NURS 306 - Healthcare Analytics

Credit Hours: 2

This course is designed to give the student the basic knowledge needed to identify a problem related to the delivery of healthcare care, craft metrics for the objective assessment of the problem, collect and analyze the data and present information in a format that is usable for decision and policy makers. The student explores existing measures of quality and safety and has an opportunity to apply basic data analytic strategies to these measures. The student also has an opportunity to identify a problem that is important to the practice setting and design and implement a measurement plan to address the problem.