NU 501 Healthcare Policy & Ethics for Contemporary Nursing Practice
This course focuses on policy and politics in nursing and health care. It examines health care policy, including global health considerations, health care financing, quality and safety in health care. Ethics as a value system for humane health care delivery is a thread throughout the course. Current practices in nursing and health care are viewed from the past and present as a way to contemplate the future. It builds on a framework of critical thinking, as students explore aspects of the history of nursing, analysis of current policy development, and implications of the past for present and future actions in nursing and health care.