HEALTH SYSTEMS, POLICY, ECONOMICS, AND RESEARCH
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. Expand your understanding of scholarship and evidence-based practice by delving into the process of nursing research.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: NURSING 434 , 435 , 436 , and 437 Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the structure and function of the health system at the local, state, national, and global level. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand organizational theories, structures, and processes, and their applicability in the analysis of clinical care services within the healthcare delivery system. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain principles and practices of emergency-preparedness in selected health systems. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Outline the role of policy in regard to nurses’ role and health outcomes and how nurses can affect policy. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify key trends in the financing of healthcare at national and local levels. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Explain principles and processes of quality improvement. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Demonstrate knowledge of protection of human subjects in research, including issues related to subject rights, institutional, state, and federal regulations. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Demonstrate understanding of the nursing research process. Audience: Undergraduate 9. Demonstrate an understanding of dissemination and use of research for practice improvement. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the structure and function of the health system at the local, state, national, and global level. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand organizational theories, structures, and processes, and their applicability in the analysis of clinical care services within the healthcare delivery system. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain principles and practices of emergency-preparedness in selected health systems. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Outline the role of policy in regard to nurses’ role and health outcomes and how nurses can affect policy. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify key trends in the financing of healthcare at national and local levels. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Explain principles and processes of quality improvement. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Demonstrate knowledge of protection of human subjects in research, including issues related to subject rights, institutional, state, and federal regulations. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Demonstrate understanding of the nursing research process. Audience: Undergraduate 9. Demonstrate an understanding of dissemination and use of research for practice improvement. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027