ompetencies: 7007.1.1: Organization and Financing Healthcare – The graduate analyzes the organization of healthcare delivery and financing systems in the United States and other nations. 7007.1.2: Policy Process – The graduate analyzes the historical, economic, and political factors that affect healthcare policy development and the impact of those policies on healthcare cost, quality, and access. 7007.1.3: Effects of Legal and Regulatory Policies – The graduate analyzes the effect of major legal and regulatory policies on nursing practice, healthcare delivery, and health outcomes for individual, families, and communities. 7007.1.4: Ethical Theories Applied to Nurses’ Policy Positions – The graduate analyzes the values that drive policies. 7007.1.5: Advocate for Policies That Improve the Health of the Public and the Profession of Nursing – The graduate analyzes strategies that healthcare advocates use to affect policies with the goal of improving the public health and the profession of nursing.