UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
COLLEGE OF NURSING
COURSE SYLLABUS
SEMESTER/YEAR
COURSE NUMBER
NGR 7891
COURSE TITLE
Health Policy and Finance in Advanced Nursing Practice
CREDITS
3
PLACEMENT
DNP Program
PREREQUISITE
None
COREQUISITE
None
FACULTY
Robyn P. Gleason, PhD, MPH, ARNP, FNP-BC
rgleason@ufl.edu HPNP 2224 (352) 284-2123 cell
(352) 273-6347 office
Office hours: Thurs 2:00-4:00pm
DEPARTMENT CHAIR
M. Josephine Snider, EdD, RN
snidemj@ufl.edu HPNP 4221 (352) 273-6359 office
Office hours: By appointment only
JACKSONVILLE CAMPUS DIRECTOR Andrea C. Gregg, DSN, RN
greggac@.ufl.edu Jacksonville (904) 244-5172
Office hours: By appointment only
COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides knowledge and understanding needed to
participate in health policy development, analysis and implementation. The impact of policies
on the delivery of health care and nursing services will be explored. The relationship of health
policies to the financing of health care will be presented. Students will be introduced to health
economics with a focus on the elements of financial management including the language and
basic concepts of cost, the budgeting process and systems of reimbursement. Global, national,
state, and local systems of financing health care will be compared.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Analyze the influence of health policy, social factors and other variables on advanced nursing
practice roles and methods of health care delivery.
2. Analyze the effects of health policy on health promotion for selected aggregates.
3. Critique health policy issues at the local, state, national, and international levels that affect
the health care system and the nursing profession.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES (continued)
4. Construct a plan to enhance the role of advanced nursing practice in the formulation, analysis
and implementation of health care delivery policies.
5. Examine methods of health care financing and how these affect advanced nursing practice.
6. Formulate strategies for active participation in financial activities within health care settings
and within other larger systems that influence the distribution of fiscal resources.
COURSE SCHEUDLE
Section
8075
Web course
E-Learning (Sakai) is the course management system that you will use for this course. ELearning is accessed by using your Gatorlink account name and password at http://lss.at.ufl.edu.
There are several tutorials and student help links on the eLearning login site. If you have
technical questions call the UF Computer Help Desk at 352-392-HELP or send email to
helpdesk@ufl.edu.
It is important that you regularly check your Gatorlink account email for College and University
wide information and the course eLearning site for announcements and notifications.
Course websites are generally made available on the Friday before the first day of classes.
ATTENDANCE
Students may be expected to attend on-campus or synchronous classes periodically. Students are
expected to participate in the activities and discussions as listed in the course syllabus and on the
course web-site. Timeframes for the posting and receiving of materials are listed in the course
materials on the course web-site. Make-up exams may not be available in all courses.
ACCOMMODATIONS DUE TO DISABILITY
Each semester, students are responsible for requesting a memorandum from the Disability
Resource Center to notify faculty of their requested individual accommodations. This should be
done at the start of the semester.
STUDENT HANDBOOK
Students are to refer to the College of Nursing Student Handbook for information about College
of Nursing policies, honor code, and professional behavior.
TOPICAL OUTLINE
1. Perspectives on health, health care and health policy
2. Comparison of the U.S. and International Health Care Delivery Systems
3. Health Policy:
A. Policy Making
B. Policy analysis
C. Power and Politics as they relate to Health Policy
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TOPICAL OUTLINE (continued)
4. Critical Health Policy Issues: Finance, Delivery Systems, Populations and the Nursing
Profession
5. Health Care Economics
6. Health Care Financing:
A. Language of Finance: Cost, Price, Revenue, Expenditures, and
Reimbursement
B. Methods of Finance and Reimbursement
7. The Budget: Form and Process
8. Nursing roles in all aspects of health policy and health care financing.
TEACHING METHODS
Lectures (synchronous/asynchronous web-based), discussion, web-based learning activities.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Group discussions and projects, web-based research, written assignments.
EVALUATION METHODS/COURSE GRADE CALCULATION
Written assignments: 30%, Team project: 30%; Wiki: 25%; Class participation:15%.
GRADING SCALE/QUALITY POINTS
A
95-100 (4.0)
A93-94 (3.67)
B+
91- 92 (3.33)
B
84-90 (3.0)
B82-83 (2.67)
C+
80-81 (2.33)
* 74 is the minimal passing grade
C
CD+
D
DE
74-79* (2.0)
72-73 (1.67)
70-71 (1.33)
64-69 (1.0)
62-63 (0.67)
61 or below (0.0)
REQUIRED TEXTS
Mason, D. J., Leavitt, J. K., & Chaffee, M. W. (2012). Policy and politics in nursing and health
care (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders ISBN: 9781437714166
Shi, L., & Singh, D. A. (2008). Delivering health care in America: A systems approach (4th ed.).
Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett ISBN: 076374512X
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Longest, B. (2010). Health policymaking in the United States (5h ed.). Chicago, IL: Health
Administration Press ISBN: 9781567933543
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RECOMMENDED TEXTS (continued)
Shilts, R. (2007). And the band played on: Politics, people and the AIDS epidemic (20th
Anniversary Edition). New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press ISBN: 9780312374631
Sultz, H. A., & Young, K. M. (2009). Health care USA: Understanding its organization and
delivery (6th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett. ISBN: 0763749745
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WEEKLY CLASS SCHEDULE
DATE
TOPIC
UNIT 1: Health Care Delivery
Introduction to course
Perspectives on health,
05/09/2011
health care and
health policy
Comparison of the
U.S. and
05/16/2011
International Health
Care Delivery
Systems
UNIT 2: Policy & Politics
Health Care Policy
05/23/2011
Making & Policy
Analysis
Power and Politics in
05/30/2011
Health Policy
Critical Global and
06/06/2011
National Health
Policy Issues
06/13/2011
06/20/2011 Summer Break
UNIT 3: Economics & Finance
06/27/2011 Health Care
Economics
07/04/2011 Finance Language &
Methods
07/11/2011
07/18/2011 Budgets
07/25/2011 Nursing Roles in
Health Policy &
Finance
08/01/2011
READINGS
Additional online
and electronic
activities will be
posted on the course
website
Mason
Shi
1,2,23,24
13
13,15
1,2,3,
ASSIGNMENTS
wiki
due each week by 11 pm Sunday
evening beginning on May 15
Written Assignment 1 due
Monday, May 16 by 8 am
3,4,5,6
-
7,8,10,12,
25,26
16,22
34
14
6,12
-
-
19,21,29,
30,32,33
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Team Project Topic due Monday
May 30 by 8 am
Written Assignment 2 due
Monday, June 13 by 8 am
Team Project Draft due Monday
July 11 by 8 am
Team Project Post due Monday
July 25 by 8 am
Team Presentations
Teacher evaluation will be done on-line or you may contact
Kelly Reid at (352) 273-6375
Approved:
Academic Affairs Committee: 02/05; 03/05
Faculty:
03/05
UF Curriculum:
02/06
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