Health Care Management Curriculum

• Recognize how to improve efficiency and quality in delivering healthcare services
• Describe why it is important to keep up to date on new laws and regulations
• Identify how to supervise assistant administrators in facilities that are large enough to need them
• Discuss the management of the facility’s finances, such as patient fees and billing
• Explain the creation of work schedules
• Recognize how to represent the facility at investor meetings or on governing boards
• List the steps to keep and organize records of the facility’s services
• Recognize appropriate and professional communication concerning members of the medical staff and department heads

Objectives:

• Understand how to use your Student Portal.
• Access the Penn Foster Community and use it to find answers.
• Connect with Penn Foster on various social media sites.
• Describe reimbursement systems and the role health information management technicians play in reimbursement.
• Describe how technology is used in health information management.
• Discuss different professional organizations and certifications for health information management technicians.
• Explain the different roles, opportunities, and settings for health information management technicians.

Objectives:

• Describe civil and criminal law, sources of law, and the steps of litigation
• Distinguish between liability, negligence, and malpractice and explain how they relate to medical professionals
• Explain the impact of healthcare legislation changes on medical professionals
• Explain defenses against medical malpractice and criminal charges
• Identify the various ethical issues that medical professionals face
• Explain the uses and content of medical records
• Describe the legal significance of confidentiality obligations
• Explain the core concepts of HIPAA's final Privacy Rule
• Summarize the role of peer review in confidentiality issues
• Describe confidentiality and security issues related to electronic medical records

Objectives:

• Search the Internet more effectively.
• Get tips about search engines and reliable websites.
• Learn how to search libraries and other information centers for important, useful information.

Objectives:

• Use writing skills to construct well-written sentences and active reading skills to understand and analyze text
• Develop paragraphs using topic sentences, adequate detail, supporting evidence, and transitions
• Describe the revision, editing, and proofreading steps of the writing process
• Distinguish between different patterns of development
• Use prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing to write a formal, college-level essay
• Recognize how to determine the reliability of secondary sources and to give proper credit to sources referenced in an essay
• Use prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing to write a formal, college-level essay
• Use techniques of drafting, evaluating, and creating a sound written argument

Objectives:

• Define word elements, roots, prefixes, suffixes, combining vowels, and combining forms.
• Describe the basic rules for building a medical word.
• Describe the uses and effects of drugs on the body.
• Distinguish among generic drug names, official drug names, trade names, and chemical names.
• Identify and spell word elements, names of diagnostic procedures, diagnoses, treatment procedures, and abbreviations related to the integumentary and musculoskeletal systems; cardiovascular system; the blood and lymph system; the respiratory system; the digestive and urinary systems; the reproductive system; the endocrine system; and the nervous system.
• Define terms related to the psychology and psychiatry fields.
• Identify and define terms associated with conditions of the eyes and ears.
• Identify and define terms commonly used on operative reports.

Additional Course Material:

• Textbook: Medical Terminology, A Living Language

Objectives:

• Use percentages, discounts, and interest formulas.
• Analyze present worth and sinking funds.
• Understand how to buy in installments and price merchandise.
• Explain depreciation, insurance, equations, and formulas.
• Discuss an overview of investments and statistics.

Additional Course Material:

• Textbook: Practical Business Math Procedures

Objectives:

• Create, edit, and illustrate Microsoft® Word™ documents.
• Apply formulas and functions to large data sets in Microsoft® Excel.®
• Incorporate useful charts and graphs to summarize data.
• Add, delete, sort, and lay out table data.
• Create presentations in Microsoft® PowerPoint® using advanced tools, tables, and charts.

Objectives:

• Understand and explain the components of communication, both verbal and nonverbal.
• Develop effective listening and observation skills.
• Recognize prejudice in interpersonal relations.
• Describe personal traits essential for successful interpersonal relations.

