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This course aims to help high school students, recent graduates, and those considering career transitions explore health care career options and learn strategies for entry into the health care workforce and health related fields.

Care relationships within health professions are of great importance and hold a lot of meaning for both the provider and recipient. This free online course will give you a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of care relationships within health professions. The course covers the issue of care relationships in a variety of situations and contexts. Some of the areas covered include: caring in a hospital setting, caring for the elderly and disabled in residential care, hospice care and care as a family affair. Topics such as the limits and boundaries of care, community care, the meaning of home, care transactions, and care of those who are at the end stages of life are also discussed. This course will be of great interest to professionals already in the health or care professions, to learners who are planning a career in the health professions and will also be beneficial to individuals who are either giving or receiving care.

Course on dental materials, including gold alloys, composites, amalgams, glass ionomers, ceramics, waxes, etc. for operative dentistry, fixed and removable prosthodontics. This Work, Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics (CRSE) Materials, by Stephen Bayne is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Learn how advances in biomedicine hold the potential to revolutionize drug development, drug treatments, and disease prevention: where are we now, and what does the future hold? This course is intended for healthcare providers 5+ years out of training--a lot has changed!! Other providers, medical/health sciences students, and members of the public may also be interested.

(10 contact hours) In this innovative certificate program, you'll gain insights into the amazing brain and learn how to support health and happiness through lifestyle choices that impact this remarkable organ.

(24 contact hours) Enhance your professional marketability by gaining a broad understanding of complementary and integrative health care options.

(19 contact hours) The Certificate in End-of-Life Care will enhance the knowledge and skills of health care professionals and individuals who work with or care for those experiencing a terminal illness. 

(16 contact hours) In this certificate program, you'll gain a holistic overview of current food and nutrition issues and their impact on physical, social, emotional, and spiritual health.

(25 contact hours) Earn a certificate proving you with the skills required to meet the health care needs of a rapidly aging population.

(16 contact hours) In this innovative certificate program, you'll examine how Optimal Healing Environments (OHEs) impact the health of individuals and communities on a physical, social, psychological, and spiritual level.

(10 contact hours) Gain an overview of aging, including the impact of nutrition and physical activity, changes in the healthy aging brain, and the role of sexuality in healthy aging.

(33 contact hours) Explore the exciting, growing field of holistic and integrative health in this comprehensive certificate program designed for health care professionals and consumers.

(14 contact hours) This certificate program focuses on foundational concepts in holistic and integrative health, including stress management, physical activity and movement, nutrition, and healing environments.

(10 contact hours) In this four-lesson certificate program, you'll examine the healing systems of Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine, explore the connection between health and the human spirit, and learn about ancient and diverse practices of meditation.

(9 contact hours) In this certificate program, you'll explore the concepts of four holistic therapeutic modalities as you focus on the use of humor, music and sound, energy healing, and massage and bodywork in healing.

(20 contact hours) This groundbreaking certificate program offers a holistic, integrative approach to treating mental health problems.

(15 contact hours) A holistic approach to the care of patients with disorders of oxygenation.

(23 contact hours) Examine key legal and ethical issues to improve your practice and provide better patient care.

(8 contact hours) In this certificate program, you'll explore the many meditation techniques that can be used to support the mind-body connection and promote healing, health, and wellness.

(12 contact hours) This certificate provides an overview of the mechanisms of pain, the multidisciplinary methods of assessment, management, and treatment of pain, which include adults, children, and the elderly with cancer related and non-cancer related pain.