To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources for this week, focusing on the role of nurse managers in making financial decisions.
Conduct additional research in the Walden Library and other relevant sources, to identify three emerging trends that are affecting health care today.
Select one trend to discuss in detail and evaluate its implications for the delivery of care from the perspective of doctors, nurses, and patients.
Reflect on how this trend might impact quality of care.
By Day 3
Post a brief description of three emerging trends that are affecting health care today. Evaluate the implication of one of these trends on the delivery of health care from the perspectives of doctors, nurses, and patients. Explain how this trend might impact the quality of care.
Baker, J. J., Baker, R. W., & Dworkin, N. R. (2018). Health care finance: Basic tools for nonfinancial managers (5th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Chapter 2, “Four Things the Healthcare Manager Needs to Know About Financial Management Systems” (pp. 11–20)
This chapter focuses on the overall financial management system within an organization and identifies the basic system elements.
Zelman, W., McCue, M., & Glick, N. (2009). Financial management of health care organizations: An introduction to fundamental tools, concepts, and applications (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
