SW 6142 - Advanced Administration/Supervision in Health

This 3 credit hour course is designed to develop and enhance social work leadership and management skills in a health care setting, (public health facilities, hospitals, home health agencies, hospice programs, HMOs', private clinics ). The purpose of the class is to train social workers to: 1) position themselves in the fiscal arena of health care, including working within the current payer systems; 2) examine challenges and opportunities of managed care in the health care setting; 3) apply management and leadership styles to the delivery of health related services; 4) manage change in a dynamic health care environment; 5) practice team building and interdisciplinary collaboration in the health care setting; 6) address potential conflict between the health care provider and customer/patient and social work values and ethics; and, 6) identify and develop quality outcomes of social work intervention strategies in the delivery of services.