NSU 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

312 Nova Southeastern University • Undergraduate Student Catalog • 2014–2015 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS BHS 3140 Health Care Practice (3 credits) The purpose of this course is to study the legal implications of licensing, practice, and contractual employment. The importance of understanding rules of practice and standards of care are discussed BHS 3145 Principle of Environmental Health (3 credits) This course will introduce students to the principles of environmental health and their importance to human populations. Some of the topics covered include Environmental Quality, Occupational Health, Vector- borne and Pandemic Diseases, and Hazardous Materials Management, and the regulations promulgated to manage each. BHS 3150 Principle of Leadership (3 credits) This course will provide an overview of numerous leadership theories to prepare the student for a leadership role in Health Care. The course will critically analyze the differences between leadership and management BHS 3151 Health Services Management (3 credits) This course will provide an overview of health care and general management to prepare the student for a managerial role in Health Care administration. Course topics include human resource issues and policy, personnel planning, staffing, development, coaching and training of employees. BHS 3155 Conflict Resolution in Health Care (3 credits) The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of conflict and effective conflict resolution strategies that increase personal achievement and create collaborative relationships in the workplace. A variety of health care disputes including employee-employee conflict, supervisor-subordinate conflict, patient-patient conflict, and patient/client-provider conflict are analyzed and problem-solving methods are applied that reduce stress, manage conflict, and create environments of positive growth, personal and organizational safety, and intrapersonal and interpersonal satisfaction. BHS 3160 Health Policy (3 credits) This course provides the student with a broad understanding of policy, how health care is organized, dispensed and how the practitioner can better work in the system. Topics of discussion include cost control, long term care, quality control, ethical issues and insurance. BHS 3161 Concepts in Health Care Finance (3 credits) The course introduces the fundamental tools, concepts, and applications aimed at providing students an understanding of numerous financial theories and techniques utilized in health care financial management. The course materials are structured around emerging health care policies and the role finance and economics play in establishing policy. Cases studies are drawn from a variety of sources such as health maintenance organizations, home health agencies, nursing units, hospitals, and integrated health care systems. Some topics of discussion also include: concepts of capital financing for providers, budgeting, financial ethics, payment systems, provider costs, high cost of health care, and measuring costs. BHS 3162 Economics of Health Services (3 credits) This course will teach the student to use economic analysis to understand critical issues in health care and health policy. Issues to be studied include the demand for health care, health insurance markets, managed care, medical technology, government health care programs, national health reform, and the pharamaceutical industry. The course will focus on the US health care sector, but will also examine health care systems of other countries. BHS 3170 Health Care Delivery Systems (3 credits) The purpose of this course is to provide an overview and analysis of American health care delivery systems. An understanding of the economical, social, political and professional forces that shape the health care delivery system will be discussed as well as an examination of how the sistem is organized, how services are delivered, and the mechanisms by which health care services are financed. BHS 3190 Patient Education in Health Care (3 credits) Patient education is an integral part of health care in every setting, from patient treatment, to health and wellness promotion, to injury and illness prevention. The focus of this course is to explore the many issues that impact patient education, from both a health care professional and management perspective. Adult education theory, patient/therapist interaction, communication barriers, strategies for success, web-based patient education, documentation, federal laws and initiatives and standards for patient education are some of the topics that will be examined. BHS 3195 Therapeutic Communications for Health Care Professionals (3 credits) This course covers a variety of general concepts and contemporary discussions in the area of therapeutic communications. Attention is paid to self-awareness, basic communication skills, and therapeutic responses from all health care professionals. BHS 3200 Ultrasound Physics II/Lab (1 credits) Ultrasound physics review is designed to integrate the principles of ultrasound physics with the theoretical and