NURSING 409Health Care Policy for Advocacy in Health Care
Nursing · 3 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Prepares students to become engaged and committed to leadership role in health policy. Students gain principles, skills, and knowledge to advocate for patients, profession, and health care systems gained through analysis of existing policies, programs, and guidelines that govern health care services and practice. Within ethical framework, discussion of issues of equity, health disparities, access to care, and quality of care. Through development of policy brief, students recognize role of political activism as it relates to DNP practice.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: doctoral standing.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.