10 courses with the subject HTHS, 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.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course provides an introduction to human service organizations and systems; including how they function and work together; types/roles of workers and the clients they serve.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course offers an overview of the clinical, financial and management systems needed to manage human service organizations and their practical application.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This introductory course covers the current funding sources, both public and private, for health and human service programs.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course provides an overview of global health care systems and a review of the theoretical, conceptual foundations, and practices of health services management. The manager’s role in planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and monitoring are introduced and discussed. Approaches to managing major functional areas of the health care organization are reviewed including communication, human resources, financing and budgeting, and legal/regulatory. Students will understand governance in an organization and learn about best practices for quality and ethical management and the importance of monitoring influences in the external environment.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course provides the student with advanced concepts and applications of the management process in health care. Perspectives from organizational theory and management provide a conceptual basis for understanding and analyzing the practice of management in health care organizations. An overview of the strategic management process is provided. Advanced principles of management in health service organizations, focusing on legal and ethical concepts, corporate compliance, long-range planning, growth through alliances and affiliations, and future trends are discussed.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course explores in part the essential legal aspects ethical and bioethical components of the health care industry. Included is background information regarding the evolution of the health care system as well as a primer in applicable health care laws. Students learn about the anatomy of a lawsuit as well as the responsibilities and liabilities of all health care professionals and organizations. Patient rights and responsibilities are discussed along with the ethical responsibilities of health care providers.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course provides an overview of the information systems used in the health care industry and establishes a framework for understanding the administration and delivery of health services using information systems. This course examines the use of technology in warehousing and mining health care data, communicating health care data, and safeguarding health care data, including discussion of electronic health records. This course explores the issues, benefits, and challenges of health care information systems as well as the future of health information management systems.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course provides foundational instruction in the financial management principles, practices, and techniques used in health care organizations. Students learn to examine and understand statements of operation, balance sheets, and cash flow statements in order to make administrative decisions. This course is designed to build upon the concepts introduced in basic accounting courses and develop proficiency in applying administrative financial techniques in health care decision making.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course explores the principles of disaster planning for hospitals and other health care facilities. Students consider the various types of disasters that must be planned for and learn the primary phases of disaster response. This course then builds upon that basic understanding and leads students to consider how health care facilities can best plan for disasters. In addition to the broad considerations of both internal and external planning, the specifics of developing a documented disaster plan are demonstrated.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course is an introduction to management in the long-term care system. Students develop knowledge of the various segments of the system, how the system developed to its current state, compares it to an ideal system, and projects future trends. This course covers the full continuum of long-term care. The increasingly important topics of the aging of American society, the impact of the “baby- boomers”, consumer choice, and the growing diversity in long-term care are covered extensively and from a variety of perspectives.
Source: Bryant & Stratton College-Virginia Beach's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