Objectives:

• Identify the theories of management and the supervisor's role in healthcare management
• Analyze the methods of planning and processing and the role of the manager in them
• Categorize the processes related to staffing and organizing in healthcare management
• Point out the role of a supervisor in imparting influence and control and conducting labor relation interactions
• Prepare a project based on your choice of hospital organization

Additional Course Material:

• Textbook: Healthcare Management

Objectives:

• Define terms referring to location, position, direction, body planes, and sections.
• Identify and describe the basic anatomical structures and major cavities of the human body.
• Discuss the process and mechanics of homeostasis.
• Explain how human anatomy and physiology are related.
• List and discuss the organizational levels of the human body in order of increasing complexity and explain how these levels are related to each other.
• Explain the structures, functions, and diseases of the skeletal, muscular, nervous, and endocrine systems in humans.

Additional Course Material:

• Textbook: Body Structures and Functions (with accompanying CD-ROM)

Objectives:

• Identify and describe the components, functions, and disorders of blood, the circulatory system, the lymphatic system, the respiratory system, the digestive system, the urinary system, the reproductive system, and genetics.
• Describe the processes of inflammation and coagulation.
• Explain the disease mechanisms involved in the human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
• Describe different types of microorganisms.
• Discuss the body’s defense mechanisms against infection.
• Identify and describe the functions of water, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, trace elements, and vitamins.
• Explain the principles of healthy nutrition and describe nutritional disorders.
• Identify and explain the functions of the reproductive system.
• Describe the disorders of both male and female reproductive systems.
• Define genetics, mutation, and lethal genes.
• Describe selected genetic disorders.
• Explain the potential of genetic engineering.

Additional Course Material:

• Textbook: Body Structures and Functions (with accompanying CD-ROM)

Objectives:

• Define accounting and identify and describe its different classifications
• Discuss and analyze transactions that affect current assets
• Describe applications of valuation and matching in the case of accounts receivable
• Discuss the significance of inventories and cost-flow assumptions
• Explain, integrate, and interpret the basic balance sheet and the impact of those issues on net income and cash flow
• Describe variable costs, fixed costs, contribution margin, contribution margin ratio, and how to use the cost formula for total cost, operating profit, and break-even points, while applying the simplifying assumptions of linearity and relevant range

Additional Course Materials:
Textbook: Accounting: What the Numbers Mean

HUM102-Art Appreciation  
In this course, you will gain an understanding of artistic media, historical periods and artistic movements, the roles of the artist and the viewer, and the principles of art criticism.

Objectives:

• Define the language, visual elements, and principles of design of art
• Identify two-dimensional media
• Identify three-dimensional media
• Explain the evolution of art from ancient Mediterranean cultures through eighteenth century Europe
• Identify features and popular examples of art throughout the history of African, Asian, Pacific, and American cultures
• Compare the genres of the Modern and Postmodern eras of art from around the world

Additional Course Material:
Textbook: Living with Art, 11th Edition

HUM104-Music Appreciation  
In this course, you'll understand how to appreciate music by learning about the roles of the composer and the listener, the principles of music theory and instrumentation, musically significant historical periods, and varying styles of music.

Objectives:

• Identify the building blocks of music a composer can use to create a piece, such as rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, form, and timbre
• Explain the evolution of Western music through history, from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century
• Differentiate between the music of the baroque era and the musical styles of previous time periods
• Recognize the major characteristics of classical music, including form, melody, and instrumentation
• Discuss the musical trends and innovations that occurred during the romantic era
• Trace the evolution of American popular music in the twentieth century
• Recognize the influence of world music on modern Western composition

Additional Course Material:
Textbook: Experience Music, Fourth Edition

ENG115-Introduction to Literature  
Read and analyze the main genres of literature—poetry, fiction, and drama. Study the themes and forms of literature.

Objectives:

• Read more effectively for both knowledge and enjoyment.
• Use your new vocabulary to discuss, write about, and understand literature.
• Explain the characteristics of several genres, including the short story, poetry, drama, and the essay.
• Identify and understand literary technique.
• Discuss the relationship between literature and life.

Additional Course Material:
Textbook: Literature