BookBetty Rambur.
Summary: "This succinct, engaging text for graduate and undergraduate nursing programs distills the complexities of health care finance, economics, and policy into a highly accessible resource that can be applied to any practice setting. It presents economic and financial dynamics in healthcare as a precursor to policy and advocacy in nurses. The second edition adds graduate-level considerations and is updated to reflect our current political and legislative landscape. Real-life illustrations support foundational concepts and interactive quizzes reinforce information. Faculty resources include PowerPoint slides, a test bank, comprehensive review questions, and a sample syllabus"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Section I. The context of health care and health care reform. What is health economics and why is it important to nurses?
A story of unintended consequences : how economic and policy solutions create new challenges
The patient protection and Affordable Care Act Of 2010
Payment reform
Section II. Health care economics : an overview. How health care markets differ from classic markets
The role of information in health care markets and decision-making
Market entry, exit, and antitrust law
Section III. Ethics and economics in an age of reform. What is ethinomics?
Additional models to guide ethical decision-making
Section IV. Pulling it all together : using your knowledge of health finance, economics, and ethics to influence health and health care. Governance and organizational type
Building skills for board membership
Applying health economics to influence health care through federal and state policy formation
Early lessons from the covid pandemic and a look to the future
Epilogue: Reflections on living and leading in a changing nursing world
Quiz answers
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