22 courses with the subject HSP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
This course explores legal theories, trends, practices, and issues in healthcare. The course will emphasize communication, documentation. and conflict resolution as well as how the law affects healthcare assessment and practice.
This course explores economic and financial theories, trends, and issues as they affect contemporary professional healthcare practice. The course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills to understand how economic and financial systems apply to health assessment. It will provide an overview of the health system in the United States as well as a comparison to other systems such as Canada, United Kingdom and Europe. It will cover basic and applied principles of finance to the healthcare industry including insurance reimbursement, government programs, private pay, employer, employee, and individual burden. Students will also learn how to develop and manage a budget including forecasting and reporting.
Interdisciplinary communication within the present-day healthcare arena encompasses many forms. The professional healthcare provider and administrator as an effective communicator has to be able to deliver clear and concise communication, which is essential to safe patient care. This course will examine the role and impact that effective communication skills have on patient care outcomes and in clinical practice. In addition, communication and informatics as they relate to professional healthcare workers will be explored. The importance of collaboration on an interdisciplinary team providing care will be explored including how the perspectives and methods of specific healthcare professionals, that is, inter-professional practice, assure effective and holistic caregiving.
This course provides an understanding of the research process and its application to practice. Explored in the course are components of both quantitative and qualitative research techniques and ethical conduct required of researchers.
The Introduction to Senior Living course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the continuum of senior care services available in this sector of the healthcare industry from Homecare and innovative Residential Care to types of Assisted Living Facilities and associated Specialty Units to traditional Skilled Nursing Facilities and Hospice. The student will become familiar with issues related to the integration and coordination of continuum services, the regulatory and legal environment, Public Health issues and in particular their impact on the social-emotional well-being of seniors in facilities and their families.
Management of Senior Facilities and Services course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of what it takes to run an Assisted Living Facility. The student will learn about Independent and Assisted Living Facility Business and Operational Processes, Credentialing and Liability, Marketing, Dietary Services, Nutritional Services, Wellness Care Coordination, Therapeutic Arts, Specialty Units, Building Maintenance, and Housekeeping and Administration. The course will weave in a discussion on Dementia and how it affects the patient and the family members as they navigate toward safe placement in an Assisted Living Specialty Unit.
Students will focus on the management and administration of services which meet the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods.
This course highlights the major legislative and policy changes over the past few decades that regulate long-term care services and facilities. It focuses on the standards that are set by agencies including monitoring the quality of care and establishing rules for licensing staff. It is important for long-term care providers and administrators to understand what standards are monitored and how a particular facility or agency measures up to the requirements.
This course explores the practice management processes of a physician practice including types of health care providers, patient visit process, leadership, effective communications, office triage, and scheduling. Topics covered will include the application of operations management, queuing theory, the HITECH Act, meaningful use, and simulation to analyze and manage patient flow in health care organizations.
Leadership plays a key role in adopting practices to promote patient safety and leaders should have the skills necessary to be effective in the implementation of these practices. This course will focus on patient safety through a study of safety-oriented leadership, organizational culture, human factors, decision making science, communication, and a systems approach to health care delivery. Current best practice models and the latest professional literature emphasizing patient safety will be featured.
This course explores management principles and practice within healthcare organizations. Topics include basic principles related to motivating employees, performance management, and communication. Practical application will include critiquing current managerial practices in a variety of healthcare organizations.
The Professional Course Electives can be satisfied by transfer credit, or taken at Labouré College of Healthcare. These credits are any professional courses in healthcare administration not listed in the professional core curriculum, and may include: HSP 3050 The Senior Living Industry HSP 3055 Management of Senior Living Facilities and Services HSP 3060 Long-Term Care Management and Administration HSP 3065 Long-Term Care Laws, Regulations, and Policies HSP 3110 Medical Practice Management and Patient Flow HSP 3120 Patient Safety and Compliance in Healthcare HSP 3130 Management of Healthcare Organizations HSP 4010 Transitions and Issues in Long-Term and Post-Acute Care HSP 4015 Aging, Bereavement, Trauma, and Other Losses HSP 4020 Planning and Assessment in Health Professions HSP 4040 Professional Development and Supervision in Healthcare HSP 4050 Strategic Leadership and Management in Healthcare HSP 4060 Quality Analysis and Risk Management in Healthcare HSP 4090 Health Care Revenue Cycle Management
Recurring quality issues in long-term and post-acute care nursing homes and residential care facilities are often highlighted in the press and government research studies. This course will focus on the key issues related to long-term services and supports and how to ensure the use of quality measures.
Long-term care staff need to understand the aging, bereavement, trauma, and grief processes in order to recognize when guided interventions are needed. This course will help students develop strategies specific to supporting long-term care residents and introduce students to the critical skills necessary to work with grieving individuals, groups, caregivers and families.
The course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills to perform a comprehensive health assessment. This course will expand upon prior knowledge of health assessment and will address cultural, developmental, psychosocial, environmental and societal factors inherent in promoting health across the lifespan. Techniques of data collection and documentation will be expanded upon to enhance critical thinking skills.
This course examines and analyzes alternative and integrative medicines and their impact on the healthcare industry. The approach to the subject is to present selected alternative and integrative medicine fields in an informative, non-judgmental format. Example topics include acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy, massage, and naturopathic medicine.
Professional Development and Supervision in Healthcare is a bridge course for students. Core concepts of professional practice are explored and analyzed within the framework of selected theories, trends, and issues of contemporary professional healthcare practice. The course explores the challenges of entrepreneurial leadership, developing one’s own talent and the talent of others and building teams. Effective leaders must know themselves to develop talent within their team and to lead others through example and influence. Attention is given to leading up, down, and across teams and the organization. Topics include behavior of effective (and ineffective) leaders; management for the first-time manager; recruitment, training, development, retention and release; setting goals and objectives; developing reporting tools, reports, processes and structures; and communicating progress, results, issues and concerns.
This course will explore key organizational structures and operation of healthcare within the United States with a focus on quality of healthcare and error reduction. This course will provide an overview of the functions of leadership and management within a changing healthcare environment. Emphasis will be placed on current issues that affect leadership and management in the practice setting. The science of management and the integration of leadership principles are explored within the context of clinical microsystems.
The goal of risk management is to improve the quality of patient care. This course focuses on how to optimize patient outcomes and emphasizes the prevention of patient care problems including quality initiatives that will ensure long-term and post-acute care improvements.
This course examines how to manage human resources effectively in the dynamic legal, social, and economic environment currently constraining health care organizations. Taught from the perspective of strategic management and in the context of the legal environment for healthcare organizations, topics will address managerial theory and application, including management styles, personnel records and management, hiring and termination process, compensation and benefits laws, labor laws, employee performance evaluation, and provider credentialing.
The Healthcare Revenue Cycle includes the set of all administrative and clinical functions that contribute to the capture, management, and collection of patient service revenue. This course will examine financial management processes of a physician practice including revenue and expenses cycles. Topics covered will include revenue cycle management and analysis of reports, accounts receivable, collections, denials management, and bad debt management.
Source: Laboure College of Healthcare's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
