8 courses with the subject HAN, 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.
HAN 514Health Care Advocacy/Navigation Profession and Role3
The course examines the process and role of health care advocacy/navigation. It reviews the history of health care, the US health care delivery system, the continuum of care, and models of advocacy.
Acute and chronic illnesses and end of life are explicated through patient illnesses narratives. Students explore the patient illness experience and providing literary, social, and political commentary.
The course explores effective communication theories, strategies, and best practices. Students will ‘practice’ communicating with key stakeholders. Mediation, facilitation, and negotiation strategies will also be reviewed.
The course examines the basic principles of health policy and how it has affected, and continues to affect, the delivery of health care in the US. It also examines current and ongoing health care reform.
The course examines advanced topics in health policy and politics including: pharmacology, the aging population, the development of the health care workforce, rationing, and the challenges in implementing health care reform.
The course will teach the Health Care Advocate/Navigator pursuing private practice: branding techniques, market analysis, outreach, and advertising. It will help the private practitioner develop a marketing plan and create collateral materials.
HAN 584Establishing/Expanding a Health Care Advocacy/Navigation Private Practice3
Health Care Advocate/Navigator, pursuit if private practice, determination of interest, development of a viable business plan, and understanding the nuts-and-bolts of business ownership.
