COURSE DESCRIPTIONS RASMUSSEN COLLEGE HSA 4110 Healthcare Operations Management 40 hours, 4 credits In this course students examine the operations of managing people, information technology, materials and facilities in the healthcare industry. Prerequisites: None HSA 4150 Healthcare Planning and Policy Management 40 hours, 4 credits This course provides a study of current healthcare- policy issues affecting the U.S. healthcare system and the politics that drive policy and planning of healthcare delivery. The influence of participants outside the healthcare industry and the various levels of government involved in policymaking will be examined. Economic theory, trends, and the future of healthcare will be explored. Prerequisite: Introduction to Healthcare Administration HSA 4124 International Healthcare 40 credits, 4 hours In this course, students will compare and contrast foreign healthcare services and systems, focusing on cultural, geographic, environmental, economic and political factors. Prerequisite: Introduction to Healthcare Administration HSA 4191 Healthcare Information Systems 40 hours, 4 credits The Healthcare Information Systems course focuses on how healthcare institutions can use technology and information processes and solutions to assist in the diagnosis of diseases and the documentation of patient records and other data. It also addresses the strategies and techniques healthcare business professionals can use to help increase the quality of healthcare services and the efficiency with which the services are delivered. Prerequisites: None HSA 4210 Advanced Healthcare Law and Ethics 40 hours, 4 credits This course examines ethical theories and the principles of bioethics. Students will analyze these theories and principles and apply them to ethical problems in the healthcare field. This course includes educational resources from Harvard Business Publishing. Prerequisite: None HSA 4922 Healthcare Management Capstone 30 hours, 3 credits This online course is designed to allow students to integrate the knowledge and skills gained in the Healthcare Management BS program. Through case analysis, class discussion, and a research project, students will synthesize and demonstrate their understanding of core healthcare- management concepts via completion of a Capstone project approved by the instructor. Prerequisites: Expected to be the final upper-level core course completed HSA 4940 Healthcare Management Internship 70 hours, 3 credits In this course, students will apply the knowledge and skills gained throughout the Healthcare Management Bachelor Degree program. Students will synthesize and demonstrate core healthcare management concepts through both their internship and course work. The course and internship experience will culminate with a final capstone project. Prerequisite: None HSC 1531 Medical Terminology 40 hours, 4 credits This is a basic medical vocabulary-building course. An emphasis will be placed on the most common medical terms based on prefixes and suffixes, Latin and Greek origins, and anatomic roots denoting body structures. All body systems will be covered with a focus on word parts, terms built from word parts, abbreviations, and basic disease and surgical terms. Students will be expected to focus on spelling and pronunciation. Prerequisite: None HSC 2641 Medical Law and Ethics 40 hours, 4 credits A study of the United States legal system and court process with emphasis on legal and ethical issues within the healthcare environment. Fraud and abuse, patient privacy and confidentiality, and professional practice law and ethics will be covered. The course will include a project that is specific to the student’s program of study. Prerequisite: None HSC 3010 Contemporary Health and Wellness 40 hours, 4 credits In this course students will explore the field of contemporary health and wellness, and become familiar with the variety of therapeutic methods offering holistic alternatives for patient care. Students will study the foundations and systems pertaining to health and wellness, preparing the student for health and wellness advocacy. Prerequisite: None HSC 3145 Therapeutic Communication and Patient Services 40 hours, 4 credits This course introduces students to the roles of communication, compassion and decision- making in healthcare. Students will identify and explain the techniques and barriers to effective communication that enhance patient interaction. Students will focus on therapeutic communication, alternative and complementary approaches to healthcare and their roles in supporting patient privacy and dignity. Prerequisite: None HSC 3258 Multidisciplinary Medical Practices 40 hours, 4 credits This course provides an introduction to multidisciplinary medical practice concepts and methods for evaluating coordinated medical services while working with diverse populations. Topics include comparing various medical models, holistic health approaches, improving patient outcomes, analyzing cost savings, advocating patient healthcare, providing patient education and case management skills. Prerequisite: None HSC 3371 Health Education and Training 40 hours, 4 credits This course examines health and wellness education and focuses on opportunities within the healthcare field to support wellness and prevention through patient education. Students will explore evidence based practices, community health and disease management. Emphasis will be placed on examining and applying technologies necessary in delivering patient education to promote public health, preventative health and individual wellness. Prerequisite: None HSC 3485 Healthcare Advocacy 40 hours, 4 credits This course provides the knowledge, skills, and understanding necessary to act as a healthcare advocate for patients, diverse clients and special populations across the life span. Students will evaluate different barriers to healthcare, patient rights, health justice and behaviors related to promoting health and disease prevention. Students will also identify the role of cultural beliefs in relation to health practices and