The University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
http://continuingstudies.ua.edu/

Needs Assessment

This workshop focuses on how to conduct a needs assessment, the beginning point of the training and development process. Participants learn how to use the various methodologies to arrive at specific training needs and also learn how to distinguish non-training needs from training needs. Participants will gain hands-on experience with using data collection techniques, analyzing data, and present......
 

The Independent Living Program was created for foster youth in the state of Alabama. The goal of this work is to better prepare youth for living on their own. Through youth involvement and leadership, attendees learn daily living skills, money mangement, social develpment, work and study skills and much more....
 

This workshop shows participants how to evaluate the training process and calculate the return on investment in a training program. Through the utilization of many examples and case studies, individuals learn how to make training accountable to the organization. This course is: One of five required sessions of the "Training and Development Certificate Program" WHO SHOULD A......
 

This workshop shows participants how to manage the training function effectively and efficiently in today’s changing environment. The workshop takes a results-based approach in which the training manager focuses on the output of training programs and manages the process efficently so that programs are optimized to produce maxzimum output. The workshop covers helpful and practical tips and ......
 

This workshop explores the various instructional design strategies as participants learn how to design and develop effective training programs. Participants are taken through a variety of different strategies and step-by-step techniques showing how the design parameters are developed and followed as the program is developed. This course is: One of five required sessions ......
 

This workshop shows participants how to deliver dynamic and interesting training programs. It shows a variety of effective ways to deliver programs ranging from demonstrations to case studies. Participants gain hands-on experiene with delivery during this interactive workshop. This course is: One of five required sessions of the "Training and Development Certificate Program" ......
 

The 90 hour Phlebotomy Technician Program prepares professionals to collect blood specimens from clients for the purpose of laboratory analysis. Students will become familiar with all aspects related to blood collection and develop comprehensive skills to perform venipunctures completely and safely. Classroom work includes terminology, anatomy and physiology; blood collection procedures; specim......
 

Pharmacy Technicians work in pharmacies under the direction of a pharmacist. Their main responsibility is filling prescriptions according to doctors’ orders. Pharmacy Technicians prepare medications for dispensing to patients. This generally includes retrieving drugs in the correct dosage, form and strength, measuring the appropriate amount of drug, and producing a prescription label. Phar......
 

Medical billing professionals keep records, calculate patient charges and maintain files of payments made to accounts. Duties include: reviewing hospital records; calculating charges for patient’s hospital stay; preparing itemized statements; reviewing purchase orders and tracking accumulated hours. Medical Coders are responsible for the collection of physician charges and patient data to ......
 

This program is designed to give the participant an overview of Alabama law and current legal thinking and debate on the issues surrounding death, dying and end-of-life choices. It will also contrast the points-of-view of legal thought and ethical thought, and explore the differences in ideology and purpose. Objectives involve: distinguishing between the disciplines of Law and Ethics, explainin......
 

The participants will focus on the basic ethical principles and models that guide ethics in America today; Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence and Justice. We will look at Utilitarian and Deontological models and then apply them directly to issues of death and dying for both patient and caregiver. Topics will include but not be limited to treatment vs. palliative care, truth telling, passive......
 

EKG Technicians are responsible for performing electrocardiogram tests in order to record and monitor electrical impulses transmitted by the heart. They assist a physician in diagnosing and treating cardiac and blood vessel irregularities. These tests include basic EKG’s, Holter Monitoring (portable EKG which records activity for 24-48 hrs.) 12 lead placement and Stress Tests (treadmill). ......
 

This session reviews the discussion of death notification in such a way that allows family and significant others to have ample opportunity for both dialog and personalizing the experience. Also included will be background information on required request legislation and providing atmosphere where family has an opportunity to make informed choices. Discussion will include caretakers’ needs ......
 

Topics will cover the responses of children to death at different ages and suggestions for discussing loss and death with them. Communication with and care of the terminally ill child will be addressed, along with development of the understanding of death from toddlerhood to adolescence, early childhood encounters with death, children as survivors of a close death, and helping children cope wit......
 

The session on anticipatory grief will include an overview of situations in which death is anticipated, the grief of the patient as compared to that of family and friends, and the value of anticipatory grief in facilitating the grief process after death. Discussion will include methods of helping the patient and family cope with a protracted illness and the special challenges of premature detac......
 

This course is designed to help engineers and other quality professionals learn basic quality management principles and understand the relationship of the quality engineer to the quality system. Design of experiments, screening experiments, and process models and optimization will be covered. Course covers quality function deployment, competitive benchmarking, FMEA, Taguchi loss function, desig......
 

Course covers customer identification, needs of customer, establishing units of measure, product development, process development, failure mode and effects analysis, quality function deployment, proof of process capability, and transfer to operations....
 

This course teaches participants the requirements for performing quality audits under the ISO 9001:2000 Standards. The participants will also learn the difference between the ISO 9001:1994 and ISO 9001:2000 standards. Participants will learn how to prepare for the audit, review the required documentation, develop the audit plan, select the audit team, and issue the "Letter of Notification&......
 

The course teaches the participants to perform audits under the TS 16949: 2002 standard as well as grasp the differences between the QS 9000 and TS 16949:2002 standards. Participants will learn how to prepare for auditing to the standard through studying the applicable documentation requirements, understanding the importance of the auditing team selection, development of an auditing plan, exami......
 

Course covers customer expectations and the customer’s role in defining performance metrics in processes; looking at each process from the customer’s perspective; re-engineering the the processes using the customer’s metrics and assistance. It also explores the building of a customer-focussed culture;concurrent engineering-the role of the customer in design, production, and deliv......
 

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