Completion of both courses prepares the student for the coding certification exam which is offered through an external agency. This course prepares the participant to do public and private insurance coding including worker's compensation, Medicare, and Medicaid. In addition to workplace Spanish, this program provides transcultural training for nurses and future nurses.
Emphasis is placed on enhancing the quality of patient care.
Fee includes manual plus accompanying audio-cassette tapes. 19.2 CNE contact hours awarded. El Centro College is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Texas Nurses Association, which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This approval meets type I criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements towards relicensure as established by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas. This course includes an investigation of prefixes, suffixes and root words most commonly used in forming medical vocabulary.