Dec 05, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog
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NURS 365 - Care Coordination in the US Healthcare System


Units: 3
Introduction to population health case management. Impact of healthcare financing, public and private health insurance, US policies, and healthcare improvement efforts on access, quality, and safety of care. Broad view of the healthcare landscape and factors affecting systems of care.

Prerequisites: NURS Majors Only (post-licensure); Nursing major; NURS 410, NURS 411, NURS 416, NURS 412, NURS 413, NURS 418 (pre-licensure)
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1. Differentiate the impact of sociopolitical structures and provider and payer factors on transitions of care and individual/family health outcomes.

  2. Apply public and private financing of population health case management and healthcare system improvements to health inequities and healthcare disparities.

  3. Propose care coordination processes to improve access to safe, affordable, and quality care and reduce geographic, socioeconomic, structural, and organizational barriers to care.

  4. Complete a variety of reading and writing tasks that incorporate subject-matter knowledge.

  5. Adjust writing for different audiences, showing awareness of expectations for academic writing in general and adhering to discipline-specific conventions when appropriate.

  6. Demonstrate critical thinking and logical reasoning, including strategies common in a discipline, in the development and organization of ideas in written texts.

  7. Take into account multiple perspectives and key disciplinary concepts when presenting ideas in writing.

  8. Revise writing in response to feedback in order to improve idea development, clarity, coherence, and correctness.





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