This reflective essay discusses what the student learned in a healthcare policy and ethics course. The student feels better able to discuss healthcare reform and its impacts. The course increased understanding of how healthcare reform initiatives can affect nursing practice. It also provided knowledge about the business side of healthcare delivery and how quality impacts outcomes. The student now understands issues like insurance reform, value-based purchasing, and readmission reduction programs which aim to lower costs and improve care. The course guided the student to be an effective healthcare leader in advancing policy solutions.
This reflective essay discusses what the student learned in a healthcare policy and ethics course. The student feels better able to discuss healthcare reform and its impacts. The course increased understanding of how healthcare reform initiatives can affect nursing practice. It also provided knowledge about the business side of healthcare delivery and how quality impacts outcomes. The student now understands issues like insurance reform, value-based purchasing, and readmission reduction programs which aim to lower costs and improve care. The course guided the student to be an effective healthcare leader in advancing policy solutions.
This reflective essay discusses what the student learned in a healthcare policy and ethics course. The student feels better able to discuss healthcare reform and its impacts. The course increased understanding of how healthcare reform initiatives can affect nursing practice. It also provided knowledge about the business side of healthcare delivery and how quality impacts outcomes. The student now understands issues like insurance reform, value-based purchasing, and readmission reduction programs which aim to lower costs and improve care. The course guided the student to be an effective healthcare leader in advancing policy solutions.
Healthcare Policy and Ethics Christina L. Vidrich University of St. Mary
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Healthcare Policy and Ethics has increased my knowledge and
understanding of the science and technology that continue to influence the political, economic, social and environmental settings of an ever changing paradigm of nursing. The direction of delivery of healthcare with information and communication technologies has provided nursing with a diverse nursing workforce to advance the nations health. I feel I can converse on a topic of healthcare reform and its impact and help initiate and sustain more meaningful dialogue with other disciplines. Healthcare informatics has provided ways to cut cost, exchange information and standardize patient care. I have learned how some healthcare reform initiatives can affect my practice and have gained knowledge on the business aspect of care delivery and its linkage to quality outcomes. If I want to see change I can take the gained knowledge from this course to let my professional voice be heard and hopefully have a positive contribution to the nursing profession I do have a better understanding of the healthcare system in the United States. I comprehend the financial impact of poor quality care, insurance reform and the healthcare delivery system; value based purchasing implementing reimbursement for better outcomes rather than volume and the hospital readmission reduction program. All these are striving to decrease healthcare costs and improve care. I want to have a part
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in transforming healthcare and this course has guided me to be an effective
leader in advancing policy solutions. I feel this course helped me to understand current policy, influence health care practice and provide me with gained knowledge of a complex healthcare reform. The Accountable Care Act has made fundamental changes how medical services are paid for. Some insurers bundled payments and this will decrease how much the facility will get paid. Performance will guide payments and will be based off of the patients satisfaction of their care. Providing associates with resources, appropriate training, communications, teamwork, aligned goals can positively affects employees' perceptions of their ability to deliver high-quality services and help them to Strive and provide opportunities. By overseeing models of care to facilitate the prevention of chronic disease, improving public health, improving the quality and efficiency of health care, involvement with public programs, and improving access to innovative medical therapies, I feel these strategies were incorporated throughout the curriculum.