HCA 833 - Healthcare Quality and Risk Management
This course provides the student with an understanding of health care quality improvement including methods and tools to increase patient safety, improve health outcomes and reduce risk in the health care setting. Students will investigate the tools and techniques of leading continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs and assessing risk of clinical and organizational efforts within a facility. An emphasis on how to develop the processes of in-depth investigation of various areas of internal operations will be presented. Specific focus will be on skill development associated with selecting and implementing various CQI tools, while conducting appropriate risk analysis.
Semester hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 3.0
Prerequisites: