Health care finance, economics, and policy for nurses : a foundational guide

Summary: The complexities of health care finance, economics, and policy are today inextricably intertwined with traditional nursing practice. This undergraduate nursing text distills these challenging topics into an engaging, easy-to-read format that facilitates ready application into any practice setting.

Record details

ISBN: 0826123228
ISBN: 9780826123220
ISBN: 0826123236
ISBN: 9780826123237
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: New York : Springer Publishing Company, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	What is health economics and why is it important to nurses? -- A story of unintended consequences : how economic and policy solutions create new challenges -- Payment reform -- How health care markets differ from classic free markets -- The role of information in health care markets and decision making -- Market entry, exit, and antitrust law -- What is ethiconomics? -- Additional models to guide ethical decision-making -- Governance and organizational types -- Applying health economics to influence health care through state and federal policy formation -- Epilogue : reflections on living and leading in a changing nursing world.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 15, 2015).