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NURS 736

Health Care Policy and Social Justice

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Average gradeA-
Standard

Overview

Description

This course addresses health care policy concepts and techniques for policy analysis as these relate to nursing practice and health care leadership.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Admission to an OSN graduate program.
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): Admission to an OSN graduate program.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Spring

Terms

spring

Restrictions

Admission to an OSN graduate program.

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • analyze the influence of health policy, social justice, and other variables on advanced nursing roles.
  • critique health policy issues that affect the delivery of health care at the local, state, national, and international levels.
  • apply selected policy, quality control, systems, and/or leadership theories to healthcare delivery structures.
  • examine global, national, and regional health care systems in relation to population health outcomes.
  • evaluate social justice strategies in the health care system and the nursing profession.
  • analyze nursing policy issues in relation to population determinants that influence the delivery and effectiveness of health care.