Health Care Policy & Strategies

Course work explores the characteristics of the current health care environment with a focus on advanced nursing practice as it pertains to health care policy, organization of health care delivery systems and financing of health care at the local, state, and national level. Emphasis is on multidisciplinary decisionmaking regarding equitable distribution of existing resources from a Christian perspective. Social determinants of health and patient population outcomes are examined in relation to health policy and finance. Prerequisite: NUR 590 or NUR 495 or NUR 505.