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Apr 16, 2024
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HCA 151 - Overview of Health Care
Last Date of Approval: Fall 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course will explore the career field as it relates to health care. Items covered in class will include identifying components of the health care system in the U.S., quality, size, scope, and business functions of health care. The student is introduced to different sectors of health care. This course helps students build confidence in their critical thinking skills while effectively expressing themselves.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: 8-week online students will have a per credit hour e-book fee automatically charged to their account.
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Define health and health care.
- Compare medical and wellness models of health.
- Describe the size and scope of health care in the US.
- Describe key business functions.
- Identify major components of health care industry.
- Identify the major payers in health care.
- Compare the various roles of health care providers.
- Define the various types of care.
- Classify the different types of hospitals and their organization.
- Discuss various measures of health care quality.
- Define the concept of public health and give examples of public health activities.
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