Clinical Issues for Health Services Management

Catalog description

Introduction to current clinical issues in health services organizations focusing on the role of managers. H P A 822 Clinical Issues for Health Services Management (3)This course is designed to provide the clinical aspect to the HPA graduate students' education, an important component of understanding population health and status assessment. It will allow students to gain exposure and utilize important clinical technologies which are used to formulate patient diagnoses. Students will also apply their knowledge in designing treatment plans for patients through hypothetical case studies. All students will learn basic medical vocabulary and terminology that is used in the field of medicine and will gain an understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of common diseases. Students will gain an awareness of methods of health promotion and apply that knowledge to real life and hypothetical cases. This class will focus on the clinical aspects of medicine. By the end of this course, students will have the necessary skills and knowledge to: 1. Describe and identify technologies used to diagnose and treat diseases.2. Demonstrate in written and oral work an understanding of the basic patholophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of common diseases. 3. Compose written and oral work displaying a basic knowledge of commonly used medical terminology. 4. Recognize the clinical approach that health care providers take in diagnosing and treating common disorders, including tools and analytical thought process used in providing quality care. 5. Demonstrate a working understanding of the importance of computers and information technologies used in patient care. 6. Utilize health care resources such as the internet to analyze and examine health care topics. This course will contribute to the student's development in: 1. Information seeking. Students will be responsible for acquiring knowledge from lectures, text books, medical journals, the internet, presentations, question and answer time with medical professionals and other resources needed to understand disease processes involving many organ systems.2. Analytical thinking. Discussions will focus on decision-making skills used in clinical care and transferable to non-clinical settings. Students will need to use the knowledge gained in class and apply learned analytical skills comprehensively to evaluate and analyze the health care delivered to a specific healthcare consumer. 3. Communication skills. Students will be expected to use accurate and complete information in preparing for and participating in classroom discussions and presentations.