NUR-514 Topic 4: Nurse Leadership and Health Care Policy and Advocacy
NUR-514 Topic 4: Nurse Leadership and Health Care Policy and Advocacy
Description
Objectives:
- Propose strategies to support patient advocacy in health care policy making as an advanced practice
- Analyze the impact health care policy on health care organizations and cost-effective quality
Study Materials
Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession
Description:
Review Chapter 23 in Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession.
Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of Health Care
Description:
Read Chapters 11 and 13-15 in Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of Health Care.
Preparing Nurses for Leadership in Public Policy
Description:
Read “Preparing Nurses for Leadership in Public Policy” (2014), located on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website.
Arizona State Legislature
Description:
Explore your state legislature website and access legislation information. The link to the Arizona State Legislature website is provided, but learners living in other states should access their state departments. This resource will be used for the Topic 5 assignment.
Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight
Description:
Read “Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight,” located on the Programs and Initiatives page of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, 2019).
Guide to Healthcare Reimbursement Models
Description:
Read “Guide to Healthcare Reimbursement Models,” located on the DECO Recovery Management website (2019).
Understanding the Value-Based Reimbursement Model Landscape
Description:
Read “Understanding the Value-Based Reimbursement Model Landscape,” by LaPointe (2020), located on the Revcycle Intelligence website.
Generational Differences and Professional Memberships
Description:
Read “Generational Differences and Professional Memberships,” by Martin and Waxman, from Nurse Leader (2017).
Differences and Importance of IPPS, OPPS, MPFS and DMEPOS
Description:
Read “Differences and Importance of IPPS, OPPS, MPFS and DMEPOS,” located on the NursingAnswer.net website.
Tasks
Topic 4 DQ 1
Description:
Explain how health care policy affects health care organizations, patient care, and cost-effective quality care. What measures can the nurse leader take as an advocate for patient care and addressing health care cost?
Topic 4 DQ 2
Description:
As an advanced practice nurse, propose strategies you can implement to increase your participation in the health care policymaking in order to support patient advocacy.
Topic 4 Participation
Description:
NA
Course Description:
In this course, the learner will:
- Explore various health care system and organizational relationships (e.g., stakeholders, economic, financial, political, ethical issues, organizational structure, and delivery of care, including mission/vision/philosophy and values).
- Discuss professional leadership theories and how they shape the nurse leader in such things as collaboration, conflict resolution, decision making, and negotiation.
- Discuss change management theories and strategies and the ethical, social, legal, economic, and political implications of practice change on nursing practice decisions.
- Analyze the impact of health care policy on health care organizations and cost-effective quality care.
- Evaluate strategies for managing human, fiscal, and health care resources in the design of cost-effective, innovative models of care delivery or practice change proposals.
- Explore current and emerging patient care, information system, and communication technologies that can deliver and enhance safe, high quality, cost-effective patient care and health outcomes.
- Examine the implications of health care informatics and the role of the advanced registered nursing specialties leader on performance measures and standards related to quality.
- Discuss the design, implementation, and evaluation of electronic health record systems and clinical decision support systems.
- Evaluate legal (HIPAA), ethical, reimbursement, emerging technologies, and interprofessional issues related to informatics and information systems.