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NURSE 5606      Healthcare Policy & Advocacy
This course is designed to focus on the integral relationship between health care policy and advocacy as a DNP prepared advanced practice nurse. The student will employ best evidence, technology, political statistics, and engagement and leadership in public and organizational policy and advocacy processes to effect positive change in relation to particular and complex problems. Content will include principles and processes related to U.S. health policy and politics in relation to the overall system and issues of cost, quality and access; interrelationships between policy, political trends, and quality of care and access at the point of service; elimination of health care disparities, ethical and obligatory values related to the role of the DNP nurse. Prerequisite: NURSE 5602
Faculty: School of Nursing & Health Studies
Department: Nursing General
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