Health Care Finance, Economics, and Policy for Nurses: A Foundational Guide
Health Care Finance, Economics, and Policy for Nurses: A Foundational Guide
Editor/Author
Rambur, Betty
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Single-User Purchase Price:
$64.99

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$97.48
ISBN: 978-0-82-612322-0
Category: Health & Medicine - Nursing
Image Count:
14
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Written specifically for RN to BSN and second-degree nursing programs, the book is the only such text grounded in nurses own understanding and experience. Concise and practical, it supports foundational concepts with real-life case studies and clinical applications and reinforces information with interactive quizzes and multimedia materials. The books content fulfills one of the AACNs key Essentials of Baccalaureate Education. Written by a health economics and policy expert, former dean, and award-winning teacher, the text synthesizes the vast scope of health economics to create an easily understandable guide for nursing action from bedside to boardroom.
Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Foreword - Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- SECTION I. THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH CARE REFORM
- Preface
- 1. What Is Health Economics and Why Is It Important to Nurses?
- Theoretical Economic Approaches
- Social Determinants of Health
- How Economics Differs From Financing and Reimbursement
- Insurance Industry Changes Since the Passage of the ACA
- Conclusion
- 2. A Story of Unintended Consequences: How Economic and Policy Solutions Create New Challenges
- The Influence of the Flexner Report
- Early Hospitals
- Social Reform Addressing Unintended Consequences of Employer-Based Insurance
- Attempts to Change Finanical Incentives to Contain Costs
- The ACA and New (and Renewed) Payment Models
- 3. Payment Reform
- From Volume to Value: Payment Models That Move Away From Fee-for-Service Reimbursement
- Nursing Roles Within Emerging Payment Models
- SECTION II. HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS: AN OVERVIEW
- Preface
- 4. How Health Care Markets Differ From Classic Markets
- What Does It Mean to Bear the Consequences of Financial Decision Making?
- What Ideas Help Us Understand Overtreatment? The Example of Small-Area Variation and Supplier-Induced Demand
- 5. The Role of Information in Health Care Markets and Decision Making
- The Need for Information
- Data on Quality
- Big Data
- Meaningful Use
- Information Science, Quality Science, and Data
- 6. Market Entry, Exit, and Antitrust Law
- Entering and Exiting the Market
- Merge, Consolidate, or Stand Alone: An Overview of Antitrust Law
- Is Consolidation the Same as Integration?
- SECTION III. ETHICS AND ECONOMICS IN AN AGE OF REFORM
- Preface
- 7. What Is Ethinomics?
- Can Economics Coexist With the Intention of “Doing Good”?
- Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, Ethics, and Economics
- Moral Conduct of Nurses in Contemporary Complexity
- 8. Additional Models to Guide Ethical Decision Making
- Consequence-Based Decision Making
- Deontology: Rule-Based Decision Making
- Virtue Ethics
- Using These Models in Clinical Decision Making
- Moral Distress
- Ethics of Reform and Cost Containment
- Sustainability Is an Ethical Issue
- Nurses on Boards and in Politics
- SECTION IV. PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER: USING YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH FINANCE, ECONOMICS, AND ETHICS TO INFLUENCE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
- Preface
- 9. Governance and Organizational Type
- Role of the Board of Trustees
- Types of Hospitals and Health Systems
- Navigating Governance–Management Boundaries
- The Relationship Between Organizational Structure and Organizational Values
- The Role of Board Committees
- The Sarbanes–Oxley Act
- 10. Building Skills for Board Membership
- Zeal, Organizational Fit, and Philanthophy
- Types of Board Appointments
- What a Governing Board Is Not
- Other Types of Boards
- Building the Skill Set for Board Membership
- Next Steps
- 11. Applying Health Economics to Influence Health Care Through State and Federal Policy Formation
- Ways of Influence
- How to Contact Policymakers
- Maintaining a Connection with Policymakers to Influence Health and Health Care
- Overcoming Impediments to Involvement
- 12. Epilogue: Reflections on Living and Leading in a Changing Nursing World
- Tell Me One More Time: What Does All This Financing, Economics, and Policy Have to Do With Nursing?
- How to Retain and Expand on What You Have Learned
- Appendix: Quiz Answers
- Glossary