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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides an overview of workplace health hazards. This includes the fundamentals of exposure pathways, recognition, and mitigation approaches that represent best practices in modern Industrial Hygiene practice. This class will also focus on common Utah industries, which will open the students understanding of chronic, slow developing workplace health conditions as well as acute exposures. The course will also cover sampling, analytic, and measurement tools and equipment used by practicing Industrial hygienists in the field. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in H EDU 3520 OR Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will review the development and management of workplace safety and health programs. Existing regulatory requirements and national consensus standards such as the ANSI Z-10, will be covered. Effective program elements and performance metrics will be reviewed. Special attention will be given to the prevention of fatalities and serious injuries in the workplace. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in H EDU 3520 OR Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will review the fundamentals of risk, risk assessment and risk management. This will include the history of risk concepts, assessment approaches and risk management tools. Case studies will include examples of catastrophic failures in risk assessment and management where human safety is concerned. Risk management tools will be reviewed and students will gain practice by applying assessment and management tools to real world industrial settings. Changing societal attitudes and expectations of risk will also be reviewed. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in H EDU 3520 OR Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The purpose of this course is to develop a foundation of basic knowledge and skills necessary to understand the principles of emergency management and the roles and responsibilities of an emergency manager.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The purpose of this course is to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to fulfill the roles and responsibilities of an emergency manager and function within an emergency management program.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The purpose of this course is to identify the relationship between science and the understanding of disasters, to identify and apply appropriate patient care techniques and to describe the use of technology in support of emergency management.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The purpose of this course is to continue to develop a foundation of basic knowledge and skills necessary to understand the roles and responsibilities of an emergency manager and the principles of emergency management. Upon completion of the course students will be prepared to take the state Utah Associate Emergency Manager (UTAEM) and/or the national Associate Emergency Manager (AEM) certification exam, should they elect to do so.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Patient care in nuclear medicine is a required nuclear medicine program course that provides the knowledge, learning experiences and skill assessment environment necessary for technologist to safely and effectively care for nuclear medicine patients. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Clinical experience in health care integrates didactic learning into practical settings at JRCNMT (Joint Review Committee in Education in Nuclear Medicine Technology) approved clinical sites. Students complete 105 contact hours progressing through levels of responsibility/involvement relevant to level of didactic learning. Students move from observation to assisting the technologist, to performing the nuclear medicine procedure under direct supervision, to completing the procedure independently under indirect supervision. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Nuclear Medicine statistics and physics is a required quantitative intensive course in the nuclear medicine program that provides content and inferential decision making activities utilizing descriptive statistics to analyze and interpret numerical data utilized in nuclear medicine. Applications in nuclear medicine include: calculations of half-life, radiopharmaceutical dosages and decay; percentages of error, standard deviations, average values, means, medium and mode. Concepts and physical principles that govern radioactivity and the interactions of radiation with matter will be presented. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent.