Health Sciences
Associate Degree Nursing
Provides the knowledge, skills, and strategies to integrate safety and quality into
nursing care, to practice in a dynamic environment, and to meet individual needs which
impact health, quality of life, and achievement of potential.
Cardiovascular Sonography
Provides the knowledge and skills necessary to acquire, process,and evaluate the human
heart and vascular structures.
Computed Tomography
(in partnership with Edgecombe Community College)
Prepares the individual to use specialized equipment to visualize cross-sectional
anatomical structures and aid physicians in the demonstration of pathologies and disease
processes.
Emergency Medical Science
Prepares graduates to enter the workforce as paramedics.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(in partnership with Edgecombe Community College)
Prepares students to become MRI technologist and skilled health care professionals
that are trained to use magnetic energy fields to produce images of the human body.
Medical Assisting
Prepares the individual to be a multi-skilled health care professional qualified to
perform administrative, clinical, and laboratory procedures.
Medical Sonography
Provides the knowledge and clinical skills in the application of high frequency sound
waves to image body structures.
Nurse Aide
Prepares individuals to work under the supervision of licensed health care professionals
in performing nursing care and services for persons of all ages.
Pharmacy Technology
Prepares individuals to assist the pharmacist in duties that a technician can legally
perform and to function within the boundaries prescribed by the pharmacist and the
employment agency.
Radiography
Prepares the graduate to become a registered radiographer, a skilled health care professional
who uses radiation to produce images of the human body.
Therapeutic & Diagnostic Services
This curriculum is designed to prepare students for careers in health sciences. Students
will complete general education courses that provide a foundation for success in nursing
and allied health curricula. Courses may also provide foundational knowledge needed
in the pursuit of advanced health science degrees or programs. Graduates from the
Nursing Assistant program may be eligible to be listed on the Division of Health Service
Regulation (DHSR) Nurse Aide registry as a Nursing Assistant I and the N.C. Board
of Nursing Nurse Aide II registry as a Nursing Assistant II. They may be employed
in home health agencies, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, extended care facilities,
and doctors’ offices.
Therapeutic Massage
Prepares graduates to work in direct client care settings to provide manipulation,
methodical pressure, friction, and kneading of the body for maintaining wellness or
treating alterations in wellness throughout the lifespan.