title: Integrating political involvement and nursing education.
abstract: Numerous nursing leadership organizations and nursing experts emphasize the need for nurses to develop health policy skills. However, most nurses continue to lack this skill. Few examples of successful ways to deal with health policy in the curriculum can be found in the literature. The authors present a discussion of how health policy skills may be developed at various curriculum levels and use a Master's core course in health policy as an example of a graduate course.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas, Austin, USA. cconger@mail.nur.utexas.edu
authors.forename: C O
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Conger
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States