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Course Listings 99715a/b, Stress Reduction and Relaxation. 1.5 credit hours. This elective eight-weekcourse offers intensive training in mindfulness meditation: tuning into the breath, andlearning to experience life more fully, one moment at a time. There is instruction in thebody scan, hatha yoga, awareness of breathing meditation, walking meditation, andeating meditation, as well as mindfulness of interpersonal communication and otheractivities of daily life. The primary goal of the course is to develop a daily meditationpractice in order to handle personal, academic, and professional stress more effectively.The secondary goal of the course is to explore the use of mindfulness meditation in thehealth care system. Course content is the same for both terms. Two hours per week, onesix-hour daylong session on a weekend. Open to all graduate and professional studentsat Yale. Not available for audit. B. Roth.717a, The Contexts of Care I. 2 credit hours. This course provides students an integrativeexperience in applying organizational, operational, financial, and policy contextsof practice. The course combines experiential learning with lectures and Web-basedinstruction. Three modules define the course content: organizational diagnosis andgroup relations (taught in a one-day intensive session); operations management andfinance; and health policy. Required in the final year of specialization for all students,except for those in the Nurse-Midwifery specialty who take it in the first year of specialization.J. Krauss, coordinator; S. Cohen, P. Milone-Nuzzo.717b, The Contexts of Care II. 2 credit hours. Nursing as advanced practice and asmanagement occurs in contexts that inevitably influence practice. In this course, actualcases are used for analysis of the practice contexts, which include organizational structure,reengineering, managed care, data systems, inter- and intraprofessional issues, politics,finance, planning, regulation, ethics, law, and the courts. Opportunities for nursingto extend practice into new forms and environments are discussed as the new contexts forcare. Cases are supplemented by lectures and assigned readings. Required in the finalyear of specialization for all students except those enrolled in the Nurse-Midwifery specialty.Two hours per week. J. Krauss, coordinator; L. Ament, E. Gustafson, L. Price.719a (HPA 564a, MGT 659a), Integrated Clinical/Financial Information Management.2 credit hours. No matter what the regulatory or payment environment is, managementof health care delivery systems depends upon data. This elective course providestheory of information management and applications using real data. The courseuses a powerful local resource, the work of the Resource Information ManagementSystem (RIMS) at Yale–New Haven Hospital, as the basis for learning about the clinical,financial, operational, and technical inputs to a management information system. Theuses and applications of information in planning, developing, operating, negotiating, andevaluating health care service is stressed. Recommended for nursing management andpolicy students, management students at the Department of Epidemiology and PublicHealth, and School of Management students interested in health care management.Open to others with permission of the instructors. Two hours per week. D. Diers,S. Allegretto.