humanities Elective…………………… 3 A student may earn up to 15 credits through the PH205 Ethics in Health Care…………………. 3 college level examination program (CLEP), Excelsior Semester Total 17 Exams and DSST exams. A student cannot duplicate earned credit through an exam. In sequential courses a student who has taken a higher level course cannot earn credit by taking an exam for a lower level course.
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HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS – B.S. Up to 30 credits can be transferred into the program for the academic core courses and 30 credits for (HEGIS Code 0702) General Education courses. Candidates who have work experience in the fields of computer science, The Baccalaureate degree program in addition to engineering, business or healthcare may qualify for expanding the curriculum learned within the Associate course credit. degree program in healthcare informatics and liberal arts A student may earn up to 30 credits through the will teach management and organizational skills leading college level examination program (CLEP), Excelsior graduates to positions as Decision Support Managers, Exams and DSST exams. A student cannot duplicate Project Managers, Project Designers, and/or Research earned credit through an exam. In sequential courses a Managers. student who has taken a higher level course cannot earn Graduates may apply to write the national certification credit by taking an exam for a lower level course. examinations* administered by American Society of Health Informatics Managers (ASHIM); Certified Health Informatics Systems Professional (CHISP); Healthcare CURRICULUM Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS); and Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and First Year – 1st Semester Management Systems (CPHIMS). Courses Credits *Certification requirements include certain professional BU132 Information Technology……………… 3 years of experience to sit for exam. CNA105 Introduction to Computer Networking. 4 EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 GS100 or College Seminar or Admission Requirements: GS102 College Success……………………. 1 / 3 1. High school diploma (minimum 80% average) or HCI101 Healthcare Systems & Operations…. 3 GED Diploma with a score of 2625 HCI102 Introduction to Healthcare 2. High School Biology and Algebra. Those lacking one Informatics……………………………. 3 or more of the high school courses must take a Semester Total 17 / 19 college equivalent course and receive a grade of “C” nd (2.0) or better. These courses must be taken prior to First Year – 2 Semester the start of the first semester or within the first Courses Credits semester of study. BIO109 Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology.. 3 BIO109L Ess. of Anatomy & Physiology Lab… 1 3. 2.0 GPA is required for transfer credit. BU106 Business Communications………….. 3 4. All incoming students will be required to purchase EN200 Advanced Composition……………… 3 a laptop computer running the most current version of HCI200 Legal, Regulatory, & Ethical Issues Windows software or its equivalent. As computer in Healthcare………………………… 3 specifications change rapidly, the exact specifications HIT103 Health Information Systems………… 3 for the laptop computer will be provided to students at MA107 Logical Reasoning & Decision the time of their admission into the program. Making………………………………... 3 Semester Total 19 Minimum Degree Requirements: Second Year – 1st Semester 1. A total of at least 127 semester hours with a Quality Courses Credits Point Average of 2.0. BU207 Introduction to Management…………. 3 Normal Time to Completion: 48 months HIT202 Health Statistics……………………….. 3 2. General Education Requirements: MA200 Statistical Methods……………………. 3 College Seminar (GS100 or GS102)* MB119 Medical Terminology………………….. 3 Basic Communications (EN101, EN200, EN300) MB265 Insurance & Reimbursement Humanities (15 credits) Processing……………………………. 2 Mathematics (MA107, MA200, MA455)* PSY101 General Psychology…………………... 3 Natural Science (BIO109/BIO109L)* Semester Total 17
Philosophy/Religious Studies (PH205, PH350) Social Science (EC202, PSY101, PSY320 and Second Year – 2nd Semester Electives: 15 credits) Courses Credits 3. Program Requirements* BU300 Project Management..………………… 3 BU300, HCI101, HCI102, HCI200, HCI210, HCI300, EC202 Principles of Microeconomics………... 3 HCI310, HCI320, HCI330, HCI400, HCI410 HCI210 Healthcare Informatics Data 4. Other Requirements* Standards…………………………….. 3 BU106, BU132, BU207, CNA105, HIT103, HIT202 HIT208 Quality Assurance & Improvement… 2 HIT208, MB119, MB265 Humanities Elective…………………… 3 PH205 Ethics in Health Care…………………. 3 * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. Semester Total 17
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Third Year – 1st Semester Courses Credits EN300 Public Relations Writing……………… 3 HCI300 Business Systems Analysis & Design in Healthcare………………………… 3 HCI310 Healthcare Administration & Management………………………… 3 Social Science Elective……………… 3 Semester Total 12
Third Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits HCI320 Healthcare Leadership & Change Management…………………………. 3 HCI330 Clinical Decision Support Systems…. 3 Humanities Elective………………….. 3 PSY320 Research Methods: Techniques & Designs……………… 3 Social Science Elective………………. 3 Semester Total 15
Fourth Year – 1st Semester Courses Credits HCI400 Database Healthcare Management Systems……………… 3 Humanities Elective………………….. 3 MA455 Quantitative Research Methods…….. 3 Social Science Elective………………. 3 Social Science Elective………………. 3 Semester Total 15
Fourth Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits HCI410 Healthcare Informatics Practicum….. 3 Humanities Elective………………….. 3 Humanities Elective…………………... 3 PH350 Topics in Bioethics……………………. 3 Social Science Elective………………. 3 Semester Total 15
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HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT Hospitality Electives (6 credits)
A.A.S. * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. (HEGIS Code 5010) ** Lab fees apply
The Russell J. Salvatore School of Hospitality and ***HM276/HM277 work hours may be challenged if a Business offers students a unique opportunity to gain student has appropriate hospitality work experience. some great industry “hands-on” experience from one of Portfolio presentation required. our regions iconic industry leaders. The hospitality industry is one of the largest industries Program Learning Outcomes: worldwide and one of the fastest growing. The National Restaurant Association estimates the average American Program level student learning outcomes are outlined eats two out of three meals a day outside of the home, below. At completion of the AAS degree in Hospitality an amazing statistic! According to Visit Buffalo Niagara, Management Program, the student will be able to: planning and event driven organization for Western New 1. Demonstrate professionalism and leadership in all York, there are over 10,000 hotel rooms in our region. aspects of the hospitality industry. As a result, well qualified and educated individuals 2. Develop management and marketing skills for the looking to advance or launch a career in hospitality restaurant, hotel, and resort setting. management are in great demand. Trocaire College has 3. Integrate menu design with food preparation, cost the classes, skills and hands-on experiences you need analysis, and sustainability. to excel in this exciting and ever-changing industry. 4. Demonstrate proper safety and sanitation methods The Hospitality Management program provides a as dictated by ServSafe® and T.I.P.S. programs. wealth of opportunities for graduates. Whether hotels 5. Value different cultures’ traditions and cuisine. and resorts, fine dining or casual restaurants, event/party planning, concessions, food trucks, sales, or In addition to the program specific learning outcomes catering, you will find the potential career paths are students achieving an associate’s degree will also limitless for someone with a Hospitality Management achieve the following general education outcomes: degree from Trocaire. 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral The program has internship experiences at several communication. locations including: Walt Disney World, Mansion on 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through Delaware, Hyatt Hotels, Visit Buffalo Niagara, Russell’s written communication. Steaks Chops and More Restaurant, Hotel Henry, 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information Buffalo Marriott Harbor Center, Holiday Inn properties, and ideas. Aloft Hotel properties, Applebee’s Restaurants, 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives Delaware North Company (Ralph Wilson Stadium, First and experiences. Niagara Center). 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems using statistical or arithmetical methods and Admission Requirements: communicate information verbally, numerically or High school diploma (minimum 75% average) or GED graphically. Diploma with a minimum score of 2500. 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to solve problems and make effective decisions, and Minimum Degree Requirements: draw conclusions. 1. A total of at least 65 semester hours with a Quality 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it Point Average of 2.0 critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. Normal Time to Completion: 24 months 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of 2. General Education Requirements: technology to solve problems or compile information. GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* Basic Communication (EN101) Humanities (Literature Elective: 3 credits) Mathematics (3-4 credits) Natural Science (3-4 credits) Philosophy/Religious Studies (6 credits) Social Science (6 credits) 3. Other Requirements: BU132, BU203 4. Program Requirements*: HM101, HM102**, HM103, HM204**, HM205, HM207, HM210, HM212, HM276/HM277***,
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CURRICULUM
st First Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits BU132 Information Technology I…………….. 3 EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 GS100 or College Seminar or GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 HM101 Introduction to Hospitality……………. 3 HM102 Introduction to Food & Beverage Management……………………….... 3 Mathematics Elective……………….... 3 / 4 Semester Total 16 / 19
First Year – 2nd Semester
Courses Credits HM103 World Travel Geography & Cultural Awareness…………………. 3 HM204 Food & Beverage Services and Sanitation……………………….. 3 HM205 Principles of Hotel & Resort Service and Management………….. 3 Literature Elective…………………….. 3 Social Science Elective………………. 3 Semester Total 15 st Second Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits BU203 Principles of Accounting……………... 3 HM210 Hospitality Sales and Marketing...... 3 HM212 Human Resources Management in Hospitality…………………………. 3 Hospitality Elective…………………… 3 Natural Science Elective…………….. 3 / 4 Philosophy/Religious Studies……….. 3 Semester Total 18 / 19
Second Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits HM207 Leadership & Management in Hospitality……………………………. 3 HM276 or Hospitality Internship or HM277 Disney Internship Experience***.…. 4 / 6 Hospitality Elective…………………… 3 Philosophy/Religious Studies……….. 3 Social Science Elective………………. 3 Semester Total 16 / 18
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HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT – Program Learning Outcomes: Program level student learning outcomes are outlined CERTIFICATE below. At completion of the Hospitality Management (HEGIS Code 5010) Certificate Program, the student will be able to: 1. Demonstrate professionalism and leadership in all This certificate prepares graduates with the same aspects of the hospitality industry. Hospitality Management courses as the A.A.S. degree 2. Develop management and marketing skills for the minus most of the Business and General Education restaurant, hotel, and resort setting. courses. Furthermore, this certificate program will allow 3. Integrate menu design with food preparation, cost students to focus all of their academic work in the core analysis, and sustainability. hospitality curriculum. This may be ideal for someone 4. Demonstrate proper safety and sanitation methods looking for re-training to enter the industry or for as dictated by ServSafe® and T.I.P.S. programs. someone who has been in the industry and would like to 5. Value different cultures’ traditions and cuisine. enhance their academic credentials and advance their career. As with our Hospitality Management A.A.S. degree, we combine traditional classroom learning, CURRICULUM hands on activities and industry internship experiences st to create a well-rounded learning experience for our First Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits students. GS100 or College Seminar or A student may also elect to add on the general GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 education and business requirements in another two HM101 Introduction to Hospitality……………. 3 semesters and they may be eligible for our Associate in HM102 Introduction to Food & Beverage Applied Science degree in Hospitality Management. Management………………………… 3 HM210 Hospitality Sales and Marketing...... 3 Admission Requirements: HM212 Human Resources Management High school diploma (minimum 75% average) or GED In Hospitality………………………… 3 Diploma with a minimum score of 2500 Hospitality Elective…………………… 3 Semester Total 16 / 18
Minimum Program Requirements: First Year – 2nd Semester 1. A total of at least 35 semester hours with a Quality Courses Credits Point Average of 2.0. HM103 World Travel Geography & Normal Time to Completion: 12 months Cultural Awareness…………………. 3 2. General Education Requirements: HM204 Food & Beverage Services GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* and Sanitation……………………….. 3 3. Program Requirements*: HM205 Principles of Hotel & Resort HM101, HM102**, HM103, HM204**, HM205, Service and Management………….. 3 HM207 Leadership & Management in HM207, HM210, HM212, HM276/HM277***, Hospitality……………………………. 3 Hospitality Electives (6 credits) HM276 or Hospitality Internship or HM277 Disney Internship Experience***.…. 4 / 6 * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. Hospitality Elective…………………… 3 ** Lab fees apply Semester Total 19 / 21
***HM276/HM277 work hours may be challenged if a student has appropriate hospitality work experience. Portfolio presentation required. For more information about our graduation rates, the median debt of students who completed the certificate program and other important information, please visit our website at http://trocaire.edu/academic- program/hospitality-management/
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Minimum Degree Requirements: 1. A total of at least 65 semester hours for the associate A.A.S. or CERTIFICATE degree; 35 semester hours for the Certificate, the with (HEGIS Code 5004) Quality Point Average of 2.0. Normal Time to Completion: 24 months (degree) The Human Resource Management Program provides 12 months (certificate) its successful graduates with the skills necessary for 2. General Education Requirements: entry level employment or the ability to transfer to both GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* local and national four-year Human Resource programs. Basic Communication (EN101) The Human Resource Management program will Humanities (Humanities Elective – 3 credits and prepare graduates: Literature Elective: 3 credits) To be employed as entry-level Human Resource Mathematics (3-4 credits)** assistants or managers for small companies. Natural Science (6-8 credits) For active participation in the Human Resource Philosophy/Religious Studies (6 credits) profession as leaders and/or mentors. Social Science (6 credits) To develop an interest in lifelong learning that 3. Program Requirements*: will enable graduates to meet the challenging BU101, BU106, BU132, BU201, BU274, HR101, needs of industry. HR105, HR204, HR210, HR215, HR220
Possible Employment Titles: * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. Human Resource Generalist ** Math 107 or higher
Human Resource Assistant Program Learning Outcomes: Recruiter
Compensation Assistant Program level student learning outcomes are outlined Diversity Coordinator below. At the completion of the AAS degree, or Employee Relations Advisor certificate program in the Human Resource Management Labor Relations Representative Program, the student will be able to: 1. Assist organizations in complying with all federal, In addition, we have partnered with local organizations state and local employment laws. such as Buffalo Niagara Human Resource Association 2. Create human resources systems that support the (BNHRA), SHRM, The Lancaster Chamber of strategic plan. Commerce, Cornell University, and the Buffalo Niagara 3. Design, develop and deliver training and Partnership to bring real-world experiences to the development plans to address knowledge, skills and Human Resource Management Program. A second ability necessary for success. semester internship with a local business will provide the 4. Ensure fair and equitable treatment of all employees opportunity to apply the concepts that you have learned and compliance to labor contracts. from your studies to real workplace situations. 5. Gain practical/hands on experience in the field of The program includes a minimum of 65 credit hours of human resources. course work over two years (a minimum of 35 credit hours only for the certificate program). The course In addition to program specific learning outcomes selection is a mix of core college requirements and students achieving an associate’s degree will also specially selected courses in business – giving you the achieve the following general education outcomes: skills you need to succeed in the business world. 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral Human Resource Management students are also invited communication. to join the local student chapter of BNHRA. 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through Students may pursue this program on a full time or written communication. part time basis. 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information and ideas. Admission Requirements: 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives High school diploma (minimum 75% average) or GED and experiences. Diploma with a minimum score of 2500 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems using statistical or arithmetical methods and communicate information verbally, numerically or graphically. 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to solve problems and make effective decisions, and draw conclusions.
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7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems or compile information.
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st First Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits BU101 Intro to Contemporary Business…….. 3 BU106 Business Communications………….. 3 BU132 Information Technology I……………. 3 GS100 or College Seminar or GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 HR101 Introduction to Human Resources….. 3 HR105 Recruitment, Selection & Ethics…….. 3 Semester Total 16 /18
nd First Year – 2 Semester Courses Credits BU201 Business Law…………………………. 3 BU274 Seminar and Internship……………… 4 HR204 Organizational Behavior…………….. 3 HR210 Workplace Learning & Performance.. 3 HR215 Employee and Labor Relations…….. 3 HR220 Benefits and Compensation………… 3 Semester Total 19
A Human Resource certificate student will have the option of also receiving an Associate’s Degree. Below are listed the additional classes required to complete the Associate degree. A student may take these in any order.
Second Year – 1st Semester Courses Credits EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 Humanities Elective………………….. 3 Literature Elective…………………….. 3 Philosophy/Religious Studies………. 3 Philosophy/Religious Studies……….. 3 Semester Total 15
Second Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits Mathematics Elective**………………. 3 / 4 Natural Science Elective…………….. 3 / 4 Natural Science Elective…………….. 3 / 4 Social Science Elective……………… 3 Social Science Elective……………… 3 Semester Total 15 / 18
For more information about our graduation rates, the median debt of students who completed the certificate program and other important information, please visit our website at http://trocaire.edu/academic-program/human- resource-management/
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MASSAGE THERAPY 3. Program Requirements*: BIO243, BIO333, MT101, MT105, MT106, MT110, A.A.S. or CERTIFICATE MT111, MT205, MT206, MT211, MT212, MT230, (HEGIS Code 5299) MT240, MT245 and one, 3 credit “hands-on” Massage Therapy elective For over 50 years, Trocaire College has been (Other electives in the department are considered to preparing individuals for the health care professions. be free electives.) Building on this tradition of excellence in health care, Trocaire offers the first Massage Therapy Program in * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. WNY available in a higher education setting. ** Math 107 is recommended and can be completed The Massage Therapy program was developed to at any time during the four semesters. meet the increasing demand for qualified Massage Therapists in the community. With the current changes Program Learning Outcomes: in health care and the growing use of complementary therapies, Trocaire is uniquely positioned to create and Program level student learning outcomes are outlined develop hands-on therapy for the 21st century. below. At the completion of the AAS degree or certificate Massage Therapy is a profession in which the program in the Massage Therapy Program, the student practitioner applies manual techniques for the purpose of will be able to: improving muscle tone and circulation with the intention 1. Plan and organize an effective massage and of positively affecting the health and well-being of the bodywork session. client. Massage is both an art and a science of healing 2. Perform massage therapy and bodywork for which dates back more than 4,000 years. therapeutic benefit. Trocaire’s program combines lecture, college 3. Develop and implement a self-care strategy. laboratory experiences, and a clinical component 4. Develop successful and ethical therapeutic providing practical experience. The program is relationships with clients. comprehensive it its coverage of both Eastern and 5. Develop strategy for a successful practice, business, Western massage therapy techniques. or employment situation. An individual can enroll in this program as either a full- 6. Identify strategies for professional development. time or a part-time student and earn a Certificate or an Associate in Applied Science degree. Graduates will be In addition to the program specific learning outcomes eligible to sit for the NYS board licensure exam for students achieving an associate’s degree will also professional massage therapists. achieve the following general education outcomes: 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral Admission Requirements: communication. 1. High school diploma (minimum 75% average) or GED 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through Diploma with a minimum score of 2500. written communication. 2. Biology 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information 3. Minimum final semester average of 2.0 with minimum and ideas. grades of “C” in laboratory sciences for current and 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives transfer students. and experiences. 4. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is required prior 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems to clinical experiences. using statistical or arithmetical methods and communicate information verbally, numerically or Minimum Degree Requirements: graphically. 1. A total of at least 71 semester hours for the associate 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to degree; 50 semester hours for the Certificate, with a solve problems and make effective decisions, and Quality Point Average of 2.0. draw conclusions. Normal Time to Completion: 24 months (degree) 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it 24 months (certificate) critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. 2. General Education Requirements: 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* technology to solve problems or compile information. Basic Communication (EN101) Humanities (EN102) Mathematics (3-4 credits)** Natural Science* (BIO130/BIO130L, BIO131/ BIO131L,) Philosophy (PH103, PH205) Social Science (PSY101 and one 3 credit social science elective) Degrees and Programs of Study 65
A.A.S. CURRICULUM CERTIFICATE CURRICULUM
First Year – 1st Semester First Year – 1st Semester Courses Credits Courses Credits BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I……………… 3 BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I……………… 3 BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab………… 1 BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab………… 1 EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 GS100 or College Seminar or GS100 or College Seminar or GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 MT101 Introduction to Massage Therapy…… 3 MT101 Introduction to Massage Therapy…… 3 MT105 Western Massage Therapy I………… 4 MT105 Western Massage Therapy I………… 4 MT110 Myology………………………………… 4 MT110 Myology………………………………… 4 Semester Total 16 / 18 Semester Total 19 / 21 First Year – 2nd Semester First Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits Courses Credits BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II……………... 3 BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II……………... 3 BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab………... 1 BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab………... 1 MT106 Eastern Massage Therapy I………..... 3 EN102 Introduction to Literature……………... 3 MT111 Myology/Kinesiology…………………. 4 MT106 Eastern Massage Therapy I…………. 3 MT205 Western Massage Therapy II………... 4 MT111 Myology/Kinesiology…………………. 4 Semester Total 15 MT205 Western Massage Therapy II………... 4 Semester Total 18 Second Year – 1st Semester Courses Credits Second Year – 1st Semester BIO243 Neurology……………………………… 3 Courses Credits BIO333 Pathophysiology………………………. 3 BIO243 Neurology……………………………… 3 MT206 Eastern massage Therapy II………… 3 BIO333 Pathophysiology………………………. 3 MT230 Clinical Practicum I…………………… 1 MT206 Eastern Massage Therapy II………… 3 Semester Total 10 MT230 Clinical Practicum I…………………… 1 PH103 Introduction to Philosophy…………… 3 Second Year – 2nd Semester PSY101 General Psychology………………….. 3 Courses Credits Semester Total 16 MT211 Professional Development………….. 1 MT212 Applied Pathophysiology……………. 3 Second Year – 2nd Semester MT240 Clinical Practicum II………………….. 1 Courses Credits MT245 Massage Therapy Seminar……...... 1 MT211 Professional Development………….. 1 Massage Therapy Elective………….. 3 MT212 Applied Pathophysiology……………. 3 Semester Total 9 MT240 Clinical Practicum II………………….. 1 MT245 Massage Therapy Seminar……...... 1 Massage Therapy Elective…………... 3 Part Time Schedule is available. Mathematics Elective**………………. 3 / 4 PH205 Ethics in Health Care………………… 3 Social Science Elective……………… 3 Semester Total 18 / 19 For more information about our graduation rates, the median debt of students who completed the certificate program and other important information, please visit our website at http://trocaire.edu/academic- program/massage-therapy/
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Program Learning Outcomes: MEDICAL ASSISTANT A.A.S. (HEGIS Code 5214) Program level student learning outcomes are outlined below. At the completion of the AAS degree in the The Medical Assistant Program leads to an Associate Medical Assistant Program, the student will be able to: in Applied Science Degree. Graduates of the program 1. Apply concepts related to Anatomy & Physiology, may sit for the national accrediting exam C.M.A. (AAMA) Applied Mathematics, Applied Microbiology and to become a Certified Medical Assistant. Infection Control. Specifically, the graduate will be prepared with the 2. Summarize Concepts of Effective Communications. knowledge and skills necessary to assist with patient 3. Demonstrate Administrative Functions, Basic care management, to perform administrative and clinical Practice Finances, Managed Care/Insurance, procedures, and, when necessary, assist in the Procedural & Diagnostic Coding. supervision of office personnel. 4. Analyze Legal Implications and Ethical The student, upon successful completion of the Considerations. program, will be prepared for employment in clinics, 5. Demonstrate Protective Practices of the Medical hospitals, and particularly, in medical group practices, Assistant. where experience and expertise in the clinical administrative skills are required. In addition to the program specific learning outcomes The Medical Assistant Program is accredited by the students achieving an associate’s degree will also Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education achieve the following general education outcomes: Programs (CAAHEP) upon the recommendation of the 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB). communication. 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through CAAHEP MAERB written communication. 25400 US Highway 19 North, 20 N. Wacker Dr., Suite 1575 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information Suite 158 Chicago, IL 60606 Clearwater, FL 33763 Telephone: 1 (800) 228-2262 and ideas. Telephone: (727) 210-2350 Fax: (312) 899-1259 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives Fax: (727) 210-2354 and experiences. (www.caahep.org), 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems using statistical or arithmetical methods and Admission Requirements: communicate information verbally, numerically or 1. High school diploma (minimum 75% average) or GED graphically. Diploma with a minimum score of 2500 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to 2. Natural Science solve problems and make effective decisions, and 3. 2.0 cumulative GPA with minimum grade of “C” in draw conclusions. laboratory sciences for current and transfer students 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. Minimum Degree Requirements: 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of 1. A total of at least 65 semester hours with a technology to solve problems or compile information. Quality Point Average of 2.0. Normal Time to Completion: 24 months 2. General Education Requirements: GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* Basic Communication (EN101) Humanities (EN102) Natural Science* (BIO130/BIO130L, BIO131/ BIO131L) Philosophy (PH103, PH205) Social Science (PSY101 and EC201 or one, 3 credit social science elective) 3. Program Requirements*: BOT103, BOT108, BU106, BU132, BU203, MAS134, MAS233, MAS234, MAS235, MB119, MB213, MB221, MB265
* A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required.
