NURS 7400 - Contexts and Roles for Advanced Practice

3 cr.

Students acquire a framework for understanding the interplay of political, social, and economic factors in health service delivery and their relationship to the advanced practice role in nursing. The focus is on initiating and facilitating change in health care and nursing systems. Topics include health care economics, health planning and policy, diversity in health care delivery, use of health status indicators for risk assessment of individuals and groups, informatics, role theory application to role assimilation, role creation, role negotiation and educator advocate, consultant, and researcher.

This course is open to licensed RNs.