Nurs & Comm Hlth Care Delv Sys

Catalog description

This course focuses on healthcare systems within communities in the United States, their historical development, the major forces shaping the present status, and emerging directions. Components as well as analytic models of formal and informal healthcare delivery systems will be examined. Geographic, socio-cultural, and environmental stresses to the community and their healthcare systems will be discussed. Current healthcare reform issues, including methods of financing healthcare and issues specific to the rural community will be analyzed. Throughout the course, the implications for nursing roles and actions within healthcare organizations, and the planning, policy formulation, and evolving methods of delivering services to clients will be highlighted. How national, state, and local influences, and processes of organizational change affect the individual, small groups, and the nursing profession will be explored. Appropriate for students in MASS or MPA healthcare concentrations with permission of the instructor. This course will be taught using an online asynchronous format. Offered Fall and Spring semesters. NOTE: FNP & A/G Students registered for the Fall: will be preassigned to attend one Inter-Professional Education (IPE) event working with Social Work, Pharmacy and Public Health students to take place one one of two dates: TBA.