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CURRICULUM
st First Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits BOT103 Keyboarding I and Document Processing…………….… 3 EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 GS100 or College Seminar or GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 MAS134 Orientation to Medical Assisting...... 2 MB119 Medical Terminology…………………. 3 PH103 Introduction to Philosophy…………… 3 PSY101 General Psychology………………….. 3 Semester Total 18 / 20
nd First Year – 2 Semester Courses Credits BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I……………… 3 BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab………… 1 BU132 Information Technology I………...... 3 EC201 or Principles of Macroeconomics or SS EL Social Science Elective…………….. 3 EN102 Introduction to Literature…………….. 3 MAS233 Medical Assistant Diagnostic & Clinical Laboratory Procedures……. 3 Semester Total 16
Second Year – 1st Semester Courses Credits BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II…………….. 3 BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab……….. 1 BU106 Business Communications………….. 3 BU203 Principles of Accounting…………….. 3 MAS234 Medical Assistant Clinical Procedures…………………………... 3 MB265 Insurance & Reimbursement Processing…………………………… 2 Semester Total 15
Second Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits BOT108 Word Processing I……………………. 3 MAS235 Medical Assistant Clinical Seminar & Externship………………. 4 MB213 Medical Office Systems & Procedures…..………………………. 3 MB221 Medical Transcription I…………...... 3 PH205 Ethics in Health Care………………… 3 Semester Total 16
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NURSING A.A.S. The Program is registered by the New York State Education Department and is fully accredited by the (HEGIS Code 5208.10) Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, The Nursing Program at Trocaire College offers a Georgia 30326. Phone: (404) 975-5000, Fax: (404) 975- curriculum leading to an Associate in Applied Science 5020, www.acenursing.org. Degree. The Program focus is on theory and clinical At the completion of the program, graduates are experiences to prepare the graduate for a beginning eligible to write the National Council Licensure level of professional practice within a diverse and Examination for registered nurse licensure. changing health care system. The curriculum emphasizes knowledge and skills Admission Requirements: needed to promote, maintain or restore health. It 1. High School diploma (minimum 85% average) or prepares the graduate to provide and manage care in GED Diploma with a minimum score of 2750 structured settings for clients across the life span. 2. Biology and Chemistry (minimum grades of 75% or The Nursing program offers both a day program and higher) an evening program. The evening curriculum is identical 3. 2.75 cumulative average with minimum grades of “C” in content to the day curriculum. However, the evening in all courses for current and transfer students. curriculum is distributed over a 6 semester (3 year) time 4. Students must achieve a score of 58 or higher in the period including two summer sessions. In addition to the algebra portion of the ACCUPLACER Test. regularly scheduled evening experiences, selected 5. All candidates for the Nursing program must take the clinical laboratory experiences for both day and evening Accuplacer test and the Test of Essential Academic programs are scheduled during daytime/weekend hours. Skills (TEAS). The TEAS Test is a pre-professional These clinical days provide a comprehensive experience requirement that must be successfully completed of nursing care activities which occur during the day. prior to the first semester’s course work. Clinical experiences are provided in a variety of WNY 6. Anatomy & Physiology I with Lab is a pre- health care settings including hospitals and community professional requirement that must be successfully health care agencies. Transportation to and from the completed prior to the first semester’s nursing course College and/or the clinical affiliates is the work. responsibility of the individual student. 7. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation certificate is required To assist students in managing the academic load, for clinical experiences and must remain current NU124 (second semester), NU217 (third semester), through graduation. NU216 and NU220 (fourth semester) will begin two 8. Students applying for programs in the health weeks before the regular semester begins and continue professions are required to participate in two stages through mid-semester for the Fall 2016 semester only. of academic preparedness. Initial admittance to a Beginning Spring 2017 the early start schedule will health science program places a student into a “pre- no longer be offered. professional” component. Admittance into the The program includes a strong foundation in the liberal “professional” component is not guaranteed. arts. This enables the student to discover and confront Students must meet established academic standards their own values, beliefs and ideas and to sharpen their and are ranked for admission in the nursing program skills of critical analysis and expression. Students are based on cumulative G.P.A., grades in Anatomy & encouraged to develop their critical thinking and decision Physiology I with lab and the TEAS score. The making skills as they participate in their own learning Nursing admission guidelines and ranking criteria can experiences. be found on the Trocaire web site at Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certification (CPR) is www.trocaire.edu. Click on Nursing under Academic required for all students before beginning NU112 and Programs. Students should speak to an certification must remain current throughout the admissions counselor or to the Program Director program. The only acceptable courses include: The prior to registration to insure they understand all American Heart Association – Course C – Basic Life of the academic requirements for advancement in Support for Health Care Providers (2 year certification). the program of their choice. Also, the American Red Cross – CPR/AED 2-year 9. Students who wish to pursue the Nursing program Certification for the Professional Rescuer and Health must be aware of the following deadlines: Care Providers. Online courses are NOT acceptable. Applicants who anticipate beginning their studies **You must show your CPR card to your lab instructor in Spring or Summer – all materials must be before the first clinical in order to participate in clinical submitted by the 1st Monday in October. rotations** Applicants who anticipate beginning their studies in Fall – all materials must be submitted by the 1st Monday in March. Application will continue to be reviewed on a space availability basis. Degrees and Programs of Study 69
Please Note: Applicants who have been 12. Function within the scope of their academic unsuccessful in Anatomy & Physiology I or II with lab preparation as a member of the nursing profession more than once within the past 5 years will not be to maintain high standards of nursing care. considered for the program (This includes grades of 13. Demonstrate clinical competence and accountability WF, F, FX) in their practice based on current knowledge of 10. Maintenance of “C” or better in all course work is health care in a variety of settings. required in order to progress within the program. 14. Recognize the importance of incorporating patient’s cultural traditions and personal preferences into the Minimum Degree Requirements: plan of care in order to obtain maximum outcomes. 1. A total of at least 67 semester hours with a Quality Point Average of 2.0 In addition to the program specific learning outcomes Normal Time to Completion: 24 months students achieving an associate’s degree will also 2. General Education Requirements*: achieve the following general education outcomes: GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral Basic Communication (EN101) communication. Humanities (EN102) 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through Natural Science (BIO130/BIO130L, BIO131/BIO131L, written communication. BIO223/BIO223L) 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information Philosophy/Religious Studies (PH103, PH205) and ideas. Social Science (PSY101, PSY102, SOC101) 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives 3. Program Requirements*: and experiences. NU110, NU112, NU114, NU115, NU116, 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems NU122, NU124, NU214, NU217, NU220, NU222 using statistical or arithmetical methods and * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. communicate information verbally, numerically or graphically. Program Learning Outcomes: 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to solve problems and make effective decisions, and Program student learning outcomes are outlined draw conclusions. below. At the completion of the AAS Degree in Nursing 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it Program, the student will be able to: critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. 1. Recognize the uniqueness of clients when providing 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of care. technology to solve problems or compile information. 2. Establish open lines of communication with client, family, and other members of the inter-professional team. 3. Motivate other health care team members to ensure Pre Professional Requirement quality client care. Courses Credits 4. Provide client advocacy through such measures as BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I…………….... 3 appropriate use of resources and collaboration with BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab……….... 1 Total 4 the inter-professional team.
5. Utilize critical thinking with the nursing process as a Students should make arrangements to take the TEAS Test basis for decision-making when providing individual prior to entering the professional component of the program. client care to achieve established client-centered goals. DAY CURRICULUM 6. Delegate appropriate aspects of care to other health st team members and evaluate the outcome of this First Year – 1 Semester care. Courses Credits 7. Demonstrate effective management of time and BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II…………….. 3 resources. BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab………... 1 EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 8. Utilize teaching/learning principles to teach clients, GS100 or College Seminar or significant support persons and community groups, GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 the information needed to achieve desired learning NU110 Health Assessment & Promotion……. 1 outcomes. NU112 Nursing Concepts…………………….. 5 9. Develop a commitment to the value of caring by NU114 Medication Essentials I………………. 1 assuming the responsibility for professional growth. NU116 Professional Issues..…………………. 1 10. Develop behaviors and attitudes that reflect PSY101 General Psychology…………………. 3 commitment to continuous learning. Semester Total 19 / 21 11. Actively participate/integrate into their professional
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First Year – 2nd Semester Second Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits Courses Credits BIO223 Microbiology………………………….. 3 NU115 Medication Essentials II………………. 1 BIO223L Microbiology Lab….………………….. 1 NU122 Health Restoration I…………………… 6 NU115 Medication Essentials II……………… 1 NU124 Maternal Newborn Nursing………….. 2 NU122 Health Restoration I…………………... 6 Semester Total 9 NU124 Maternal Newborn Nursing…………. 2 PSY102 Developmental Psychology…………. 3 Second Year – Summer Session Semester Total 16 Courses Credits PH205 Ethics in Health Care………………….. 3 Second Year – 1st Semester SOC101 Principles of Sociology……………….. 3 Courses Credits Summer Session Total 6 EN102 Introduction to Literature……………… 3 NU214 Health Restoration II…………………... 5 Third Year – 1st Semester NU217 Pediatric Nursing………………………. 2 Courses Credits PH103 Introduction to Philosophy……………. 3 NU214 Health Restoration II…………………... 5 SOC101 Principles of Sociology……………….. 3 NU217 Pediatric Nursing………………………. 2 Semester Total 16 Semester Total 7
Second Year – 2nd Semester Third Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits Courses Credits NU220 Mental Health Nursing………………… 2 NU220 Mental Health Nursing……………….. 2 NU222 Health Restoration III……………...... 7 NU222 Health Restoration III…………………. 7 PH205 Ethics in Health Care…………………. 3 Semester Total 9 Semester Total 12
When a Nursing student completes an application for licensure and first registration as a licensed practical nurse or registered professional EVENING CURRICULUM nurse, questions are asked by the State Education Department about conviction of a crime and pending charges. These questions appear on
st the application form. If the answers are in the affirmative, there is an First Year – 1 Semester automatic referral to the State Education Department, Office of Courses Credits Professional Discipline and the case is assigned to an investigator. BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I……………… 3 Depending upon the results of the investigation, the case may or may BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab………… 1 not require a hearing. The National Council Licensure Examination EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 may be taken. However, the licensing process and issuance of a GS100 or College Seminar or license will be held until the process described above is completed. GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 PSY101 General Psychology………………….. 3 Semester Total 11 / 13
nd First Year – 2 Semester Courses Credits BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II……………... 3 BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab………... 1 EN102 Introduction to Literature…………….. 3 PSY102 Developmental Psychology…………. 3 Semester Total 10
First Year – Summer Session Courses Credits BIO223 Microbiology……………………………. 3 BIO223L Microbiology Lab………………………. 1 PH103 Introduction to Philosophy……………. 3 Summer Session Total 7
Second Year – 1st Semester Courses Credits NU110 Health Assessment & Promotion……. 1 NU112 Nursing Concepts……………………… 5 NU114 Medication Essentials I…………...... 1 NU116 Professional Issues..………………….. 1 Semester Total 8
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NURSING B.S. 2. Applicants must have earned a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.50 in their prior nursing (HEGIS Code 1203.10) program, and must have earned a minimum grade of “C” in all nursing courses. Applicants who have a GPA The Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in below 2.50 may be considered for the Baccalaureate in Nursing was created to provide currently licensed Nursing Program if they have extensive clinical Registered Nurses with strong leadership skills in experiences or extenuating circumstances. collaborating with clients, other professional groups, and the community for the purpose of promoting, maintaining 3. Students who have graduated from an Associate’s and restoring health. The program extends beyond the Degree in Nursing Program but have not obtained their clinical aspects of nursing to provide a background in nursing license may be admitted to the program and patient education, health promotion, community health, allowed to take any or all courses offered in the first health care across the life span, and technology semester of study only. integration. Graduates of this baccalaureate program will base their practice on evidence, critical thinking, and 4. Students may not progress to the second semester of research findings from nursing science as well as other study without an RN license which must be submitted to disciplines. Courses, all of which are offered as distance the Dean or Associate Dean to be given to the Registrar. education, in the hybrid or blended format, are designed Registered nurses must submit a copy of their RN specifically for the registered nurse, drawing from and license with their application. expanding upon real-life professional nursing experiences. 5. Students must submit a letter of recommendation The Program is registered by the New York State from a person with whom they interact professionally, Education Department and is fully accredited by the and meet all health requirements of the college. A Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing current CPR registration is required before beginning (ACEN) 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, clinical courses. The only acceptable courses include: Georgia 30326. Phone: (404) 975-5000, Fax: (404) 975- The American Heart Association – Course C – Basic Life 5020, www.acenursing.org. Support for Health Care Providers (2 year certification). Also, the American Red Cross – CPR/AED 2-year Program Highlights Certification for the Professional Rescuer and Health A minimum of 33 credits will be awarded for your Care Providers. Online courses are NOT acceptable. previous learning. **You must show your CPR card to your lab instructor Four 15 week modules with rolling admissions in before the first clinical in order to participate in clinical the fall, spring, and summer sessions. Summer rotations** sessions are 10 weeks. Hybrid distance education formatting for all Minimum Degree Requirements: courses Dean’s scholarships awarded to college alumni The Baccalaureate in Nursing Program requires a total and other eligible applicants of 123 academic credits for completion. Sixty three of Fully equipped health assessment and nursing these credits must be in nursing courses and the skills laboratories remainder in the liberal arts/general education courses. Simulation center equipped with state-of-the-art Candidates may transfer up to a total of 33 nursing patient simulators. credits. Exceptions may be granted to students Access to educational technology including transferring from a Baccalaureate Degree program in health care databases Nursing. Liberal arts credits have no limit for transfer and For students completing clinical experiences at a are based on individual transcripts. Graduates of site where they are currently employed, such diploma nursing programs will be granted 33 transfer experiences may only take place on units or credits in nursing and must complete the liberal arts within departments of the health care facility requirements. which are physically and/or functionally distinct from the student’s work site. Normal Time to Completion: 16 months
Admission Requirements: A minimum quality point average of 2.0 is required 1. Applicants must hold an Associate’s Degree in for successful completion of the B.S. major in Nursing from an accredited institution. Applicants who Nursing. have graduated from a program that is not accredited, but which is approved and registered with the New York State Education Department, are also eligible for admission. Applicants must submit official transcripts from all colleges and/or universities attended. 72 Degrees and Programs of Study
Student Learning Outcomes: CURRICULUM Program level student learning outcomes are outlined below. At the completion of the Bachelor’s Degree in the Semester I (Fall) – 15 Weeks Nursing Program, the student will be able to: Courses Credits 1. Exhibit leadership that supports the healthcare BIO333 Pathophysiology……………………… 3 policies that promote safe quality nursing care within EN304 Race, Gender & Literature…………… 3 MA200 Statistical Methods……………………. 3 complex health care systems. NU300 Comprehensive Health Assessment 2. Integrate evidence-based practices that support for Nursing Practice…………………. 4 decision-making in the delivery of nursing care. NU318 Nursing Theory & Practice Issues…... 3 3. Evaluate the effectiveness of patient and family SOC311 Coping with Illness……………………. 3 centered nursing care based on nursing theories Semester Total 19 and evidence based practice. 4. Incorporate the concepts derived from a liberal arts Semester II (Spring) – 15 Weeks education to guide an understanding of the human Courses Credits experience. BIO208 General Nutrition & Wellness………... 3 NU304 Intro to Nursing Care Informatics…… 2 5. Incorporate technology and information NU308 Research Procedures in management to promote a safe practice Nursing Practice…………………….. 3 environment. NU310 Family Nursing Care Across the 6. Engage in inter-professional collaboration to improve Lifespan……………………………… 3 population health while considering the fiscal and NU470 Pharmacology for the material resources in the delivery of safe nursing Registered Nurse……………………. 3 care. SOC301 Sociology of Health and Medicine…... 3 7. Integrate legal, ethical and professional values Semester Total 17 within generalist nursing practice. 8. Collaborate with inter-professional health Semester III (Summer) – 10 Weeks communities to provide culturally and spiritually Courses Credits competent patient and family centered care in health NU402 Community Health Nursing………….. 3 NU450 Leadership & Management for promotion and disease/injury prevention. Professional Practice……………….. 3 PSY303 Organizational Psychology………….. 3 In addition to the program specific student learning Semester Total 9 outcomes students achieving a Bachelor’s Degree in Students must have permission to Nursing will also achieve the following general education take additional credits in the summer outcomes: 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral Semester IV (Fall) – 15 Weeks communication. Courses Credits 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through GS499 Multiculturalism……………………….. 3 NU484 Clinical Seminar……………………… 2 written communication. NU486 Professional Nursing 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information Syntheses/Clinical Capstone………. 4 and ideas. PH301 Philosophy of World Religions………. 3 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives PSY315 Social Psychology……………………. 3 and experiences. Semester Total 15 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems using statistical or arithmetical methods and communicate information verbally, numerically or graphically. 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to solve problems and make effective decisions, and draw conclusions. 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems or compile information.
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NUTRITION AND DIETETICS A.A.S. 3. Program Requirements:* DT101, DT102, DT103, DT104, DT104C, DT105, (HEGIS Code 5404) DT201, DT202, DT203, DT204, DT205, DT206, DT207, DT208 Take your interest in food and nutrition to the next level with a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics! The curriculum * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required for all combines an understanding of general nutrition and the courses with a prefix of DT and GS. science behind ingredients with the knowledge and skills ** Math 107 or higher of foodservice management. An essential component of the program is the planned supervised practice Program Learning Outcomes: experiences in area health care facilities and community agencies where students can put into practice their Program level student learning outcomes are outlined culinary nutrition, nutrition assessment, diet counseling below. At the completion of the AAS degree in the and foodservice management skills. Nutrition and Dietetics Program, the student will be able Graduates of the program are prepared for entry level to*: positions in clinical or community nutrition care or food 1. Understand the scientific information and research service management, or may choose to continue their related to the dietetic technician level of practice. studies by transferring to a four year college. Program 2. Demonstrate professionalism in beliefs, values, graduates are eligible to write the Registration attitudes and behaviors for the dietetics technician Examination for Dietetic Technicians to earn the level of practice. credential Dietetic Technician, Registered (DTR) as 3. Develop and deliver information, products and offered by the Commission for Dietetic Registration services to individuals, groups and populations at (CDR). Additional information may be found on the the dietetic technician level of practice. program’s webpage at http://trocaire.edu/academic- 4. Apply the principles of management and systems in program/nutrition-and-dietetics/ . the provision of services to individuals and The Nutrition and Dietetics Program is accredited by organizations. the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and 5. Comprehend the underlying support knowledge Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and requirements specified above. Dietetics, 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, *These are an abbreviated list and the full outcomes can Chicago, IL 60606-6995. (312) 899-0040, Ext. 5400. be required from the program director. http://www.eatright.org/ACEND. In addition to the program specific learning outcomes Admission Requirements: students achieving an associate’s degree will also 1. High school diploma (minimum 80% average) or GED achieve the following general education outcomes: Diploma with a minimum score of 2625 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral 2. High school chemistry required with an overall communication. average of 80%. High school Biology is 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through recommended. written communication. 3. Course credit or supervised practice hours may be 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information granted for prior learning (course work and/or and ideas. experiential), please contact the program director for 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives more information. and experiences. 4. 2.0 cumulative average with minimum grades of “C” 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems in program requirements for current and transfer using statistical or arithmetical methods and students. communicate information verbally, numerically or graphically. Minimum Degree Requirements: 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to 1. A total of at least 64 semester hours with a Quality solve problems and make effective decisions, and Point Average of 2.0. draw conclusions. Normal Time to Completion: 24 months 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it 2. General Education Requirements: critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of Basic Communication (EN101) technology to solve problems or compile information. Humanities (Literature Elective: 3 credits) Mathematics (3-4 credits)** Natural Science (BIO109, BIO109L, CH111, CH111L: 8 credits) Philosophy/Religious Studies Electives (3 credits) Social Science Electives (6 credits) 74 Degrees and Programs of Study
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st First Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits BIO109 Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology. 3 BIO109L Ess. of Anatomy & Physiology Lab… 1 DT101 Foundations of Nutrition……………... 3 DT102 Culinary Nutrition I……………………. 3 DT103 Nutrition Care Process……………….. 2 EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 GS100 or College Seminar or GS102 College Success…………………….. 1 / 3 Semester Total 16 / 18
First Year – 2nd Semester
Courses Credits CH111 General Chemistry I………………….. 3 CH111L General Chemistry I Lab…………….. 1 DT104 Community Nutrition Theory..………. 2 DT104C Community Nutrition Practice………. 2 DT105 Culinary Nutrition II…………………… 3 DT203 Nutrition Education…...………………. 3 Mathematics Elective*………..……… 3 / 4 Semester Total 17 / 18
st Second Year – 1 Semester Courses Credits DT201 Diet and Disease I……………………. 3 DT202 Supervised Practice I………………… 4 DT204 Foodservice Management and Operations I……………………...... 2 Literature Elective………………….…. 3 Social Science Elective……..……….. 3 Semester Total 15
nd Second Year – 2 Semester Courses Credits DT205 Diet and Disease II…………………… 3 DT206 Supervised Practice II………………... 4 DT207 Seminar in Dietetic Technology…….. 1 DT208 Foodservice Management & Operations II………………………..... 2 Philosophy/Religious Studies……….. 3 Social Science Elective………………. 3 Semester Total 16
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PRACTICAL NURSING – Minimum Program Requirements: 1. A total of at least 48 semester hours with a Quality CERTIFICATE Point Average of 2.0. (HEGIS Code 5209.20) Normal Time to Completion: 18 months
The Practical Nursing Program will prepare the 2. General Education Requirements*: graduate for a position as a licensed practical nurse GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success (LPN). Licensed practical nurses function as an integral Basic Communication (EN101) and important part of the health team, providing patient Natural Science (BIO130/BIO130L, BIO131/BIO131L) care. Social Science (PSY101, SOC101) The licensed practical nurse performs tasks and responsibilities within the framework of case finding, 3. Program Requirements*: health teaching, and health counseling and provides NU114, NU115, PN104, PN105, PN106, PN107 supportive and restorative care under the direction of the registered professional nurse or licensed physician. * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. Clinical experiences are provided in a variety of WNY health care settings including hospitals and community Program Learning Outcomes: health care agencies. (Transportation to and from the Program level student learning outcomes are outlined college and/or the clinical affiliates is the below. At the completion of the Nursing (LPN) Certificate responsibility of the individual student.) Program, the student will be able to: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certification (CPR) is 1. Recognize the uniqueness of patients when required for all students before beginning Fundamentals providing safe patient care. of Practical Nursing (PN104). The only acceptable 2. Establish and maintain open lines of communication courses include: The American Heart Association – with patients, families, and members of the inter- Course C – Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers professional team. (2 year certification). Also, the American Red Cross – 3. Utilizing critical thinking and the nursing process as CPR/AED 2-year Certification for the Professional a basis for decision-making when providing safe Rescuer and Health Care Providers. Online courses are care to patients to achieve mutually established NOT acceptable. goals. **You must show your CPR card to your lab instructor 4. Collaborate and participate with other healthcare before the first clinical in order to participate in clinical team members in the evaluation of desired patient rotations** outcomes. The Program is registered by the New York State 5. Develop behaviors and attitudes that reflect Education Department and is fully accredited by the commitment to continuous lifelong learning and Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing participate/integrate into practical nursing (ACEN) 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, organizations and other continuing education Georgia 30326. Phone: (404) 975-5000, Fax: (404) 975- programs. 5020, www.acenursing.org. 6. Demonstrate competence and accountability in the Upon successful completion of the program, graduates provision of patient care based on best practice and will be eligible to take the National Council Licensure evidence-based research. Examination for Practical Nurse Licensure. 7. Practice cultural competence and incorporate personal patient preferences into the plan of care to Admission Requirements: achieve maximum patient outcomes. 1. High School diploma (minimum 75% average) or GED Diploma with a minimum score of 2500 2. Algebra 3. Biology or Chemistry (minimum grades of 75% or higher) 4. Anatomy& Physiology I with Lab is a pre-professional requirement that must be successfully completed prior to the Practical Nursing courses. 5. Minimum cumulative average of 2.5 with minimum grades of “C” in all course work for current and transfer students 6. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is required for clinical experiences and must remain current through graduation. 7. Students must achieve a score of 58 or higher on the algebra portion of the ACCUPLACER test. 76 Degrees and Programs of Study
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First Semester (Summer, Fall or Spring) Courses Credits BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I…….………... 3 BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab….……... 1 EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 GS100 or College Seminar or GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 PSY101 General Psychology………………….. 3 SOC101 Principles of Sociology………………. 3 Semester Total 14 / 16
Second Semester (Fall or Spring) Courses Credits
BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II……………... 3 BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab……….. 1 NU114 Medication Essentials I………………. 1 PN104 Fundamentals of Practical Nursing… 7 PN105 Practical Nursing II……………………. 7 Semester Total 19
Third Semester (Fall or Spring) Courses Credits NU115 Medication Essentials II………………. 1 PN106 Practical Nursing III……………………. 7 PN107 Practical Nursing IV…………………… 7 Semester Total 15
When a Nursing student completes an application for licensure and first registration as a licensed practical nurse or registered professional nurse, questions are asked by the State Education Department about conviction of a crime and pending charges. These questions appear on the application form. If the answers are in the affirmative, there is an automatic referral to the State Education Department, Office of Professional Discipline and the case is assigned to an investigator. Depending upon the results of the investigation, the case may or may not require a hearing. The National Council Licensure Examination may be taken. However, the licensing process and issuance of a license will be held until the process described above is completed.
