Nursing's Role in the Health Care System 3 credit hours Designed to acquaint the practicing nurse with a perspective on the unique role of nurses in the health care system.
Content includes role theory, change theory, and political advocacy.
Presents the efforts for nursing to help create a health care system that assures access, quality, and services at affordable costs. This course is designed to provide nursing students with an opportunity to acquire and apply knowledge and skills from information systems and computer technology. The focus will be on using computers in nursing practice, nursing education, and nursing research. Content covers how theory-based, reflective practice can impact nursing and health care for the benefit of humanity, The Neuman Health Care Systems Theory will be presented within a nursing process framework of nursing practice. Designed to foster ethical development, values clarification, and effective analysis of ethical issues encountered by professional nurses.