NURS 4440 - Health Issues, Policy and Politics in Health Care (WIC)

(3 CR, 3T + 0L)

This course emphasizes empowering students with knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effect change in health policy to improve health care delivery. Students analyze contemporary health care issues of concern to nursing and learn strategies for effective involvement in policy-making decisions and policy implementation. Students examine work environments and the impact of organizational systems on the quality of care. Students apply the Theory of Integral Nursing to a current health policy issue in a position paper expressed orally to a group. Pre or

Corequisite(s): NURS 4400 and NURS 4401.