For more information about our graduation rates, the median debt of students who completed the certificate program and other important information, please visit our website at http://trocaire.edu/academic-program/nursing/
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registration to insure they understand all of the RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY academic requirements for advancement in the A.A.S. program of their choice. (HEGIS Code 5207) Minimum Degree Requirements: The Radiologic Technology Program prepares the 1. A total of at least 81 semester hours with a Quality graduate to assume the duties and responsibilities of an Point Average of 2.0. This includes an 8 week entry level Diagnostic Radiographer with confidence and summer clinical component following the first and ability. The Radiologic Technologist, as a skilled second year’s course work. professional, and, as a member of the health care team, Normal Time to Completion: 24 months exercises independent judgment and discretion in 2. General Education Requirements: technical radiographic procedures. GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* The Radiologic Technology course is a two year Basic Communication (EN101) program with lecture and laboratory components Humanities (Literature Elective: 3 credits) provided at the college. Related clinical experience is Mathematics (3-4 credits) obtained at area hospitals or health agencies affiliated Natural Science* (BIO130/BIO130L, BIO131 / with Trocaire. In addition to basic entry level skills, the BIO131L) student also has the opportunity to observe the latest Philosophy/Religious Studies (PH205 and one 3 advanced imaging modalities. (Transportation to and credit philosophy or religious studies elective) from the college and/or the clinical affiliates is the Social Science (One 3 credit Sociology elective and responsibility of the individual student.) one 3 credit social science elective) Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certification (CPR) is 3. Other Requirements: required for all students before a student begins the BU132 clinical component of the Radiologic Technology 4. Program Requirements*: program. RT101, RT102, RT102L, RT103, RT104, RT105, The Radiologic Technology program is accredited by RT106, RT106L, RT107, RT108, RT109, RT201, the JRC/ERT Joint Review Committee on Education in RT202, RT203, RT205, RT207, RT209, RT210, Radiologic Technology. RT211, RT212 20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 2850 Chicago, IL 60606-3182 * A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required. (312) 704-5300 Fax: (312) 704-5304 Program Learning Outcomes: www.jrcert.org Upon completion of the academic and clinical Program level student learning outcomes are outlined requirements, the graduate receives an associate in below. At the completion of the AAS degree in the applied science degree, and, is eligible to take the Radiologic Technology Program, the student will be able National credentialing examination for both New York to: State Licensure and the American Registry of Radiologic 1. Demonstrate entry-level clinical competence through Technologists (A.R.R.T.)(R). utilization of appropriate radiographic procedures, equipment and principles of radiation protection. Admission Requirements: 2. Provide competent and compassionate healthcare to 1. High School diploma (minimum 85% average) or culturally diverse populations. GED Diploma with a minimum score of 2750 3. Utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills 2. Two units of high school or college Algebra; Biology, necessary to practice within the radiology Chemistry, and Physics profession. 3. 2.75 cumulative average with minimum grades of “C” 4. Demonstrate professionalism and ethics in the in laboratory sciences for current and transfer radiology profession. students 4. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is required for In addition to the program specific learning outcomes clinical experiences students achieving an associate’s degree will also 5. Students applying for programs in the health achieve the following general education outcomes: professions are required to participate in two stages 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral of academic preparedness. Initial admittance to a communication. health science program places a student into a “pre- 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through professional” component. Admittance into the written communication. “professional” component is not guaranteed. 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information Students must meet established academic standards. and ideas. Students should speak to an admissions 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives counselor or to the Program Director prior to and experiences. 78 Degrees and Programs of Study
5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems Second Year – 2nd Semester using statistical or arithmetical methods and Courses Credits communicate information verbally, numerically or PH205 Ethics in Health Care……………...... 3 graphically. RT201 Equipment Operation & Maintenance. 3 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to RT207 Radiation Biology……………………… 2 solve problems and make effective decisions, and RT209 Advanced Topics for the draw conclusions. Radiographer…………………………. 2 RT210 Clinical Education IV………………….. 2 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it Social Science Elective…………...... 3 critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. Semester Total 15 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems or compile information. Second Year – Summer Session Courses Credits RT211 Applied Radiologic Technology II Curriculum Clinical Education……………………. 6 First Year – 1st Semester Summer Session Total 6 Courses Credits BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I…………….... 3 When a Radiologic Technology Student completes an application for BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab………… 1 New York State Licensure, and, the A.A.R.T.(R), questions are asked EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 about conviction of a crime and pending charges. These questions GS100 or College Seminar or appear on both application forms. If the answers are in the affirmative, GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 particulars and disposition of each charge must be listed. A conviction is not an automatic bar to licensure and registry, however, each case is RT101 Image Acquisition & Evaluation I…… 3 considered and investigated on its individual merits. RT102 Radiographic Procedures I………….. 2 RT102L Applied Radiographic
Procedures I…………………………. 1 RT103 Patient Care & Management I………. 1 RT104 Clinical Education I…………………… 2 Semester Total 17 / 19
First Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II……………... 3 BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab…….….. 1 BU132 Information Technology I…………….. 3
Literature Elective……..……………… 3 RT105 Image Acquisition & Evaluation II…… 3 RT106 Radiographic Procedures II……...... 2 RT106L Applied Radiographic Procedures II………………………… 1 RT107 Patient Care & Management II……… 1 RT108 Clinical Education II…………………... 2 Semester Total 19
First Year – Summer Session Courses Credits RT109 Applied Radiologic Technology I Clinical Education……………………. 6 (Eight Weeks) Summer Session Total 6
Second Year – 1st Semester Courses Credits Mathematics Elective……………...... 3 / 4 Philosophy/Religious Studies Elective. 3
RT202 Radiation Physics & Protection………. 3 RT203 Applied Radiologic Pathology..………. 3 RT205 Clinical Education III…………………... 2 RT212 Sectional Anatomy for the Radiographer…………………………. 1 Sociology Elective……………………... 3 Semester Total 18 / 19
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are responsible for their own transportation to and SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY A.A.S. from clinical sites. (HEGIS Code 5211) The curriculum leading to the A.A.S. degree is comprised of 60 credits distributed over four (4) The Surgical Technology Program offers an Associate semesters for the day program and six (6) semesters in Applied Science Degree. The program is accredited (including two summer sessions) for the evening by the Accreditation Review Committee on Education in program. The program consists of a balance of general Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting in education and Surgical Technology courses. The cooperation with the Commission on Accreditation of Surgical Technologist’s professional role and concepts Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). relating to patient needs, surgical conditions, asepsis, surgical routines, human behavior, communication, and ARC-STSA CAAHEP caring provide the framework for the curriculum. As the 6 West Dry Creek Circle 25400 U.S. Highway 19 student progresses through the curriculum, classroom Suite 110 North, Suite 158 theory is applied to clinical practice in the operating room Littleton, CO 80120 Clearwater, FL 33756 setting. A mix of laboratory practice and hospital (303) 694-9262 (727) 210-2350 operating room experiences during the first year, introduces the student to the operating room The mission of the ARC-STSA is to provide recognition environment. In the laboratory setting, no more than 10 for the quality of the education programs in its system to students will be paired with a qualified Surgical the public. Technology instructor. The second year emphasizes The degree program prepares the student to be a clinical experiences in a broad range of surgical practitioner with a broad knowledge base from which to specialties and operating room settings to prepare the draw and apply to the diverse, ever changing and student for future practice as a surgical technologist. advancing field of Surgical Technology. National certification is available to graduates through the Admission Requirements: National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical 1. High School diploma (minimum 85% average) or Assisting. Senior Surgical Technology students are GED Diploma with a minimum score of 2750 eligible to sit for the CST Examination at Trocaire 2. ACCUPLACER Algebra score greater than or equal College. Students are eligible for student membership in to 58, and Biology (minimum grade of 80% or the Association of Surgical Technologist’s (AST). AST is higher) the oldest and most recognized professional 3. Cumulative average of 2.5 with minimum grades of organization for surgical technologists and surgical “C” in laboratory sciences for current and transfer assistants. AST’s primary purpose is to ensure that students surgical technologists and surgical assistants have the 4. Student is required to participate in an onsite knowledge and skills to administer patient care of the interview with the Surgical Technology Department highest quality. prior to acceptance into the program. The Surgical Technology program is offered either in 5. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certificate is the day or evening. The evening curriculum is identical in required for clinical experiences. content to the day program. However, the evening 6. Acceptance into the program is based on clinical curriculum is distributed over a six semester (2 year) space availability and successful completion of all time period including two summer sessions. In addition prerequisites. to the regularly scheduled evening experiences, selected 7. All Admission criteria must be met prior to entering clinical laboratory experiences may be mandated during the program unless otherwise decided by the the daytime and/or weekend hours. These clinical days Program Director. provide a comprehensive experience of surgical cases which normally occur during the day. Surgical Technologists are crucial members of the surgical team, working closely with surgeons, registered nurses, and anesthesiologists to provide the best possible care for the patient undergoing a surgical intervention. The primary role of the “Scrub Tech” is to prepare a sterile field and pass instruments to the surgeon during the surgical procedure. A Surgical Technologist should possess a stable temperament, manual dexterity, physical stamina, and the ability to integrate and prioritize a variety of activities. Lecture and laboratory experiences are offered at the college and experience in a hospital setting is provided. Students
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Minimum Degree Requirements: Program Learning Outcomes: 1. A total of at least 60 semester hours with a Quality Point Average of 2.0 Program level student learning outcomes are outlined Normal Time to Completion: 24 months below. At the completion of the Surgical Technology 2. General Education Requirements: AAS Program, the student will be able to: GS100 College Seminar or GS102 College Success* 1. Apply care directed toward the surgical patient Basic Communication (EN101) and/or surgical team. Humanities (EN102) 2. Demonstrate aseptic principles that guide the Mathematics (3-4 credits) practice of sterile technique. Natural Science* (BIO130/BIO130L, BIO131 / 3. Analyze the role of the Surgical Technologist during BIO131L, BIO223/BIO223L) the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative Philosophy/Religious Studies (PH103, PH205) phases. Social Science (PSY101, and one 3 credit social 4. Develop an increased sensitivity to environmental science elective) awareness and concern. 3. Program Requirements*: 5. Identify and demonstrate a clear mental image of ST101, ST103, ST104, ST106, ST201, ST202, normal human anatomy. ST203, ST204 6. Validate the correct operative procedure used to 4. Requirements for Program Completion: repair identified pathological condition(s). 7. Recognize the surgical sequence of events for the In order for students to successfully complete the planned operative procedure and anticipate the Surgical Technology Program, they MUST show needs of the surgeon and surgical patient prior to evidence of the following: the need of being verbalized. 1. Completion of ALL courses according to the Surgical 8. Make adjustments in positioning, instrumentation, Technology Degree Audit (with a grade of “C” or medication(s), risk factors, diagnostic abnormalities, better in all Surgical Technology Core Courses) patient concerns, cultural considerations, supplies, 2. The total number of surgical cases the student must and equipment according to variations in the surgical complete is 120 and are defined as follows: procedure and the surgeon’s needs. . Students are required to complete 30 cases in General Surgery. Twenty of the cases must be in the In addition to the program specific learning outcomes First Scrub Role. students achieving an associate’s degree will also . Students are required to complete 90 cases in achieve the following general education outcomes: various surgical specialties. Sixty of the cases must 1. Comprehend and articulate effectively through oral be in the First Scrub Role and evenly distributed communication. between a minimum of 5 surgical specialties. 2. Comprehend and articulate effectively through However, 15 is the maximum number of cases that written communication. can be counted in any one surgical specialty. 3. Analyze, evaluate, synthesize and apply information . The surgical technology program is required to verify and ideas. (through the surgical rotation), documentation of the 4. Appreciate diverse cultural and ethical perspectives student’s progression in First and Second Scrubbing and experiences. surgical procedures of increased complexity as 5. Interpret quantitative information, solve problems he/she moves towards entry-level graduate abilities. using statistical or arithmetical methods and . Diagnostic endoscopy cases and vaginal delivery communicate information verbally, numerically or cases are not mandatory. But up to 10 diagnostic graphically. endoscopic cases and 5 vaginal delivery cases can 6. Use processes, procedures, data, or evidence to be counted towards maximum number of Second solve problems and make effective decisions, and Scrub Role cases. draw conclusions. . Observation cases must be documented, but do not 7. Identify need for and evaluate information using it count towards the 120 required cases. critically, legally and ethically to solve problems. 3. The potential graduate student from the Surgical 8. Utilize, select and apply contemporary forms of Technology program must participate in taking the technology to solve problems or compile information. web based CST examination offered on campus.
* A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required.
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DAY CURRICULUM EVENING CURRICULUM
First Year – 1st Semester First Year – 1st Semester Courses Credits Courses Credits BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I……………… 3 BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I……………… 3 BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab………… 1 BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Lab………… 1 EN101 English Composition…………………. 3 GS100 or College Seminar or GS100 or College Seminar or GS102 College Success…………….………. 1 / 3 GS102 College Success…………….……… 1 / 3 ST101 Introduction to Surgical Technology… 4 ST101 Introduction to Surgical Technology… 4 ST103 Clinical Education I…………………… 2 ST103 Clinical Education I…………………… 2 Semester Total 14 / 16 Semester Total 11 / 13
First Year – 2nd Semester First Year – 2nd Semester Courses Credits Courses Credits BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II……………... 3 BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II……………... 3 BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab………... 1 BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II Lab……….. 1 EN102 Introduction to Literature………… 3 ST104 Fundamentals of Surgical PSY101 General Psychology………………….. 3 Technology…………………………... 4 ST104 Fundamentals of Surgical ST106 Clinical Education II**………..……….. 2 Technology…………………………... 4 Semester Total 10 ST106 Clinical Education II…………..………. 2 **Clinical Experiences will continue into the Semester Total 16 summer
Second Year – 1st Semester First Year – Summer Session Courses Credits Courses Credits BIO223 Microbiology……………………………. 3 EN101 English Composition………………….. 3 BIO223L Microbiology Lab………………………. 1 Mathematics Elective………………… 3 / 4 Mathematics Elective……………...... 3 / 4 Summer Session Total 6 / 7 PH103 Introduction to Philosophy……………. 3 st ST201 Advanced Surgical Technology……… 5 Second Year – 1 Semester ST202 Clinical Education III………………….. 2 Courses Credits Semester Total 17 / 18 EN102 Introduction to Literature……………… 3 PSY101 General Psychology…………………… 3 Second Year – 2nd Semester ST201 Advanced Surgical Technology…. 5 Courses Credits ST202 Clinical Education III……………… 2 PH205 Ethics in Health Care…………………. 3 Semester Total 13 Social Science Elective………………. 3 nd ST203 Specialized Surgical Technology……. 5 Second Year – 2 Semester ST204 Clinical Education IV………………….. 2 Courses Credits Semester Total 13 BIO223 Microbiology……………………… 3 BIO223L Microbiology Lab………………… 1 PH103 Introduction to Philosophy………. 3 ST203 Specialized Surgical Technology. 5 ST204 Clinical Education IV…………….. 2 Semester Total 14
Second Year – Summer Session Courses Credits PH205 Ethics in Health Care……………... 3 Social Science Elective………….. 3 Summer Session Total 6
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The number of semester credit hours BIO109L Essentials of Anatomy and Co-requisite: BIO180L given for each course is indicated in Physiology Laboratory (1) parenthesis after each course title. Laboratory experience coincides with BIO180L General Biology I The course description states lecture topics. Two laboratory hours. Laboratory (1) prerequisites if any. Unless otherwise Co-requisite: BIO109 Laboratory experience coincides with noted, the course will be offered as stated. lecture topics. Two laboratory hours. Information about class offerings is printed BIO130 Anatomy & Physiology I (3) Co-requisite: BIO180 in the course schedule each semester. An introduction to the general principles Copies are available in the Registrar’s of human anatomy and physiology with BIO181 General Biology II (3) Office. emphasis on the structure and function of A continued study of biological principles Cross Registration opportunities with all the cell, tissues, and the skeletal, muscular, as evidenced in the diversity of organisms. Western New York Colleges are readily and nervous systems. (Fall, Spring and Topics include the morphology, phylogeny, available to Trocaire students. Contact the Summer semesters). Three lecture hours. physiology and ecology of major taxa with Registrar’s Office regarding application Prerequisites: high school biology with a evolution as the unifying principle. Three forms and policies. minimum of 75% average (or equivalent), lecture hours. or, BIO105 or BIO109 with a grade of “C” or Prerequisites: BIO180/BIO180L better, or director’s permission. Co-requisite: BIO181L ART Co-requisite: BIO130L or director’s permission upon second attempt. BIO181L General Biology II ART100 Art Appreciation (1) Laboratory (1) An introduction to the elements and BIO130L Anatomy & Physiology I Laboratory experience coincides with principles which form the basis of the visual Laboratory (1) lecture topics. Two laboratory hours. arts. Course content focuses on developing Laboratory experience coincides with Co-requisite: BIO181 visual awareness and an appreciation of art lecture topics. Two laboratory hours. and artists through discussion, AV Co-Requisite: BIO130 or director’s BIO205 Environmental Science (3) presentation and a gallery tour. permission upon second attempt. This course is an introduction to how nature works, how the environment has ART101 Art History (3) BIO131 Anatomy & Physiology II (3) been and is being used and abused, and A survey of the visual arts within a A continuation of Anatomy & Physiology I. what you can do to protect and improve it historical and cultural framework. Emphasis Study of the respiratory, cardiovascular, for yourself, and for future generations. is placed on the development of visual lymphatic, endocrine, digestive, urinary and Some topics of study include: Ecosystems, perception and expanding critical reproductive systems and senses. Fluid Wildlife and the Environment, awareness of selected works of the major and electrolyte balance also studied. (Fall, Environmental Risk and Human Pollution: periods in the history of art. Includes Spring and Summer semesters). Three soil, water and air, Population Dynamics, discussion, AV presentation, and field lecture hours. Waste and Waste Disposal, and past and trip(s) to area museums and galleries. Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L with a present attitudes toward the environment grade of “C” or better and environmental problems. Three lecture ART299 Independent Study (3) Co-requisite: BIO131L or director’s hours. Study by a qualified student of a more permission upon second attempt. advanced phase of art on a tutorial basis. BIO208 Nutrition and Wellness (3) Previous art history or experience required. BIO131L Anatomy & Physiology II A study of the principles of the science of Plans must be approved by the Director of Laboratory (1) nutrition, as it relates to daily life and well- Liberal Arts. Laboratory experience coincides with being. Topics include personal wellness, lecture topics. Two laboratory hours. digestion, absorption and metabolism of Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L with a nutrients, planning and evaluating dietary BIOLOGY grade of “C” or better. intake. The course will consider social, Co-Requisite: BIO131 or director’s economic, and psychosocial factors in
permission upon second attempt. relationship to dietary practices. This BIO105 Human Biology (3) course provides an opportunity to explore A study of life structure and function from BIO140 Introduction to areas of special interest such as nutrition a human perspective. Human organ for various age levels, weight control, and systems, human evolution and ecology will Pharmacology (3) This course is an overview of physical performance. (Fall, Spring, and be presented with a focus on homeostasis, Summer semesters) bioethics, and ecology. Three lecture hours. pharmacology and medication as it pertains to the allied health professions. Major BIO208L Nutrition and Wellness BIO109 Essentials of Anatomy and classifications of drugs and their indications will be examined, as well as the role of the Laboratory (1) Physiology (3) health professions. Three lecture hours. Laboratory experience coincides with A one semester course designed for the Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L and lecture topics. Two laboratory hours. allied health careers. It gives an BIO131/BIO131L introductory treatment of the structure and BIO210 Sectional Anatomy (3) function of the human body including cell, BIO180 General Biology I (3) This course focuses on the practical skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, A study of the general principles of application of sectional anatomy for the respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, biological science. Topics include the Health Science student. The use of urinary and reproductive systems. Three scientific method, structure of molecules, sectional anatomy imaging such as lecture hours. the origin of life, biology of the cell, Computed Tomography (CT) and MRI will Co-requisite: BIO109L energetics, reproduction and heredity, be stressed. Three lecture hours.
