By completing the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Policy, the student will have the foundational knowledge, skills and ability essential for nurses in healthcare policy roles including leader, change agent, advocate and activist. The Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Policy allows nurses to maintain their role in organizational policy creation to reduce health disparities and improve quality of care in vulnerable populations, promote health equity and inclusivity, and advance their role into community, state, national and global healthcare policy-making within foundations, organizations and governments.

Program Details

Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Policy: With or Without Practicum

Certificate: Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Policy
Semesters:

• 3 Full Time With Practicum (18 credit hours)
• 2 Full Time Without Practicum (12 credit hours)

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Specialty Courses for Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Policy
NR-552	Economics of Healthcare Policy	3
NR-553	Global Health	3
NR-555	Health Policy: Advancing Health Equity & Outcomes	3
NR-556	The Nurse Leader and Health Policy	3
Optional Healthcare Policy Practicum
NR-651	Healthcare Policy Concluding Graduate Experience I	3
NR-652	Healthcare Policy Concluding Graduate Experience II	3

For the most up-to-date curriculum grids, visit chamberlain.edu/curriculum.