GDN 3987 - Professional Issues and Policies in Nursing and Specialisations

After satisfactorily completing this unit students will have gained the ability to:
understand the nature of policy development, including political ideology and processes, and federal/state relations, relate to the expectations of the public in health care,Understand health service administration,

Assess the influence of health policies on nursing practice and policy,

Examine the role of the health disciplines in influencing health policies,

Understand the nature of a profession,

Examine nursing in relation to a range of definitions and meanings of professionalism,

Examine the roles, rights and responsibilities of professional and the possibilities for nursing

Examine a range of environmental influences that impact on the individuals and communities

Empower to relate to practice, theory-practice and their place in society.