Healthcare Research

Catalog description

Prerequisite: MATH 1530 or permission of the instructor. This course builds upon the student’s liberal arts background and basic healthcare knowledge, utilizing systematic inquiry and analysis by reinforcing the problem-solving method to utilize research in the improvement of healthcare practice to affect positive outcomes. The course focuses on the fundamentals of the research process namely research ethics, qualitative research methods and non-experimental methods. Students are also taught how to use statistics to answer questions and how to use this skill to aid them in the review/interpretation of healthcare literature and healthcare research. This course meets the requirements of a basic research course for those intending to pursue graduate studies.