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NURS 703

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

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January 16: Spring classes begin
January 22: Last day for UG students to add/drop
January 30: Last day for GR students to add/drop
March 2-10: Spring break
March 29: Last day to withdraw from one or more (but not all) classes with a grade of "W"
April 12: Last day to withdraw from the University (all classes) with a grade of "W"
April 26: Last day of classes
April 29-May 2: Spring exams