Application of ethical dimensions of health care policies to case studies and selected provider guidelines enables students to develop awareness, sensitivity, and a values framework to act ethically in policy decisions. The course focuses on strategic thinking for planning and managing in health care settings. Economics, reimbursement, budget planning, business planning, and marketing are explored in relation to nursing services. Issues such as health care financing practices, reimbursement for nursing care, cost-accounting of nursing services, billing codes, resource allocation, managed care and insurance coverage explored. Access to care will be analyzed as a contributing factor to population health.
Students develop analytical skills and examine the ethical impact of economic decisions.
This course examines physiological, pharmacological, environmental, demographic, and educational factors that frame nursing interventions at the population level. In the laboratory component students will design and implement research-based nursing interventions, and evaluate the outcomes of these interventions on aggregates. A continuation of NUR 604. This course provides students with the opportunity to synthesize and apply their understanding of population health concepts and theories and nursing frameworks with a population of their choice along the continuum of care. Within the practice situation, students enact leadership roles to expand, enhance, and optimize positive outcomes for the population.