molecular genetics and evolution. Three Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L and lecture hours. BIO131/BIO131L Course Descriptions 83
BIO223 Microbiology (3) Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L, BIO131/ BU201 Business Law (3) The study of scientific principles of BIO131L, Chemistry and Microbiology This course is designed to acquaint the Microbiology emphasizing the isolation and preferred. student with an overview of the American identification of pathogenic organisms to legal system and courts. Areas to be man in areas of bacteriology, mycology, covered are the nature and function of law, virology and parasitology. The culture, BUSINESS legal rights and obligations, formation, morphology, general physiology, operation and discharge of contracts, and immunology and applied aspects of the BU099 Computer Literacy (1)* the law of sales under the Uniform representative micro-organisms will be Commercial Code and business This course is an introduction to studied. Three lecture hours. (Fall, Spring organization. (Spring Semester) microcomputers, Windows operating and Summer semesters) system, microcomputer applications and Prerequisites: BIO109/BIO109L, or the Internet. This course is one credit with BU203 Principles of Accounting (3) BIO130/BIO130L, or BIO180/BIO180L, “C” one hour learning laboratory. (Fall and A sound basic knowledge of accounting grades or better is required. Spring semesters) terms, concepts, and procedures is Co-requisite: BIO223L *Institutional credit only stressed in this course. It offers a practical
*Placement is based on a computer background in accounting for students BIO223L Microbiology Laboratory literacy placement test embarking on business careers covering (1) *Students must receive a grade of “C” the full accounting cycle for a sole Laboratory experience coincides with (2.0) or higher to pass this course. proprietorship service business. A full lecture topics. Two laboratory hours. accounting cycle for merchandising firms, Co-requisite: BIO223 BU101 Introduction to as well as the impact of microcomputers and their effect on the accounting work Contemporary Business (3) environment is also provided. BIO243 Neurology (3) This is an introductory course which will An examination of the structure and familiarize the student with the following BU207 Introduction to Management function of neural tissue, the anatomy and topic areas: contemporary business and its physiology of the components of the environment – blending people and (3) Central Nervous System and the Peripheral technology, the social responsibility of This course provides an overview of the Nervous System, embryology of the spinal business and ethical behavior, economic management process with an emphasis on cord and brain, nerve plexuses, spinal challenges, competition in global markets, basic management principles and their reflexes, and sensory and motor pathways. options for organizing large and small application to realistic situations. Various (Fall semester) businesses, the entrepreneur, the Internet types of management styles will be studied Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L and and the online business environment. This with special emphasis on the differences BIO131/BIO131L. Massage Therapy course also explores marketing, business between the domestic and various students have additional prerequisites of management, and e-commerce. (Fall international management styles. (Fall MT110 and MT111. semester) Semester)
BIO310 Advanced Sectional BU106 Business Communications BU274 Seminar and Internship (4) Anatomy (3) (3) This practicum style course provides the student with the opportunity to apply skills. Advanced cross sectional anatomy Principles and mechanics of effective One hour weekly seminars will be used to provides an integrated approach to learning written and oral communication will be review the work experience. Students will anatomy by means of correlating studied in relationship to work and the receive one hour of credit for the seminar cryosections and radiographic cross process using electronic technology and and three hours of credit for 120 hours of sectional imaging. This course focuses on working with teams. International internship. (Spring Semester) the practical application of sectional communication will be introduced and anatomy for the health science student. studies of listening skills as well as the Emphasis is placed on vessels and organs writing process will be explored. Review of BU300 Project Management (3) orientation and relations to other anatomical basic English grammar emphasizing This course covers standard general structures. (Fall semester) principles of punctuation, capitalization, project management concepts, tools, and Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L and sentence structure and vocabulary; techniques. A popular project management BIO131/BIO131L organizing, developing, and stylization of software package is used to practice the letters, memorandum, email, and reports techniques. BIO333 Pathophysiology (3) will be stressed. Human relations in Course includes a service learning A conceptual approach to the dynamic business writing and oral reporting will be component. aspects of disease and how it affects covered. (Fall and Spring semesters) normal physiology in relation to alterations, MEDICAL BUSINESS derangements, and mechanisms involved BU132 Information Technology I (3) in disease. (Fall, Spring and Summer This course includes practical COURSES (MB) semesters) applications of microcomputers through the
Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L and use of software packages. Topics include BIO131/BIO131L or equivalent an overview of the operating system, an MB119 Medical Terminology (3) overview of application software including This course is a study of the language of BIO340 Concepts of expected features, comparative analysis medicine as it relates to all body systems. Pharmacology (3) and integration. Hands-on experience in the Emphasis is placed on the understanding of This course will provide a core of use of the operating system, a major word roots, prefixes, suffixes and fundamental information related to, and the spreadsheet package, a major word abbreviations. Terminology related to general principles underlying, the use of processing package and a major database anatomy, physiology, laboratory, clinical pharmacological agents in the health package. (Fall and Spring Semesters) procedures and pharmacology will be occupations. Emphasis on sites of covered. Pronunciation and spelling will be emphasized. (Fall and Spring Semesters) mechanism of action, toxicity, fate, and the uses of major therapeutic and diagnostic agents. (Fall semester)
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MB213 Medical Office Systems & CH250L Organic Chemistry Procedures (3) CHEMISTRY Laboratory (1) This course covers the responsibilities Laboratory experiments will include areas performed by the medical administrative CH100 Introduction to Chemistry (3) of separation and synthesis of various assistant in a contemporary medical office An introduction to chemical concepts for compounds. Students will also explore the including patient relations, appointment students who have little or no background practical application of these techniques in scheduling, insurance billing and collection, in chemistry. Topics include: measurement research and industry. Two laboratory management of medical records, and report and numbers, chemical terminology, atomic hours. generation. Various simulated office theory, the Periodic Table, chemical Co-requisite: CH250 procedures are included. (Spring Semester) bonding, types of chemical reactions, Prerequisites: BU132 and MB119 phases of matter and chemical solutions. Prerequisite: High school algebra or COMPUTER MB221 Medical Transcription I (3) MA096 This introductory course gives the student NETWORK the opportunity to acquire skills in the CH111 General Chemistry I (3) growing field of medical transcription. A detailed introduction to the basic ADMINISTRATION Various medial documents such as principles and theories of chemistry. Topics histories and physicals, operative reports, include: physical measurements, matter, CNA101 Introduction to Computer pathology reports, radiology reports, and atomic theory, chemical reactions, discharge summaries will be transcribed. Hardware (4) stoichiometry, gas laws, thermochemistry, This course focuses on computer Formatting and proofreading skills are quantum theory, periodicity, chemical emphasized in this course (Spring hardware, in particular, the components of bonding, molecular geometry and chemical a personal computer. The specific Semester) solutions. Three lecture hours. Prerequisites: BU132 and MB119 component areas covered include: Prerequisites: High school algebra and processors, motherboards, memory, high school chemistry or CH100. MB265 Insurance & Reimbursement storage, peripherals, portable hardware, Co-requisite: CH111L and tools and test equipment. General Processing (2) areas / activities include: concepts, This course covers the principles and CH111L General Chemistry I specifications, upgrading, and practice of health insurance billing and Laboratory (1) troubleshooting. The course has a highly reimbursement. Students will learn what This lab designs a course of action based hands-on orientation. A major activity is the impact managed care and state and federal on what the student knows about the selection of computer components leading regulations have on health insurance billing. principles and theories in order to solve to the building of a personal computer by Guidelines for completing claims for problems by the test results of techniques each student (which they then own). (Fall inpatient, outpatient, emergency employed relating to laboratory procedures. Semester) department, and physician office Students will interpret results of laboratory encounters using the appropriate forms will experiences and relate their procedures CNA105 Introduction to Computer be covered. Students will learn about and findings to principles covered in the Networking (4) claims submission using Electronic Data course. Topics relating to classroom lecture Interchange (EDI). Simulations, real world This course provides the introduction to will be presented. Two laboratory hours. the field of computer networking. Topics examples and review exercises will give Co-requisite: CH111 students the opportunity to apply learned include: standards, protocols, media, hardware devices, network operating material. (Fall and Spring Semesters) CH112 General Chemistry II (3) systems, security, and troubleshooting. A continuation of General Chemistry I. Hands-on activities include: creating OFFICE TECHNOLOGY Topics include: kinetics, equilibrium, acids network cabling configurations, building and bases, solubility, electrochemistry, network configuration, and working with COURSES (BOT) nuclear chemistry and chemistry of selected network hardware components such as: elements. Three lecture hours. hubs, switches, routers, firewalls, and Prerequisites: CH111/CH111L BOT103 Keyboarding I and wireless equipment. (Fall Semester) Co-requisite: CH112L Document Processing (3) CNA112 Operating Systems (3) This is an introductory course focusing on CH112L General Chemistry II This course covers both theoretical a thorough understanding of the computer Laboratory (1) concepts and their practical application in keyboard with touch typing techniques. Laboratory experiences are based on all computers. General topics include: Formatting of basic documents such as topics covered in lecture which include concepts, system management, security, business letters, envelopes, basic techniques and procedures for installation, configuration, maintenance, memorandums, and reports as well as identification of various chemical and troubleshooting. The course is hands- proofreading skills will be developed. (Fall substances. An understanding of proper on and students will work with computers Semester) procedures for determining specific running the operating system. (Spring
compounds will be achieved. Two Semester) BOT108 Word Processing I (3) laboratory hours. Prerequisite: CNA101 This introductory course provides the Co-requisite: CH112 student with hands-on experience in the CNA115 Network Infrastructure (3) use of word processing software. Students CH250 Organic Chemistry (3) This course covers the key network will learn the fundamentals such as An introduction to the chemistry of services that are supported by the Network creating, editing, saving, naming, carbon-containing compounds. Topics Administrator and required to allow a client- formatting, and printing a document, as well include: nomenclature, organic functional server network to function. Specific topics as spell check, pagination, and mail merge. groups, physical properties, chemical include: network addressing, name (Spring Semester) bonds, molecular structure, synthesis, resolution, routing, remote access, and Prerequisite: BOT103 or equivalent reaction mechanisms and stereochemistry. security. General areas/activities include: Three lecture hours. concepts, installation, configuration, Prerequisites: CH111/CH111L management, maintenance, and Co-requisite: CH250L troubleshooting. The course is hands-on
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with operating computer networks used to components on prototyping equipment and and patient care procedures pertinent to practice the concepts presented. (Spring practice machine language programming sonography will be covered. Chart reading Semester) on personal computers. and record keeping relative to clinical Prerequisite: CNA105 Prerequisite: CNA101 medicine will be presented. The student will study and investigate the principles CNA200 Special Topics (3) CNA260 Network Administration II underlying sonographic visualization. This This course explores current major (4) will include the theoretical concepts of technologies, trends, or issues in the field of This course, along with CNA210, are the image reproduction, pertinent equipment computer networking. Typically two or three capstone courses of the program. This considerations and alternative methods of major topics are covered. course continues the coverage of CNA210 information storage and display. Network Administration. The course is This course includes College laboratory CNA208 Linux/UNIX (3) hands-on and operating computer networks experiences on basic scanning techniques This course covers the major alternatives are used to practice the concepts relative to college lecture material. (Fall to Microsoft’s current client and server presented. (Spring Semester) Semester) operating systems – Linux and UNIX. This Prerequisite: CNA210 important family of operating systems plays DMS306 Physics of Ultrasound I (2) a key role in the Internet. Coverage CNA264 Computer Security (3) Fundamental principles of acoustical includes both Linux and UNIX as a Computer security is a critical issue in the physics including wave propagation, workstation operating system and as a computer and network field. This course acoustical impedance properties, and network operating system. The open source covers the full range of threats and the transducer characteristics will be presented. software business model is covered. The responses for both networks and individual Basic types of equipment and course is hands-on and personal computers devices on the networks. Hardware, instrumentation are discussed. Doppler and operating computer networks are used software, and procedural security solutions Principles are introduced. (Fall Semester) to practice the concepts presented. (Fall are covered. The course is hands-on and Semester) operating computer networks are used to DMS310 Abdominal Sonography I Prerequisite: CNA112 practice the concepts presented. (Spring (2) Semester) Abdominal Sonography I provides the CNA210 Network Administration I Prerequisite: CNA105 student with information necessary to (4) perform an abdominal sonographic This course, along with CNA260, are the CNA274 Seminar & Internship / examination. Normal anatomy will be capstone courses of the program. Typical Capstone Experience (2) viewed as well as an emphasis on the Network Administrator’s responsibilities are A supervised 120 hour, on-the-job work detection of pathology, anomalies and covered including: installation, internship experience in a computer deviation from the normal sonographic configuration, security, resource allocation, networking setting. The internship provides appearance. Correlation with clinical tests storage management, backup, the student with the opportunity to apply and related clinical signs and symptoms will maintenance, and troubleshooting. The skills. As a second option, an approved be included. (Fall Semester) course is hands-on and operating computer research project may be completed in lieu networks are used to practice the concepts of the internship. The seminars will be used DMS311 Abdominal Sonography presented. Server hardware is covered and to review the work/project experience and Laboratory I (1) the class will select server components and cover career preparation skills. (Spring The student is provided with College then students will build individual servers Semester) laboratory experiences on abdominal (which they then own). (Fall Semester) scanning techniques, and protocol relative Prerequisite: CNA115 CNA299 Independent Study (3) to abdominal structures and their Study of a more advanced nature based physiology. (Fall Semester) CNA220 Visual Basic (3) on previous computer network course work, This course is an introduction to computer developed and applied by individual DMS315 Pelvic Sonography (2) programming using Visual Basic. The students on a tutorial basis. Plans must be Pelvic sonography provides the student general programming topics of data types, approved by the Director of the Program. with information necessary to perform a input/output, calculation, flow of control, and pelvic sonographic examination. Normal program structure are covered. Event- anatomy will be reviewed as well as driven and object-oriented programming DIAGNOSTIC emphasis on the detection of pathology, along with user interface controls are anomalies, and deviation from the normal covered in the context of Visual Basic. MEDICAL sonographic appearance. Correlation with clinical tests, and related signs and CNA250 Network Planning and SONOGRAPHY symptoms will be included. (Fall Semester)
Design (3) DMS316 Pelvic Sonography This course involves applying network DMS300 Cross Sectional Anatomy concepts in planning and designing Laboratory (1) (3) functional networks. Emphasis is placed on The student is provided with College This course will focus on the basic recognizing the need for a network, laboratory experiences on pelvic scanning sectional anatomy of the neck, abdomen conducting an analysis, and designing techniques and protocol relative to pelvic and pelvis building upon the basic solutions. structures and their physiology. (Fall knowledge of anatomy. It will prepare the Prerequisite: CNA105 Semester) student to recognize sectional anatomy of
CNA255 Computer Architecture (3) major human structures amenable to sonographic technique. (Fall Semester) DMS320 Sonography Clinical This course focuses on the design of Practicum I (3) computer processors. Topics include: This course concentrates on the digital electronics, integrated circuit DMS301 Introduction to Diagnostic Medical Sonography (3) development of initial practical skills in manufacture, design of processors, basic sonographic procedures. Emphasis is This course provides the student with an introduction to machine language, and on the role of initial observer to assistant orientation to the field of Diagnostic Medical multiprocessor configurations. This is a under the close supervision of faculty and Sonography followed by the techniques for hands-on course where students build sonography staff, and is provided at area assisting and monitoring patients. Ethics operating digital circuitry using electronic 86 Course Descriptions
diagnostic medical sonography clinical DMS419 Special Sonographic of a variety of cultural foods. (Fall sites. (Fall Semester) Procedures (2) Semester) Twenty four hours per week. This course introduces the student to the field of vascular sonography with the main DT103 Nutrition Care Process (2) DMS405 Obstetrical Sonography (3) focus on carotid, arterial, and lower The Nutrition Care Process and Model is This course provides the student with the peripheral venous systems. Obstetrical and the framework for the critical thinking fundamentals of obstetrical scanning of Gynecological Doppler applications will also process used by dietetics professionals as both normal and abnormal anatomy. Fetal be presented. (Spring Semester) they provide nutrition services to their development, including abnormal etiology Prerequisites: DMS300, DMS301, clients/patients. This course will introduce and diagnostic techniques are presented. DMS306, DMS310, DMS311, DMS315, the student to the process including: The detection of abnormalities, pathologies, DMS316, DMS320 nutrition assessment, diagnosis, and deviation from normal is stressed. intervention, evaluation and monitoring. (Spring Semester) DMS420 Sonography Clinical This course will include a review of Prerequisites: DMS300, DMS301, Practicum II (3) essential knowledge and skills needed such DMS306, DMS310, DMS311, DMS315, This supervised off-campus experience as understanding medical terminology and DMS316, DMS320 continues to provide the students with abbreviations, interpreting laboratory values development of skills in scanning and food-drug interactions, obtaining DMS406 Physics of Ultrasound II (1) abdomens, progressing into the areas of anthropometric data, the fundamentals of This course focuses on practical obstetrical and gynecological applications. medical record documentation, Code of applications of principles and concepts Small parts and Doppler techniques will be Ethics and Standards of Professional presented in “Physics of Ultrasound I”. In introduced. (Spring Semester) Performance for Dietetic Technicians. (Fall addition, the student is provided Twenty four hours per week Semester) opportunities for preparation for the Prerequisites: DMS300, DMS301, American Registry of Diagnostic Medical DMS306, DMS310, DMS311, DMS315, DT104 Community Nutrition Theory Sonographers (ARDMS) certification DMS316, DMS320 (2) examination in Ultrasound Physics and Introduces students to community Instrumentation. (Spring Semester) DMS430 Sonography Clinical nutrition programs serving vulnerable Prerequisites: Grades of “C” or better in Practicum III (6) populations throughout the lifecycle. all first semester Diagnostic Medical In this final and extended period of clinical Legislative decisions impacting food and Sonography or Echocardiography courses. study, the student progresses to full nutrition policies, both historical perspective
independence under the supervision of and current events will be studied. Students DMS410 Abdominal Sonography II faculty and sonography staff. Upon will plan and present a nutrition program to (2) demonstration of full competency, the a community audience, and have an This is a continuation of the in-depth student will have an opportunity to refine opportunity to participate in a public policy study of abdominal sonography. The his/her skills through more independent workshop regarding federal and state didactic and clinical knowledge necessary practice. (Summer) nutrition concerns. to perform basic sonographic examinations Forty hours per week for twelve weeks. (Spring Semester) of anatomy classified as “small parts” will Prerequisite: DMS420 Co-Requisite: DT104C also be presented. (Spring Semester) Prerequisite: DT103 Prerequisites: DMS300, DMS301, DMS306, DMS310, DMS311, DMS315, NUTRITION AND DT104C Community Nutrition DMS316, DMS320 Practice (2) DIETETICS The student will participate in planned DMS411 Abdominal Sonography community nutrition practice experiences Laboratory II (1) which may include programs such as WIC, The student is provided with College DT101 Foundations of Nutrition (3) school lunch, hunger relief organizations, laboratory experiences on advanced A study of the principles of the science of senior nutrition programs and community abdominal scanning techniques and nutrition, as it relates to daily life and well- wellness programs. protocol relative to abdominal structures being. Topics include personal wellness, Course includes a service learning and their physiology. (Spring Semester) digestion, absorption and metabolism of component. Prerequisites: DMS300, DMS301, nutrients, planning and evaluating dietary (Spring Semester) DMS306, DMS310, DMS311, DMS315, intake. The course will consider social, Co-requisite: DT104 DMS316, DMS320 economic, and psychosocial factors in Prerequisite: DT103 relationship to dietary practices. This DMS415 Seminar/Research Course course provides an opportunity to explore DT105 Culinary Nutrition II (3) areas of special interest such as nutrition (1) Students practice the techniques and for various age levels, weight control, and skills developed in Culinary Nutrition I. This course is devised to help the student physical performance. (Fall Semester) become familiar with describing Recipe and menu development including ingredient selection and cooking techniques sonographic images and correlating the DT102 Culinary Nutrition I (3) descriptions with clinical histories. This is will be discussed. Healthy eating concepts Examines the basic concepts related to accomplished with case study across all food groups will continue to be the preparation of food by food groups. presentations. The student will also develop investigated. Healthy foods, both nutritious Studies the principles of food preparation research skills by writing a paper on an and delicious, will be prepared to cater to based on knowledge of both chemical and approved topic. A brief presentation of their the growing number of health-minded physical properties as well as consideration topics will complete the course. clients and customers in education of fundamental culinary nutrition principles Course includes a service learning /demonstration, restaurant and institutional and theories for various groups. Highlights component. settings. Special diets such as vegetarian the function of recipes ingredients and their (Spring Semester) /vegan, low fat, low sodium, diabetic, effect on final product with special attention Prerequisites: DMS300, DMS301, Mediterranean, gluten-free and modified to focus on dietary modifications for disease DMS306, DMS310, DMS311, DMS315, caloric intake will be discussed. Sourcing prevention and treatment. Laboratory will DMS316, DMS320 food locally, seasonal menus, and include a basic food preparation skills, sustainability in the foodservice industry are sensory analysis of food and investigation discussed. (Spring Semester) Prerequisite: DT102 Course Descriptions 87
DT201 Diet and Disease I (3) management activities. Health promotion Prerequisite: 2 years Allied Health This course examines the role nutrition experiences will include cooking demos for Degree, B.S. Degree, M.D., D.O. and the dietetic technician play in the individuals and groups, as well as nutrition Co-requisites: ECH300, ECH303 prevention and treatment of illness and communication using social media. The chronic disease. Nutrition assessments and student will have the opportunity to ECH303 Echocardiography dietary modifications for the management of participate in professional association Principles and Instrumentation (3) diseases such as cardiovascular disease, activities. (Spring Semester) A study of the principles of Ultrasound diabetes, and GI disorders will be studied. Co-requisite: DT205 instruments which includes: modes of Students will use nutrition and culinary skills operation, operator control options, to enhance disease prevention and DT207 Seminar in Dietetic frequency selection, scanning motions and management for children, adults, elderly Technology (1) planes in a cardiac examination, patient and populations with developmental and Preparation for the student to enter the histories and physical signs, patient cognitive difficulties. (Fall Semester) profession of dietetic technology. Students preparations and Doppler vs. Color Doppler Prerequisite: DT104, DT104C will review current topics in nutrition and protocols. Basic generalized pathology of nutrition professions. Skills in resume the different organs will also be covered. DT202 Supervised Practice I (4) preparation, interviewing techniques, review (Fall Semester) The student will participate in planned for the national registration exam, preparing Prerequisite: 2 years Allied Health supervised practice experiences located at a professional portfolio and participation in Degree, B.S. Degree, M.D., D.O. local health care facilities. The student will professional dietetic association activities. participate in the Nutrition Care Process (Spring Semester) ECH304 Anatomy and Physiology of including: nutrition assessment, diagnosis, the Heart (3) intervention and evaluation, as well as DT208 Foodservice Management This course provides the student with the participate in foodservice operations and and Operations II (2) normal anatomy of the pericardial and management activities. Health promotion Advanced studies in foodservice which thoracic cavities, including the skeletal experiences will include cooking demos for exploring management and leadership framework, the normal anatomy of the individuals and groups, as well as nutrition theory, trends in marketing, human heart’s large vessels, embryology communication using social media. The resources, fiscal management, state development, cardiac physiology, the student will have the opportunity to regulations, and quality management. function of circulation, coronary circulation, participate in professional association (Spring Semester) parameters of arterial pressure activities. (Fall Semester) Prerequisite: DT204 measurement and heart pressures. Co-requisite: DT201 Students will study the normal sonographic appearances. (Fall Semester) DT203 Nutrition Education (3) ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY Prerequisite: 2 years Allied Health Promotion of healthy eating and guiding Degree, B.S. Degree, M.D., D.O. behavior change is the central goal of ECH300 Introduction to nutrition intervention. Motivating clients and Echocardiography (1) ECH320 Echocardiography Clinical employees requires knowledge of a variety Practicum I (3) of techniques. Students will learn theories This course provides the student with an overview to the field of echocardiography, This course concentrates on the and methods of learning, communication development of initial practical skills in and counseling as they apply to individuals medical terminology related to procedures & instrumentation, with indications for use. basic echocardiography procedures. and groups in nutrition education and Emphasis is on the role of the initial employment settings. (Spring Semester) Areas covered will include the role of echocardiographer, legal/ethical issues, observer to assistant under the close supervision of faculty and sonography staff, DT204 Foodservice Management and universal precautions. An overview of the program will be given. (Fall Semester) and is provided at area echocardiography and Operations I (2) Prerequisite: 2 years Allied Health clinical sites. (Fall Semester) This course is designed to explore Degree, B.S. Degree, M.D., D.O. Twenty four hours per week aspects of foodservice beginning with menu planning and development as well as food ECH301 Echocardiography I (2) ECH401 Echocardiography II (4) purchasing, storage, preparation, service This course includes a study of This course will focus on the recognition and delivery systems. Concepts can be examinations, techniques, measurements, and identification of cardiac pathologies applied to the institutional setting, client equipment and patient preparation for 2-D with their hemodynamics in different types counseling situations, and culinary demo. Imaging, M-Mode, Doppler and Color of heart disease. Students will learn their (Fall Semester) Doppler of the normal adult and pediatric echographic structures. Echocardiography Prerequisite: DT103 hearts. Correlation with other cardiac diagnostic procedures will be discussed
evaluation methods will be presented such such as: stress, transesophageal and DT205 Diet and Disease II (3) as: angiography and cardiac intraoperative echocardiography giving This course will examine the role nutrition catheterization, electrocardiograph, electro- indications, limitations, technical and the dietetic technician play in the physiologic studies, Holter monitoring, procedures and clinical pharmacology. management of the client with complex stress testing, radionuclide studies, other Fetal echocardiography will be introduced. nutrition diagnosis such as kidney disease, topographic imaging procedures, phono- Registry style examinations will be given. liver disease, cancer, HIV, and multiple cardiography, external pulse recordings, (Spring Semester) medical diagnoses. Enteral and Parenteral Thallium tests and Stress echo- Prerequisite: Grade of “C” or better in all nutrition will be studied. (Spring Semester) cardiography. (Fall Semester) first semester courses. Prerequisite: DT201 Prerequisite: 2 years Allied Health Degree, B.S. Degree, M.D., D.O. ECH402 Echocardiography College DT206 Supervised Practice II (4) Laboratory II (1) The student will participate in planned ECH302 Echocardiography College The student is provided with College supervised practice experiences at local Laboratory I (1) laboratory experiences on basic scanning health care facilities. The student will This course includes College laboratory techniques related to college lecture participate in the Nutrition Care Process experiences on basic scanning techniques material (Spring Semester) including: nutrition assessment, diagnosis, as presented in lecture. (Fall Semester) Prerequisite: Grade of “C” or better in all intervention and evaluation as well as first semester courses. participate in foodservice operations and 88 Course Descriptions
ECH403 Seminar/Research Course and monetary policy on output, papers are required. (Fall, Spring and (2) employment, and cost level. Current Summer Semesters). This course is designed to help the economic issues will be discussed. Prerequisite: EN101 or EN200 student become familiar with describing sonographic images and correlating the EC202 Principles of EN200 Advanced Composition (3) descriptions with clinical histories. This is Microeconomics (3) The course develops critical thinking, accomplished with case study This course offers an explanation of how reading, and writing skills as they apply to presentations. Student case presentations the market system operates in the context the analysis of primary and secondary non- and literature reviews will be required. The of limited resources. Emphasis is placed fiction books, articles, and essays from a student will also develop research skills by on the manner in which individual business range of academic and cultural contexts. writing a paper on an approved topic. A firms and consumers determine what to The course emphasizes the techniques and brief presentation of their topics will produce, how to produce and for whom to principles of effective research-based complete the course. produce. writing. Course includes a service learning Prerequisite: EN101 component. (Spring Semester) ENGLISH EN201 Readings in World Literature Prerequisite: Grade of “C” or better in all (3) first semester courses. EN095 Intermediate Reading (3)* A survey course focusing on selected classics of literature from Eastern, Western, This course is a reading comprehension ECH404 Pathology of the Heart (4) and African cultures. Selections include and critical reasoning course that covers This course will give the student an in- works from ancient, medieval, and modern essential reading comprehension skills. depth study of the cardiac pathologies, their societies. The goal of this course is to These skills include: understanding literal physiological symptoms, outcomes, and enable student to understand the and figurative meaning, identifying the main sonographic appearances. Special attention similarities that surround the human idea, recognizing supporting details and will be given to the mitral and tricuspid condition and to appreciate the differences transitions and identifying quotes and values, acquired aortic and pulmonic evidenced in each culture’s response to the paraphrases. Topics include: fact and valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies, complexities of human life. opinion, purpose and tone, patterns of coronary artery disease, pericardial Prerequisite: EN101 organization, critical thinking, inferences disease, inflammatory, neoplastic and and argument. (Fall, Spring, and Summer thrombotic disease. Other areas covered Semesters) EN205 Communication Arts (3) will include: cardiac trauma, prosthetic heart *Institutional credit only. An opportunity to develop the art of valves and pediatric congenital heart *Placement is based on Accuplacer scores. communicating with ease in business and disease. (Spring Semester) *Students must receive a grade of “C” (2.0) professional situations. Students will Prerequisite: Grade of “C” or better in all or higher to pass this course. examine the relationship of speaker and first semester courses. audience, noting techniques of effective
