clinical instruction. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6140, 6500, 6520, 6540, 6560. Co-requisites: 6600, 6700. MSN 6600. Nursing Instruction in Higher Education and Community Settings (3) This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to examine and pradice teaching strategies for application to classroom, community, and technology dependent environments. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6140, 6160, 6180, 6500, 6520, 6540, 6560. Co-requisites: MSN 6580, 6700. MSN 6700. Teaching Residency (3) Students will collaborate with faculty to design a teaching residency to highlight focused area expertise in applying teaching strategies and innovations under the guidance of an experienced educator. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6140, 6160, 6180, 6500, 6520, 6540, 6560. Co-requisites: MSN 6580, 6600. MSN 6900. Social Epidemiology, Global Health Issues and Cultural Competency (3) This course examines human diversity and healthcare through a global perspective. Various theoretical approaches for understanding a range of issues across populations are examined. The role of social epidemiology in developing proven and potential interventions to improve global health and reduce health disparities induding measures of disease frequency, transmission, person, place and time in relation to variations of disease clusters will be examined. Analyzing the political factors which affect the global community, the pradice and leadership roles of nursing across the global community are examined within this sociopolitical context. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6140, 6160, 6180 and completion of Administrator Track courses or Educator Track courses. MSN 6920. Evidence Based Practice II (3) This course will examine the fourth step in the EBP process, moving from a focus on finding, and evaluating the evidence to actively using it to produce quality outcomes. Essentials for implementation of the evidence will indude the study of refledion, philosophy and conceptual framework models. Work contextual fadors as they relate to EBP linked to overall organizational improvement will be assessed. Implementation projed steps and timelines will be discussed. Prerequisites: MSN 6100, 6120, 6140, 6160, 6180 and completion of Administrator Track courses or Educator Track courses. DEPARTMENT Clinical Laboratory Sciences Department Chair: Dr. Yasmen Simonian CLT Program Coordinator Leonard Gary Nielsen Online Programs Coordinator: Kara Hansen-Suchy Medical Advisor: Val B. Johnson, M.D. Location: Marriott Allied Health Building, Rm 208 Telephone Contact: Ann Gessel 801-626-6118 Professors: Leonard Gary Nielsen, Yasmen Simonian; Associate Professors: Scott H. Wright, William B. Zundel; Assistant Professors: Kara Hansen-Suchy, Travis Price Professional Staff: Kent J. Criddle, Laboratory Manager; Chere' Clawson, Online Advisor and Laboratory Spedalist The Clinical Laboratory Sciences program is nationally accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science (NAACLS) 8410 WestBryn MawrAve, Suite 670, Chicago, IL 60631-3415 (773) 714-8880 www.naacls.org Bachelor's Degree - BS in CLS Clinical Laboratory Sdentists (CLS) or Medical Technologists (MT) perform laboratory testing vital to the detection, differential diagnosis, treatment, and study of disease and health maintenance. 253 The Weber State University programs utilize a career ladder concept in curriculum planning and educational preparation. The campus-based four-year program offers a BS degree in an integrated setting where students complete thdr degree in a structure that does not require extended formalized external dinical instruction. The Online-program offers registered Clinical Laboratory Technicians (CLT) or Medical Laboratory Technicians (MLT) an opportunity to complete a bachdor's degree in clinical laboratory sciences within their own dinical setting utilizing varied instructional learning approaches including technology-assisted learning and customized preceptorships. The Online BS program is offered nationally in conjunction with the university's Division of Continuing Education. Associate's Degree - AAS in CLS The two-year clinical laboratory technician AAS degree is also an integrated campus-based program and allows the graduate to take the national certification examinations after two years. The WSU Clinical Laboratory Sciences Online-program offers the employees of clinical laboratories an opportunity to complete an AAS degree in clinical laboratory sdences. Graduates of the program are digible to take national exams to become certified as clinical laboratory technicians (CLT) or medical laboratory technidans (MLT). Students admitted to the online AAS degree program are expected to meet the same department requirements, policies, and outcomes as the on-campus students. Laboratory competendes will be met at the students' respective work facilities. Please refer to the Employer Support Information on the CLS Department Web site, weber.edu/cls. All BS and AAS programs are accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sdences (NAACLS). As such, graduates are eligible for several options for national certification including ASCP and NCA. Certification Program To meet the need for clinical laboratory competencies in a rapidly changing health care system, the CLS program offers an intensive Certification Program, which provides applied core clinical laboratory skills required primarily for testing performed in physician office labs (POL's) and other decentralized testing sites. These sites mostly perform waived or moderately complex testing as defined within the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Ad of 1988 (CLIA 88). For campus standards this is fulfilled by successful completion of CLS 1113 and CLS 1123 courses. Online students complete CLS 1000 and must be employed in a clinical laboratory setting. Program Admissions Bachelor's Degree Students must have completed an AAS degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences and/or be CLT/MLT certified, meet with a CLS faculty advisor and submit an application complete with a non-refundable $20 fee by May 1st of the year they wish to enter the program. All Distance Learning (online program) applicants must submit a one-time non-refundable $95.00 processing fee payable to the CLS Online Program. Application deadlines for online: October 1 for spring semester and March 1 for summer/fall semester. Associate's Degree Students must meet with a CLS faculty advisor, complete the pre-application courses listed in the Admissions Requirements and make application to the program by May 1st of the year they wish to enter the program. There is a $20 non-refundable application fee for the program. All Distance Learning (online program) applicants must submit a one-time non-refundable $95.00 processing fee payable to the CLS Online Program. Application deadlines for online: October 1 for spring semester and March 1 for summer/fall semester. General PROFILE ENROLLMENT STUDENT AFFAIRS ACADEMIC INFO DEGREE REQ GENED Interdisciplinary FYE HNRS BIS LIBS INTRD MINORS Applied Science 8 Technology AUSV/ATTC CEET CS MFET/ETM MET CMT DGET ENGR IDT SST TBE Arts 8 Humanities MENG COMM ENGL FL DANC MUSC THEA ART/ARTH Business SEcon MBA MACC/ACTG BSAD FIN MGMT MKTG SCM ECON/QUAN 1ST Education MSAT MED CHF ATHL/AT HLTH/NUTR PE/PEP/REC EDUC Heaifh Professions MHA MSN CLS DENT PAR HTHS HAS/HIM NRSG RADT DMS/NUCM RATH REST Science BTNY CHEM GEO MATH/MTHE MICR PHYS ZOOL SocialS Behavioral Sciences MCJ/CJ ECON GEOG HIST POLS/PHIL PSY SW/GERT SOC/ANTH AERO MILS NAVS Continuing Ed Davis Campus Weber State University 2008 - 2009 Catalog