The HCA degree program provides an online active learning environment especially for those health care clinicians who have decided to enlarge their job opportunities to include the field of administration, management and leadership. This degree program prepares students with the knowledge and skills in order to manage their health care organization's operations both efficiently and effectively. A wide variety of assignments and techniques are used to ease immediate transference of course content into practical application on the job.
Some examples of these assignments and techniques include:
Use of discussion groups to explore the health care manager's role in planning, organizing, leading and controlling aspects of the organization.
Use of interview techniques, case study analysis, research techniques, and methodology simulations, which help students transfer theory to practical application.
Students can expect to learn:
How to base management decisions on a systems perspective for leading strategic, tactical and operational direction of the health care organization.
How to strengthen skills in self assessment as a communicator.
How to select appropriate strategies of managing conflict between self and others.
How to use common data analysis concepts to interpret reports and evaluate data.
How to analyze market research needs, plan and implement marketing degree programs that benefit the health care organization.
How to establish and maintain high performing teams of health care providers who are responsible for carrying out the established plans of operation.
How to apply a structured problem-solving model to organizational performance.
How to use financial management as a decision science.
How to interact with the numerous regulatory bodies that expect compliance from health care organizations.
How to provide leadership to the community by integrating involvement between the community and the health care organization to meet common health care needs.
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