EN099 Basics of Composition (3)* communication. This course will focus on ECH420 Echocardiography Clinical multicultural verbal and non-verbal skills. This course emphasizes sentence
Practicum II (3) structure, paragraph development and the This supervised off-campus experience basic elements of composition. Students EN206 Children’s Literature (3) continues to provide the students with are assigned to this class according to An introduction to the qualities of style, development of skills in scanning performance on the College Placement theme, and illustrations demonstrated in the procedures. (Spring Semester) Test. (Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters) finest children’s literature. Throughout the Twenty four hours per week *Institutional credit only. semester, students will read and evaluate a Prerequisite: Grade of “C” or better in all *Placement is based on Accuplacer scores. variety of stories, fantasies, tales, and first semester courses. *Students must receive a grade of “C” (2.0) poetry written by past and current writers of or higher to pass this course. literature focusing on children’s needs, ECH430 Echocardiography Clinical interests, and concerns. This course Practicum III (6) EN101 English Composition (3) includes authors and illustrators from various cultures and ethnic groups. In this final and extended period of clinical The course seeks to aid the Prerequisite: EN101 study, the student progresses to full communication process by developing the independence under the supervision of ability to write clear, concise, expository faculty and sonography staff. The student prose, with emphasis on pre-writing and EN209 American Literature (3) will be prepared to function as a beginning revision. It assists the student in finding a The study and exploration of writings that Echocardiographer and will be ready to sit voice and an audience. A research paper is have contributed significantly to the unique for the RDCS examination given in October. required, thus techniques of writing a formal quality of American Literature. Well known This course is an extension of the learning research paper are reviewed. (Fall, Spring poems, stories, and other selections as well that the student encountered during the first and Summer Semesters) as lesser known works will be examined. and second semesters. (Summer) Prerequisite: Students will be required to Prerequisite: EN101 Forty hours per week for twelve weeks achieve a satisfactory score on the Prerequisite: Grade of “C” or better in all Placement Writing Sample or successfully EN211 Explorations in Poetry (3) first semester courses. complete EN099. The study and appreciation of poetry through a consideration of poetry as an art EN102 Introduction to Literature (3) form. This course examines poetic ECONOMICS A study of the basic elements of short techniques, themes, and symbolic language through a study of selected works. fiction, poetry, and drama. By exploring form and design in the arts, this course Prerequisite: EN101 EC201 Principles of Macroeconomics (3) provides opportunities for students to discover inter-relatedness of theme and EN213 Short Story (3) The course focuses on using economic An examination of a cross-section of short methodology in the study of type, to develop critical analysis skills, and to make connections with elements in other fiction by both American and inter- macroeconomic principles. Topics include continental authors. Cultural connections, derivation of the GNP, the impact of fiscal disciplines. Critical reading and analysis themes, and principles basic to the structure of short story will be explored. Course Descriptions 89
Prerequisite: EN101 introduced to works by the twentieth test-taking strategies, overcoming test century African, Caribbean, African anxiety, cultural diversity, and other issues EN217 Drama (3) American writers, Black feminists, Queer that focus on enabling students to become The study of drama through a variety of theory, and Gay and Lesbian writing. better achievers. This course is three plays to the conventions of drama and Prerequisite: EN101 or permission of credits and is open only to new Trocaire drama’s role in reflecting the human instructor Students who participate in Transitional situation. Focus is on connections within Studies. They are required to take this and beyond cultural differences. course their first semester at Trocaire Prerequisite: EN101 GENERAL College. (Fall and Spring Semesters) * Placement is based on participation in EN225 Film as Literature (3) EDUCATION Transitional Studies *Students must receive a grade of “C” (2.0) An investigation and focus on elements of or higher to pass this course. film literature such as theme, character GS100 College Seminar (1)* development, plot structure, narration, point The College Seminar is a course GS201 Information Fluency and of view, and purpose. designed to provide students strategies for Prerequisite: EN101 successful learning in college and beyond. Research Skills (2) Topics in the course include: learning Students will obtain the critical thinking EN240 Creative Writing (3) styles, learning and study strategies, and information fluency skills expected in An opportunity for the student to cognitive strategies, time management, modern society. Students will learn experience the process of imaging and goal-setting, note-taking, test-taking advanced research skills using library creating various forms of prose and poetry strategies, overcoming test anxiety, cultural databases, printed materials and online with emphasis on original works. diversity, and other issues that focus on library catalogs. They will understand the Prerequisite: EN101 enabling students to become better construction, organization and the achievers. publishing cycle of print and electronic EN299 Independent Study (3) The course is one credit with one hour information. Students will learn methods for Study of a more advanced nature based laboratory. Students are required to take evaluating information presented to them on previous English course work, this course in their first semester at Trocaire through the Internet and in the media. developed and applied by individual College. (Fall, Spring and Summer Students will learn how to use correct MLA students on a tutorial basis. Plans must be Semester) and APA citation styles. Students will approved by the Director of Liberal Arts. * Students must receive a grade of “C” (2.0) become ethical consumers and producers or higher to pass this course. of information through knowledge of EN300 Public Relations Writing (3) copyright standards. This course surveys various elements of GS101 Information and Research GS212 College to Career Seminar public relations and public relations writing. Basics (1) It involves exploring the foundations and This course provides an introduction to (1) meaning of public relations, the ethical and information literacy using library research This course is designed to assist the legal issues involved in public relations methods and resources. Students will learn student in the transition from college to writing, the principles of public relations to access scholarly information through a career by developing the knowledge and writing, writing persuasively, writing for variety of resources: books, journals, skills necessary for future success. Topics specific publics, writing for mass media and databases, streaming media and different include: establishing career goals, work- writing for speeches and presentations. platforms of electronic resources (eBooks, related values, skills and job search Additionally, the course requires reference collections, image databases). strategies. A professional portfolio will be concentrated practice in writing for a variety Students will learn the best practices for developed in the class. Students will meet of public relations circumstances: news evaluating resources in order to obtain individually or in small groups with the releases, video news releases, public academic research and information. instructor. service announcements, advertising copy, Students will learn not only how to fully use Course includes a service learning broadcast media, print media, e-mails, the Libraries@Trocaire as a research component. memos, letters, reports, proposal, and destination, but how to use other libraries (Offered as needed) speeches. (Fall Semester) and the Internet to become effective Prerequisite: EN101 information users today and in the future. GS499 Multiculturalism (3) Topics include: creating keyword searches The course in Multiculturalism takes an EN304 Race, Gender, and Literature to effectively use databases and electronic interdisciplinary perspective that addresses (3) reference collections, journals vs. the major issues of culture including; This course will seek to explore the ways periodicals in research, evaluating websites race/ethnicity, social class, worldviews, in which literature addresses the issues of on the Internet, citation and style guides, generational differences, sexual orientation, Race and Gender in the postmodern / plagiarism, library catalog searching, fair disabilities, religion, and geographic postcolonial context. Breaking free from the use and open source information, location. Culture is addressed through the traditional understanding of literature as an Interlibrary Loan and Academic Share. (Fall integration of related issues of personal imaginative work of art, the selected and Spring Semesters) identity development and experiences and readings will showcase the nexus between the resultant choices of preferred styles of the literary and the political. The course will GS102 College Success (3)* life, morals, ethics, and values from a deal with the categories of ‘race’ and The College Success is a course western perspective, but also an ‘gender’’ as sociological constructs designed to provide students strategies for appreciation of how this varies from non- propagated within the political framework of successful learning in college and beyond. western perspectives. This can be ‘othering’. The lectures and readings will It is part of the Transitional Studies addressed within the parameters of the examine the varied representations and curriculum. Central to the course is varied fields within the Liberal Arts negations of the general understanding of students’ intensive work in learning including, but not limited to; English, these concepts, and how literary writers strategies and the use of the diagnostic History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, articulate their specific concerns to tool, Learning and Study Strategies and any branches within each. challenge the ideological tropes of our Inventory (LASSI). Topics in the course * Students must be in their fourth year of study (90 credits completed) to take mainstream society. To explore the issues include: learning styles, learning and study of race and gender, students will be strategies, cognitive strategies, time this course. management, goal-setting, note-taking, Prerequisite: PSY101 or SOC101, or R.N. Licensed for B.S. Nursing Students. 90 Course Descriptions
the program to include: record management records utilizing software to assign HEALTH (chart assembly/file and retrieval control Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) and procedures/chart analysis and completion / Ambulatory Patient Categories/Groups INFORMATION deficiency tracking), quantitative analysis of (APCs and APGs), evaluating clinical health statistics, federal and state required documentation to support diagnoses, tests TECHNOLOGY databases/indexes/registries and release of and treatment modalities and developing patient information. The flow of health strategies such as provider documentation
information within a healthcare organization queries to resolve potential discrepancies, HIT101 Introduction to Health and the relationships between a Health using established guidelines to comply with Information Systems (4) Information Management department and reimbursement/reporting requirements and This course is designed to provide an other key departments is also highlighted. evaluating reimbursement monitoring and introduction to the field of Health Course may include a service learning reporting tools used by a Health Information Information Management (HIM). Topics component. Management department. include: history and development of the Prerequisite: HIT101 Hours: 75 Course may include a service learning Health Information profession, the purposes component. and components of a patient health record, HIT202 Health Statistics (3) Prerequisite: HIT200, HIT204 the various uses of health information, a This course introduces students to a Co-requisites: HIT216, HIT220, HIT225, Health Information Management study of methods for compiling statistics for HIT222 Hours: 75 Department’s role within a healthcare healthcare administration, medical staff and organization and an analysis of its functions licensing and accrediting agencies. Vital HIT216 Ambulatory Care Coding (3) such as maintaining patient information / statistics, public health statistics and This course introduces students to records based on documentation, hospital statistics are covered. An principles and application of CPT and regulatory requirements and accreditation introduction to data analytics, data mining, HCPCS level II procedural coding systems standards, patient record file/retrieval decision support and common healthcare and ICD-10-CM diagnostic coding as it record control systems, storage and research techniques with graphic relates to ambulatory coding. The theory retention of health records, legal concepts presentation of data is also covered. and practice of assigning diagnosis and as it applies to patient information and data procedure codes to ambulatory medical management (i.e. indexes and registries); HIT204 Inpatient Coding Systems records using manual methods and structure of health care organizations. The encoder software systems will be used. electronic health record (HER) and (4) This course introduces students to the Accurate code assignment and grouping common HIM computer applications will (i.e. APCs) through interpretation of clinical also be covered. principles and application of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding system. The documentation, the Official Coding Guidelines, regulatory requirements, and HIT103 Health Information Systems theory and practice of assigning diagnosis and procedure codes to inpatient medical reimbursement methodologies will be (3) records using manual methods and covered. (Spring Semester) Students learn to utilize software encoder software systems will be used. Prerequisites: HIT204 applications in the healthcare industry and Accurate code assignments and grouping specific to the Health Information (i.e. DRGs) through interpretation of clinical HIT220 Management Principles for department within a healthcare documentation, the Official Coding Health Information (2) organization. Hardware, software systems, Guidelines, regulatory requirements, and This course introduces students to electronic health records, consumer reimbursement methodologies will be supervisory concepts including planning, informatics and health information covered. (Fall Semester) organizing, controlling, and actuating exchanges (HIEs) will be included. Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L, BIO131 techniques. Areas of focus will include Overview of the selection and development /BIO131L, MB119 staffing, communication, productivity, of a system, data quality, security motivation, leadership styles, committee confidentiality, and report management will HIT208 Quality Assurance & activities, and the role and the functions of be emphasized. (Fall and Spring the Health Information management team. Semesters) Improvement (2) This course introduces students to the This course also introduces students to quality management, utilization review, and HIT104 Legal Aspects of Health areas of quality assurance (QA). The impact of change management on an risk management. (Spring Semester) Information (3) organization and its processes will be Students become familiar with the health covered. Other highlights of this course HIT222 Survey of Health Care record as a legal document, the role of the include projects where students apply for Delivery (1) Health Information department in legal identifying and displaying healthcare data This course introduces students to the proceedings, laws pertaining to the release and utilize quality improvement tools. (Fall study of regulatory issues, content, use and of information, security, and confidentiality and Spring Semesters) structure of healthcare data and date sets of health records. The course includes a as they relate to long term care facilities, study of the U.S. court system. Bioethical HIT209 Clinical Practicum II (2) home health agencies, hospice, mental issues which supplement the course in This course includes a professional health facilities, ambulatory care, Ethics in Health Care are presented for practice experience in a healthcare physician’s offices and others. The discussion. (Spring Semester) organization and simulation assignments/ financing of health care services will be
projects in a classroom laboratory setting. discussed as it relates to the various HIT200 Clinical Practicum I (2) Students will obtain hands-on experience payment and reimbursement system. This course includes a professional under the supervision of qualified health (Spring Semester) practice experience in a healthcare information professionals. The student Prerequisite: HIT101 organization and simulation assignments learning objectives/competencies of this /projects in a classroom laboratory setting. course include application of knowledge HIT225 Health Information Seminar Students will obtain hands-on experience acquired during the first three semesters of (1) under the supervision of qualified health the program to include: coding inpatient and This course introduces students to the information professionals. The student outpatient records utilizing encoder principle of health information consulting learning objectives/competencies of this software to assign ICD-10-CM, ICD-10- and business requirement for self- course include application of knowledge PCS, CPT and HCPCS codes, grouping employment. Resume preparation and acquired during the first two semesters of and abstracting inpatient and outpatient
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interviewing techniques demonstrated. government agencies and regulatory bodies HCI330 Clinical Decision Support Certification exam preparation. charged with oversight will be discussed. Systems (3) Course includes a service learning The course discusses the significant role component. HCI210 Healthcare Informatics Data clinical decision support systems play in the (Spring Semester) Standards (3) field of clinical knowledge management This course examines the importance of technologies. The topic will take a deep HIT400 Health Care Law & consistency in health data, the current data dive into their capacity to support the Compliance (3) standards, future federal initiatives and the clinical process and use of knowledge, from This course focuses on the legal and standards lead organizations are using. An diagnosis and investigation through compliance issues that directly affect both evaluation of ontology, acronyms, coding treatment and long-term care. the employer and the employee regarding and classifications systems utilized in Prerequisite: HCI102 accreditation and compliance issues. In health information technology will be addition, information is given on risk evaluated from the perspective of the users HCI400 Database Healthcare management techniques including reporting of the systems and by those who design Management Systems (3) that can help mitigate non-compliance. and maintain those systems. Software This course will introduce fundamental (Spring Semester) applications such as Excel will be database concepts used to develop and Prerequisites: Completion of A.A.S. introduced and used for assignments implement database systems, the relational Radiologic Technology program; current model along with the use of structured New York State X-ray License, ARRT HCI300 Business Systems Analysis query language (SQL). Principles of good certification. and Design in Healthcare (3) database design to achieve the expected This course promotes the conceptual and outcome/output will be used to illustrate the skill based learning needed to understand construction of databases, as well as HEALTHCARE the process of analyzing and designing evaluating implementation methods and information systems. The course focuses approaches. INFORMATICS on the analysis involved in the systems development process and the steps HCI410 Healthcare Informatics HCI101 Healthcare Systems and involved in understanding and modeling the Practicum (3) user needs in an information system Operations (3) This course provides students an solution. The course will touch on project This course would introduce and reinforce opportunity to apply and integrate planning and management aspects and the healthcare specific terminology associated knowledge and skills acquired throughout design of computer programs in order to with regulations, legal issues, accreditation, the program in an offsite Healthcare provide an overview of the whole finance and reimbursement, managed care, Informatics setting and/or a simulated EHR information system development process. quality and patient safety, and government environment. Students will participate in Development of architectural oversight agencies. One area of focus will hands-on activities and real world diagrams/design will be explored. be on hospital systems with an in depth exercises. evaluation of the different departments that Prerequisites: HCI101, HCI102, HCI200, are within a hospital as well as the overall HCI310 Healthcare Administration HCI210 HIT208 operations of a hospital from the and Management (3) perspective of the management’s The course focuses on the delivery, techniques, technologies, and services that quality and costs of healthcare for HISTORY individuals and populations. A managerial must be rendered to patients. Other systems used in data exchange will be perspective of the challenges facing professionals operating within hospital, HI101 Western Civilization I (3) introduced and discussed. A survey of the history of Western ambulatory care, long-term care, and public health settings will be presented. Emphasis Civilization. Proceeds from the ancient early HCI102 Introduction to Healthcare civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt Informatics (3) will be on cost, financing, budgeting, organizational structures, quality outcomes, through the Classical Ages up to the This is an introductory course for students and accessibility of care. Renaissance and contact between the New that cover the history of the rapidly evolving and Old Worlds. Examines themes, notions, discipline of healthcare informatics. HCI320 Healthcare Leadership and personalities and events of that epoch. Students will explore critical issues and Change Management (3) challenges facing informatics professionals HI102 Western Civilization II (3) This course addresses the role of the today along with an overview of new A survey of the Reformation to modern informatics professional in helping an information technology applications and times. Examines the evolution of religion, organization embrace change. The course how they have improved the management politics, social realities, the Great Wars, and will focus on the struggle between and delivery of healthcare. Topics include more recent global implications of the administration, and clinicians to identify the HIPAA and other legislation, application of Western experience. best solutions that will support the unique electronic health records, and other clinical Prerequisite: HI101 structures within healthcare organizations and administrative applications of health and the behaviors within these information systems. HI103 World Civilizations I (3) organizations that influence decision- making. Challenges and solutions will be A survey of certain proto-civilizations and HCI200 Legal, Regulatory, and early cultures beginning with the Ethical Issues in Healthcare (3) evaluated from a macro (organization-wide) perspective and micro (specialty and emergence of settled agricultural societies This course provides an overview of the individual level) perspective, with emphasis in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China ranging legal, regulatory, and ethical issues to be on aligning work to be carried out that up to about A.D.1492. HI 103 will focus considered in the implementation, include organizational values, missions and broadly on those experiences which management and maintenance of electronic vision while gaining consensus that a contributed key ingredients to early health record systems. Local, state, federal, selected solution will effectively deliver civilizations and, thus, to the rich global and international privacy laws and services within an organization. mosaic of cultures from which many regulations, in particular the Health modern societies derive their unique Insurance Portability and Accountability Act personalities and histories. of 1996 (HIPAA), along with the
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HI104 World Civilizations II (3) HM101 Introduction to Hospitality HM204 Food and Beverage Service This course addresses certain general (3) and Sanitation (3) cultural and historical aspects of more This course takes a management This course is focused on service recent civilizations and societies. Focuses perspective in introducing students to the techniques, responsible alcohol service and on the effects of permanent contact organization and structure of hotels, safe food handling. The course presents between the Old and New Worlds, the restaurants, food service operations, clubs, principles and theories to support and emergence of independent nation states cruise ships, convention bureaus, reinforce the practical aspects. ServSafe (and nationalities), the so-called “Third conference centers and casino hotels. Certification (safe food handling) and World” of former colonial dependencies, Other topics include: business ethics, T.I.P.S. Certification (Training for and the recent trend toward an increasingly franchising, management contracts, and Intervention Procedures: responsible diverse, “global” society. areas of management responsibility such alcohol service) are taught during this Prerequisite: HI103 as human resources, marketing and sales, course. (Spring Semester) and advertising. Lab fee applied and uniform required. HI201 The American Experience: Course includes a service learning Pre-Contact to Civil War (3) component. HM205 Principles of Hotel & Resort A survey of the early American (Fall Semester) Service and Management (3) experience. Ranges from an analysis of This course focuses on the flow of pre-Contact aboriginal cultures through HM102 Introduction to Food & business through a hotel, from the Independence to and including the Civil Beverage Management (3) reservations process to check-out and War. Emphasizes the social, cultural, and This course will give students a basic settlement. The course will highlight the intellectual aspects of that experience. understanding of the working of a different departments that are within a commercial kitchen. Topics covered hotel, while explaining the proper HI202 The American Experience: include: culinary professionalism, knife management techniques and service that Reconstruction to the skills, food preparation skills, kitchen must be rendered to guests. (Spring Contemporary Period (3) management, kitchen safety, food handling Semester) A survey of the more recent American and equipment identification. (Fall experience. Ranges from Reconstruction Semester) HM207 Leadership and Management (with its social and racial implications) to Lab fee applied and uniform required. in Hospitality (3) and through the emergence of capitalism, Students will learn how to improve their imperialism, the Great Wars, the HM103 World Travel Geography and leadership abilities and develop an Depression, up to the modern era of Civil Cultural Awareness (3) understanding of high performance teams Rights and Women’s Rights Movements. From high level business negotiations to and employee empowerment. New casual conversations among friends, every information will provide students with an HI206 Issues in the American interpersonal interaction is shaped by understanding of diversity and cultural Experience (3) cultural norms and expectations. Seldom is change. Practical information prepares A seminar-type course which selects and this more clearly brought to light than in them to put management tools into action to examines an important topic or issue in the encounters between people from different enhance service and boost business. American historical experience. Recent cultural backgrounds, when dissimilar Principles and mechanics of effective topics have included “The City and communication practices may lead to written and oral communication, active Change”, “War and its Meanings”, and frustration and misunderstanding. This listening skills and human relations are “Race and Its Implications for Americans”. thought-provoking class will present a new developed. (Spring Semester) This course emphasizes a core of common framework for understanding the impact of readings, discussion and participation, culture on communication and to help HM209 Hospitality Information guest lecturers, and a final formal paper. students build intercultural communication Systems (3) (Offered as needed) and awareness competence. With Provides an overview of the information Prerequisite: HI201 illustrative examples from around the globe, needs of lodging properties and food frequent hands-on experiences of different service establishments; addresses HI300 History of Technology in cultures, this class will show that verbal and essential aspects of computer systems, Modern Society (3) non-verbal communication involves much such as hardware, software, and generic more than transmitting a particular Course content will provide an in-depth applications; focuses on computer-based message – it also reflects each participant’s look at the history of technology with a property management systems for both self-image group identification and values, particular focus on the impact of front office and back office functions; and privacy and relational needs. The class technology, science and medical examines features of computerized will learn to move effectively and instrumentation on American society. The restaurant management systems; describes appropriately though a wide range of most important technological advances in hotel sales computer applications, revenue transcultural situations by combining medical imaging will be discussed and management strategies, and accounting culture-specific knowledge with mindful topics posed for detailed presentation by applications; addresses the selection and listening and communication skills. (Spring students pertaining to tomographic implementation of computer systems; Semester) visualization, molecular imaging, CT, PET, focuses on managing information systems;
MRI, fluorescence imaging and/or other and examines the impact of the Internet topics previously approved by the HM202 Planning & Control for Food and private intranets on the hospitality instructor. Emphasis will be placed on & Beverage Operations (3) industry. conceptual content and the impact of This course will cover the principles and technology in society as new technologies procedures involved in an effective food HM210 Hospitality Sales and are continuing to be developed and applied and beverage control system, including Marketing (3) to improve our quality of life. (Fall product cost, labor cost, controllable and This course is designed to provide Semester) non-controllable cost, profit margin students with a solid background in analysis, break even analysis, menu hospitality sales, advertising, and pricing, electronic controls, operating marketing. The textbook’s main focus is on HOSPITALITY budgets, and computer applications. practical sales techniques for selling to targeted markets. (Fall Semester) MANAGEMENT
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HM212 Human Resources HM277 Disney Internship HR210 Workplace Learning and Management in Hospitality (3) Experience (6) Performance (3) This course presents a systematic Also known as the Walt Disney World This course combines the theory and approach to human resources management College Program, the Disney Internship application surrounding the learning- in the hospitality industry. Student will Experience is designed to allow a Trocaire teaching experience to give the practitioner analyze contemporary issues and practices, student to work in an industry position at the ability to create training programs that as well as employment laws that have an Disney World in Orlando, Florida. This advance organizational outcomes. In so impact on the way people are managed. takes place during the fall or spring doing, it pays particular attention to (Fall Semester) semester and students may take up to two planning, learner motivation, the training classes from Disney to earn academic process – needs analysis, training design, HM220 Event Planning in Action (3) credit. This is a cooperative education validation, implementation, and evaluation, This course is designed to equip the experience designed to integrate classroom and training methods. (Spring Semester) student with the skills necessary to market, theory and practical work experience, lend plan, and implement meetings and events. increased relevancy to learning, and HR215 Employee and Labor Site selection, program planning, logistics, provide the student with realistic exposure Relations (3) material development, transportation, and to career opportunities with Disney. This course examines the environment of food and beverage service, and lodging will Interested students must attend the Disney labor relations, the activity of collective be considered. presentation and apply for a Disney bargaining, and the need for administering internship position. Candidates are an agreement after it is signed. (Spring HM221 Current Trends in Hospitality interviewed and selected by the Disney Semester) and Tourism Management Research Internship recruiter. Students generally (3) work a minimum of 600 hours, and are HR220 Benefits and Compensation required to submit a written journal and an This research based course will analyze (3) oral presentation to the internship current trends in the Hospitality and This is a course that will explore the art instructor. Disney will complete a Tourism industry locally, domestically, and and science of compensation practice performance evaluation on the student. internationally. Each semester a topic, case including compensation criteria, Students must meet all of the Disney study, or problem will be submitted to compensation system design issues, requirements to enroll in this course. students. In collaboration with faculty employee benefits, challenges of Expenses for travel, lodging and recreation members, students, as a team, will develop compensating key employee groups, and will be incurred. a hypothesis, conduct primary and global affects and its role in promoting Course can be taken in place of HM276. secondary research, analyze and interpret companies’ competitive advantage. (Spring research, and report their findings. Semester)
