Course Title: NRSG 480: Management of Healthcare Systems

Credits: 2 (lecture)

Semester Offered: Fall, Spring

Prerequisites:

 

Course Description: The course discusses the healthcare system structure, functioning, and theory. Evidence-based practice including quality improvement processes with systems thinking will be analyzed. Information technology will be examind with emphasis given to clinically transformative technologies, telehealth, and the nurses' role.

Catalog Course Description: Healthcare system structure, functioning, and theory is examined with emphasis on evidence-based practice, quality improvement, systems thinking, and information technology. Students will focus on clinically transformative technologies, telehealth, and the nurses' role for outcome improvement.

Course Objectives:

  1. Examine various healthcare systems, systems theory, and creating a culture supportive of EBP.
  2. Evaluate common nurse sensitive quality indicators, quality improvement processes and tools to address health outcomes, and the use of data management systems and systems thinking to promote change.
  3. Explain a healthcare system's ethical responsibility to collaborate and meet public health needs and reduce environmental waste.
  4. Assess major theories, evolution, and development of nursing informatics.
  5. Compare and contrast the benefits and limitations of telecommunication technologies, including telehealth, and future advancements and trends related to healthcare technology.
  6. Analyze common information technology and importance of data entry to support person-centered care and safe processes of care.

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Critique data in the application of a quality improvement tool used to improve patient outcomes.
  2. Design an information technology process to improve a nurse sensitivie quality indicator.
  3. Describe nursing's advocacy role in providing quality care through telehealth.

AACN Competencies:

This course advances:

3.1 Manage population health. 

3.2 Engage in effective partnerships. 

3.3 Consider the economic impact of the delivery of health care. 

3.4 Advance equitable population health policy. 

3.5 Demonstrate advocacy strategies. 

5.1 Apply quality improvement principles in care delivery.  

7.1 Apply knowledge of systems to work effectively across the continuum of care.  

7.2 Incorporate consideration of cost effectiveness of care.  

7.3 Optimize system effectiveness through application of innovation and evidence-based practice. 

8.1 Describe information and communication technology tools used in the care of patients, communities, and populations 

8.2 Use information and communication technology to gather data, create information, and generate knowledge. 

8.3 Use information and communication technologies and informatics processes to deliver safe nursing care to diverse populations in a variety of settings. 

8.4 Use information and communication technology to support chronicling of care and communication among providers, patients, and all system levels. 

8.5 Use information and communication technologies in accordance with ethical, legal, professional and regulatory standards and workplace policies in the delivery of care.

AACN Threads: 

Equity and Inclusion

Diversity

Cultural Sensitivity

Social Determinants of Health

Communication

Ethics

Clinical Judgement

Mental Health

Required Content and Concepts:

  1. EBP (creating and sustaining a culture for EBP) (Melynk, 2015) 
  2. Data management systems 
  3. Using Data for Change 
  4. Quality indicators (including nursing sensitive) 
  5. Systems Theory 
  6. QI Tools (PDSA, A3) 
  7. Lean Thinking 
  8. IT tools used to share information visually (Process maps, Smart Art) 
  9. Social responsibility to collaborate and meet public health needs (Hoskins, K., Grady, C., Ulrich, C., 2018). 
  10. Examine role of nurse informatics, types of common information technologies (Alaris Pumps, Pyxis, HER, telehealth) and future implications 
  11. Technological Advancements in Healthcare Today, Future Advancements  

Suggested Student Learning Activities:

  • tests and quizzes
  • Guest Lecture from Industrial Engineer 
  • Guest Lecture from past project leads 
  • Guest Lecture from IT RN 
  • Guest Lecture  
  • Draw out a process map 
  • Create a mock A3 report 
  • Design a healthcare technology 
  • workshops 
  • discussion 
  • videos 
  • reading 
  • case studies 
  • student presentations 
  • cooperative learning 
  • small groups 
  • How to mine data 
  • Reliable sources of data 
  • TIGER competencies 
  • Medicare/Medicaid data sets 

 

Approved by Faculty: 11/9/2020

Approved by UAAC: 11/24/2020