Healthcare Delivery, Quality, and Safety

Catalog description

This course examines concepts and strategies to assist the nurse leader in developing skills to improve and strengthen nursing practice, patient outcomes, and health care delivery. Goals for healthcare outcomes and the delivery of healthcare will be identified relative to health promotion, disease prevention, disease management, and the design of innovative healthcare delivery models. Students utilize and synthesize evidence from practice and patient databases, and perform data mining. This course introduces the evaluation of patient care outcomes within the context of continuous quality improvement and safety.