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Long Term Care Careers
Health care workers who specialize in long-term care help patients who require advanced levels of care. This may include elderly patients, patients with disabilities and those with terminal illnesses. The number of patients who need specialized, long-term care is growing rapidly as the population ages. In fact, by year 2030, 33 million people will be senior citizens and one in five will need some type of long-term care. There is a real demand for new, skilled workers in long term-care to work in nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities, and in patients' homes making their patients comfortable and taking care of their basic needs. Through your degree, you can help these patients and can find a great future career.
With flexible class scheduling, financial aid assistance, and over 100 degree programs, University of Phoenix can help you get there.
Bachelor of Science in Health Administration/Long Term Care
The BSHA Program is designed to integrate a foundation of general education and applied sciences with the expertise that prepares the graduate for professional careers in a variety of health care or related health settings.
The BSHA curriculum addresses the basic body of knowledge, understanding, and skills relevant to health care services such as management, finance and accounting, legal and ethical parameters, health and disease factors, and human and information resources. In addition, the long term care major allows the student to gain initial educational preparation for the myriad of opportunities within this health care arena. The continuum of long term care has grown and expanded from the old traditional view to now encompass a wide range of comprehensive health, mental health and social services that spans a vast number of organizations. Long term care and the resources needed to provide services will offer many opportunities and challenges for health care in the coming decades.
Curriculum in long-term care may include:
- Skills for Professional Development
- Organizational Behavior
- Statistical Applications
- Health Care Delivery in the U.S.
- Health Care Communication Strategies
- Concepts of Health and Disease
- Health Care Management Strategies
- Human Resources: Principles and Practices in Health Care
- Ethics: Health Care and Social Responsibility
- Legal Issues in Health Care: Regulation and Compliance
- Health Care Quality Management and Outcomes Analysis
- Public and Community Health
- Health Care Financial Accounting
- Economics: The Financing of Health Care
- Health Care Information Systems
- Health Care Consumer - Trends and Marketing
- Dimensions of Health and the Older Adult
- Long-Term Care Administration
- Facility Planning
- Health Administration Capstone
Higher Education, Highly Accessible
Founded in 1976, University of Phoenix is dedicated to meeting the educational needs of working students. Now the largest private university in North America, we have nearly 200 educational facilities, as well as a flexible online learning format to deliver our education programs in most countries around the world.
Regardless of where or how you attend class, you'll receive a real-world education with real value.
- Earn your education while attending class at times and places that fit your busy schedule.
- Learn from instructors who hold advanced degrees and have substantial experience in the fields they teach.
- Collaborate with peers in small, interactive classes.
- Receive personalized student support every step of the way.
You work hard. A college degree does too.
With convenient class locations as well as online learning, University of Phoenix makes quality higher education highly accessible. Whether you're seeking an associate's, bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree, we can help you reach your goal while you work-and much sooner than you might expect.
In fact, University of Phoenix has helped thousands of students achieve the higher education they need to achieve higher success. We can help you too.
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