Quality, Safety, and Risk Management in Healthcare
Certificate Level: Graduate
Admission Requirements: Bachelor's degree
Certificate Type: Post-Baccalaureate
Number of Credits to Completion: 15.0
Instructional Delivery: Online
Calendar Type: Quarter
Expected Time to Completion: 1 year
Financial Aid Eligibility: Not aid eligible
Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) Code: 51.0701
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Code: 11-9111
About the Program
The post-bachelor's certificate in Quality, Safety and Risk Management is designed to prepare health professionals who can lead organizational efforts to improve and monitor quality metrics, improve safety for both patients and staff, and manage risks in a dynamic healthcare environment. Graduates of this program will be prepared to lead teams in a wide variety of quality and risk management initiatives including:
- Aligning the patient safety, risk, and quality functions within the organization
- Ensuring that the patient safety, risk, and quality activities are aligned with the strategic goals of the organization
- Assessing current activities in patient safety, risk, and quality to clarify responsibilities and reduce duplication of effort
- Establishing a structure that ensures that patient care activities are addressed in a coordinated manner involving the patient safety, risk, and quality functions
- Coordinating process changes, data collection, data analysis, monitoring, and evaluation
- Evaluating the roles of patient safety, risk, and quality as the organization's needs change
Admission Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from a fully accredited program
- 3.0 GPA or above on all previous coursework
- Official transcripts from all previous educational institutions required
- A copy of your United States RN license (License verification from your nursing license registry website is acceptable.)
- Personal statement (no more than two pages and no less than one page double-spaced) that will give the admissions committee a better understanding of the following:
- Why you are choosing this particular program of study
- Your plans upon completion of the certificate
- How your current work experience will enhance your experience in this program
- Curriculum vitae or resume
- One professional letter of recommendation from either previous or immediate supervisors or former faculty members who can attest to your clinical knowledge, skill, and potential aptitude for graduate study
- References will not be accepted from colleagues or family members.
- Letter of recommendation requirement is waived if GPA is a 3.0 or higher.
Program Requirements
| IPS 501 | Legal Compliance: Structure and Implementation | 4.5 |
| IPS 504 | Regulations in Health Care | 4.5 |
| IPS 584 | Analysis of Performance Standards in Healthcare Quality | 3.0 |
| IPS 585 | Science of Safety, Human Factors, and System Thinking | 3.0 |
| Total Credits | 15.0 | |
Sample Plan of Study
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| IPS 504 | 4.5 | IPS 501 | 4.5 | IPS 584 | 3.0 | IPS 585 | 3.0 |
| 4.5 | 4.5 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Total Credits 15 | |||||||
The program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
Additional Information
For more information about this program, contact:
Graduate Nursing Division
CNHPGraduateDivision@drexel.edu
Additional information is also available on Drexel's College of Nursing and Health Professions Certificate in Quality, Safety and Risk Management in Healthcare webpage and on the Drexel University Online Certificate in Quality, Safety and Risk Management in Healthcare webpage.
