17 courses with the subject HCM, 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.
HCM 2301Health Law and Ethics3
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines the ethical dimensions of public health policies and the role ethics plays in the administration of quality health care. The course introduces the application of ideas from philosophy, law, political science and economics to analyze the ethical basis of public health policies and programs. A comprehensive analysis of how the ethical aspects of the operation of health care organizations are central to the delivery of healthcare will be provided. Practical application of ethical theory will be discussed through case study analysis, study of various healthcare ethics codes, and student research of current ethical issues in healthcare.
HCM 2304Virtual Gaming to Address Health Disparities3
Credits: 3 hrs This course will equip students with skills required to recognize the need for information as well as the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use information. Through participating in activities of the RAMS KNOW How Mobile Unit in a virtual environment, students will engage in interactive exposures of the various disciplines in the School of Health Sciences and their respective responsibilities. Students will utilize a variety of technology-based resources in an effort to identify health disparities in the state of North Carolina and use the mobile clinic and its resources to combat these disparities. This elective course explores determinants of health and their contribution to health disparities in North Carolina through an interactive, hybrid, learning format through the use of virtual simulation, web-based research, and various educational technology applications. This course has been designed to help students use their understanding of these dterminants to improve the health of communities.
Credits: 3 SH Within the context of healthcare, this course will provide students with a fundamental understanding of the principles of management and managerial functions as a framework for organizing knowledge and techniques in the healthcare field. This will be done by relating each of the functions of management (planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling) to healthcare organization operations. Practical examples, applications, issues, and exercises requiring critical thinking and effective written and verbal presentations will be emphasized.
HCM 2306Professional Growth & Leadership in the HC Environment3
Credits: 3 hrs This course requires that students identify and demonstrate professional behaviors appropriate for the healthcare environment. Students will self-assess specific abilities related to time and stress management, interpersonal skills, critical thinking, problem solving, professional growth and conduct. Through case studies and vignettes, students will demonstrate leadership principles specific to the healthcare environment and explore both personal and team values that drive appropriate and effective behavior.
Healthcare Management majors only or by permission of instructor.
HCM 3301Health Care Delivery Systems3
Credits: 3 hrs This course provides and overview of the U. S. health care delivery systems. Historical, legal, ethical, professional practice roles and standards of care are discussed as tehy apply to avariety of health care environment. Emphasis is placed on understanding management and administrative roles in U. S. health care delivery systems.
Credits: 3 SH The primary goal of the course is to help students apply basic principles of proposal writing. The course will identify funding agencies, review requests for funding, and identify the essential and appropriate features of a proposal. At the end of the course, students will prepare one proposal ready for submission.
Credits: 3 SH This course introduces students to the basics of health information management. It identifies the roles and responsibilities of Health Information professionals, the content of the health care record: administrative data e.g., billing, reimbursement, and consent forms and clinical data i.e., that information provided by the health care provider. Health information management nomenclature and classification systems also will be addressed.
Organizational Behavior, Health Delivery Systems, Epidermiology, and Financial Accounting
HCM 3306Population Health3
Credits: 3 SH This course is designed to help students identify regional and rural health care problems, needs, related health care delivery systems, and agencies. It is coordinated with several health care and social disciplines in mind to gain a comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the needs, services, electronic and outreach resources, and referral mechanisms. Consideration is given to the economic, cultural, and psychosocial impact of health issues and services on individuals and families.
Credits: 3 SH This course is designed to introduce students to international experiences primarily through respectful and mature discussions in a virtual classroom setting; through “chat rooms” activities; through reflective writing; and through reading historical literature and current print media. The course intends to help students to understand profoundly and in “real time” social, economic, and political perspectives to grasp the impact of these on health care and health care management in foreign countries.
HCM 3310Community-Based Health Intervention Planning3
Credits: 3 hrs The purpose of this course is to prepare students to implement evidence-based health behavior interventions in comunity-based settings. Through both didactic instruction and interactive demonstrations, students will be instructed on the concepts central to behavioral interventions, inluding health behavior theory, behavior modification techniques, mitigating lifestyles-related risk factors, and fundamentals of group dynamics. Through experimental learning, students under direct supervision, will impliment an evidence-based health behavior program with community participants.
HCM 3320Community-Based Health Intervention Practicum
The purpose of this practicum experience is to allow students to apply and integrate the foundational intervention skills learned in the pre-requisite course,
HCM 3310 - Community-Based Health Intervention Planning or EXS 3312 - Community-based Health Planning & Intervention Student Learning Outcome: Critical Thinking, Scientific Literacy, Oral Communication Cross-listed as EXS 3320 - Community-Based Health Intervention Practicum Latest Update(s) Approved by Academic Standards and Curriculum: November 20, 2018 Effective Date: January 2019
HCM 3325Introduction to Health Economics and Financial Management3
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to introduce fundamental concepts of health economics and healthcare financial management. It examines the importance of economics in healthcare decisions, both demand and supply-side factors, and how public policy influences the economy of healthcare. The course also explores the current system of financing healthcare and factors affecting it as well as healthcare financial management at the facility level, including but not limited to understanding financial statements purposes, an introduction to pro forma income statements and Excel, operating and capital budgeting, managing financial resources by budget variance analysis, the financial relationship among volume, revenue and expenses, and also state and federal systems and private insurance issues and the relationship to disparities.
HCM 4301Chronic Illness/Long Term Care Management3
Credits: 3 SH This course emphasizes chronic disease conditions from a developmental perspective (pediatric, middle age, and elderly) that may lead to extended, home, palliative and end-of-life care services. The program will introduce students to managerial roles and responsibilities and regulatory practices in these various care settings as well as services provided in assisted and independent living facilities.
HCM 4302Health Care Policy, Organization, and Finance3
Credits: 3 SH Within the context of health care policy, organization, and finance, the purpose of this course is to provide students with a practical understanding of how the American health care system works, while stimulating critical thinking about policy implications and how it may be improved across a range of organizational settings and outcomes. Practical examples, applications, issues, and exercises requiring critical thinking and effective written and verbal presentations will be emphasized.
HCM 3304 - Health Information Management , HCM 3306 - Population Health , HCM 3307 - Global Understanding
HCM 4303Environmental Health3
Credits: 3 hrs This course introduces students to the basic principles of environmental health that include identifying risk factors and hazards associated with natural/human and non-natural influences. Factors such as health, fitness, and wellness, training and education to reduce risk factors and risk management will be introduced.
Credits: 3 hrs This is an introductory course designed to assist health care professionals in basic language skills, including appropriate pronunciations, terms and commonly used phrases that students may need in order to address and communicate to those individuals that speak the Spanish language. The course will integrate cultural awareness and sensitivity and the effective and identify the use of translators in order to make communication respectful and effective in the health care environment.
Credits: 6 hrs This course requires that the comprehensive examination be taken before the student engages in the semester long experiential internship. The internship requires the application and integration of professionalism and health care management knowledge and skills at an agreed upon and assigned health care facility or health care related institution , agency or company.
