Health Policy Practicum
A nursing graduate practicum where students negotiate a policy field experience with an agency, analyze relevant policies, and actively influence policy design, development, and implementation.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Examine the role and translation of research and other types of evidence in developing and revising policies in the selected agency or institution.
Critically appraise research and identify gaps related to the policies influencing the health problem, phenomenon, or population of interest.
Demonstrate the ability to synthesize and communicate relevant research findings to individuals involved in policy-making, including key stakeholders.
Effectively Influence policy-makers through active participation at the program level on committees, boards, and/or task forces, and at the institutional, local, state, regional, national, and/or international levels to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes.
Demonstrate leadership in the design, development, implementation, and/or evaluation of program, institutional, local, state, federal, and/or international health policy as demonstrated in student practicum activities and deliverables.
Source: UW Guide
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Prerequisites
Course mapDeclared in a Nursing graduate program
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- Declared in a Nursing graduate program
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
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Topics
- Policy field experience negotiation with agencies or institutions
- Strategies to accelerate policy adoption and implementation
- Role and translation of research evidence in policy development and revision
- Multi-level policy engagement from institutional to international levels
Skills
- Analyze, design, develop, and implement health policies
- Critically appraise research and identify policy-related gaps
- Synthesize and communicate research findings to policy-makers and stakeholders
- Influence policy-makers through participation on committees, boards, and task forces
- Lead design, development, implementation, and evaluation of health policy
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