NURS 609 - Health Industry Planning and Program Evaluation

Three hours.
3 Credits

This course provides the framework, rationale, and basic concepts essential to conducting needs assessments in healthcare settings to guide program development, implementation, and process and outcomes evaluation. The student will develop skills in identification of data sources, collection of primary data, as well as quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches. Teams of students will conduct a needs assessment and will critique evaluation designs.