Health Policy, Ethical, and Legal Perspectives of the Health Care System

Catalog description

This course provides an opportunity to analyze major ethical theories and those principles underlying direct and indirect care of individuals, families, and communities. Selected concepts, principles, and cases involving legal aspects of care within a framework of critical decision making for advanced nursing roles will be examined. The development of health policy and the influence of health policy issues on the health care of individuals, families, and populations will be analyzed.