HM240 Culinary Foundations I (3) HUMAN RESOURCE Students master the basics of food MASSAGE production, learn many creative ideas, and MANAGEMENT understand not only how to use ingredients THERAPY and processes, but why they are used. HR101 Introduction to Human Describes essential knowledge for Resources (3) MT101 Introduction to Massage understanding professional culinary This is an introductory course that will Therapy (3) preparation, including hot food preparation, develop theoretical and practical knowledge cold food preparation (garde manger), and This course provides an introduction to in the major areas of human resource massage therapy, communication skills, baking. Sanitation, proper storage and management, including recruiting, handling of food, and creative presentation client interaction and ethics. (Fall Semester) selecting, training, developing, evaluating of food are also discussed. and compensating employees. Lab fee applied and uniform required. MT105 Western Massage Therapy I Course includes a service learning (4) component. This course provides an introduction to HM241 Culinary Foundations II (3) (Fall Semester) the practice of western massage therapy. This course provides a continuation into food preparation and is intended for Special emphasis on the movements of HR105 Recruitment, Selection & massage, as well as positioning, muscle students who have a strong desire to enter Ethics (3) into the food and beverage sector of the groups, and bony landmarks. The course This is an introductory course that will industry. Students in this course will learn provides an opportunity for demonstration, take a strategic approach to the additional skills in banquet and catering practice and evaluation of skills. identification, attraction, selection, preparation, regional cuisine and various Course includes a service learning deployment, and retention of talent within world fusion cuisines. component. an environment that emphasizes ethical, Lab fee applied and uniform required. (Fall semester) just and fair treatment of those involved. Co-requisite: MT110 (Fall Semester) HM276 Hospitality Internship (4) MT106 Eastern Massage Therapy I Students will be exposed to practical field HR204 Organizational Behavior (3) experience by being placed at one of our (3) This course explores the systematic internship host sites. The basis of this This course is an introduction to Asian interrelation of economic, technological, course is for student to gain valuable massage, specifically 5-Element Theory psychological, and sociological variables hands-on experience by rotating through a and the philosophy of Shiatsu. The course useful in observing, predicting, and variety of positions at the host site. Areas will provide demonstration and practice. influencing organizational behavior. such as hotel and restaurant operations, (Spring Semester) Students develop ways of thinking about front desk, housekeeping, culinary arts, organizational problems to increase their restaurant and foodservice management MT110 Myology (4) effectiveness. The course will focus on and banquet preparation and service are all This course provides an in-depth study of HR’s role in understanding and shaping examples of the areas of concentration. muscle terminology and micro anatomy and culture within their organizations. (Spring physiology of the skeletal muscle tissue. Semester) The college lab focuses on the body as a
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whole and how the component parts will be able to perform a full body Thai algebra skills. Topics include basic function. (Fall Semester) massage including front, back, side and operations with decimals, fractions and seated position. (Spring Semester) integers, percent applications, proportions, MT111 Myology/Kinesiology (4) Prerequisite: MT206 algebraic expressions, an introduction to This course provides a comprehensive solving linear equations, graphing linear study of muscle terminology and gross MT218 Pregnancy Massage (3) equations and the metric system. (Fall, anatomy and physiology of the This course will provide an opportunity to Spring and Summer Semesters) appendicular musculature. The student is learn massage techniques specifically for *Institutional credit only. introduced to kinesiology. (Spring pregnancy. Other aspects that will be *Placement is based on Accuplacer scores. Semester) addressed, but will not be limited to, are: *Students must receive a grade of “C” (2.0) Prerequisite: MT110 anatomy and physiology, cautions/ or higher to pass this course. contraindications, emotional aspects of Fulfills program prerequisite for High School MT205 Western Massage Therapy II pregnancy, postpartum massage and Algebra. (4) marketing. (Spring Semester) This course provides an in-depth study of Prerequisite: MT205 MA097 Introduction to Algebra (3)* advanced massage therapy techniques, This course provides a study of solving range of motion and stretching techniques, MT219 Reflexology (3) first degree equations and inequalities. palpation, client assessment, medical This course will provide students with a Other topics include: graphing linear massage and pain management and working knowledge of the basics of equations and inequalities, solving word treatment plans. The course provides reflexology, a hands-on body work problems, scientific notation, and adding, demonstration and practice. technique designed to promote health and subtracting, multiplying and dividing Course includes a service learning wellness. The history, development, and monomials and polynomials. (Fall, Spring component. application of this approach will be studied, and Summer Semesters) (Spring Semester) as well as the specific treatment Prerequisite: High School Algebra or Prerequisites: MT105, MT110 techniques. Students will be able to provide MA096 Co-requisite: MT111 a full treatment upon completion of the *Institutional credit only. course which is both therapeutic and *Placement is based on Accuplacer scores. MT206 Eastern Massage Therapy II relaxing. (Spring Semester) *Students must receive a grade of “C” (2.0) (3) Prerequisite: MT205 or higher to pass this course. Fulfills second math prerequisite. This course presents a continuation of
Eastern Massage Therapy I, including Yin MT230 Clinical Practicum I (1) and Yang Meridians as well as finger- The first clinical practicum experience, MA107 Logical Reasoning and pressure massage. The course provides only offered to third semester students, Decision Making (3) demonstration and practice of these provides the opportunity to practice This course introduces students to both techniques as well as charting and intake massage therapy in a clinical setting under informal and formal logic; and students will skills. (Fall Semester) the supervision of a clinical instructor. The use the developed logic to evaluate Prerequisite: MT106 clinic is open to the public and provides decisions for given situations. Topics hands-on practice in an environment similar include: informal logical games, logical MT211 Professional Development to the workplace. (Fall Semester) fallacies, truth tables, logical equivalence, (1) Prerequisites: MT101, MT105, MT106, sentential logic with proofs, categorical MT110, MT111, MT205 logic, probability, expected value, and This course provides an in-depth study of Co-requisites: BIO243, BIO333, MT206 decision making. professional ethics and business practices. (This course is cross listed with Philosophy (Spring Semester) PH107 – credit will not be granted for both Prerequisite: MT230 MT240 Clinical Practicum II (1) PH107 and MA107) The second clinical practicum experience, Prerequisite: Exit level high school MT212 Applied Pathophysiology (3) only offered to fourth semester students, continues practice opportunities for Regents mathematics or equivalent; This course provides an overview of massage therapy in a clinical setting under successful completion of MA096; and/or procedures for treating complicating the supervision of a clinical instructor. The placement test. pathological conditions, working with other Clinic is open to the public and provides healthcare providers, and developing hands-on practice in an environment similar MA111 College Algebra and massage therapy treatment plans. (Spring to the workplace. (Spring Semester) Semester) Statistics with Business Prerequisites: BIO243, BIO333, and Prerequisites: BIO130/BIO130L, Applications (3) MT230 BIO131/BIO131L, BIO333 and MT230 This course provides students Co-requisites: MT212, MT245 foundations in algebra and statistics as
MT216 Sports & Rehab Massage preparation for the demands of quantitative MT245 Massage Therapy Seminar I Therapy (3) reasoning in the field of business. Topics on (1) algebra include: function, linear, quadratic, This course will present the basics of This fourth semester course offers radicals, exponential, logarithmic, and sports and rehab massage. Myofascial and students an opportunity to integrate inverse functions. Topics on statistics trigger point therapy work will be explored knowledge gained throughout the program include: measures of central tendency, through demo and practice. The course will in a review process in preparation for the measures of variations, measures of be offered as a 3 credit hands-on massage state licensing exam. (Spring Semester) positions, counting principles, probability, therapy elective. (Spring Semester) Co-requisite: MT240 expected value and regressions. Prerequisites: MT205 Applications to business and finance
problems are a focus. MT217 Thai Massage (3) MATHEMATICS Prerequisites: MA097 with “C” or better; This course offers a fundamental exit level high school Regents mathematics; introduction to Nuad Bo-Rarn, the or placement test. traditional massage of Thailand, levels I MA096 Pre-Algebra (3)* and II. Thai massage incorporates A foundation level course to provide facilitated stretching similar to assisted students with essential mathematical skills yoga. Students completing levels I and II for college programs which require basic
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MA112 College Algebra with hypothesis testing, as well as analysis of MAS235 Medical Assistant Clinical Trigonometry (4) variance and non-parametric statistics. Seminar and Externship (4) This pre-calculus course is designed to Prerequisite: MA120 A supervised clinical experience in an develop mathematics and skills so that appropriate medical setting provides the students are adequately prepared for MA230 Calculus II (4) student with an opportunity to apply clinical calculus and other college-level science This course includes the transcendental and administrative procedures and courses. Algebra topics covered include: functions; methods of integration with competencies. One hour weekly seminars radicals, quadratic functions, logarithmic, applications to volumes, polar coordinates, will be scheduled to review clinical exponential and their inverse functions, and vectors and parametric equations, and competencies, the clinical experience and systems of linear equations. Trigonometry infinite series. current health and legal issues as it applies topics include right triangle trigonometry, Prerequisite: MA130 to the medial assistant. (Spring Semester) trigonometric ratios and identities. Graphing Prerequisites: MAS233 and MAS234 is emphasized in both algebra and MA455 Quantitative Research taken within the last academic year. A trigonometry topics. Methods (3) grade point average of 2.0 with a grade of Prerequisite: MA097 with “C” or better*, This hands-on research methods course “C” in all program requirements. two years of high school level mathematics introduces students to a variety of under the Regents curriculum, or an quantitative methods to investigate algebra course that covers solving linear research questions. Students will collect MUSIC and quadratic equation, systems of linear data, and using statistics software, students equations up to two variables; or placement will analyze and interpret data and then MU100 Music Survey Course (1) test. present the findings in formal reports. A survey of the fundamentals and *Students would be well advised to achieve Through the experience of investigation, development of the art of music in Western a grade of “B” or better in the prerequisite students will develop quantitative research, Civilization. Emphasis will be given to how mathematics course in order to achieve statistical analysis, and report-writing skills. music relates, influences, enriches and success in this course. (Spring Semester) dignifies our lives. Includes a segment on Prerequisite: MA200 the healing aspects of music. MA120 Statistics I (3)
An introduction to Statistics with modern applications to Sociology, Business, MEDICAL MU101 Music Appreciation (3) Economics, Ecology, Health Science and Introduces the student to the elements Psychology. Topics include descriptive ASSISTANT and principles of music, and the lives, statistics, central tendency, percentile rank, works, and historical settings of significant
Z-Scores, probability, probability composers of the past. A segment on the distribution, correlation and regression MAS134 Orientation to Medical healing aspects of music is also included. analysis. (Fall and Spring Semesters) Assisting (2) This course is designed as a MU114 Class Piano and Basic MA130 Calculus I (4) comprehensive overview of the profession Musicianship (3) This is a study of differential and integral of Medical Assisting. Learning opportunities Beginning and intermediate level music calculus with analytic geometry. Various are provided for the student to develop theory and piano performance. Topics types of functions with their derivatives, skills in the three areas of competencies for include: sight reading, ear training, applications including curve plotting, Medical Assisting Trans-disciplinary, technical aspects of piano playing, maxima and minima problems, and related Clinical and Administrative. improvisation and application of theory to rates. Integration problems, including the Course includes a service learning performance. area between two curves and the component. trapezoidal rule. (Fall Semester) MU299 Independent Study (3) The study by a qualified student of a more MA200 Statistical Methods (3) MAS233 Diagnostic and Clinical advanced phase of music under the This introductory statistics course focuses Laboratory Procedures (3) supervision of a member of the music on several topics: population and samples; This course introduces the student to the faculty. Plans must be approved by the data organization and representation; theory and laboratory practice of diagnostic Director of Liberal Arts. (Offered as needed) measure of central tendency, variation, and testing and techniques and clinical lab skills position; basic probability and probability necessary for the Medical Assistant. Patient distribution; normal distribution; confidence preparation for diagnostic testing will be NURSING A.A.S. emphasized. (Spring Semester) interval; hypothesis testing of one Prerequisite: MA134 population: z-test and t-test; type I and type NU110 Health Assessment and II errors; linear regression; and non- parametric statistics. Statistics applications MAS234 Medical Assistant – Clinical Promotion (1) are drawn from several disciplines such as Procedures (3) This course is designed to assist students in acquiring knowledge of basic physical sociology, business economics ecology, This course provides the theory and and psychosocial skills related to nursing health science, and psychology. This laboratory practice of clinical procedures practice and health promotion. Emphasis course uses a graphing calculator and performed in a health care setting by a will be on normal assessment findings and computer statistical software. medical assistant. Theory includes study of recognizing deviations from normal. The Prerequisites: MA097 with C” grade or vital signs, aseptic techniques, assisting campus laboratory provides the opportunity better; or equivalent. A passing grade from with minor office surgery, general physical for instruction and practice of related any college algebra courses such as exams, and a basic knowledge of possible nursing techniques. (Fall and Spring MA111 or MA112 may be used to fulfill the medical emergencies. The role of providing Semesters – Day and Evening) prerequisite. empathy and support for the patient is Ten classroom hours and fifteen emphasized. (Fall Semester) laboratory hours. MA220 Statistics II (3) Prerequisites: MA134, MA233 NU110 must be taken concurrently with This course continues the study of NU112. statistics and takes up normal distribution, linear regression, sampling techniques and
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NU112 Nursing Concepts (5) nurse’s role in the delivery of health care equipment used in surgery. The inter- This course will focus on the nurse’s role and the ethical and legal responsibilities relationship of perioperative care, in health assessment, health maintenance relevant to the nurse in today’s society. positioning, incisions and sutures, wound and health promotion across the life span. Lecture, discussion, case studies and oral healing, and postoperative care will be Students are introduced to basic principles, presentations will be utilized to promote considered. Ethical and legal aspects of skills, and concepts of nursing practice. student learning. (Fall and Spring perioperative nursing will be discussed. This course uses nursing process within the Semesters – Day and Evening) Prerequisite: Minimum grade of “C” in framework of Orem’s Theory. A structured Fifteen class hours / semester NU122 (“C-“ is not acceptable) campus laboratory setting assists students This course must be taken concurrently in learning technical skills. Students will with NU112. NU214 Health Restoration II (5) begin to integrate the core values of caring, In this course, the nursing process will be diversity, ethics, excellence, holism, NU122 Health Restoration I (6) used within the framework of Orem’s integrity, and patient centeredness through In this course the nursing process will be Theory to identify nursing care needs of classroom, laboratory, and hospital and used within the framework of Orem’s patients experiencing acute and chronic community experiences. (Fall and Spring Theory to identify nursing care needs of endocrine, hematological, musculoskeletal, Semesters – Day and Evening) patient experiencing acute and chronic respiratory, shock, burns, genomics, breast Three classroom hours and six hours cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, cancer, sensory and immunological health clinical/laboratory/week. fluid and electrolyte and acid-base health deviations. Concepts related to cancer will NU110, NU114, and NU116 must be deviations and diabetes. Assessment skills, also be introduced. Clinical experiences will taken concurrently with NU112. PSY101, basic concepts and health promotion will be be provided in acute care hospital settings. BIO131/BIO131L and GS100 must be incorporated. On-campus laboratory (Fall and Spring Semesters – Day and taken prior to or concurrently with NU112. experiences will provide instruction and Evening) BIO130/ BIO130L must be taken prior to practice of advanced clinical skills. Clinical Three classroom hours and six clinical NU112. experience will be provided in an acute care hours/week. hospital setting. (Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisites: Minimum grade of “C” in NU114 Medication Essentials I (1) – Day and Evening) NU115, NU122, NU124, PSY102, and The theory component of this course will Three classroom hours, one seminar BIO223/BIO223L (“C-“ is not acceptable) focus on pharmacological principles that the hour, two laboratory hours and six clinical professional nurse applies in the hours / week. NU217 Pediatric Nursing (2) administration of medications. The nursing Prerequisites: Minimum grades of “C” in Classroom theory and clinical process will be used as a framework to NU110, NU112, NU114, NU116, BIO131 experiences will provide a foundation for identify nursing responsibilities related to /BIO131L and PSY101 (“C-“ is not nursing of children and their families from medication administration. The campus acceptable). birth through adolescence. The nurse’s role laboratory component will provide students NU115 and NU124 must be taken in health promotion, health maintenance with the opportunity to accurately calculate, concurrently with NU122. BIO223/BIO223L and health restoration will be emphasized. prepare, and administer oral, topical and and PSY102 must be taken prior to or Supervised clinical experiences, lecture, injectable medications. Critical thinking concurrently with NU122. discussion, research and computer situations and clinical application will be assignments will be utilized to promote emphasized throughout the course. (Fall NU124 Maternal Newborn Nursing student learning. (Fall and Spring and Spring Semesters – Day and Evening) (2) Semesters – Day and Evening) Ten classroom hours and fifteen Classroom theory and clinical Three lecture hours / class for 8 classes. laboratory hours. experiences will provide a foundation for Twenty-two hours clinical. This course must be taken concurrently nursing care of childbearing women through Prerequisites: Minimum grade of “C” in with NU112 or PN105. pregnancy, labor and birth, the post-partum NU115, NU122, NU124, BIO223/BIO223L period and newborn stage. Women’s health and PSY102. (“C-“ is not acceptable) NU115 Medication Essentials II (1) and contraception are also discussed. The The theory component of this course will nurse’s role in health promotion, health NU220 Mental Health Nursing (2) focus on the pharmacological principles that maintenance and health restoration will be This course utilizes the nursing process the professional nurse applies in the emphasized. Independent and supervised within Orem’s framework in providing care administration of medications and clinical experiences, lecture, discussion, to patients experiencing psychosocial intravenous fluids. The nursing process will seminars, simulation lab, library research, problems. The focus will be on health be used as a framework to identify nursing and computer assignments will be utilized promotion, health maintenance, and health responsibilities related to major drug to promote student learning. (Fall and restoration. Roles of the Associate Degree classifications, intravenous therapy and the Spring Semesters – Day and Evening) Nurse as provider and manager of care and use of intermittent infusion devices and Three lecture hours / class for 8 classes. member within the discipline of nursing as pumps. The campus laboratory component Twenty-two hours clinical. they relate to mental health will be explored will provide students with the opportunity to Prerequisites: Minimum grades of “C” in and applied. Lectures and selected clinical accurately calculate, prepare and NU110, NU112, NU114, NU116 BIO131 experiences in hospital and community administer medications via intravenous /BIO131L and PSY101 (“C-“ is not settings will be utilized as learning route. Critical care and pediatric medication acceptable). modalities. (Fall and Spring Semesters – calculation will also be presented. (Fall and Day and Evening) Spring Semesters – Day and Evening) NU212 Introduction to Perioperative Three lecture hours / class for 8 classes. Twelve classroom hours and nine Nursing (4) Twenty-two hours clinical. laboratory hours. This elective course provides theoretical Prerequisites: Minimum grade of “C” in Prerequisite: Minimum grade of “C” in and clinical experiences to introduce the NU214 and NU217 (“C-“ is not acceptable). NU114 (“C-“ is not acceptable). This student as well as the graduate nurse to the course must be taken concurrently with role and function of the perioperative nurse. NU222 Health Restoration III (7) NU122 or PN106. The emphasis is on the role and In this course, the Nursing Process will be responsibilities of the nurse caring for the used within the framework of Orem’s NU116 Professional Issues (1) surgical client in the pre-, intra- and Theory to provide students with learning An overview of the historical development immediate-post operative phases. Course activities for patients experiencing acute of nursing and nursing education will be content includes: aseptic technique, nursing and complex health deviations. Topics presented. Emphasis will be placed on the process, assessment of the surgical client, related to acute cardiovascular, and an introduction to instruments and neurological, and renal health deviations, Course Descriptions 97
endocrine, women’s health, and disaster NU310 Family Nursing Care Across Prerequisite: RN License preparedness will be presented. Students the Lifespan (3) are expected to function more This course focuses on the family as a NU470 Pharmacology for the independently, using previous knowledge basic unit of society and the promotion of Registered Nurse (3) and experience in assuming the role of family health across a lifespan. The role of Correlates the nurse’s knowledge of educator, manager of care and provider of the professional nurse as teacher, physiology, pathophysiology, and care for clients in a variety of clinical and counselor, and advocate will be pharmacology. Basic concepts of community settings. emphasized in health promotion as well as pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, Course includes a service learning dealing with the family unit challenged by metabolism, therapeutic and toxic effects, component. acute, episodic illness / injury or chronic and drugs with multiple indications are (Fall and Spring Semesters – Day and conditions / disabilities. Based on the discussed. Challenges related to drug Evening) nursing process, the student will develop therapy and specific body systems will be Three classroom hours and twelve clinical the skills to provide family-centered, addressed. Discussion of the major drug hours/week. outcome oriented nursing care to care for groups focuses on therapeutic actions, Prerequisites: Minimum grade of “C” in the needs of diverse families. Major which emphasize the nursing process and NU214 and NU217 (“C-“ is not acceptable). theories related to family nursing will be focus on patient care teaching. Prototypes explored. Topics include: variables affecting of the major drug groups are emphasized. families, family assessment, cultural Lifespan considerations, evidence based NURSING B.S. diversity, anticipatory guidance, practice; patient safety and critical thinking multigenerational families and family as are integrated throughout the course. NU300 Comprehensive Health care giver. The impact of adding, Prerequisite: RN License Assessment for Nursing Practice (4) separating and dealing with the death of family members will be included. This course focuses on developing and NU484 Clinical Seminar (2) Prerequisite: NU300 and RN License utilizing comprehensive assessment skills This seminar will focus on the application in caring for individuals and population units of baccalaureate level nursing knowledge across the lifespan which includes planning NU318 Nursing Theory and Practice pertaining to leadership, collaboration, intervention strategies relative to the needs, Issues (3) consultation, management, and research. problems, and level of wellness of the This course will explore selected nursing The seminar activities will emphasize an population unit. There is emphasis on theorists and the concepts of nursing, evidence-based approach, with systematic and comprehensive health person, health and environment as a basis consideration of cultural, socio-economic, assessments as a database for identifying for implementing and evaluating nursing and diversity factors. Students will develop nursing diagnoses and nursing intervention care. Issues and trends that influence and evaluate clinical objectives for their plans. This course combines online learning professional nursing practice will be own unique capstone clinical experience. activities and on-campus simulation discussed. This course will address how the Prerequisites: NU300, NU304, NU308, laboratory experiences to develop practice of nursing has adapted to change NU310, NU318, NU402, NU450, NU470, advanced skills in assessment of physical, throughout the years and how the present and RN License cognitive, spiritual, socioeconomic, genetic health care delivery system impacts Co-Requisite: NU486 and environmental domains. professional nursing practice. NU486 Professional Nursing NU304 Introduction to Nursing Care NU402 Community Health Nursing Syntheses/Clinical Capstone (4) Informatics (2) (3) This course will allow students to Teaches the use of information technology Examines the nurses role in the delivery demonstrate integration of baccalaureate to access, retrieve, organize and evaluate of primary health/community based nursing knowledge and practice. The information related to nursing practice. services focusing on health promotion, student will work with a clinical preceptor, Using a problem based approach, students disease prevention and management of select a clinical area of practice, and will use information technology resources to episodic illnesses. Addresses health risks collaborate with a faculty member for an in- examine health related problems, obtain and disparities of populations across the depth clinical experience. Emphasis is on and organize pertinent information and lifespan within the context of family, culture, critical thinking, communication, leadership, professionally communicate findings. and socioeconomic status. Epidemiological management and evaluation. Application of Prerequisite: RN License methods, public health mandates and core concepts pertaining to health, ethics, immunization theory will be explored and care, and evidence-based approaches to NU308 Research Procedures in discussed in this course. Healthy People nursing will be highlighted. Prerequisites: NU300, NU304, NU308, Nursing Practice (3) 2020 objectives and goals as well as other national initiatives will be used to provide NU310, NU318, NU402, NU450, NU470, Emphasis on accessing, analyzing and direction for developing nursing strategies. and RN License critiquing scientific literature to determine Prerequisite: RN License Co-Requisite: NU484 implications for practice. The importance of evidence based practice in relation to patient outcomes is examined. Specific NU450 Leadership and Management elements of the research process including for Professional Practice (3) PHILOSOPHY needs assessment, problem identification, Focuses on the role of the professional review of the literature, variables, principles nurse as a leader in today’s health care PH103 Introduction to Philosophy of quantitative and qualitative methods of environment. Students will identify various (3) research design, sampling concepts, use of leadership styles and compare and contrast This course is an introduction into the data gathering and measurement leadership and management behaviors. basic issues of philosophy: Being, God, instruments and data analysis are explored. Class discussions will include Knowledge, Meaning, Self, Reality, Evil and Critical evaluation of research studies and organizational structure and behavior, Death as they are found and presented in the development of a research proposal workplace issues important to the nurse the history of Western Philosophy. (Fall, including a review of the literature and manager, delegation and change theory. Spring and Summer Semesters) design method will be included. Motivational and decision making Prerequisite: MA200 and RN License strategies, conflict management principles, patient safety goals and quality care for positive patient outcomes will be addressed. 98 Course Descriptions
PH107 Logical Reasoning and argumentation. Special emphasis will be research, cloning, regenerative medicine, Decision Making (3) placed on the traditional Aristotelian and genetic screening. The course will This course introduces students to both syllogism. guide students through a wide range of informal and formal logic; and students will Bioethical issues which may include topics use the developed logic to evaluate PH301 Philosophy of World like abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem decisions for given situations. Topics Religions (3) cell research, cloning, scarce medical include: informal logical games, logical The term ‘philosophy’ comes from Greek resources, and assisted reproduction. fallacies, truth tables, logical equivalence, roots meaning ‘the love of wisdom’. Students will be expected to carry out their sentential logic with proofs, categorical Philosophers ask questions such as: What own original research in the arena of logic, probability, expected value, and is the meaning of life? What is a good life? Bioethics and will be asked to write a longer decision making. Is there a God? What ought one to do? argumentative style essay in order to (This course is cross listed with Math What is the nature of right and wrong? Is complete the course. MA107 – credit will not be granted for both there one true religion, or many? (or none?) Prerequisite: PH205 or permission of PH107 and MA107) Should there be one ethical doctrine for instructor Prerequisite: Exit level high school everyone – or – should there be a diversity Regents mathematics or equivalent; of moral options? In the age of the global successful completion of MA096; and/or economy and the Internet, the world’s many PHYSICS placement test. diverse cultures have greater contact and interaction with one another than at any PHY099 Preparatory Physics (3)* PH201 Ethics (3) other time in history. In the post 9/11 world, An introduction to the basic concepts of A study of the main ethical systems found the dangers of cultural conflict seem greater physics with an emphasis on classical in Western Philosophy. Investigation of than ever. Such conflict often involves the mechanics, electricity and the structure of particular ethical concepts such as morality clash of values and the clash of systems of the atom. Course reviews simple algebra, and the moral ideal, good and evil, right and religious belief that date back to the ancient vectors and vector addition. Three lecture obligation, conscience, moral responsibility and formative period times of today’s hours. and value, and how these, along with moral cultures. But-is conflict inevitable? Are Prerequisite: High school algebra. principle(s), are used to guide the moral life. religion and ethics a source of unavoidable Students placed into MA096 must complete division or of potential unity? This course that course before registering for PHY099. PH204 Business Ethics (3) will introduce students to the philosophical *Institutional credit only. This course is designed to examine many approach to religion and also to religious & of the philosophies presently operative in ethical ideas from several global cultures. It PHY111 Physics I (3) will also prepare students in medicine, the business world and society. Special An introduction to the concepts and laws business and related fields for the diversity attention is given to such issues as of physics. Topics include: classical of religious and moral views they will corporate responsibility, morality in mechanics, energy, momentum, rotational encounter in the modern workplace in advertising, conflicts of interest, preferential motion and heat. Three lecture hours. general and health care institutions in hiring, personal morality vs. loyalty to Prerequisites: High school algebra or particular. employer, and capitalism vs. socialism. MA096, and high school physics. Prerequisite: PH103 or permission of Co-requisite: PHY111L instructor PH205 Ethics in Health Care (3) Modern medicine and health care have PH304 Social / Political Philosophy PHY111L Physics I Laboratory (1) created new human ethical problems. This Laboratory experiences are based on course will explore a number of medical (3) topics covered in lecture. Two laboratory ethical dilemmas, such as end-of-life Course content will introduce students to hours. decisions, defining the concept of death, the philosophical approach to ethical issues Co-requisite: PHY111 ordinary versus extraordinary means of that arise in social, political and civic life. As such, it will address ethical problems at treatment, assisted reproduction, informed PHY112 Physics II (3) consent, confidentiality, truth-telling, both the individual and group levels. A continuation of Physics I. Topics withholding treatment, and the distribution Specifically, an overview of the major include: electricity, magnetism, light, optics, of scarce medical resources, in the light of issues and theories in social-political atomic and nuclear structure. Three lecture the principles of autonomy, non- philosophy will be discussed as well as an hours. maleficence, beneficence, and justice. (Fall, introduction to many of the key ethical Prerequisite: PHY111/PHY111L Spring and Summer Semesters) thinkers in politics and civics arenas. This Co-requisite: PHY112L course will prepare students for careers in PH207 Marriage and the Family (3) the medical field and similar occupations for This course is designed to investigate the ethical situations they will encounter in the PHY112L Physics II Laboratory (1) inner dynamism and nature of marriage and social and political culture of the modern Laboratory experiences are based on family relationships. It addresses itself to a work place. (Spring Semester) topics covered in lecture. Two laboratory variety of philosophical tenets, and the hours. historical development and sociological PH350 Topics in Bioethics (3) Co-requisite: PHY112 ramifications of the institution. This course will introduce students to various topics of the instructor’s choosing in PH208 Death & Dying (3) the areas of Bioethics. Bioethics can be PRACTICAL Geared to the very heart of the question: seen as a branch of ethics, or more What is death? The course will examine the specifically, a branch of applied ethics. In NURSING phenomenon as well as the human many ways bioethical discourse response to it both yesterday and today by presupposes ethical discourse. For this PN104 Fundamentals of Practical great men and women and not so famous reason students will be introduced to an array of normative ethical theories and Nursing (7) men and women of the East and West. This course is designed to familiarize principles before embarking on a range of bioethical dilemma cases and topic areas. students with the historical development of PH215 Logic (3) nursing, nursing education, and the roles An introductory course to the science of The interdisciplinary nature of Bioethics also demands that students be introduced and responsibilities of the nurse and the logic and the principles of deductive health care team. Development throughout reasoning, correct thinking and valid to the latest medical and scientific breakthroughs in areas such as stem cell the life cycle will be discussed. This course Course Descriptions 99
