NURS 48500 - Contemporary Issues in Domestic and Global Healthcare

Students investigate current topics affecting health care delivery nationally and internationally from social, political, economic and ethical perspectives. Topics include, but are not limited to, barriers to implementing affordable care, the influence of pharmaceutical conglomerates, health effects of mass immigration and disease prevention oversight. Students are expected to identify a developing issue and to prepare a response directed at legislators, professionals or a lay people, that is informative about the topic in a written format for possible publication. The course is structured to support the importance of life-long learning.
prereq: NURS 20000, NURS 21000, NURS 22000, NURS 35200, NURS 36000
coreq: NURS 45500, NURS 46000
2 hrs.
2 cr.