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This course will explore spirituality in healthcare and healthcare services. This course will investigate the impact of spirituality upon the physical, emotional, and spiritual health from the perspective of the patient. Embedded in the course will be a survey of Christian values and those of other religions along with social and cultural influences upon spirituality in healthcare.

This course will survey selective historical and current trends in public, private, and nationalized healthcare systems. This course explores US legislation supporting the historical and current health delivery models in the United States along with payment structures including Medicare, Medicaid, private health insurance, and private pay models.

This is an overview course of research methodology germane to healthcare involving both quantitative and qualitative designs. Topics include research design and common statistics used in healthcare research such as basic research, repeated measures, case control, and randomized controlled study designs and their commonly related statistics.

This course will introduce students to health and safety management in the healthcare environment. This course will explore the basic principles of law and ethics and their effect on healthcare decisions. Included will be a survey of Judeo-Christian foundations upon which the study of ethics is based.