Course Listing

HCA 100 Introduction to Health Care Administration 3
This course provides the student with a general foundation for understanding the organization, delivery, and financing of health services.

HCA 317 Organizational Management for Health Care Delivery 3
Course focuses on organizational structure and process for management of Health Care Delivery Systems. Attention will be given to human and administrative behavior and the interrelationship of business, social change, and health care.

HCA 321 Health Services Planning 3
This course focuses on the application of planning in the health organization. Prerequisite: BU 117.

HCA 322 Financial Management of Health Organizations 3
This course focuses on the financial aspects of a health care organization including third party reimbursement, budgeting, capital financing.

HCA 350 Long-Term Care Administration 3
This course focuses on the issues facing organizations providing health care to the chronically ill.

HCA 401 Health Law 3
This course includes the specifics of legal theory and practice unique to the health services field.

HCA 410 Applied Health Administration Theory 3
This course focuses on the application of organizational behavior and management theory in institutional settings. Prerequisites: BU 117, BU 219 or BU 316 or NU 316.

HCA 430 Informatics in Health Care 3
This course explores the use and value of informatics in healthcare with an emphasis on information systems and the use of information technology (IT) to support health. The history of the development of nursing informatics and current and evolving nursing roles in healthcare informatics provide a backdrop for the evaluation of actual and potential IT applications in health care administration, clinical practice, research, and education. (This course may also be taken as NU 430.) Prerequisite or Co-requisite: Junior year or with permission of instructor.