NURS 7670 - Research Methods and Designs for Measuring Quality & Effectiveness

3 Credit Hours
Pre/Corequisites: NURS 7610, NURS 7620
Description
Pre-requisite: NURS 7610Pre- or co-requisites: NURS 7610, NURS 7620The purpose of this course will be to examine strategies for evaluating the delivery of health care services and supporting programs. Students will be introduced to a variety of research designs and appropriate statistical methods to analyze data within those designs. An emphasis will be placed on research competencies necessary to design and evaluate proposals for innovation in the delivery of health care services. Principles of evidence based practice and evaluation research will be explored and their application to the area of health care innovations will be discussed. M