6 courses with the subject NHS-FPX, 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.
NHS-FPX4000Developing a Health Care Perspective
In this course, students build and strengthen the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to succeed in their program and in the workplace. Students engage in interactive activities that help them develop and demonstrate a health care perspective and expand their academic success strategies including organizational, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Students also develop an understanding of ethics, information literacy, and effective writing. For BSN, FlexPath and BS in Health Care Administration, FlexPath option students only. Must be taken during the student’s first quarter. Students who are in a nursing program cannot take NHS-FPX4000 as an elective. Cannot be fulfilled by transfer or credit for prior learning.
NHS-FPX5004Communication, Collaboration, and Case Analysis for Master's Students
This course prepares students for master's-level coursework in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Throughout the course, students analyze how the role of the practitioner-scholar guides leadership in the healthcare field and determine the ways in which they can effectively use communication strategies expected of healthcare professionals. In particular, students examine the attributes that contribute to effective and ethical healthcare leadership, including professional collaboration, communication, and decision making. Must be taken by students in their first quarter.
Students examine the political, legal, and regulatory issues impacting healthcare organizations and environments. Students analyze the effects of healthcare policy on health care practice and service delivery, with particular emphasis on the strategies used to monitor and maintain legal and regulatory compliance. Students also identify and apply healthcare policy and law concepts that promote organizational improvement.
NHS-FPX6008Economics and Decision Making in Healthcare
Students develop and demonstrate concepts, principles, issues, and trends in healthcare economics and the economic decision-making practices employed in the healthcare environment. Students analyze the political, legal, regulatory, organizational, and demographic implications of business decisions on healthcare economics; explore the ways economic and stakeholder influences affect operational planning and decision making; and practice applying performance monitoring and process management measures as part of the decision-making process. Students also examine cost-effective problem solving; community- and population-based orientation; and effective use of healthcare market research, analysis, and assessment.
NHS-FPX8002Collaboration, Communication, and Case Analysis for Doctoral Students
This course prepares students for doctoral-level coursework in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Throughout the course, students analyze and evaluate how the scholar-practitioner model provides guidance for developing competencies in effective and ethical healthcare leadership, including professional and interprofessional collaboration, communication, and decision making. For DNP, FlexPath option students only. Must be taken during the student's first quarter.
Students in this course build foundational knowledge and skills needed to shape the future of health care. Through the lens of a 21st-century health care leader, students use critical thinking, analysis, and creative insights to examine a problem, gap, or opportunity for improvement within a health care or public health delivery system. Students also complete a culminating project charter to further develop a coherent quality improvement plan for 21st-century health care. For DNP, FlexPath option students only. Cannot be fulfilled by transfer.