uses the nursing process within the Course includes a service learning focuses on the role of stress in illness and framework of Orem’s Self-Care Deficit component. certain lifestyle factors, such as smoking Theory. A structured campus laboratory (Fall and Spring Semesters) and weight control, and specific chronic setting assists students in learning and Fourteen Clinical hours per week (half illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. integrating technical skills. Clinical semester) Students will be provided with training to experiences will be provided in long-term Sixty classroom hours and thirty evaluate the scientific quality of research in and sub-acute health care settings. (Fall laboratory hours per semester the field of health psychology. and Spring Semesters) Prerequisites: Minimum grade of “C” in Prerequisite: PSY101 or permission of Fourteen clinical hours per week (half PN104, PN105 and NU114. NU115 must instructor semester). Sixty classroom hours and thirty be taken prior to or concurrently with laboratory hours per semester. PN107. PSY303 Organizational Psychology Prerequisites: Minimum grade of “C” in (3) BIO130/BIO130L Organizational Psychology is a PSYCHOLOGY specialized field within Psychology that PN105 Practical Nursing II (7) attempts to understand and explain human This course focuses on the basic PSY101 General Psychology (3) behavior in organizational settings. Often concepts of nursing. The nursing process is An introduction to the basic concepts, referred to as I/O Psychology (Industrial utilized within the framework of Orem’s research methods and applications of and Organizational) this course will Self-Care Deficit Theory to collect data in psychology. The major theoretical introduce the methods, practices, theories, relation to individuals’ ability to care for perspectives are presented through such and research of Organizational Psychology, themselves. Psychomotor skills are areas as sensation, perception, intelligence, which includes the social and psychological demonstrated and practiced in the cognition, personality, and abnormal aspects of people in the workplace. structured campus laboratory before they behavior. The course requires a research Organizational processes are the focus of are applied in the clinical setting. Clinical paper. (Fall, Spring and Summer this course and are comprised of individual experiences will be provided in acute care Semesters) attitudes, behaviors, emotions, health, and sub-acute health care settings. (Fall leadership, motivation, productivity, and and Spring Semesters) PSY102 Developmental Psychology well-being. As well as group dynamics and Fourteen Clinical hours per week (half organizational communication, structures, semester) (3) and culture. A real-world application of Sixty classroom hours and thirty A study of the life span approach, from empirical research of people in laboratory hours per semester. pre-natal development to aging and death. organizations will be addressed. Co-Requisite: NU114 must be taken This course emphasizes physical, cognitive, Prerequisites: PSY101 or permission of concurrently with PN105. intellectual, social, cultural and personality instructor factors. Major theoretical perspectives and PN106 Practical Nursing III (7) research findings, including cross-cultural PSY315 Social Psychology (3) studies, are applied throughout the course. This course focuses on common health Social Psychology is a specialized field (Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters) deviations which affects individuals of within Psychology that attempts to Prerequisite: PSY101 various ages. The nursing process will understand and explain human thought continue to be utilized to provide care for (mental process), perception, emotion, and patients along the continuum with an PSY201 Abnormal Psychology (3) behavior through intrapersonal, inter- emphasis in maternal, child, adolescent and The course utilizes current classifications personal, and group dynamics. Emphasis is family health. Assisting children and adults of mental disorders to explain abnormal on social perception, social influence, social with a variety of health deviations will be behavior. Case studies and other resource relations, and applying them to western discussed. Advanced psychomotor skills materials are applied to demonstrate the culture. Major theoretical perspectives and are practiced and evaluated in the on complexity of determining etiology, research findings, including multicultural campus laboratory. Clinical experiences will diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. aspects, are applied throughout the course. be provided in maternal, family, pediatric Students will be required to participate in a Prerequisite: PSY101 or permission of and community settings. (Fall and Spring number of experiential projects to focus instructor Semesters) self-awareness in relation to “abnormal Fourteen Clinical hours per week (half behavior”. PSY320 Research Methods: Prerequisite: PSY101 semester) Techniques and Designs (3) Sixty classroom and thirty laboratory PSY202 Human Sexuality (3) Provides students with an introduction to hours per semester research methods in the Behavioral An exploration of human sexuality in Prerequisites: Minimum grade of “C” in Sciences. The assumptions and goals of Western society. Through personal PN104, PN105 and NU114. the scientific method will be considered and inventory questions, group discussions, Co-Requisite: NU115 must be taken various types of research techniques and lecture, and experiential learning activities, concurrently with PN106. designs will be studied. Students will learn students will assess their personal the process of writing a research proposal attitudes, values and knowledge of various PN107 Practical Nursing IV (7) and explore the ethics of research with sexuality topics. Efforts to understand and This course focuses on common health human and animal subjects. respect value systems that differ from deviations which affects the geriatric Prerequisite: PSY101 or permission of personal beliefs will be stressed. population. The nursing process will instructor Prerequisite: PSY101 continue to be utilized to provide care for patients in various health care settings which include mental health, extended care, PSY301 Health Psychology (3) RADIOLOGIC ambulatory, and community care health Health Psychology examines how settings. Leadership and management skills biological, psychological, and social factors TECHNOLOGY that relate to the LPN scope of practice will interact with and affect the efforts people be discussed. Advanced psychomotor skills make in promoting good health and are practiced and evaluated in the on preventing illness. The course explores how RT101 Image Acquisition and campus laboratory. Clinical experiences will effectively people cope with and reduce Evaluation I (3) be provided in acute, long term, and pain and the recovery, rehabilitation, and This course begins with the basics of community care health settings. psychological adjustment of patients with conventional imaging and x-ray tube serious health problems. The course also construction. Students then examine 100 Course Descriptions
exposure factors and investigate compensation. Then focus turns to RT109 Applied Radiologic density/brightness, contrast, blur, distortion, computer basics and digital imaging. Technology I (6) beam restriction, filtration, grid use and Computerized radiography (CR) and direct In the first summer clinical component, scatter radiation and their effects on image readout (DR) digital radiography are the student continues to gain experience in quality. When appropriate, students work in discussed in terms of image receptors, general radiographic and contrast studies, class on mathematical calculations and image acquisition, spatial resolution, as well as portable and surgical evaluate quality. (Fall Semester) contrast resolution, and processing (Spring radiography. Experiences are provided at BIO130/BIO130L must be taken prior to Semester) the College’s clinical affiliates. A or concurrently with RT101. Prerequisites: RT101, RT102, RT102L, competency-based system of evaluation RT103, RT104, and BIO130/BIO130L with continues to be utilized. RT102 Radiographic Procedures I grades of “C” or better; BIO131/BIO131L Course includes a service learning (2) must be taken prior to or concurrently with component. This course begins with an introduction to RT105. (Summer) the specific nomenclature, as well as Forty clinical hours (five days) per week underlying principles of radiographic RT106 Radiographic Procedures II for a total of 8 weeks or 320 hours. positioning. Routine and advanced (2) Prerequisites: RT105, RT106, RT106L, positioning studies, correlated with anatomy This course focuses on both routine and RT107, RT108 and BIO131/BIO131L with of the upper and lower extremities, chest, advanced positioning studies, correlated grades of “C” or better abdomen, thorax, and the urinary and with anatomy of the spine, thorax and skull. digestive systems are presented. (Fall (Spring Semester) RT201 Equipment Operation and Semester) Prerequisites: RT101, RT102, RT102L, Maintenance (3) BIO130/BIO130L must be taken prior to or RT103, RT104 and BIO130/BIO130L with a This course covers basic electrical and concurrently with RT102. grade of “C” or better; BIO131/BIO131L mechanical examples as applicable to the must be taken prior to or concurrently with structure and operation of radiologic RT102L Applied Radiographic RT106. equipment. Radiographic generating Procedures I (1) equipment, image intensification, quality The College laboratory component of RT106L Applied Radiographic management, and discussion on digital Radiographic Procedures I contains Procedures II (1) imaging topics as related to digital anatomy and positioning applications, as The College laboratory component of radiographic equipment and PACS are well as image-critique sessions. A Radiographic Procedures II contains included. (Spring Semester) competency-based system of evaluation is anatomy and positioning applications of the Prerequisite: RT202, RT203, RT205, utilized. (Fall Semester) spine, thorax and skull, correlating with film- RT212 with a grade of “C” or better Two laboratory hours critique sessions. A competency-based BIO130/BIO130L must be taken prior to or system of evaluation is utilized. (Spring RT202 Radiation Physics and concurrently with RT102L Semester) Protection (3) Two laboratory hours This course explores the interactions RT103 Patient Care and Prerequisites: RT101, RT102, RT102L, between radiation and matter, the electro- Management I (1) RT103, RT104 and BIO130/BIO130L with a magnetic spectrum, and related radiation This course is designed to assist the grade of “C” or better; BIO131/BIO131L concepts. Students learn about radiation student to develop both general and must be taken prior to or concurrently with detection and monitoring and the specific interactive skills in patient care. It RT106L. appropriate units of measurement. All focuses on record maintenance and aspects of radiation protection and dose administrative procedures, ethics and RT107 Patient Care and reduction for patients and occupational medico-legal issues, patient safety and Management II (1) radiation workers are explained. (Fall transfers, vital signs, emergency situations, This course includes units on Semester) infection control, oxygen delivery, EKG pharmacology, drug administration, and Prerequisite: RT109 with a grade of “C” monitoring, and contrast media. (Fall monitoring of medical equipment. In or better Semester) addition, specialized radiographic BIO130/BIO130L must be taken prior to or procedures are discussed throughout this RT203 Applied Radiologic concurrently with RT103 semester. (Spring Semester) Pathology (3) Prerequisites: RT101, RT102, RT102L, This course provides the student with RT104 Clinical Education I (2) RT103, RT104 and BIO130/BIO130L with a investigation into the basic principles of This course requires practical clinical grade of “C” or better; BIO131/BIO131 must radiographic pathology. The student will application of knowledge and skills, and be taken prior to or concurrently with research a pathologic condition and place involves clinical experiences in general RT107. emphasis on the disease/injury process, the radiographic areas and contrast studies. It radiographic appearance and treatment. is taken concurrently with the didactic RT108 Clinical Education II (2) Normal anatomy and physiology is components of the semester, and is In this semester, clinical experiences are reviewed and compared with pathologic provided at the College’s clinical affiliates. A provided in general radiographic areas and abnormalities. There is a focus on the competency-based system of evaluations is contrast studies to include radiography of changes which occur as a result of disease utilized. (Fall Semester) the skull and spinal column. It is taken and injury which necessitates alteration of Sixteen clinical/lab hours (two days) concurrently with the didactic components standard radiographic exposure BIO130/BIO130L must be taken prior to or of the semester and is provided at the applications. (Fall Semester) concurrently with RT104. Colleges’ clinical affiliates. A competency- Prerequisite: RT109 with a grade of “C” based system of evaluation is utilized. or better RT105 Image Acquisition and (Spring Semester) Evaluation II (3) Sixteen clinical/lab hours (two days) RT205 Clinical Education III (2) This course continues instruction on Prerequisites: RT101, RT102, RT102L, In the second year, students continue to radiographic imaging principles. Students RT103, RT104 and BIO130/BIO130L with a gain general radiographic experiences, as first learn technique selection and the use grade of “C” or better; BIO131/BIO131 must well as begin experiences with special of automatic exposure control and be taken prior to or concurrently with procedures, the emergency room, and technique charts. Mathematical formulas RT108. other imaging areas. These areas include (algebra level) are utilized for technique CT (computerized tomography), MRI Course Descriptions 101
(magnetic resonance imaging), and RT212 Sectional Anatomy for the human socialization and development. Sonography. All experiences are offered at Radiographer (1) (Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters) the College’s clinical affiliates. A This course is designed to provide the competency-based system of evaluation Radiologic Technology student with an SOC207 Contemporary Social continues to be utilized. (Fall Semester) introductory overview of human anatomy, Problems (3) Sixteen clinical hours (two days) viewed in body sections, as it relates to This course selects, presents, and Prerequisite: RT109 with a grade of “C” imaging. Anatomical structures are viewed examines a given social problem such as or better in the axial, coronal and sagittal planes. poverty, racism, crime, drug and alcohol Emphasis is placed on the head, thorax and addiction, the problems of aging, etc. RT207 Radiation Biology (2) abdomen (Fall Semester) This course begins with the effects of Prerequisites:BIO130/BIO130L, SOC301 Sociology of Health and radiation on normal cell biology. Factors BIO131/BIO131L and RT109 with a grade Medicine (3) influencing the molecular and cellular of “C” or better This course is an introduction to the field response are discussed. Stochastic of medical sociology. Its main thrust is on (probabilistic) and non-stochastic RT213 Mammography (3) the sociological analysis of health or (deterministic) effects of radiation on tissue, This is a comprehensive didactic course medical organizations and institutions. organs, and whole body systems are that will cover many areas including Another focus will include an examination of presented with in-utero and genetic effects. mammographic positioning, breast anatomy the social disparities in health care with (Spring Semester) and physiology, patient preparation, respect to epidemiology and social status or Prerequisites: RT202, RT203, RT205, mammography equipment, quality age, sex, race, ethnicity, gender, and social RT212 with a grade of “C” or better assurance and modifications for non-routine class. The role of health professions in the patients. (Offered as needed) United States will also be explored. RT209 Advanced Topics for the Prerequisites: All courses in the first year Prerequisite: SOC101 or permission of Radiographer (2) of the Radiologic Technology program instructor This course offers the student a variety of integrated topics including: advanced SOC311 Coping with Illness (3) positioning methods, special procedures, RELIGIOUS This course offers a broad overview of the interventional radiography and sociological aspects of Coping with Illness computerized tomography (CT). Numerous STUDIES in our society. Topics include attitudes special imaging modalities are explored and toward and preparation for death; attitudes communicated to the class through student towards serious illness in society; the RS100 Introduction to Religious research projects. Career development understanding of and care for terminally ill engages the student with resume Thought (3) patients; funeral rituals, grief counseling; preparation and mock interviewing. The An introductory course into the suicide and euthanasia. Readings and student technologist will be prepared to fundamental concepts associated with classroom activities will be supplemented contribute to the diagnostic imaging team religious thought. The student will be by students’ self-exploration and writing on upon completion of this course. (Spring introduced to the concepts of the sacred, feelings, attitudes, and beliefs about Coping Semester) the symbol, ritual and rites of passage, with Illness. Prerequisites: RT202, RT203, RT205, faith, re-birth, mystery, myth, good, evil, the Prerequisite: SOC101 or permission of RT212 with a grade of “C” or better relationship of one to self, community and instructor the Absolute. RT210 Clinical Education IV (2) Specialty clinical experiences continue as RS101 Introduction to Scripture (3) SPANISH the students demonstrate applications of An introductory level survey of the knowledge and skill. This course is taken historical development and contents of the concurrently with the didactic components Bible. Major focus will be on the purpose of SP101 Beginning Spanish (3) of the semester and is provided at the scripture and its role in divine revelation. An introduction to the fundamental College’s clinical affiliates. A competency- language skills of the Spanish language: based system of evaluation continues to be RS103 An Introduction to Christian basic skills in understanding, speaking, utilized. (Spring Semester) Thought (3) writing, grammatical structure and Sixteen clinical hours (two days) An introductory inquiry into the Christian vocabulary. Prerequisites: RT202, RT203, RT205, church as a community of faith. Major focus RT212 with a grade of “C” or better will be on the doctrinal concepts of the SP102 Intermediate Spanish (3) Nicene Creed. A continuation of SP101, this course RT211 Applied Radiologic includes further study of grammar structure Technology II (6) RS108 Major World Religions (3) and vocabulary building. Emphasis on communicating in Spanish: speaking, Clinical experience involving general An introductory survey of the major writing and listening skills will be the focus radiography, contrast studies, portable religions of the world. The major focus will throughout the semester. radiography, surgery, and specialty be on the basic beliefs and practices found Prerequisite: SP101 or permission of examinations. In addition, the student is in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, instructor provided review opportunities for the Judaism and Shintoism.
American Registry (R) Examination. (Summer) Maximum of forty hours (five days) per SOCIOLOGY SURGICAL week for a total of eight weeks or 320 hours. TECHNOLOGY SOC101 Principles of Sociology (3) Prerequisites: RT201, RT207, RT209, A basic survey of the history and RT210, with a grade of “C” or better ST101 Introduction to Surgical fundamental principles of sociology. Examines several of the important Technology (4) contributors to the discipline, its operative This course introduces the student to the concepts, and its terminology. Also, studies role of the health care team. Operating human groups and interactions, social room organization, medical terminology, institutions, and the role of the group in aseptic technique, surgical supplies, basic 102 Course Descriptions
instrumentation and basic surgical routines ST106 Clinical Education II (2) better. BIO223/BIO223L must be taken will be emphasized. Introductory surgical Clinical experiences are provided in a prior to or concurrently with ST203 regional anatomy will be discussed, as will hospital operating room. The student will (evenings). surgical microbiology as it pertains to be primarily assigned to the scrub sterilization and disinfection. Beginning technologist’s role performing and applying ST204 Clinical Education IV (2) aspects of the ethical/legal aspects of those skills learned in the first semester. In this clinical course, students continue patient care will be introduced. Learning This course is taken concurrently with to gain experience in a variety of surgical activities will take place in the classroom, ST104. The evening students take this settings with emphasis on more complex the simulated on-campus operating room, a course over the Spring semester and into and specialized procedures. This course is hospital operating room and the Central the Summer (Fall and Spring Semesters) taken concurrently with ST203. (Fall and Service Department of the hospital. (Fall Sixteen clinical hours (two days) Spring Semesters) and Spring Semesters) Prerequisites: ST101, ST103 and Sixteen clinical hours (two days) Prerequisites: Completion of the Cardio- BIO130/BIO130L with a grade of “C” or Prerequisites: ST201, ST202 and pulmonary Resuscitation Certification; better BIO223/BIO223L with a grade of “C” or BIO130/BIO130L must be taken prior to or BIO131/BIO131L must be taken prior to better. BIO223/BIO223L must be taken concurrently with ST101. or concurrently with ST106 prior to or concurrently with ST204 (evenings). ST103 Clinical Education I (2) ST201 Advanced Surgical This clinical laboratory experience takes Technology (5) place primarily in the simulated on-campus This course will focus on an overview of laboratory. There will be limited the surgical specialties: general surgery experiences in the hospital operating room which includes gastrointestinal and biliary setting during the course. Students are surgical procedures, gynecology, taught the basic skills necessary to begin Genitourinary surgery, ear, nose and throat practice in the surgical setting. Mandatory surgery, and head and neck surgery. competencies of this course include Surgical procedures will be discussed in scrubbing, gowning and gloving, gowning relation to supplies, instrumentation and and gloving team members, back table and equipment. Surgical pathology, intra- instrument setups, simulated draping, operative patient care, the sequence of the “opening of the abdomen”, sequence of surgical procedures, as well as potential instruments and equipment. This course complications will be presented. Clinical must be taken concurrently with ST101. practice takes place in hospital operating (Fall and Spring Semesters) rooms, as well as other intraoperative care Sixteen clinical hours (two days) facilities. (Fall and Spring Semesters) Prerequisites: BIO131/BIO131L, ST104, ST104 Fundamentals of Surgical ST106 with a grade of “C” or better Technology (4) BIO223/BIO223L must be taken prior to This course focuses on the scrub duties or concurrently with ST201 (days) and and expanded instrumentation. Sterilization ST203 (evenings) and disinfection will be continued as will further exploration of the of the ethical/legal ST202 Clinical Education III (2) aspects of surgical patient care and student Student clinical experiences are accountability. Assisting with circulating broadened in a hospital setting with the duties and wound healing and closure student expanding experience in the concepts will be introduced. Wound closure specialty surgical areas. The student will materials and stapling devices will be also begin to assist with circulating duties of explored in detail. Specialty equipment the technologist. This course is taken such as the use of electro-cautery and use concurrently with ST201. (Fall and Spring of LASER equipment will also be Semesters) introduced. Regional surgical anatomy will Sixteen clinical hours (two days) continue to be discussed. The care of the Prerequisites: BIO131/BIO131L, ST104, anesthetized patient will be included. ST106 with a grade of “C” or better Learning activities will take place in the BIO223/BIO223L must be taken prior to classroom, in the simulated on-campus or concurrently with ST202 (days) and operating room and hospital operating ST204 (evenings) rooms. Course includes a service learning ST203 Specialized Surgical component. Technology (5) (Fall and Spring Semesters) This course is a continuation of ST201. Prerequisites: ST101, ST103 and This course will focus on an overview of BIO130/BIO130L with a grade of “C” or surgical specialties. Special consideration better of the pediatric and older adult will be BIO131/BIO131L must be taken prior to discussed. Transplant surgery including or concurrently with ST104. kidney, heart and lung will be explored. Clinical practice takes place in hospital operating rooms, as well as other intraoperative care facilities. During this last semester, as the student prepares for professional practice, further legal, and employment dimensions will be discussed. (Fall and Spring Semesters) Prerequisites: ST201, ST202 and BIO223/BIO223L with a grade of “C” or
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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Program Advisor for Human Resource Copy Center Lead Management Janet Healey, A.A.S. President Rosanne Dee, M.S., S.P.H.R. Bassam M. Deeb, Ph.D. Director Liberal Arts and Sciences HUMAN RESOURCES Executive Assistant to the President & Jennifer McCormick, Ph.D., M.B.A. Board of Trustees Chief Human Resources Officer Kathleen A. Hoffstetter, A.A.S. Division of Health Professions Jan Peters, M.S., SPHR Director for Medical Imaging Compliance & Diversity/Title IX OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Nancy Augustyn, M.Ed., R.T.(R) Coordinator Director of Nutrition & Dietetics Lydell Fortune, J.D., M.B.A., PHR Vice President for Academic Affairs & Nicole Klem, M.S., R.D. Employment Specialist Planning Director of Massage Therapy Cheryl Swain, B.A., PHR Richard Linn, Ph.D. Cheryl Krouse, M.S., L.M.T., R.Y.T. Associate Vice President for Academic Director of Medical Assisting OFFICE OF ENROLLMENT Affairs Heather Thompson, R.N., A.A.S., MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL AID Theresa Knott, Ph.D. C.C.M.A. Administrative Assistant for Academic Director of Surgical Technology Chief Enrollment Officer Affairs Linda Kerwin, Ed.D., M.S., M.A., R.N., Jacqueline Matheny, M.S. Debra Steriovski, B.A. CST Administrative Assistant Assessment & Research Danielle Cessario, B.A. Director Mary Clare Development Center Nicole Tomasello, Ph.D. TBA Admissions Research Associate Dean of Admissions and Workforce Dana Bagwell, Ed.D. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Development Dean of the Catherine McAuley School Mollie Ballaro, M.S. of Nursing IT Consultant Associate Director Catherine Griswold, Ed.D., M.S.N., R.N., Sam Kann Kelly Govern, B.S. C.L.N.C., C.N.E., Coordinator for Distance Learning Valerie Nugent, M.S. Administrative Assistant for Nursing Education Admissions Counselors Studies Alissa Steele, M.L.S., B.A. Jennifer Ehlinger-Saj, M.S.W. Melissa Fahey, A.A.S. Instructional Technology & Design Tanner Gelatt, B.A. Dean of the Division of Arts, Sciences, Specialist Admissions Assistant and Professional Studies Derek Farkas, B.A. Maureen Regan, M.S. Ed. Jennifer McCormick, Ph.D., M.B.A., Workforce Development Assistant Administrative Assistant for Arts, Library Christine Whipkey, A.A.S. Sciences and Professional Studies Director Paulann DiGioia Elise Torre, M.L.S. Financial Aid Dean of the Division of Health Coordinator of Library Services at Director of Financial Aid & Scholarships Professions Russell J. Salvatore School of Business Jeffery Lucas, M.S. Linda Kerwin, Ed.D., M.S., M.A., R.N., and Hospitality Assistant Director C.S.T. TBA Allison Germono, B.A. Administrative Assistant for Health Cataloging, Reference & User Services Financial Aid Advisors Professions Librarian Terry Adamczyk, B.S. Philomena Gallagher, B.C. Michele Brancato, M.L.S. Challis Cooks, M.S. Archivist & Electronic Resources Julie Smith, B.S. ACADEMIC DIVISIONS Librarian Cynthia Seitz, M.L.S. Registrar’s Office Catherine McAuley School of Nursing Information Literacy, Reference & User Registrar Dean Services Librarian Theresa Horner, B.S. Catherine Griswold, Ed.D., M.S.N., R.N., Keri Thomas-Whiteside, M.L.S. Assistant Registrar C.L.N.C., C.N.E., Maria Povlock, M.S. Associate Dean OFFICE OF FINANCE & AUXILIARY Records/Registrar Assistant John Anderson, R.N, A.A.S., B.S., M.S. SERVICES Lisa Kraska, M.S
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106 Directories: Faculty
Faculty
DONALD BALTHASAR, Professor of MARY GENZEL, Assistant Professor of THOMAS MITCHELL, Professor of Natural Science Nursing Philosophy B.S., Ph.D., State University of New York R.N., B.S., State University of New York at B.A., M.A., St. John Vianney Seminary at Buffalo Buffalo R.N., A.A.S., Trocaire College M.S., D’Youville College PATRICIA BATTAGLIA, Professor of SOLOMON NELSON, Associate Professor Nursing KELLY GRANGER, Instructor of Nursing of English R.N., B.S., M.S., D’Youville College R.N., B.S. Robert Weslyan College B.A., University of Madras M.S. Grand Canyon University M.A., Loyola College STEPHANIE BECKER, Instructor of Ph.D., Pondicherry University Nursing LINDA GRZYWNA, Professor of Nursing R.N., M.S. University of Phoenix R.N., A.A.S., Trocaire College DANIEL NICKOLAI, Assistant Professor of B.S., M.S., State University of New York at Sociology DIANE BERRY, Professor of Natural Buffalo B.A., M.A., Ph.D., State University of New Science York at Buffalo A.A., Villa Maria College SUSAN HORROCKS, Professor of B.S., Rosary Hill College Psychology KJERSTIN OWENS, Professor of Natural M.S., State University of New York at B.A., Ed.M., C.A.S., Ph.D., State Sciences Buffalo, Division of Roswell Park Memorial University of New York at Buffalo B.A., Concordia College Institute M.A., Bemidji State University GABRIELA JENICA, Instructor Medical Ph.D., University of Iowa SANTOSH BHATTARAI, Assistant Assisting Professor of Mathematics B.P.S., State University of New York MELISSA PEGLOWSKI, Instructor of M.A., Ph.D., University of Oklahoma at Institute of Technology Healthcare Informatics Norman M.S., Utica College B.S., State University of New York at Buffalo JENNIFER BLICKWEDEHL, Professor of ROBERT KIEFFER, Professor of M.B.A., Canisius College Natural Sciences Philosophy B.S., Westminster College B.A., Ph.D., State University of New York MARGARET POOLE, Assistant Professor Ph.D., State University of New York at at Buffalo of Nursing Buffalo R.N., B.S., M.S., Syracuse University MARIA LALLEY, Professor of Nursing MICHELLE BOCTOR, Associate Professor R.N., B.S., Niagara University NANCY RENZONI, Professor of Nursing of Nursing M.S., Adelphi University R.N., Sisters Hospital School of Nursing A.A.S., Niagara County Community N.P., M.S., D’Youville College B.S., M.S., Daemen College College R.N., B.S., State University of New York at CYNTHIA LEFFEL, Assistant Professor of BARBARA RIEDERER, Professor of Buffalo Practical Nursing Nursing M.S., Daemen College R.N., B.S., State University of New York R.N., A.A.S., Trocaire College College at Brockport B.S., State University of New York at ELLEN BOWMAN, Professor of Medical M.S., Western Governors University Buffalo Imaging M.S., Daemen College A.A.S., Gannon University BRUCE MAKI, Instructor of Natural B.S., Houghton College Science BROOKE ROWLAND, Instructor of M.B.A., St. Bonaventure University B.A., B.S., University of Rochester Surgical Technology Ph.D., State University of New York at A.A.S., Trocaire College AMY BRESKI, Instructor of Psychology Buffalo B.S., Walden University A.A.S., Bryant & Stratton College B.S. State University of New York College SHARON P. MANG, Professor of Nursing ANN SMITH, Professor / Clinical at Empire State R.N., B.S., D’Youville College Coordinator of Radiologic Technology M.S. St. Bonaventure University M.S., State University of New York at R.T.(R), A.A.S., Trocaire College Buffalo B.S., Empire State College MARTHA BRONSTEIN, Professor of D.N.P., Chatham University M.S., State University of New Nursing York College at Buffalo R.N., A.A.S., Trocaire College RACHEL SUTO MCCORMICK, Professor B.S., Canisius College of Radiologic Technology M. LYNN SULLIVAN, Professor of M.S., State University of New York at R.T.(R), A.A.S., Trocaire College Humanities Buffalo B.A., State University of New York College B.A., State University College at Fredonia M.S., University of Phoenix at Buffalo M.S., State University of New York M.A., The Pennsylvania State University College at Buffalo GERALD CLARK, Senior Mathematics Specialist, Transitional Studies CHERYL A. MILLER, Professor of Nursing KELLY WALLACE, Instructor of Natural B.S., State University of New York College R.N., Buffalo General Hospital School of Science at Buffalo Nursing B.S., State University of New York College M.S., Canisius College B.S., Daemen College at Oswego M.S., D’Youville College M.S., University of Rochester DENISE DONAHUE, Assistant Professor of Ph.D., State University of New York at Nursing Upstate Medical Center R.N., B.S. M.S., D’Youville College
Directories: Faculty 107
CAROL WEBER, Professor of Radiologic Technology R.T.(R), A.A.S., Upstate Medical Center B.S., Empire State College M.S., State University of New York College at Buffalo
ESTHER WILCZYNSKI, Professor of Natural Science B.Sc., Ph.D., University of Toronto Teaching Certification, Canisius College
ANN WOJCIECHOWSKI, Instructor of Nursing R.N., A.A.S., Erie Community College B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo B.S., Daemen College M.S., Grand Canyon University
DAVID ZIMMER, Professor of Natural Sciences B.A., M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
In addition to the faculty member listed above, the College is privileged to draw upon the expertise of part-time adjunct instructors as well as part-time clinical/lab instructors.
