CATALOG - University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

HSA 6101E – Health Services Administration Hours: 3This course examines the functions of a rehabilitation manager. Content includes ethical-legalconsiderations, applicable state and federal statues, marketing, fiscal resource management, and staffproductivity. Emphasis is placed on decision making, change implementation, and quality controlprocesses in health care organizations. Students have the opportunity to analyze problems and developstrategies for change in a variety of hypothetical settings.HSA 6101 - Health Services Administration Hours: 3This online course examines the functions of a rehabilitation manager. Content includes staff resourcemanagement, strategic planning, marketing, and fiscal resources management. Emphasis is placed ondecision-making, change implementation, and quality control processes in health care organizations.Students have the opportunity to analyze problems and develop strategies for change in a variety ofhypothetical rehabilitation settings.HSA 6201 – Organizational Leadership and Policy in Health Care Hours: 3Effective leadership in healthcare is critical for developing, implementing, sustaining, and modifyingappropriate policies to address major health concerns including controlling costs, increasing access toservices, improving the quality of health services, and enhancing the effectiveness of program outcomes.A skilled workforce, ethical and trained leaders, and effective policies are integral to the implementationof programs and services that successfully promote the public’s health. The goal of this course is toexamine the conceptual, methodological, and ethical foundations of healthcare leadership andadministration leading to the development and analysis of health related policy at all levels. The coursewill focus on analyzing the process of policymaking in the formulation, implementation, adoption, andmodification phases of current health policy through effective leadership and administration.HSC 5001 – Research I: Scientific Inquiry/Critical Thinking Hours: 2Although there are many ways of knowing, it is only when we critically evaluate our thoughts,assumptions and beliefs that can we be confident in the quality of the conclusions that we make about theworld and ourselves. This course is divided into two parts. Part One (Scientific Inquiry) is anintroduction to research methods, psychometric properties of tests and measures as used in the clinicalsituation for diagnosis, prognosis, and outcome assessment, sampling, experimental design, and statistics.Part Two (Critical Thinking) introduces clinical critical thinking through the principles of activereasoning, active teaching and learning, active questioning and self-assessment. The areas of logic,problem solving, hypothesis generation, domains of learning, and professional abilities are highlighted.Socratic questioning is the chief method of student dialogue.The Scientific Inquiry segment enhances inquiry skills from both multicultural and multi-professionalviewpoints. The main emphasis of the scientific inquiry portion is to allow the students to become criticalconsumers of the scientific literature needed to guide evidence-based clinical practice and perhaps setsome on the way to producing such scientific literature for themselves. The Critical Thinking segmentcombines instruction in clinical critical thinking through the principles of active reasoning, activeteaching-learning, active questioning and self assessment. The areas of logic, problem solving,hypothesis generation, domains of learning, professional abilities are highlighted. Socratic questioning isthe chief method of student dialogue. The purpose of this section of this course is to enhance criticalthinking skills from both multicultural and multi professional viewpoints.HSC 5100C - Applied Human Anatomy Hours: 4Applied Human Anatomy consists of three (3) one-hour lectures and three (3) hours of lab per week.Laboratory sessions primarily involve the study of bones and models. Lectures are designed toconcentrate on the neuromuscular, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems, integrating functional92