February 27, 2024
Fall 2024 Graduate Course: NUR 69060
Fall 2024 Graduate Course: NUR 69060
Fall 2024
NUR 69060: Innovative Care and Innovations in Healthcare Delivery
Monday
1:30pm-4:20 pm
Karen Foli, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Credits: 3
Course Description:
This course will address both the theoretical and practical issues of healthcare innovation. It will cover theories of organizational change, evidence translation and implementation, and strategies for evaluating healthcare innovations. The course strives for a transdisciplinary exchange between doctoral students from nursing and other disciplines with relevance to public health, pharmacy, pre-professional majors, and other disciplines.
Students select areas of interest for their final papers and have included: point-of-service lab tests; virtual reality in pharmacy patient education; data analytic use in risk assessment of ICU transferable patients; serenity rooms for nurses; and m-health to support aging in place for older adults.
Dr. Foli has been recognized with university-level teaching, research, and engagement awards.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the challenges facing healthcare and the need for innovation in healthcare practices and delivery system change
- Apply perspectives from systems and complexity theory, organizational change, diffusion of innovation and implementation science
- Determine the conditions leading to spontaneous emergence of healthcare innovations as well as planned organizational change
- Evaluate the diffusion and implementation of healthcare innovations
- Analyze case studies of healthcare innovations from a transdisciplinary perspective