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This course explores legal theories, trends, practices, and issues in healthcare. The course will emphasize communication, documentation. and conflict resolution as well as how the law affects healthcare assessment and practice.

This course explores economic and financial theories, trends, and issues as they affect contemporary professional healthcare practice. The course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills to understand how economic and financial systems apply to health assessment. It will provide an overview of the health system in the United States as well as a comparison to other systems such as Canada, United Kingdom and Europe. It will cover basic and applied principles of finance to the healthcare industry including insurance reimbursement, government programs, private pay, employer, employee, and individual burden. Students will also learn how to develop and manage a budget including forecasting and reporting.

This course provides an understanding of the research process and its application to practice. Explored in the course are components of both quantitative and qualitative research techniques and ethical conduct required of researchers.

Students will focus on the management and administration of services which meet the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods.

Professional Development and Supervision in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ is a bridge course for students. Core concepts of professional practice are explored and analyzed within the framework of selected theories, trends, and issues of contemporary professional healthcare practice. The course explores the challenges of entrepreneurial leadership, developing one’s own talent and the talent of others and building teams.  Effective leaders must know themselves to develop talent within their team and to lead others through example and influence. Attention is given to leading up, down, and across teams and the organization. Topics include behavior of effective (and ineffective) leaders; management for the first-time manager; recruitment, training, development, retention and release; setting goals and objectives; developing reporting tools, reports, processes and structures; and communicating progress, results, issues and concerns.

This course will explore key organizational structures and operation of healthcare within the United States with a focus on quality of healthcare and error reduction. This course will provide an overview of the functions of leadership and management within a changing healthcare environment. Emphasis will be placed on current issues that affect leadership and management in the practice setting. The science of management and the integration of leadership principles are explored within the context of clinical microsystems.

The goal of risk management is to improve the quality of patient care. This course focuses on how to optimize patient outcomes and emphasizes the prevention of patient care problems including quality initiatives that will ensure long-term and post-acute care improvements.

This course examines how to manage human resources effectively in the dynamic legal, social, and economic environment currently constraining health care organizations. Taught from the perspective of strategic management and in the context of the legal environment for healthcare organizations, topics will address managerial theory and application, including management styles, personnel records and management, hiring and termination process, compensation and benefits laws, labor laws, employee performance evaluation, and provider credentialing. 

This course examines the disparities in health status and health care in the United States. The course will review sociological, epidemiological, demographic, and racial and ethnic factors that contribute to the disparities seen in health status among different populations. Students will critically examine the current research on health disparities and will be challenged to use theoretical frameworks used in this course to develop practical ideas to reduce health disparities in their community.

This course introduces the various methods used to collect, organize, summarize, interpret and reach conclusions about data. An emphasis is placed on demonstrating that statistics is more than mathematical calculations. By using examples gathered from real life, students learn to use statistical methods as analytical tools to develop generalizations and meaningful conclusions in their field of study.

The Ethics Elective is satisfied by transfer credit or taken at Labouré Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ.

Students who do not receive transfer credit for this course and must satisfy the Ethics Elective with a Labouré course may do so by choosing the following course: 

• ETH 3210: Ethical Domains and Dilemmas

These 20 credits must be in the areas of Humanities, Social Science, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Administration, or Natural Science courses. Students can complete these electives through transfer credit, taking them at Labouré Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, or a combination of both. 

For students taking these courses at Labouré Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, they may select some of the following: 

• HUM 3000: Humanities electives including or
• SSC 3000: Social Science electives including , , , or
• SCI 4000: Natural Science electives including , , , , or ,
• HSC 4000: Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Administration Electives including , , , , , , , ,

The Senior Capstone demands reflection, insight, and synthesis. This is a transdisciplinary course taught by both an Arts and Sciences professor and a Health Profession professor. This teaching team will assist the student to investigate, demonstrate, and synthesize course and program learning for problem solving and applications of undergraduate coursework across the entire curriculum. This course synthesizes concepts throughout the disciplines to create a unified framework for developing pathways for understanding the value, applications, and transferable use of the cumulative study at Labouré Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. Students demonstrate collective competencies; pedagogical, practical, and personal advancement for the benefit of self and others; personal and professional growth that reflect cognitive and emotional intelligence; and knowledge and understanding of lifespan challenges and choices. Future contexts of professional growth are considered. Students will complete a professional portfolio to demonstrate achievement of program outcomes.