Managing for Performance and Health Care Outcomes.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisites: NURS 508 and NURS 512 . This course synthesizes organizational systems approaches to design, identify, analyze and benchmark quality and safety initiatives in health care settings across the continuum. Students will gain an overview of how evidence drives decisions about and implementation of processes in organization performance improvement. Students will also apply principles in quality and safety project design to address a specific issue affecting patient care outcomes.