1527 Healthcare Preparatory Programs in USA

Learn to manage health and wellness with an understanding of the science behind the impact of exercise on the body.

Take your counseling degree to the next level with the online Education Specialist in Counseling: Clinical Mental Health Counseling concentration from Auburn University at Montgomery. This concentration is designed to further qualify you for advanced practice and administrative opportunities in counseling by focusing on client trauma, clinical practice, research, and consultation. Learn more and apply today.

Join a global health community in analyzing how power structures shape the response to disease with the Harvard VPAL Global Health Delivery online short course. In this course, you will analyze the spread of Ebola, HIV/AIDS and MDR-TB and the effect of mental health around the world. As you progress, you’ll consider how you can integrate learnings from these examples into your own practices. You’ll learn the interrelated biological and social factors that impact complex global health challenges and contextualize them by reviewing case studies. By the end of the course, you’ll have compiled a health intervention plan for real-world applications.

Would you like to embark on a journey to become a health and social care professional? Enrol in this diploma course to explore the science of anatomy and physiology, acquire effective communication skills and champion health promotion and disease prevention. We also discuss mental health and explore the social care landscape to provide the vital skills required to make ethical decisions, provide caregiving, safeguard the vulnerable and more.

Understand the applications, opportunities, and transformative potential of AI in your health care context.

This free online course introduces the fundamental principles and laws of health and social care.

Respiratory care is a health specialty that offers a set of unique challenges in the areas of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, management, and rehabilitation of people with lung problems. This specialty is utilized in the hospital and home care situations, skilled nursing facilities, medical sales and health education. 

In this course for Elderly Care and Caring for the Disabled learn how to treat people suffering from various mental and physical health conditions, as a result of ageing and traumatic injuries. Alison's free online Elderly Care course will teach you how to treat people suffering from various mental and physical health conditions.

This caregiving course provides the skills required to practise as a care assistant who helps patients, who might be elderly or incapacitated, to recover and maintain optimal health. We explain how various communication techniques and social skills can help you to support patients and make sure their daily needs, which include personal hygiene and grooming, are met. We answer questions like ‘what is rehab care?’ and ‘what is end-of-life care?’.

This program is designed to prepare students seeking employment in health administration. Students will understand the principles and practice of health care regarding administration, management, law, economics, and policy.

The Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Certificate program is designed as a non-degree course credit option for nurses with a master’s degree in nursing. This program prepares students to provide primary care to  young adults, adults, and older adults across the continuum of care from wellness to illness, in settings including community health centers and clinics, private medical practices, long-term care facilities, and patient homes. 

Expand your nursing skills and prepare to teach in a variety of health care and academic settings, depending on your degree level. Methodist University's online Graduate Nursing Education Certificate can be completed in one year. This program meets the requirements for nursing faculty in North Carolina as regulated by the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Upon program completion, students who have a master's degree can pursue nurse educator certification through the National League for Nursing.

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Master Certificate curriculum seeks to develop graduated qualified advanced nurse practitioners who are well prepared to successfully work in psychiatric mental health-related settings and provide high-quality care according to the American Psychiatric Nurses Association standards for this speciality.

Have you ever stopped to help at an accident and felt completely unprepared? When a family member becomes seriously ill or injured, would you know what to do during those few minutes before 911 services arrive? Have you been thinking about a career in the health care field? Do you want to know if you have what it takes to be a nurse, physician’s assistant, or medical doctor? The Health Science courses at SJCC can address all these questions.

In this course, we will introduce key concepts from the sociology of health and illness to examine the social causes and contexts of disease. We will apply theoretical concepts and frameworks to understand how health and illness are not only biological processes occurring within individuals but also social processes between people, groups, and institutions.

You’ll advance your post-master’s nursing career and graduate prepared for a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) certification. Build valuable experiences in clinical—gaining the skills needed to work with clients with severe mental illnesses to determine health care needs. We’ll make it possible to further your education as a working professional with, customizable clinical, and part-time options.

Dementia is a mental disease that affects quality of life with its many symptoms like memory loss and lack of coordination. However, the right care can improve a dementia patient’s quality of life. This course goes through the symptoms of dementia and provides the best practices used by professional caregivers and loved ones to care for anyone living with it. Sign up to learn how to follow global care standards to support such patients.

The safety of employees is of utmost importance and so personal protective equipment (PPE) is commonly used in the workplace to prevent serious health hazards and mitigate risks. This course delves deeply into the use of PPE and studies the various types used for the different dangers that may occur. Learn how to conduct a ‘hazard assessment’ correctly and understand the training required in PPE use and care in this health and safety course.