Research Skills for Healthcare course (LS 301)

About this course:

The LS 301: Research Skills for Healthcare course helps students meet course-related research needs by developing strategies to identify, find, evaluate, incorporate, and cite appropriate sources used in healthcare. Evaluation and use of sources specific to healthcare are emphasized. This is a 2-credit course for a Health Information Management (HIM) Bachelor program. It is designed to be taken concurrently with HIM 320: Healthcare Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security.

Course Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Implement an effective plan for finding information using a variety of electronic and print tools.
• Use electronic database search strategies.
• Identify and explain the differences between major types of healthcare information resources (e.g. books, lay periodicals, scholarly journals, government Web sites, etc.) and when and how to use them. 
• Properly use APA style in written work.
• Create a thesis statement that is based on the analysis of academic resources.

This content is available as:

• Open Canvas course
• Downloadable course cartridge (.imscc file):