Healthcare Quality and Safety Practicum

Catalog description

In this practicum, students will synthesize prior learning and theoretical foundations of healthcare quality and safety in the development of an implementable quality improvement project or change initiative. Students will demonstrate their knowledge through a risk mitigation assessment, the development of recommendations, and the dissemination of a healthcare quality and safety improvement plan to a targeted audience. Students will engage in 135 hours of supervised, direct clinical practice experiences to demonstrate synthesis and application of knowledge, skills, and behaviors of the healthcare quality and safety role.