HA 330 - Healthcare Administration: Management Foundations (12-week)

1. Identify activities for professional development
2. Understand the concept of value
3. Recognize the complexity of healthcare systems and factors inhibiting change
4. Explain how management and organizational theories influence healthcare systems
5. Differentiate between leadership and management
6. Discover and explain your personal leadership style using contemporary leadership theory and principles
7. Assess your personal leadership style. 
8. Apply Leadership and management techniques to a case study.
9. Explain healthcare governance
10. Demonstrate healthcare leadership structures
11. Develop an effective communication process for a meeting with an executive board and high level organizational groups.
12. Apply the various theories of employee motivation.
13. Describe the popular, but misleading, myths about motivation. 
14. Explain the role of finding purpose in work as it relates to employee motivation.
15. Identify possibilities for developing and mentoring staff
16. Apply the factors that contribute to high-performing teams
17. Develop strategies for creating highly effective teams
18. Explain optional methods for team consensus building and decision-making.
19. Describe common communication barriers and effective ways to overcome these barriers.
20. Apply effective communication techniques to a case study.
21. Explain the importance of participating in enterprise-wide committees and networking with peers inside and outside of the organization
22. Analyze power relationships
23. Apply conflict management techniques
24. Understand the role of organizational politics
25. Compare negotiation techniques and using influence effectively
26. Explain the different categories of quality measures.
27. Compare and contrast two quality frameworks
28. Interpret change management theories and techniques leaders use facilitate change and adjust to value based purchasing processes.
29. Describe the evolution of information technology in healthcare
30. Apply a process to plan and implement information technology improvements.
31. Understand the concepts of strategy and strategic management
32. Describe the main features of the concepts of mission, vision and values
33. Develop a SWOT analysis
34. Explain the factors that lead to healthcare alliances by utilizing a contemporary example
35. Identify the benefits and risks of healthcare alliances
36. Plan for minimizing risk exposure
37. Identify the most important federal and state regulatory programs and how they affect healthcare management
38. Recommend strategies for maintaining compliance while creating a joint venture
39. Identify the key concepts of healthcare consumerism and how they impact healthcare organizations and healthcare providers specifically
40. Integrate and demonstrate your learning from this course.