Santa Monica College Courses

This course presents hands-on application skills required for a respiratory care practitioner (RCP) to function in the role of respiratory disease manager (navigator). Emphasis is placed on the design

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This course provides supervised clinical experience at local area hospitals. This course facilitates students’ successful transition to clinical practice. The student practices civic professionalism,

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This course provides direct physician interaction and student involvement in the clinical and nonclinical settings. The course focuses on the implementation of physician-ordered respiratory care proto

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This course helps prepare students for National Board for Respiratory Examinations using computer assisted clinical simulations.

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This is a survey course in respiratory therapy that provides an overview of the profession, including the various educational routes, credentialing mechanisms, professional associations, and job respo

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This course covers the structure and functions of respiratory therapy equipment. It acquaints students with most of the equipment used in the profession of respiratory care. Students are expected to b

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This course presents prenatal development, high risk pregnancy and normal labor and delivery. Assessment of the newborn and pediatric patient is taught. Neonatal and pediatric diseases and disorders a

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This course presents current techniques of monitoring the critically ill adult patient. This includes electrocardiography, cardiovascular/hemodynamic monitoring, capnography and pulmonary function tes

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This course presents the physiology of the cardiopulmonary system from a clinical perspective including basic anatomy, pulmonary ventilation, diffusion of gases, pulmonary circulation, ventilation/per

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The pathology and pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of common diseases and disorders of the respiratory and cardiopulmonary systems are covered in detail. Techniques of laboratory evaluation a

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This course provides students with basic vocabulary and fundamental sentence structures in the present and past tenses, using the nominative, locative and accusative and genitive case of nouns and pro

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This continuation of Russian 1 increases basic vocabulary and introduces students to sentence structures, including the past and future tenses in both imperfective and perfective verb aspects, and com

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This course provides an opportunity to acquire fluency in spoken Russian with emphasis on natural, colloquial use.

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This course — taken in tandem with another course in the discipline — enables a student to apply course content in a meaningful and relevant way to a particular activity. In this hands-on course, stud

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This course explores the modern practice of science. The course focuses on the use of the scientific method; the history of science; how, why and where research is conducted; the ethical protocol in t

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