This course provides students with the tools to evaluate and improve health care programs and clinical outcomes. Students develop feasible and reliable program evaluation designs. Students analyze the nature of, and explanations for variations in clinical practice patterns and clinical outcomes. Emphasis is on the use of program evaluation for improvements in clinical outcomes, efficiency, resource allocation, and cost reduction. Requires 4 hours per week residency time for each credit hour enrolled. Graded pass/fail.

This course provides students with the tools to evaluate and improve health care programs and clinical outcomes. Students develop feasible and reliable program evaluation designs. Students analyze the nature of, and explanations for variations in clinical practice patterns and clinical outcomes. Emphasis is on the use of program evaluation for improvements in clinical outcomes, efficiency, resource allocation, and cost reduction. Requires 4 hours per week residency time for each credit hour enrolled. Graded pass/fail.

This course focuses on the application of economic and financial principles and practices to health care. Within this framework, content related to finance and economics, health care reimbursement models, incentive structures, market dynamics, economic evaluations, and quantification of outcomes are examined . The emphasis will be on critically analyzing the actual and potential impact of these dynamics on the structure and functioning of the health care system.

This course focuses on critical evaluation and synthesis of the comprehensive evidence base including interventional and non- interventional research and non-research sources of evidence to elucidate the best available evidence and state of the science in a particular focused area to provide a foundation for the development of practice change based on best evidence, and to illuminate significant gaps in current knowledge to support the development of research studies.

This course provides an overview of the institutional review board process. Included are scientific integrity and ethics in clinical scholarship.

This course provides the foundation to improve health outcomes for patient populations. National strategies, theories and methods to improve health outcomes will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on the systematic analysis of systems of care to promote safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered care. Students will learn how to optimize the translation of evidence into clinical practice to enhance quality and safety. Students will gain knowledge to lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives in health care systems.

This course provides opportunity for study of clinical problems encountered in particular clinical areas of advanced nursing practice. Application of the scope and standards of specialty practice, application of evidence-based practices, and development of techniques for nursing interventions are emphasized. Course requires 4 hours per week clinical time for each credit hour enrolled.

This course provides opportunity for study of clinical problems encountered in particular clinical areas of advanced nursing practice. Application of the scope and standards of specialty practice, application of evidence-based practices, and development of techniques for nursing interventions are emphasized. Course requires 4 hours per week clinical time for each credit hour enrolled.

This course provides opportunity for study of clinical problems encountered in particular clinical areas of advanced nursing practice. Application of the scope and standards of specialty practice, application of evidence-based practices, and development of techniques for nursing interventions are emphasized. Course requires 4 hours per week clinical time for each credit hour enrolled.

This course provides opportunity for study of clinical problems encountered in particular clinical areas of advanced nursing practice. Application of the scope and standards of specialty practice, application of evidence-based practices, and development of techniques for nursing interventions are emphasized. Course requires 4 hours per week clinical time for each credit hour enrolled.