HA 640 - Healthcare Operations Assessment and Decision-Making

This course focuses on skills in operations assessment and decision making for healthcare organizations. This course will introduce, and apply research methods and designs, knowledge-based research techniques, evidence-based practice, outcome evaluation, and evaluation of research processes. Grant writing and national guidelines will be covered. Students will be exposed to the critique of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Ethical issues in research and the value of healthcare administration research will be critically explored. In addition, students will be able to develop a research proposal or carry out a quality improvement project. Semester Credit Hours: 3.00 Contact Hours: 45/0/0/45 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None