Course ID Code Name of Course Course Description Course Outcomes Why I Selected This Course
HA405 Leadership and Ethics in Healthcare • This course provides students with the opportunity to examine and critically reflect on the nature and implications of leadership ethics in healthcare. Students examine key characteristics of ethical leadership, and the theoretical underpinnings of sound moral decision-making and action of healthcare leaders. Processes for identifying and cultivating healthcare leaders, cultural competence, continued learning, and bioethics in healthcare are also explored.
• Examine relevant ethical theories and how they impact various healthcare professionals.
• * Identify standards for developing and maintaining leadership knowledge, skills, behaviors and styles.
• * Compare the concepts of morality, codes of conduct, and moral judgments.
• * Apply relevant ethical concepts in the resolution of ethical dilemmas
• * Analyze the principles of medical ethics and the laws that impact healthcare organization.
• * Apply leadership strategies in complex situations.
* Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.
• * Analyze the elements of a culture
HA415 Healthcare policy and Economics • This course provides students with information surrounding healthcare policy and economics. The focus is on defining public and private healthcare and the policy issues that surround them. Students also identify the roles of local, state and national policy-makers and describe the role and responsibility of the individual citizen with regard to healthcare policy and economics.
Explain policymaking and legal process that underpin the individual health care and public health systems.

* Demonstrate an understanding of the relevance of economic concepts within the healthcare sector.

* Explain health care financing and economic principles as they apply to healthcare policymaking.

* Distinguishing the role of the local, state and national policy makers.
* Examine policy issues that surround public and private healthcare.

* Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.
HA425 Operational Analysis and Quality Improvement • This course addresses healthcare strategies and the laws that affect operational decisions. Strategic and tactical planning issues, with particular attention to marketing and strategic planning, opportunity assessment, and external analysis, are covered. Students also analyze and evaluate Total Quality Management (TQM) principles and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) processes in organizations. Students compare total quality tools and performance measures, and examine leadership and teamwork in the business environment.
• Explain the historical evolution of health care quality improvement programs.
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• * Demonstrate an understanding of operational management theory.
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• * Examine strategic and tactical planning issues relevant to marketing, opportunity assessment, and external environment analysis.
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• * Identify quality management techniques used to improvement operations such as Continuous Quality Improvement, Total Quality Management, and proactive quality improvement measures.
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• * Examine the critical role of quality improvement and quality assurance in community, state and national health care environments.
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• * Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.

HS440 Finance for Healthcare • Health information professionals play a key role in the reimbursement cycle of any health care organization. Reimbursement management, including compliance strategies, case management, auditing, payment systems, and commercial and managed care, and federal insurance plans, are explored. This course also provides the student with an understanding of health care finance, basic accounting principles, the budget process, and cost/benefit analysis
• Plan reimbursement compliance strategies.
• * Prepare budgets and contracts
• * Design cost/benefit analysis tools.
• * Explain reimbursement methodologies and processes.
• * Solve real-world problems using mathematical skills.
• * Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.

HS450 Strategic Planning and Organizational Development Healthcare • This course focuses on management of human resources. Topics include employment law, typical middle management functions of recruitment, supervision, and retention, disciplinary procedures, and performance standards. The student will gain knowledge of organizational behavior, entrepreneurialism, and change management. Assessment and benchmarking techniques are also explored
• Integrate the basic principles of human resource management into plans. * Explain the theories of organizational behavior.
• * Assess the risks and benefits of entrepreneurialism
• * Develop strategic and operational plans. * Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English
• * Identify human expressions within cultures

CM107 College Composition 1 • Building on your existing writing strengths will help develop a foundation for a successful education and career. You will learn strategies to express yourself with confidence and communicate your ideas effectively in personal, academic, and professional situations.
• Apply reading skills to determine the elements of effective writing.
• *Use language appropriate to audience and situation in a personal document. *Apply strategies to write effective academic documents.
• *Demonstrate when, how, and why to support your writing with appropriate research.
• *Apply strategies to write effective professional documents.
I have already completed this course at a different school. And have completed College Composition 2

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