NUR 606 Health Policy, Legal and Ethical Issues in Advanced Practice Nursing

3 Credits

This course explores the major issues in health care, health care delivery, health care policy, and other forces that shape advanced practice nursing. Strategies which influence health policy, as well as health care delivery and outcomes, are also emphasized. Topics of study include the policy and politics of health care, health care systems, economics of health care, socio-cultural factors, technology, health disparities, as well as legal and ethical issues.