Course Overview
Build on your health care experience with this introduction to project management concepts and terminology. You will examine the competencies of an effective project manager and discuss the importance of project management in health care. Gain an understanding of the stages of project management from staging, planning, implementation, close out and final project evaluation. Write a project overview statement and complete a project management plan for a health care project that you can adapt to your learning objectives.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
The student will develop a foundation of project management skills needed to successfully carry out projects in the health care field.
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Describe project management, its origins, and the challenges of project management in health care.
- Identify the skills and competencies required of a successful project manager in halth care.
- Define a project.
- Describe the phases of project management.
- Write a project overview statement.
- Design a work breakdown structure for projects.
- Estimate costs, activity duration, and budget for projects.
- Create a project plan and calculate a critical path.
- Generate selection criteria for recruiting project team members.
- Describe methods and tools used to track and measure progress of projects.
- Determine the appropriate corrective actions to restore a project to its planned schedule.
- Apply formative and summarative evaluation strategies to projects.
- Discuss team motivation strategies for project teams.
- Evaluate various project management software tools.
- Apply effective team communication skills in an online environment.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2007
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