NURS 703: Healhcare Systems, Quality, and Safety
Credit Hours: (2) Two hours lecture
Concepts of healthcare systems, quality, and safety are analyzed with a focus on patient and population health outcomes for improving healthcare quality and safety for diverse individuals, populations, and healthcare systems.
Course Content
This course explores the quality and safety of healthcare systems and practice. It examines current quality and safety initiatives, acknowledges gaps, considers stakeholders, identifies leadership characteristics, and determines processes and measurements for improving healthcare quality and safety for diverse individuals, populations, and healthcare systems.
Topical Outline:
1. Healthcare systems
2. Quality improvement
3. Patient safety
4. Leadership
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
This course is taught in a hybrid instructional format; online teaching and on-campus learning techniques may be utilized. The following teaching strategies will be employed, but are not limited to a focus on the development of knowledge and skills for criticaldecision-making needed to deliver advanced practice healthcare to individuals and diverse populations across the lifespan.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Analyze organizational developments in healthcare quality and safety
2. Differentiate quality improvement tools and resources
3. Facilitate strategies for healthcare leaders to ensure accountability for quality and safety
4. Integrate quality and safety initiatives in interprofessional practice and in healthcare systems
5. Formulate leadership strategies for quality improvement and patient safety
Assessment Measures
Evaluation measures to assess achievement of course objectives may include but is not limited to faculty and student led seminar discussions, lectures, guest speakers, case studies, reading assignments, written projects, quizzes, audio or video presentations, online resources, and other instructional technology strategies as appropriate.
Published June 2023