The Department of Health Care Services
Bachelor of Applied Science -Thematic Concentration in Health Administration
The BAS degree requires, in lieu of a standard major, a thematic concentration involving courses from one or more departments. The concentration must contain a minimum of 30 credits, and at least 15 credits must be earned in health administration. Students seeking the BAS should consult with a faculty advisor on appropriate courses to fulfill the concentration. All proposals must include an explanation of the theme and be approved by a faculty advisor, Department Chair, and the Academic Dean.
The following is a list of suggested courses, the student will work with their faculty advisor to create a Plan of Study specific to the student needs.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HADM 305 | Survey of US Healthcare System | 3 |
| HADM 307 | Health Informatics | 3 |
| HADM 325 | Princ of Mrkting for Hlth Orgs | 3 |
| HADM 335 | Health Law and Ethics | 3 |
| HADM 450 | Health Policy & Politics | 3 |
| BMGT 329 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| BMGT 335 | Management & Organization | 3 |
| COMX 320 | Prin of Organizational Comm | 3 |
| BMGT 322 | Operations Management | 3 |
| COMX 480 | Health Communication | 3 |
| Total Minimum Credits | 30 | |
Health Administration
HADM 294 Seminar/Workshop. 1-3 Credits
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 305 Survey of US Healthcare System. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Provides a comprehensive overview of the U.S. healthcare system, including history, organization, reimbursement, health professions, community health and disease, system reform, current issues, and healthcare systems in other countries compared with the U.S. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 307 Health Informatics. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305 or consent of instructor.
Explores the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of health information to strengthen the organization’s operational performance and market position. The course will explore how information technology can be used to restructure work processes and systems, as well as facilitate change within the healthcare organization. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 310 Healthcare Economics. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305 and ECNS 201, or consent of instructor.
Examines the health care industry from an economic perspective. To better understand the factors and influences on the decision-making process within the health care industry. To apply economic concepts to the unique characteristics of the health care industry in business and consumer decision making.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 325 Princ of Mrkting for Hlth Orgs. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305.
Introduces theories, ethics, and strategies specifically for the health industry including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, insurance, and medical devices and products. The course incorporates experiential learning affecting marking decisions and provides analytic and control techniques for effective product/service planning, promotion, pricing, and physical distribution. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 335 Health Law and Ethics. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305.
Provides students with information regarding the central legal issues in U.S. healthcare delivery and how these relate to the operational practices of healthcare administrators including labor relations, malpractice, patient rights, information management and confidentiality of patient records, patient safety, contracts, legal reporting requirements, and risk management practices. The course will also allow students an opportunity to understand the key components of legal issues relevant to medical and business ethics and the link between the law and health policy development. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 365 Managing Cont of LongTerm Care. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305.
3cr. Provides students with a basic overview of the management of long-term care organizations and services including emerging, new models of care with an emphasis on the changing long-term care environment. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 405 Evidence in Research & Eval. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305, STAT 216, and upper division standing or consent of instructor.
3cr. Provides an overview of evaluation research methods in health organizations, including a conceptual framework for organizational evaluation, basic evaluation research methods, and use of evidence to assess and improve health organization performance. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 409 Aging America & Long-Term Care. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305 or consent of instructor.
Explores changes in life expectancy, health status, the pace of growth of the over 65 year old population in America, and the overall graying of America, in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of how long-term care systems and policies can be managed to meet these new “aging” needs.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 422 Operations,Outcomes & Quality. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305, STAT 216, and upper division standing or consent of instructor.
Provides an overview of concepts and techniques for designing, planning, and improving the quality of health operations, including operations analysis, coordinating and planning health operations, and quality improvement methods to improve work processes. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 425 Fin Mgmt & Budgeting in Hlthcr. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305 and upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
3cr. Creates an understanding of the use of financial management concepts and techniques in health management decision-making. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 440 Mgmt Epidemiology & Pub Hlth. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305, STAT 216, and upper division standing or consent of instructor.
Provides a systematic approach to the evidence-based practice of epidemiological preventive care to promote population health. Students will learn about the traditional epidemiologic model of disease as well as various conceptual models and frameworks that are used to expand the traditional model to include community-based networks, health care systems, and collaborative partnerships. The application of these models to health services management represents the evolution of epidemiology for use in health services management. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 445 Managing Hlthcare Orgnztns. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305, BMGT 335, and upper division standing or consent of instructor.
Examines the daily operations of health care organizations. The course addresses management, staff support, and the implementation of business strategies. The course focuses on the effective management of health care professionals and identifies unique human resource elements in health care organizations. The course will provide students with strategies for becoming effective leaders in health care. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 450 Health Policy & Politics. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305 or consent of instructor.
Provides students with an overview of the political context of healthcare organization and delivery. Specific attention will focus on health care regulations, payment sources, and policy formulation and implementation.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 492 Independent Study. 1-6 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Provides students an opportunity to intensively investigate topics in Health Administration.
