HEALTH SYSTEMS, POLICY, ECONOMICS, AND RESEARCH

NURSING 442

Learning is centered on health systems, policy, and economics. Expand understanding of core nursing competencies such as safe therapeutic care, and health informatics by examining how these concepts operate at a systems-level to influence care and outcomes. Focus is given to emergency preparedness as enacted in a variety of systems. Key conceptual elements of the healthcare system, organization, policy, financing and law and quality improvement and their impact on care and outcomes are examined.

NURSING 448

Learning is centered on advancing knowledge of professional attributes necessary in healthcare settings. Expand the understanding of core concepts related to ethics, advocacy, safe therapeutic care, technology, and health informatics at a systems-level to influence care and outcomes. Broaden the understanding of nursing's role in the healthcare delivery system regarding quality improvement, emergency preparedness, care coordination, and palliation.

NURSING 703

Provides a comprehensive overview of the U.S. healthcare system and policy-making process at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as an analysis of global health policies in other countries. Key policy issues covered include Medicare, Medicaid, the uninsured, public health, and healthcare reform. Addresses the role of key stakeholders, including policy-makers, interest groups, and the media on the development of health policy, as well as key forces involved in policy-making, including economics, innovation, social, ethical, and political factors. Examine the role and responsibility of nurse leaders and the impact of health policy on nursing practice at the individual, community, and population level.

NURSING 714

Focuses on health innovation and leadership, integrating systems thinking and relevant theories to advance innovation and achieve sustainable change in contemporary health settings. Leaders apply and synthesize theories of leadership, innovation, informatics, and business concepts to complex healthcare issues to improve outcomes. Utilizes current and emerging issues, theories, and case studies to explore attributes of innovative leaders, emerging models of care, innovation models, design and adoption, mergers and affiliations in healthcare, and entrepreneurship.

NURSING 434

Builds on health and illness concepts by focusing on individuals, families, and communities recognizing their unique attributes. Concepts included: acid-base balance, cellular regulation, intracranial regulation, genomics, sexuality and reproduction, and an introduction to the organization of the community/public health system. Other core nursing concepts are revisited as they apply to the community as client or in complex care situations. The nursing process frames learning activities that foster understanding the nursing role in providing evidence-based care to individuals, families across the lifespan, and to communities experiencing related health and illness concerns in collaboration with an interprofessional team.