Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Safety

Program Overview

Systematically ensuring the best possible care and outcomes

Though health care quality and safety are paramount concerns today, the emphasis on patient safety as a mission-oriented imperative has only been common in the last 25 to 30 years. Medical and surgical procedures are complex undertakings involving numerous care providers, advanced equipment, and inherent risks. Ensuring that every measure has been taken to do no harm is a continuous challenge requiring specific skills.

The Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Safety program equips clinicians and clinical administrators with the operational skills and leadership vision to direct effective quality improvement and safety initiatives within their health care organizations. 

This program offers both a full-time one-year option and a part-time two-year option, featuring a blend of traditional coursework, intensive workshops, a longitudinal seminar series, and a comprehensive capstone project.

To further individual learning and development, this program provides students with the choice of two separate educational pathways—a Quality and Safety Pathway or a Clinical Informatics Pathway. These pathways offer both didactic and experiential learning with a curriculum designed to support the learning needs of clinicians and administrators in safety, quality, clinical informatics, risk management, and health leadership.

The Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Safety program focuses on five key areas of study:

1. Operational Quality and Safety
2. Informatics: Clinical Databases, Electronic Health Records and Patient Portals
3. Leadership and Change Management
4. Quantitative Approaches
5. Risk Assessment and Communication

The curriculum is tailored to help clinicians improve patient safety and quality in an increasingly complex and evolving health care environment.

Graduates will be well-positioned to pursue leadership roles, including:  

• Director of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety
• Senior Patient Safety Specialist
• Clinical Risk Manager
• Director of Patient Safety
• Director of Nursing Informatics
• Manager of Global Patient Safety, Quality, and Compliance
• Chief Quality Officer

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