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 494 Seminar/Workshop. 1-3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Provides students an opportunity to intensively investigate topics in Health Administration.
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 498 Internship/Cooperative Educ. 1-3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305, HADM 307, HADM 335, HADM 425, HADM 445, and consent of instructor, and students must pass a background check.
Repeatable once. Provides an opportunity for students to integrate the skills and knowledge acquired in previous coursework to address a problem that is important to health care delivery, management, or policy. Students design and conduct an applied research project or other project that results in a high quality, compelling report and oral presentation.
Department: Health Care Services
HADM 499 Capstone. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): HADM 305, HADM 307, HADM 335, HADM 425, HADM 445, and consent of instructor.
3cr. Integrates didactic coursework, knowledge, and skills acquired, and the cooperative education (internship) experience to enable the student to demonstrate a broad mastery of learning throughout the curriculum. This is accomplished through an in-depth analysis of a specific problem/issue (in consultation with the cooperative education preceptor) or an in-depth audit of management practices in a specific functional area. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
Nursing
NRSG 301 Nursing in the Community. 5 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Corequisite(s): NRSG 302.
Provides the student with an opportunity to apply the nursing process to the care of communities. The course explores concepts in population-focused interdisciplinary care, levels of prevention, and levels of practice (individual/family, systems, and communities). Health status indicators for the local community and the Healthy People 2020 national healthcare agenda are researched. Basic concepts of environmental health, emergency preparedness, economics, and epidemiology are discussed. Students explore community coalitions and work groups that interface with vulnerable, at-risk populations in the community. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 5
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 302 Nursing in the Community Cl. 1 Credit
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Corequisite(s): NRSG 301.
(45 clinical/cr) Provides a clinical experience in community health preceptor-based learning, a home visit program, and health promotion at community sites. Offered ONLY Online.
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 320 Nursing Informatics. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Introduces health informatics by focusing on applications relevant to the nursing profession. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of nursing science with computer technology and information science to support patient care and provide leadership within healthcare systems. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 322 Health Promotion and Ed. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Prepares the student to expand practice from illness to include wellness and health promotion, focusing on disease prevention and education. Course content will include theories of learning, assessment of learning needs, and developing and evaluating patient teaching strategies. Focus will be on wellness and health promotion interventions and education across the lifespan for all patient populations. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 325 Health Assessment. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Prepares the learner to develop a nursing database and builds on the education and skills gained during previous course work. Learners will enhance their assessment techniques through learning experiences that focus on physical, developmental, emotional, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual, and functional assessment of patient wellbeing. The course emphasizes analysis, synthesis, and documentation of assessment data as a foundation for providing holistic clinical reasoning and nursing care. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 326 Complex Healthcare Needs. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Examines client centered nursing care of individuals with multiple comorbidity health and illness needs. Applies clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice concepts from pathophysiological nursing. The impact of multiple comorbidity illness and injury of individuals and their families is examined. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 344 Family Nursing. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Summer
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Applies the theories and models of family coping and adaptation by integrating the concepts into professional nursing care of the family unit. Apply these principles while caring for families, identify the strengths and weaknesses of the family unit, and predict how the family will cope in times of illness and wellness. The impact of genetic nursing on the family will be examined. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 361 Global Nursing. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Summer
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Examines the foundations of healthcare policy, the financial structure of healthcare systems, and the regulatory environments that impact nursing practice and client care. This course will also analyze current and emerging global health priorities, including emerging infectious diseases, poverty, health inequity, health systems reforms, and major global initiatives for disease prevention and health promotion. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 424 Nsg Research/Evidence-Based. 3 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Examines the research process and the translation of research into clinical practice. Students explore and evaluate current nursing evidence-based knowledge. Emphasis is placed on gaining competency in accessing and critically reading, evaluating, and applying research findings to clinical judgement and nursing practice utilizing evidence-based models.
Lecture Hours 3
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 463 Leader/Manage for the RN. 5 Credits
Term Typically Offered: Summer
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Corequisite(s): NRSG 464.
Examines the theory, research, and practical application of nursing leadership and the managing role of the leader within a variety of nursing practice settings. Concepts such as the leader and manager roles, healthcare organizations, care delivery strategies, managing resources, interpersonal and personal skills, and career management that were introduced at the ASN level are examined in depth in this course. Managerial concepts and leadership skills needed to promote high quality nursing care delivery and organizational effectiveness are examined. Emphasis is placed on applying leadership and management concepts to a complex healthcare system in various clinical settings. Offered ONLY Online.
Lecture Hours 5
Department: Health Care Services
NRSG 464 Leader/Manage for the RN Cl. 1 Credit
Term Typically Offered: Summer
Prerequisite(s): ASN coursework completed.
Corequisite(s): NRSG 463.
1cr. (1 other/wk) (45 clinical/cr) Enables the student to further develop leadership abilities, communication, critical thinking skills, and decision-making in the role of nurse leader and manager in a variety of settings. Offered ONLY Online.
Department: Health Care Services