Course Descriptions
ACC6212 Using ABM (Activity Based Management) for Improvement 2 hours
This course is designed to provide students techniques in how to streamline, improve, and measure productivity of business processes. The principle technique used for this analysis is Activity Based Management (ABM) which is considered a best practice technique in most major corporations.
FIN 6314. Financial Planning: Business and Personal 3 hours
This course is designed to provide a framework for starting a business and for managing business and personal financial affairs. Course content will include entrepreneurial basics, preparation of a business plan, personal financial planning, legal considerations, and tax considerations.
HSC 7601. The Interrelationships of Pathophysiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology I 6 hours
This class will cover the treatment of disease and the drugs. It will integrate the pathophysiology of various disease states and underlying biochemical mediators, with available drug treatments. This will include drug discovery, drug action at synaptic and neuroeffector junction sites, CNS drugs, drug abuse, drugs of inflammation, renal and cardiovascular function. [Fall]
HSC 7602. The Interrelationships of Pathophysiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology II 6 hours
This class will cover the treatment of diseases with drugs. It will integrate the pathophysiology of various disease states and underlying biochemical mediators with available drug treatments. This will include discussions on GI function, chemotherapeutics of microbial disease, neoplastic diseases,immunomodulators, blood and blood forming organs, hormones and antagonists, pharmacogentics, and toxicology. [Spring]
HSC 6310. Health Care Law and Ethics 3 hours
This course focuses on key concepts in health law such as the structure of health care organizations, health care liability, confidentiality of medical information, access to health care, taxation, antitrust, state and federal regulation of health care, financing mechanisms of health care, including private health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and emerging bioethical issues in health care.
HSC7412. Design, development and administration of a Nurse Anesthesia Program 2 hours
This course will focus on the development and administration of faculty and staff in Nurse Anesthesia programs as well as program recruiting and clinical site development and administration. [Spring]
HSC7308. Curriculum Design for Nurse Anesthesia Education 2 hours
This course will focus on design and implementation, COA standards and problem solving in a Nurse Anesthesia program.
HSC7410. Research – Evidence Based Practice of Nurse Anesthesia 4 hours
This course prepares the nurse anesthesia student to engage in knowledge application activities including the translation of research in practice, the evaluation of practice, improvement of the reliability of nurse anesthesia practice and outcomes, and participation in collaborative research. [Spring]
HSC 7111. Research Project Planning 1 hours
The student will work with a faculty member to identify an answerable clinical question. The clinical question will be comprised of a problem, an intervention, comparison intervention, and outcomes. The faculty member will guide the student to formulate an answerable clinical question given the constraints of time and resources of the student and program.
HSC 7112. Research Project Completion 1 hours
The student will work with a faculty member to perform a literature search supporting the identified clinical question. The faculty member will guide the student to perform the literature search in a systematic manner using multiple sources. It is anticipated the clinical question will evolve during the literature search.
MGT6330. Administration of Health Care Organizations 3 hours
This course is designed to prepare students for their future roles as healthcare managers. The customary activities of the manager, planning, organizing, leading, decision making, staffing, motivating, and budgeting—are defined, explained, and presented with detailed examples drawn from a variety of health care settings. Students will learn proven management concepts, techniques, models, and tools for managing individuals or teams.
MGT6314. Public Health Policy and Management 3 hours
This course provides an overview of major issues related to the design, function, management, regulation, and evaluation of health insurance programs and managed care organizations, including HMOs. This course will focus on both private and public sector programs. Emphasis will be placed on programs in the US, though the course should be of relevance to organized health care programs in other nations.
MGT6308. Leadership and Managing Change 3 hours
Advanced study of the use of power, influence, and leadership in organizations. Detailed coverage of sources of power in organizations, resource dependency, multidirectional influence tactics, trait theories of leadership, behavioral theories of leadership, contingency approaches to leadership, and charismatic leadership. Special consideration is given to the ethical use of power and leadership.
