HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

NURSING 444

Expand understanding of core nursing competencies such as safe therapeutic care and health informatics by examining how these concepts operate at a systems-level to influence care and outcomes. Focus is given to emergency preparedness as enacted in a variety of systems. Key conceptual elements of the healthcare system, organization, policy, financing and law, and quality improvement and their impact on care and outcomes are examined. Expand your understanding of scholarship and evidence-based practice by delving into the process of nursing research.

S&APHM 411

Orientation to the US health care system and pharmacy's integral role within it. Address roles and responsibilities of different individuals and organizations involved in the provision of health care, issues of insurance coverage, reimbursement, and payment for health care services. Apply principles of personnel management in pharmacy practice.

PUBLHLTH 785

Focuses on the fundamental characteristics of the public health and health care systems, including key factors in performance, organization, financing, and delivery of services in major sectors of the U.S. health care system.

ISYE 417

Introduction to the application of industrial engineering methods to the analysis and improvement of health care delivery. Exploration of common problems of decision making and control in health care. Examination of social, regulatory and economic factors unique to health care.

NURSING 442

Learning is centered on health systems, policy, and economics. Expand understanding of core nursing competencies such as safe therapeutic care, and health informatics by examining how these concepts operate at a systems-level to influence care and outcomes. Focus is given to emergency preparedness as enacted in a variety of systems. Key conceptual elements of the healthcare system, organization, policy, financing and law and quality improvement and their impact on care and outcomes are examined.