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Through the BSHS program, students typically attend class as a cohort for
four hours, one night a week, and take the courses in modular sequence.
Occasionally courses are offered simultaneously with additional course sessions
being taught online or on an alternate day of the week.
View Detailed BSHS Course Descriptions
Critical Writing and Ethics (10 Units)
Bachelor of Science in Health Services Courses
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| Examines the organization and structure of the US healthcare
delivery system, including the roles of patient/consumer, payer, provider,
educator and regulator, as well as the types of providers and how they coordinate
patient care between multiple provider organizations, the reasons for cost
inflation and impacts from new technologies. Also studied are the major
policy issues of access, cost and quality. |
402 Statistics for Quality Management
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| Introduces probability theory, measures of central tendency,
hypothesis testing, and descriptive statistics. Applies these to quality
management/improvement, including Pareto charts, frequency distributions,
run charts, control charts and standard deviations. |
403
Epidemiology and Evidence-based Practice |
| Introduces principles of epidemiology including disease
transmission, measures of mortality and morbidity, case control studies
and other research designs, as well as clinical decision making theories
and forms of evidence-based practice, focusing on carrying out literature
reviews and critical appraisals. |
404
Cultural Perspectives in Healthcare |
| Cultural relativity and ethnocentrism are discussed, before
learning about the cultural variation in health beliefs and seeking
out and utilizing healthcare services, as well as the problems in communication
with persons with limited English-speaking ability. Application will
also extend to healthcare organization worker diversity, with a discussion-
emphasis toward the largest ethnic groups in our geographic area. |
405
Instructional Systems Design |
| Applies learning theories and models to patient and staff
education; includes program planning and evaluation; legal, regulatory
and policy issues related to education, as well as instructional design
strategies and resources. Students design and possibly carry out an
educational program for a specific population of patients of staff members.
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| Introduces economic and financial concepts focusing on
healthcare and including healthcare economic principles, the information
problem, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, cash flow, balance sheets;
then applies these to developing a budget for a grant application or
business plan. |
407
Human Resources Management |
| Discusses the human resources functions in organizations
including recruitment, staffing, selection, compensation, collective
bargaining, evaluation, training, regulation, management development
and planning. Theory and research are introduced and applied to healthcare
organizations. |
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| Introduces the legal system, including legal reasoning,
contracts, administrative and case law, torts, liability and other legal
concepts. Discusses the impacts of our legal system on various types
of healthcare provider organizations. |
409
Healthcare Informatics |
| Understands the vocabulary for medical/administrative
technology, as well as how advances in computing, telecommunications
and medical informatics software are being applied in healthcare settings.
Focuses on the issues and benefits from the electronic medical record,
digital imaging file transmission, computer order entry and legal issues
concerning these and HIPAA, for patient, privacy protection. |
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| Enables the student to identify a topic of interest in
their occupation or area of interest, and under faculty supervision,
conduct research, complete on-site work, and develop a report of the
findings and personal experiences. Students are encouraged to study
problems/issues in their own organizations. Service learning is a course
requirement and may be planned and carried out earlier in the program,
or in the Field project course. Reflection paper on service learning
will be completed and discussed in this course. |
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