NAT 104 — Nursing Medical Terminology
This course provides Nursing Assistant students an opportunity to learn medical vocabulary in the field of geriatric nursing care in a long term care facility and patient care in acute hospitals with concentration on prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Emphasis is given to word dissection and definitions as applied to the body systems including the terminology used in examinations, diagnoses, charting, documentation, orders, procedures, laboratory investigations, and medical reports. Students must pass a final definition exam with 95% accuracy in order to pass the course. This course provides Nursing Assistant Training students the terminology required of the field. This course will be taught in conjunction with students enrolled in NAT 102 and NAT 103.