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