HSAD 125 – Medical Terminology

This course introduces the language of medicine through an analysis of medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  210 - Health-Care Ethics

This course addresses introductory concepts and basic issues in health-care ethics. The topics include but are not limited to decision-making, professionalism and advocacy, confidentiality, truth-telling and informed consent.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  309 - Advanced Health-Care Ethics

This course builds on the foundation provided in Health Care Ethics and discusses such issues as chronic care, end of life, beginning of life, distributive justice and the right to health care.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  310 - Health-Systems Administration

The course is designed to assist the student in understanding and preparing for the unique challenges presented to managers in a health services administration career. History and current milieu of U.S. health care are considered, as well as the ever changing infrastructure of the health-services industry.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  312 - Development of World Health Care

This course examines a broad overview of the ongoing development of health-care policies, availability, and philosophy in a cross-section of countries by means of detailed case studies to examine both common and unique challenges and solutions, as well as global responses, to crises, such as plagues, epidemics, and natural disasters.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  313 - Evolution of Health Care in US

This course will cover the evolution of health care in the U.S. from pre-colonial times to the present by discussing improvements in treatment institutions, modalities, philosophies and access to care, as well as the impact of major events in history on health-care discoveries on the delivery and administration of health services in the United States.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  315 - Interdisciplinary Health Services

This course focuses on the role, responsibilities, scope of practice, and special concerns of health-care providers and their disciplines. The concept of interdisciplinary health-care practice is examined, along with basic concepts of teamwork and team formation.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  316 - Health Care across Cultures

Living in a pluralistic society poses many challenges and opportunities. This course examines the impact of cultural upon health-care decision. Concepts such as "health," "illness," "culture," "ethnicity," will be analyzed. Traditional and alternative approaches to the delivery of health care will be addressed.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  317 - Religious Views on Health Care

Addresses the impact of a person's religious beliefs on the need for and delivery of health care. Specific issues will be discussed.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  318 - Health & Vulnerable Populations

Vulnerable populations, those with special needs for or barriers to care, have a significant impact upon health care, both in terms of meaning and delivery. This course looks at the meaning of health through the eyes of various distinct vulnerable populations.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  319 - Women and the Health Professions

This course explores women's early and controversial roles as health-care providers, the influence of government and the church on women, and key contributions by women in the health professions.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  320 - Managed Health Care

This course provides the student an opportunity to survey the major concepts and operational considerations of the provision of health-care services in a managed-care environment. The regulatory landscape as well as the physician/patient relationship is considered as a key to understanding the managed health care environment.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  321 - Health-Care Human Resources

An introduction to the basic principles of human-resource management and their practical application in today's complex health-care organization. This course examines the role of human resources as a strategic partner within the organization.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  322 - Health-Care Law

Provides an overview of the major laws affecting health-care professionals and examines the current legal climate in health care.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  323 - Health Services and the Elderly

This course covers a broad spectrum of health-care issues and concerns facing today's elderly, such as health-care coverage, living arrangements, acute and long-term-illness management, enhanced quality of life issues, and gender-specific health concerns.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  324 - Health Technology and Ethical Responsibility

Developments in health care technology challenge many of our common assumptions about basic concepts such as health, disease, and normality. This course encourages students to consider some of the issues raised by changing health technology.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  325 - Issues in Health Care System

This course provides the student with the opportunity to analyze management problems that are of current importance in today?s health-care industry on a national and international level.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  326 - Holism & Health Care

Details the development of medicine from the late nineteenth century to the present in view of the corresponding rise of interest in a holistic approach to health care by means of alternative and complementary medicine in relation to traditional medical practices.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  327 - Partnerships in Health Care

Addresses health service as a collaborative venture identifying the primary stakeholders and partners in the administration of health care including clinicians, administrators, institutions, industry, private and governmental agencies, and the patient. In addition, practical strategies for developing effective partnerships are explored.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  328 - Health Care for Diverse Groups

Examines the administration of health services and special needs to different subpopulations classified according to gender, ethnicity, race, weight (the obese), and sexual orientation.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  329 - Health Care and the Media

Much of the public's perception of issues in health care comes from the media (newspapers, magazines, television, film, advertising, the internet). The course explores the interactive relationship between health care and the media in presenting information to the public.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  330 - Financial Management in Health Care

Emphasizes basic financial management theory related to the health-care industry, as well as accounting practices for health-care organizations.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  331 – Nonprofits and Health Care

Provides an overview of the not-for-profit and advocacy sector of health care, explores business fundamentals and current models, selects a health topic, assesses the market, and assists students in developing their own not-for-profit and/or advocacy business.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions

HSAD  332 - Health-Care Marketing

Provides a comprehensive review of marketing's role in the health-care field by examining the history of health-care marketing, the contributions of marketing to the strategic objectives of health-care organizations, and the effects of marketing on public relations and the consumer.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  333 - Health, Illness, and the Arts

This course provides the opportunity to examine topics relevant to health and illness as depicted in the arts - primarily literature, film, and painting as well as other arts forms where appropriate.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  334 – Management of  Health Services

In this course, students will learn forms and uses of traditional management functions—plan, direct, monitor, evaluate—as well as contemporary functions that are used in an array of health care services organizations. Students match skills and competencies within the respective domains of health services management.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  335 - Health-Care Policy

The course provides an introduction to the development and implications of U.S. health-care policy, including key governmental and nongovernmental players and the political process.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  340 - Leadership & Management in Health Services Administration

This course discusses issues in management and leadership in a health-care-administration setting by focusing on alternative organizational structures and the managerial role in these structures, as well as exploring managerial and leadership roles in specific health organizations and project management.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  470 - Readings in Health-Services Administration

This course is designed to allow juniors and seniors majoring in health-services administration and carrying minimum cum GPAs of 3.0 to pursue specialized interests in specific topics in health-services administration on an independent basis, yet under the direction of program faculty members. Faculty permission is required. May be repeated twice for credit.
Credits: 1.00 to 6.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  480 - Special Topics in Health-Services Administration

This course covers topics of particular interest to students majoring in health-services administration. In different terms, a variety of topics are presented to the students. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration

HSAD  490 - Senior Research Project

Designed for the senior in health-services administration, the student, in conjunction with a faculty member, selects a topic for a term project integrating knowledge acquired in the curriculum. The student develops objectives relevant to the project, critiques the literature, presents a plan for implementation, and completes the project.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department: Health Services Administration
 

HSCI 204 Clinical Health Informatics

This course is designed to examine computer technology and tools of the Internet with a focus on the use of cyber-technology and selected computer applications. The automation of data management through information systems, expert systems and telecommunication and the impact of these technologies on health care education, practice and research are addressed.
Credits: 3.00
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department:  Pathway to Health Professions

UNIV 101 The Drexel Experience

The Drexel Experience is a two credit course (over two terms) taken by all freshmen at the University. It has been designed to acquaint students with the essence of campus life and there various curricula and as such is a valuable first course for all students on our campus. Underlying the design of the course is our belief that Drexel is both a curriculum and a community. The students who will profit most from their experiences are those who take an active role in the life of the Drexel community while mastering their chosen fields of study. .
Credits: 1.00 (for each of two terms)
College: Nursing & Health Professions
Department:  Pathway to Health Professions