AH 122 - Foundations of Project Management in Healthcare

5 Credits
Students will learn and practice strategies, tools and tactics needed to ensure successful communications with all stakeholders. A six-step risk process is presented and practiced in the course, and students will present an ILA (Independent Learning Assessment project) as a learning objective component.

Course Outcomes

Develop project and phase plans that include work effort estimates, resources, and schedule for successful completion of a project (including CMS Guidelines).
Negotiate with support groups, make staff assignments and schedules for effective utilization of project resources.
Understand the management issues and techniques needed in cross-functional teams - task force, matrix, and hierarchy project teams.
Delegate work, and motivate and facilitate professional and personal growth.
Understand the key concepts of lean and quality in healthcare project environments.
Implement a change management and reporting plan.
Track and report the status of the project and deliverables for early problem identification and resolution.
Identify and plan to mitigate project and product risk factors.
Employ product scope and quality management to manage successful outcomes.
Understand how project software tools can help plan, schedule, track and report projects.