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Jul 01, 2025
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NURS 52004 - Public Health Policy and Economics
4 Credit(s)
Prerequisite(s): Completion of all Phase 2 courses or approval by nursing department
In this course, students will continue to develop specialized knowledge and skills in advanced nursing and the delivery of public healthcare within the context of inter-professional practice. Assessment, planning, and interventions for health promotion and maintenance, illness and disease prevention, health restoration, and health policy and economics are explored. Students will gain a greater understanding of the use of data in planning interventions, evidence-based public health, and the role of advocacy for policy and social change. Students will learn how healthcare resources are allocated among alternative uses for the care of sickness and the promotion, maintenance and improvement of health, including the study of how health care and health-related services, their costs and benefits, and health itself are distributed among individuals. The master’s prepared nurse role will be analyzed and applied in collaboration with a master’s or doctoral prepared nurse preceptor with experience in the specialty area of public health policy development. The student will work with the preceptor to develop/revise a public health policy, create a webinar over public health policy, or complete an extensive Review of Literature over public health policy. This four credit course consists of 135 hours of practicum.
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