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Mar 31, 2025
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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NSG 410 - Issues in Professional Practice
Description: Building upon the RN to BSN student's practice, explores current political, economic, cultural, and social issues related to practice within the evolving health care system. The role of the nurse leader, advocating for quality within this changing environment will be discussed.
Prerequisites: Program Admission.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Patient/Person-centered care
- Safety and quality standards
- Economics in Healthcare: finance, reimbursement, for-profit, non-profit
- Health policy and advocacy
- Concepts of power, empowerment, incivility, and delegation in nursing leadership
- Healthcare disparities: community and vulnerable populations
- Health literacy and health outcomes
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze a nurse's role in improving local, national, and global health through the principles of power, empowerment, and effective delegation to enhance team dynamics and patient care. (1,2,7)
- Examine the role of the professional nurse in advocating for access to quality care. (2,4,6)
- Assess the role of professional organizations in shaping the future of nursing practice. (2,5)
- Appraise the influence of external stakeholders impacting health care decision-making. (3)
- Analyze the role of the professional nurse in advocating for health policies that influence health literacy and decrease health care disparities. (1,4,6,7)
- Assess a current economic, political or social issue and design opportunities for health improvement. (1,4,6)
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