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May 09, 2024
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NRSE 4600 - Nursing Excellence
A synthesis course designed to enhance knowledge of the relationship between health care policy and professional nursing. Explores the broader context of health care including how patient care services are organized and financed, and how reimbursement is structured. Regulatory agencies define boundaries of nursing practice and students need to understand the scope and role of these agencies. Discusses how health care issues are identified, how health care policy is both developed and changed, and how that process can be influenced through the efforts of nurses, other health care professionals, and lay and special advocacy groups. Addresses issues related to vulnerable populations, delivery and financing of health care, the impact of technology, and client advocacy.
Requisites: Permission required and Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.3 seminar, 1.4 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Apply knowledge of healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments, including local, state, national, and global healthcare trends
- Distinguish excellence as defined by nursing organizations and position statements
- Examine health care organization and finance, including the implications of business principles, such as patient and system cost factors
- Examine legislative and regulatory processes relevant to the provision of health care
- Examine the roles and responsibilities of the regulatory agencies and their effect on patient care quality, workplace safety, and the scope of nursing practice
- Explore advocacy for consumers and relationship of the nursing profession
- Synthesize how concepts such as employment, environmental factors, values, diversity, economics, and ethics affect accessibility, affordability, and accountability in health care services
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