Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
NRSE 4600 - Nursing Excellence
A synthesis course designed to enhance knowledge of the relationship between healthcare policy and professional nursing practice. Explores the broader context of healthcare 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 healthcare issues are identified, how healthcare policy is both developed and changed, and how that process can be influenced through the efforts of nurses, other healthcare professionals, and lay and special advocacy groups. Addresses issues related to vulnerable populations, delivery and financing of healthcare, the impact of technology, and client advocacy. An experiential learning project is developed and implemented by the end of the course which demonstrates actual engagement with patients/stakeholders to impact outcomes.
Requisites: Permission required and Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing, 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: 2.0 seminar, 1.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to use their knowledge of healthcare policy, finance, and regulatory environments, including local, state, national, and global healthcare trends to reach and communicate a statement of considered position.
- Students will be able to distinguish excellence as defined by nursing organizations and position statements.
- Students will be able to describe examples of legislative and regulatory processes relevant to the provision of healthcare and use that knowledge in formulating a plan for action in an experiential setting.
- Students will be able to describe examples of the roles and responsibilities of the regulatory agencies and logically communicate their effect on patient care quality, workplace safety, and the scope of nursing practice.
- Students will be able to reflect on advocacy for consumers and its relationship to the nursing profession by identifying and articulating knowledge, values, and attitudes developed throughout an experiential learning experience.
- Students will be able to analyze the ways in which multiple factors such as employment, environmental factors, values, diversity, economics, and ethics affect accessibility, affordability, and accountability in healthcare services.
- Students will be able to demonstrate real-life engagement with patients/stakeholders to impact patient outcomes.
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