Overview
Description
Microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis of regional, national, and global health care economies as these relate to nursing practice and health care leadership.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to the DNP program.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Admission to the DNP program.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Restrictions
Admission to the DNP program.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- distinguish among econometric concepts including macroeconomics, microeconomics, supply, demand, cost, scarcity, opportunity cost, efficiency, equity, and utility.
- analyze the macroeconomic and microeconomic impact of cost drivers in the U.S. health care market.
- apply public and private health care reimbursement strategies to the care of patients with varying health care needs.
- evaluate the economic impact of health care reform to individuals, health care systems, and the U.S. economy.
- synthesize the concepts of adverse selection and moral hazard as they apply to health care cost.
- determine the economic impact of health care policy issues as they apply to advanced nursing roles.