social services. Prerequisite: None 82 rasmussen.edu HSC 4009 Healthcare and Aging 40 hours, 4 credits The course is designed to investigate health concerns and aspects of the aging process. Explores concepts related to specific health problems confronting the aging population, examines preventative (primary, secondary and tertiary) health behaviors along with health maintenance strategies. This course will also explore death and the dying process and as well as stress the importance of purposeful living. Prerequisite: None HSC 4125 Behavioral Health 40 hours, 4 credits This course examines behavioral health in the contexts of wellness education and advocacy. Students will explore the relationship between behavioral health and overall wellness, while examining the critical importance of demonstrating advocacy skills to meet the behavioral health needs of patients in today’s healthcare systems. Key emphasis will be placed on analyzing applicable models of advocacy and understanding the unique ethical and legal challenges associated with the rapidly evolving shifts in our present behavioral health marketplace. Prerequisite: None HSC 4290 Health and Wellness Capstone 30 hours, 3 credits The Health and Wellness Capstone course is designed as a final milestone for students to demonstrate the ability to use interdisciplinary methods to draw together different areas of study focusing on relevant health and wellness concepts and concerns. Students will rely heavily on knowledge and skills learned in previous program courses to demonstrate transferable skills related to critical thinking; digital fluency; information literacy; ethics and professional responsibility; communication and diversity and teamwork. Prerequisite: Expected to be the final upper-level core course completed HSC 4500 Epidemiology 40 hours, 4 credits This course examines the patterns and causes of disease in populations, how diseases are documented, and how to analyze the data to understand disease causes. Prerequisite: None HUM 2023 Humanities 40 hours, 4 credits This course investigates human creative achievement. It is designed to increase the student’s understanding and appreciation of cultural literacy and the pursuit of humanitarian goals. Representative disciplines may include art, music, literature, architecture, drama, and philosophy. Prerequisite: None HUS 1001 Introduction to Human Services 40 hours, 4 credits Introduction to Human Services exposes the student to the many facets of human services work. Topics to be explored include programs, policies, history, politics, and how current economics shape programs. Human service intervention strategies utilized in daily practice are examined along with stresses faced in the workplace. Comparisons of human services systems from a variety of countries will also be examined. Prerequisite: None HUS 1320 Introductory Strategies to Crisis Intervention 40 hours, 4 credits This course sets the foundation for students to develop the morals, ethics, and attitude necessary to strategically help those in crisis situations. The values and ethics intrinsic to the human services profession will be explored, as well as developing interpersonal communication skills. Students will explore how human services professionals function as change agents and must therefore attain and develop a core of intervention knowledge, theory, and skills to effectively deal with people in crisis. The ability to create genuine and empathetic relationships with others is central to those entering the human services field. Intervention strategies are also explored. Prerequisite: Introduction to Human Services HUS 1551 Cultural Diversity in Human Services 40 hours, 4 credits This course will examine diversity in many communities and the cross-cultural service delivery available in those communities. Specific client populations will be explored, with an understanding of what cultural, physical, and mental diversity is and why it is important. Special attention will be paid to working with people of both mental and physical disabilities. Those disabilities include, but are not limited to, intellectual disabilities, autism, and Asperger’s syndrome. Prerequisite: Introduction to Human Services HUS 2540 Community Psychology 40 hours, 4 credits Community Psychology focuses on the four systems that function in a community: the mental health system, the educational system, the criminal justice system, and the social service system. As human service professionals, students will analyze problems in these communities and will evaluate individuals functioning in these systems, offering both answers and proactive models of prevention. Community psychology works toward the empowerment of members within a community, while appreciating diversity and understanding human behavior. Social change will be examined as well as understanding that setting or environment is as important as the individual in it. Prerequisite: General Psychology HUS 2712 Organization and Leadership in Human Services 40 hours, 4 credits Working and managing within a human services organization takes high morals, standards, and ethics. Through this course, students will consider the complexity of moral and ethical dilemmas in navigating and managing in the human service industry. Students will learn decision-making techniques to include the necessary components for an ethical reasoning process. In order to have a strong foundation of practice, students will learn how to build a strong ethical organization through culture, climate, and structure. Prerequisites: Case Management: Strategies for Rehabilitation; Counseling Clients HUS 2937 Internship for Human Services 250 hours, 9 credits Field experience is a key learning experience in a human services delivery organization. It is a process of experiential learning that integrates the knowledge, theory, skills, and professional behaviors that are concurrently being taught within the classroom. It is an integral part of the total educational process. Prerequisite: Expected to be the final lower-level core course completed
