Patient Navigator

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Total certificate hours: 12

The Patient Navigator micro-credential ensures students are prepared to support clients in identifying resources as well as navigating behavioral healthcare services and systems. Patient navigators will focus on promoting client health and wellbeing. While not directly providing services, patient navigators are equipped with skills and competencies from this pathway that include:

Empathy and Cultural Competency
CPR and Assessment of Basic Vital Signs
Understanding of Behavioral Healthcare Systems
Exceptional Interpersonal Communication Skills
Boundaries around Self-Disclosure

Required courses: 12 credit hours

HPR 1000 - Introduction of Health Credits: 3
SOC 1001 - Introduction to Sociology I: GT-SS3 Credits: 3(3-0)
BEH 1001 - Mental Health Crisis and Intervention: Preparedness and Empathy Credits: 3
BEH 2030 - Applied Therapeutic Communication Skills Credits: 3