108 Clinical Affiliations
CLINICAL AFFILIATION AGREEMENT / CONTRACT MEMBER LISTING
DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL WNY D.D.S.O. Buffalo Public Schools Women & Children’s Hospital SONOGRAPHY Wyoming County Community Catholic Charities of WNY Wyoming County Community Brooks Memorial Hospital Hospital WIC Program Health System Buffalo General Hospital Catholic Health Systems Erie County Medical Center MASSAGE THERAPY Cheektowaga/Sloan School PRACTICAL NURSING Mercy Diagnostic & Treatment Balance Massage & Wellness District Autumn View Health Care Center Hospice Buffalo Cornell Cooperative Buffalo General Hospital Mercy Hospital Mercy Hospital Extension of Erie County Elderwood Health Care at Niagara Falls Memorial NY Chiropractic College Clinic Cornell Cooperative Lakewood Hospital Relax Spa Extension of Niagara County Elderwood Health Care at Sisters of Charity Hospital Roswell Park Cancer Institute Depew Union Free School Maplewood St. Joseph Hospital Soma Cura Wellness Center District Erie County Medical Center Windsong Radiology Elderwood Health Care at Father Baker Manor Wyoming County Community MEDICAL ASSISTANT Oakwood Garden Gate Health Care Health System Dr. Linda Benjamin Erie County Medical Center Greenfield Health & Rehab Buffalo Medical Group Food Bank of Western New Center ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY Dr. Eddy Capote, Jr. York Head Start Buffalo General Hospital DLC Pediatrics Gowanda Rehabilitation & Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Medical Group Eastern Niagara Hospital Nursing Center McAuley Residence Erie County Medical Center Hamburg Primary Care Greenfield Health & Millard Fillmore Suburban Mercy Hospital Jericho Road Community Rehabilitation Center Hospital Pediatric Cardiology Health Center Holy Cross Head Start Seneca Health Care Center Associates Kenmore Family Medicine McGuire Group South Buffalo Charter School Sisters of Charity Hospital Lifetime Health-Excellus Nardin Academy Tapestry Charter School Health Plan, Inc. Rosa Coplon Jewish Home Town Garden Pediatrics EKG / CARDIAC MONITOR Mercy OB/GYN Pediatrics and Infirmary VA Medical Center TECHNICIAN Northtown Medical Associates SAGE Dining Services, Inc. Visiting Nurses Association Buffalo General Hospital OB/GYN Associates of WNY Salvation Army Kenmore Mercy Hospital Orchard Park Family Practice, Schiller Park Senior Center RADIOLOGIC Mercy Hospital P.C. Seneca Nation of Indians TECHNOLOGY Sisters of Charity Hospital Town Garden Pediatrics Health Service Amherst University Health St. Joseph Hospital Yasmin Pervez, M.D. Sodexo Health Care Services Center Arvind Wadhwa, M.D. at Kaleida Health Systems Bertrand Chaffee Hospital HEALTH INFORMATION Southeast Works Brooks Memorial Hospital TECHNOLOGY NURSING Wellness Institute Buffalo General Hospital Beechwood Homes BryLin Hospitals, Inc. YMCA Buffalo Niagara Buffalo Medical Group Brooks Memorial Buffalo General Hospital Diagnostic Imaging BryLin Hospitals, Inc. Buffalo Psychiatric Center RN REFRESHER COURSE Associates Buffalo Gastroenterology Buffalo Public Schools Buffalo General Hospital Erie County Medical Center Associates Center for Hospice & DeGraff Memorial Hospital Excelsior Orthopedics Buffalo Medical Group Palliative Care Erie County Medical Center Great Lakes Medical Imaging Catholic Health System Del-Nor Outpatient Mercy Hospital Kenmore Mercy Hospital Crestwood Healthcare Center Erie County Health Millard Fillmore Suburban Lake Shore Hospital (TLC Deaconess Hospital Department Hospital Health Networks) Eastern Niagara Health Erie County Medical Center St. Joseph Hospital Mercy Ambulatory Care System (Lockport & Head Start Center Newfane) Kenmore Mercy Hospital PERI-OPERATIVE NURSING Mercy Comprehensive Care Erie County Medical Center Lakeshore Behavioral Center Buffalo General Hospital Center Greater Buffalo United Margaret Stutzman Addiction Mercy Hospital Mercy Diagnostic & Treatment Accountable Healthcare Treatment Center Millard Fillmore Suburban Center Network McAuley-Seton Home Care Hospital Mercy Hospital Greenfield Health McGuire Group Sisters of Charity Hospital Roswell Park Cancer Institute Rehabilitation Center Mercy Ambulatory Center St. Joseph Hospital Sisters of Charity Hospital Harris Hill Nursing Facility Mercy Hospital Southgate Imaging Hospice Center Millard Fillmore Suburban PHLEBOTOMY Southtowns Imaging Kaleida Health System Hospital Bertrand Chaffee Hospital St. Joseph Hospital Landmark MSO, LLC (Home Niagara Falls Memorial Brooks Memorial Hospital University Orthopaedics Health) Hospital Buffalo General Hospital United Memorial Medical Medina Memorial Hospital Roswell Park Cancer Institute DeGraff Memorial Hospital Center / Jerome Center Niagara Falls Memorial Sisters of Charity Hospital Eastern Niagara Hospital VA Medical Center Hospital South Buffalo Charter School Kenmore Mercy Hospital Windsong Radiology Oakwood Health Care Center Spectrum Human Services Lakeshore Hospital WNY MRI Center /Ken-Ton OB/GYN Associates St. Joseph Hospital Mercy Hospital Open MRI Professional Management Town Garden Pediatrics Millard Fillmore Suburban Women & Children’s Hospital Associates, LLC Visiting Nursing Association Hospital of Buffalo Roswell Park Cancer Institute Women & Children’s Hospital Mt. St. Mary Hospital Sheehan Memorial Hospital Quest Diagnostics State University of New York NUTRITION AND DIETETICS Roswell Park Cancer Institute TLC Healthcare Network Absolute Care Sisters of Charity Hospital UNYTS (Upstate NY Arden Farm Institute St. Joseph Hospital Transplant Services) Baker Victory Services Summit Park Medical Mall VA WNY Health Care System Buffalo City Mission United Memorial Hospital Clinical Affiliations 109
STERILE PROCESSING & DISTRIBUTION (SPD) TECHNICIAN Kenmore Mercy Hospital Mercy Hospital Sisters of Charity Hospital St. Joseph Hospital
SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY Buffalo General Hospital Erie County Medical Center Kenmore Mercy Hospital Mercy Hospital Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital Roswell Park Cancer Institute Sisters of Charity Hospital St. Joseph Hospital Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo
110 Advisory Councils
Carol Ott, Trocaire Alumni/ Business MASSAGE THERAPY ADVISORY COUNCILS Manager Outpatient Rehabilitation, Sue Hanlon, LMT, Sisters of Charity Catholic Health System Hospital COMPUTER NETWORK Melissa Peglowski, Manager Aetna, full Maralyn Johnson, LMT ADMINISTRATION time faculty, Healthcare Informatics Linda Kerwin, CST, RN, Ed.D., Dean of Christopher N. Brown, Vice President, Program Health Professions, Trocaire College Team Leader-Network Computing Kim Storfer, Program Consultant Cheryl Krouse, M.S., LMT, RYT, Massage Systems, M&T Bank Trocaire, Sr. Manager of Interface Support Therapy Program Director, Trocaire Ernest Bussick, Information Technology Services HEALTHeLINK College Coordinator, Maryvale School District Christine Whipkey, Workforce Peter Capelli, Director, Networking & HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT Development Technical Services Catholic Health Brian Becker, Trocaire College Alumni, Rick Zakalik, CEO, Jewish Community System Food & Beverage Manager, Strand Hotel, Center William J. Fischer, Information Systems NYC Technician, Walsh Duffield Companies, John Bordage, Owner, Bordage MEDICAL ASSISTANT Inc. Consulting Miracle Bailey, Trocaire College Student Drew McNichol, Technology Director, Drew Cerza, Founder at National Chicken Gabriela Jenica, CMA, RHIA, Trocaire HEALTHeLINK Wing Festival College Medical Assistant Faculty John Messina, IT Director, Retired, Trico Laurie Clark, Owner, Avanti Mansion Linda Kerwin, CST, RN, Ed.D., Dean of Products Peter DelCoto, Trocaire College Alumni, Health Professions, Trocaire College James Peck, Adjunct, Trocaire College CEO & President at Escarot Corp. Jeanne O’Hara, CMA, Mercy Jeff Poblocki, Applied Technology Michael Evens, Vice President of Visit Comprehensive Care Center Administrator, The Gow School Buffalo Niagara Jennifer Pepin, CMA, Trocaire College Harold Reeverts, Exec. Director of Ashley Freitas, Trocaire College Alumni Institutional Research & President of Hospitality Alumni Shelley Trillizio, Public member Administrators Association, Retired, ECC Dan Garvey, Director of Food & Beverage, Vicki Wlock, NP, Medical Advisor David Sutton, Service Desk IT, Roycroft Inn First Niagara Financial Group Mark Jerge, General Manager, Salvatore’s NURSING – A.A.S. and B.S. Chris Wielgus, System Circulation Grand Hotel and Russell’s Steaks, Chops Johnna Breier, Alumni Manager, Erie County Public Library and More Dr. Lynda Cessario, Professor Emeritus, Dan Kutis, Director of Organizational Daemen College HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Development, The Hamister Group Peggy Cieri, Erie County Medical Center Sandy Cutrona, RHIT, Assistant Director, Dr. Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Dean Nicole DeKay, Director of Nursing, The HIM, Erie County Medical Center Corp. Department of Tourism & Hospitality, Brothers of Mercy Maris Grosenbaugh, RHIA, Manager, MODUL University, Vienna, Austria Susan Fallis, Director of Nursing, Buffalo HIM, Kaleida Health-WCHOB Gary Praetzel, Ph.D., Dean, Niagara Psychiatric Center Linda Hauck, MA, RHIA, CTR, Asst. University School of Hospitality & Tourism Tammy Goodemote, Unit Manager 6 Director, HIM, Roswell Park Cancer Management McAuley East, Mercy Hospital Institute Diana Principe, Owner & General Maureen Kelly, VP Patient Care Betsy Koch, RHIT, Manager, HIM, Kaleida Manager, Mansion on Delaware Avenue Services/Chief Nursing Officer, Roswell Health-Record Archive Center Geno Principe, Owner & General Park Cancer Institute Maryann O’Brien, MS, RHIA, Manager, Manager, Mansion on Delaware Avenue Steven Mercurio, CEO, McGuire Group Hospital Clinical & Coding Operations, Russell Salvatore, Owner, Salvatore’s Mary Ann Murphy, Director of Maternal- Independent Health Grand Hotel and Russell’s Steaks, Chops Child, Mercy Hospital Cheryl Quarantello, RHIA, Coder, Kaleida and More Cheryl Nosek, Daemen College Health-BGH Nicholas Tollar, Trocaire College Alumni, Elise Torre, Director, Library Services, Teresa Reinhardt, MBA, RHIA, Manager, CEO of Marco’s Italian Deli Trocaire College Cancer Registry, Roswell Park Cancer Michael Tompkins, CEO & President of Crystal Varley Institute Miraval Spa & Resort Dawn Walters, VP of Rehab & Nursing Deneen Sprague, RHIT, CCS-P, Matt Tornatore, Guest Services Manager, Services, Erie County Medical Center Independent Coding & Revenue Cycle Hyatt Regency Buffalo Mary Young, Director of Professional Auditor Practice, Sisters of Charity Hospital Jan Stevens, RHIA, Director, HIM, Brooks HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Karen Ziemianski, Sr. Vice President of Memorial Hospital Rebecca Boyle, SPHR, Director of Nursing, Erie County Medical Center Wendy Stoklosa, RHIT, CTR, Manager Learning & Organizational Management, HIM, Kaleida Health-Larkin HealthNow NUTRITION AND DIETETICS Nicolette Wilson, MBA, Director, Revenue Pat Crotty, Principal, PXC & Associates Julieanne Aquino, Alumni Cycle, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Suzanne Elliott, V.P. of HR, Power Drives, Jennifer Blickwedehl, Professor of Natural Center Inc. Science, Trocaire College Nancy Lynch, SPHR, Consultant Jane Calvert, RD, Lexington Cooperative HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS Dave Merrell, CFO, Northwest Office Market Mary Angelo, Health Information SME- Providers Michelle Fath, DTR Consultant Jan Reicis, President, Reicis and Courtney Gold, Sister’s Hospital Leslie Fiedt, Chief Information Officer, Erie Associates Ben Glurich, RD, Cooperative Extension of County Medical Center Bridget Russo, V.P. of HR, Catholic Health Niagara County Brian Guy, Lead Application Developer for System Julie Levin, Nardin Academy Enterprise Application Services, University Kris Weller, HR Manager, Independent Carrie Meyer, Independent Health at Buffalo Health Foundation Susan Kingston Schack, V.P. IT, Jodi Wiechec, HR Team leader, Perry’s Kelly Meyers, Alumni Business and Ambulatory Systems Ice Cream Marie Murray, RD, Buffalo State College Jennifer Lanning, Quality Manager Amy Zimmer, HR Alumni and HR Lisa Neuhaus, RD, CDCN, CNSD, Claims, Meritain Health Generalist for Power Drives Kenmore Mercy Hospital Drew McNichol, Director of Technology, Jen Reardon, MS, RD, Cornell University HEALTHeLINK Cooperative Extension
Advisory Councils 111
Tiffany Sandroni, MS, RD, Erie County SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY Medical Center Program Advisory Council Members Ashley Smith, DTR, Alumni Current Student: Ms. Shawntya Stepney Melissa Yoder, RD, Balanced Nutrition ST Program Graduate: Ms. Megan McAneney, CST, Sister’s Hospital PERKINS IV ST Program Faculty: Ms. Brooke Executive Advisory Council Rowland, CST, B.S. Clinical Karen Chiantella, BSN, RN-BC, Clinical Coordinator, Trocaire College Informatics Analyst, Elderwood College Administration: Dr. Richard Linn, David Clabeaux, RT, CEO, Buffalo Vice President for Academic Affairs & Neurosurgery Group Planning, Trocaire College Mark Cosgrove, Senior Planner, ST Employer: Ms. Cheryl Jaczewski, RN, Buffalo & Erie County Workforce BSN, CNOR, Surgical Advisor Educator, Investment Board St. Joseph Hospital Mark Fanning, RN, Hospice Buffalo Physician: Dr. Alexander Mandych, Patrick Gibbons, RN, Hospice Buffalo Southtowns Ear, Nose & Throat Jamal Hamideh, Student, Trocaire College Practicing CST: Ms. Hannah Vesneske, Kellee Kibler, Student, Trocaire College CST, St. Joseph’s Hospital Kathy Nyquist, Administrator, Beechwood Public Member: Mr. Michael Catanzaro, Residence & Nursing Home President, North American Health Care Elizabeth Owens, M.S., R.N., Director of Association Training, Roswell Park Cancer Institute Public Member-Miscellaneous: Mr. James Susan Ott, Ph.D., CFP®, Director, McNair Bell, PA-C, MS, Assistant Professor – Scholarship Program, SUNY Buffalo Daemen College College Administration-Miscellaneous: Dr. PRACTICAL NURSING Theresa Knott, Associate Vice President Jennifer Behringer, Practical Nursing for Academic Affairs, Trocaire College Graduate, Trocaire College Johnna Breier Jennifer Carroll, Skilled Nursing Facility, DeGraff Hospital Donna Gefaller, Coordinator Cancer Programs, Kaleida Health Amanda Jetty, Asst. Director of Nursing, Father Baker Manor Colleen Krauss, Kaleida Health, HighPointe on Michigan Elizabeth McNamara, Regional Director, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Chris Perez, Practical Nursing Graduate, Trocaire College Beth Smith, In-service Coordinator, Father Baker Manor Ishmael Sprowal, Human Resource Coordinator, The McGuire Group Rene Stotz, Practical Nursing Graduate, Trocaire College Karen Toye, Skilled Nursing Facility DeGraff Hospital Deborah Urbank, Regional Director of Operations, Elderwood Health
MEDICAL IMAGING / RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY Michael Budzynski, R.T.(R), WNY MRI Center David Clabeaux, R.T.(R), CEO, Buffalo Neurosurgery Group Debbie Clark, R.T.(R), Erie County Medical Center Dane Franklin, R.T.(R), St. Joseph Hospital Matthew Ianello, R.T. (R). Mercy Hospital Toni Riley, R.T.(R), Windsong Radiology Wendy Thompson, R.T.(R), WNY MRI
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Index
A Nursing (AAS) 95-97 G S Academic Amnesty 30-31 Nursing (BS) 97 General Admission Requirements 9 Satisfactory Academic Progress 21-25 Academic Bankruptcy 31-32 Nutrition and Dietetics 86-87 General Education Requirements 43 Say Yes to Education Academic Calendar 4 Philosophy 97-98 General Information 5-8 Scholarship Program 19 Academic Dismissal Policy 35 Physics 98 Grade Notification 33 Scholarships and Awards 20-21 Academic Integrity 30 Practical Nursing 98-99 Grade Point Average and Scholastic Honors & Awards 40-41 Academic Policies and Psychology 99 Quality Points 36 Service Learning 6 Procedures 30-42 Radiologic Technology 99-101 Grading System 36-37 Sexual Harassment Statement 3 Academic Progress 21-25 Religious Studies 101 Graduation Honors 37 Student Aid Disbursement Academic Standards 35-36 Sociology 101 Graduation Rates 42 Policy 14-15 Academic Probation Policy 35 Spanish 101 Graduation Requirements 37 Student Diversity Rates 42 Academic Support Services 26 Surgical Technology 101-102 Student Life 29 Academic Warnings 35 Course Disclosure Policy 32 H Student Services 26-29 Academic Year 35 Course Load Limitation 32 Health Records and Support Services 35 Accreditation 5 Course Prerequisite Enrollment 32 Immunizations 28 Administration 104-105 Course Waiver / Substitutions 32 Health Services 28 T Admissions 9-11 Credit By Examination 40 High School Articulation 11 Table of Contents 3 Advanced Placement 39 Credit Hour Policy 32 History, College 5 Telephone Directory IC Advisement & Career Crime Statistics 27 Hours of Operation 7 Testing Services 26 Services 26-27 Cross Registration Policy 36 Transcripts 41 Advisory Councils 110-111 Cumulative Average 36 I Transfer Articulation 11 Alumni Association 27 Incomplete Policy 37 Transfer Credit 10 American Opportunity Credit 17 D Independent Study 37 Transitional Studies 11 Appeal of Academic Decisions 38-39 Dean’s List 40 Institutional Aid 20 Trocaire at a Glance 2 Application Procedure 9-10 Degrees / Programs of Study 43-81 Interviews, Admissions 9 Trocaire Opportunity Program 19 Articulation Agreements 11 Computer Network Insurance 14 Tuition and Fees 13 Attendance Policy 32 Administration 45-47 Tuition Liability Policy 14 Audit Policy 37 Diagnostic Medical L Tutoring Services 26 Sonography 48 Laboratory Facilities 7 Tuition Assistance Program (NYS) 22 B Echocardiography 49 Learning Facilities 6-7 Board of Trustees 103 General Studies 50-51 Leave of Absence 33 V Business Office Holds 15 Health Information Technology 52-53 Libraries @ Trocaire 28-29 Veterans Education Benefits 18 Healthcare Informatics 54-58 Lifelong Learning 12 C Hospitality Management 59-61 Lifetime Learning Tax Credit 17 W Civil Rights Compliance Officers 3 Human Resource Location 6 Withdrawal Policies 41 Classification of Students 35-36 Management 62-63 Workforce Development 12 Clinical Affiliations 108-109 Massage Therapy 64-65 M Work Study, Federal 17 Computer Facilities 7 Medical Assistant 66-67 Matriculation 10 Consumer Information 6 Nursing (AAS) 68-70 Mission Statement 6 Copyright Infringement Nursing (BS) 71-72 and File Sharing 36 Nutrition and Dietetics 73-74 N Counseling 27 Practical Nursing 75-76 New York State Aid Programs 18-19 Course Cancellation 32 Radiologic Technology 77-78 Non-discrimination Policy 3 Course Challenge 39 Surgical Technology 79-81 Nursing, Advanced Placement 40 Course Descriptions 82-102 Directed Study 37 Art 82 Directions 8 O Biology 82-83 Disability Services 27-28 Orientation, New & Transfer 29 Business 83-84 Dual Admission Agreements 11 Chemistry 84 P Computer Network E Palisano Center for Administration 84-85 Employment Placement Academic Success 26 Diagnostic Medical and Continuing Education 29 Pell Grant, Federal 17 Sonography 85-86 Evaluation of Student Work 36 Persistence Rates 41 Echocardiography 87-88 Expenses 16 Phi Theta Kappa 29 Economics 88 Philosophy, College 6 English 88-89 F Placement Testing & Basic General Education 89 Facilities 6-7 Skills Academic Policy 39 Health Information Faculty 106-107 President’s Welcome 1 Technology 90-91 Family Educational Rights & Prior Learning Credit 39-40 Healthcare Informatics 91 Privacy (FERPA) 3, 33-35 Program Change Policy 33 History 91-92 Federal Aid Programs 17-18 Program Pursuit 22 Hospitality Management 92-93 Federal Aid to Native Human Resource Americans 18 R Management 93 Federal Direct Loan Programs 17-18 Registration Policy 33 Massage Therapy 93-94 Fed. Supplemental Education Repeat Course Policy 33 Mathematics 94-95 Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) 17 Residency Requirement 10 Medical Assistant 95 Financial Aid 16-25 Retention Rates 41 Medical Business 83-84 Financial Arrangements 13-14 Russell J. Salvatore School Music 95 Foreign Student Admissions 10-11 of Hospitality & Business 7