NU 524 Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems

Credit, two hours.
This course focuses on quality and patient safety management in the current U.S. health care system using continuous quality improvement across the continuum of care. Emphasis is on identification of critical variables that serve as catalysts for positive clinical outcomes. Direct quality improvement methods to promote culturally responsive, safe, effective, efficient, equitable and patient centered care will be addressed. Prerequisite(s): NU 504 , NU 510 , NU 619 , NU 528 . Corequisite(s): NU 501 , NU 511 .