Dean’s List – Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2021
IUFW Training Course: 2024 HIPAA Privacy and Security
IUFW Training Course: How to Recognize Plagiarism
FEMA IS-909: Community Preparedness: Implementing Simple Activities for Everyone
FEMA IS-42a: Social Media in Emergency Management
FEMA IS-319a: Tornado Mitigation Basics for Mitigation Staff
Course Description: This course is an introduction to high-risk health behaviors and harm reduction through a public health lens. High-risk behaviors are activities people engage in that make them more vulnerable to specific health problems. The effects and consequences of high-risk health behaviors extend beyond the individuals who engage in them. For instance, individuals who engage in unprotected sex are at risk of both contracting and spreading sexually transmitted diseases. Additionally, because high-risk behaviors are associated with lower-income groups, much of the financial burden related to treatment of illness resulting from high-risk behaviors is passed on to society through the rising costs of health care.
Some of the high-risk behaviors we will discuss include substance use and injection drug use, sex work, men who have sex with men (MSM), and individuals experiencing homelessness.
What I gained from this course: I gained an understanding of harm reduction initiatives and how important they are in our communities.For example, we learned about syringe exchange programs and how they are very effective in the prevention of HIV in our areas. Allen County, where I reside currently, has an active syringe exchange program and I have researched through this course how it has impacted where I live.
Course Description:This course studies the principles of marketing and communications as they relate to the healthcare industry.
Course Objectives:
To provide clear understanding of marketing principles as they relate to the healthcare industry.
To develop and understand healthcare marketing and its impact in today's US healthcare system
To provide an opportunity to use course competencies to develop a comprehensive marketing plan
To understand the purpose, value and role that communication/media relations plays in healthcare
What I gained from this course: What I learned from this course is how imprtant marketing strategies are the healthcare and the ability to gain patients. The patients need to be able to hear about you in order for you to serve them!
This course explores the discipline of management and its major components and functions relating to health services organizations. This course will provide students with a foundation of basic knowledge, including scientific management theory, the basic functions of management, management fundamentals and principles, and methods, techniques, and ways of thinking about leadership and its application, which have particular relevance and application in healthcare.
What I gained from this course: I learned a basic understanding of management in healthcare organizations, leadership techniques, and the hierarchy of a hospital system.
This course is designed to give the basic foundation for public health and demonstrate how every situation can be seen through a public health lens. When public health is working well, it's nearly invisible, and many take for granted the public health successes. Public health's primary objective is prevention, and we will examine well-being, illness, injury, education, violence, housing, work, and cultural and neighborhood variables that either positively or negatively influence our health.
What I gained from this course: I learned basic public health initiatives, how important public health is, and what is considered to be included in public health as well as how to serve our community in the most effective ways possible.