Advancing the Nursing Profession: Expanded Practices and Roles

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This course prepares the professional nurse to extend the vision for the nursing profession into the future and chart a path for the nursing profession to help the nation create a culture of health, reduce health disparities, and improve the health and well-being of the U.S. population in the 21st century. Students consider emerging evidence related to the COVID-19 global pandemic and include recommendations regarding the role of nurses in responding to the crisis created by the pandemic. Students examine the lessons learned from past and current nursing practices, roles, responsibilities, and the current state of science and technology to inform their assessment of the nursing profession’s capacity to meet the anticipated health and social care demands in the coming decades. In examining current and future challenges, students consider the dramatically transformed context of professional nursing and the rapidly deployed changes in clinical care, nurse education, nursing leadership, and nursing-community partnerships due to the pandemic and the implications and considerations for future professional nursing practice. In examining the future decades of nursing, students draw from domestic and global examples of evidence-based models of care that address social determinants of health and help build and sustain a culture of health. Prerequisite: Admission to Nursing Program.