Evaluating Data

This exercise allows you to examine how quality of hospital care is evaluated through data obtained from electronic health records. This exercise is discussed in several health administration courses, including courses on quality improvement, informatics, or...

Structural Racism

Structural oppression provides a framework for understanding the larger socio-political forces at work on Black people in the U.S. It helps us to go beyond considerations of individual effort, responsibility and blame to a broader vision of the barriers that people...

Mysticism

In David Steindl-Rast’s essay, “The Mystical Core of Organized Religion” (READER 44-49) he argues that religion begins with mystical experience and ends up with empty ritualism, moralism, and dogmatism. The person in a religious tradition who is drawn to a deep...

Your Human Firewall

A firewall is a software program or hardware device that prevents programs from connecting to a computer orcomputer network. Watch the following TED Talk:Your Human Firewall – The Answer to the Cyber-Security...