NURS 211 - Health Care Terminology

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max:

Description: This elective course will assist the learner to gain and demonstrate a thorough understanding of healthcare language. Knowledge of the construction and use of terms is acquired. The course teaches basic principles of healthcare word building. Once the basic principles of word building are learned, the learner will be able to apply them to develop an extensive healthcare vocabulary. Intensive effort is devoted to the recognition of the basic elements, which form healthcare words, as well as the use of dictionaries and other references. This course is helpful to anyone entering a health-related field.