Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations NR 533 Week 1: Introduction: Self and Project  NR 533 Week 1 Touchpoint Reflection: Healthcare Systems Financial Environments NR 533 Week 2 Touchpoint Reflection: Reimbursement Issues  NR 533 Week 2 Discussion: Volume-Based Versus Value-Based Reimbursement.   NR 533 Week 3: Financial and Budgeting Principles  NR 533 Week 3 Discussion: Process of Budget Preparation  NR 533 Week 4 Assignment: Staffing Bu...

Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations Guidelines for Touchpoint Reflections A downloadable version of the guidelines, which includes further information, is available for access on the Course Resources page. Reflection Information This is the final week of discussion and there are two important areas of reflection included in this discussion. Please label each area with a heading to facilitate classmate and instructor response. EXPERIENCE P...

Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations Week 7: Business Plan In addition to being fiscally sound, cost neutral, or revenue producing, a new program/major change must fit with the organization’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan. Describe with specific examples how your project fits in with your institution’s philosophy, vision, mission, and strategic plan. Drawing upon your knowledge of various change theories and in particular the McKins...

Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to develop a business plan for a quality improvement project, program, or service related to an area of student interest within the selected healthcare organization. I. Requirements: Address all components of the business plan as outlined in Preparing the Paper. Refer to the Business Plan Worksheet, available for download on the Course Resources page, as needed to ...

Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations Week 6 Discussion: Business Plan Development: SWOT analysis For any new project or revision of a current process, key questions that will need to … are whether it is … , does the institution have the capacity to support it, whatis already in place that will facilitate implementation, and what are the downsides or barriers to development. In short, the SWOT analysis is a necessary component of planning a project and pre...

Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations Instructions   Consider your PICO(T) and the proposal for your final project. When you think of it as a type of new program  development, what specific information will you need to obtain to create the cost-benefit analysis as part of our business plan for the project? ANSWER   My final project PICOT statement is: Among adult outpatient oncology nurses (P), will the initiation of nurse’s retention strategies to...

Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to provide learners with the opportunity to develop break-even-analysis skills. Week 5 Break Even Analysis Assignment and Guidelines (Links to an external site.). Requirements Answer the questions and complete the calculations required for the assignment. Submit your answers on a Word document, with the heading of Week 5 Assignment. For the questions requiring a written...

Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations Instructions  Staffing is one of the largest expenditures for healthcare organizations. It stands to reason that for some organizations a mandatory staffing ratio could negatively impact their financial bottom line. Sometimes ratios can … different within an organization based on acuity of patients or type of unit. Explore your own organization staffing ratio policy. What is/are the ratio(s) and how they are determi...

Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations Week 4 Assignment: Staffing Budgets/FTEs/Variance Analysis Purpose This assignment provides learners with the opportunity to apply budgeting knowledge and skills by calculating full-time equivalents for a nursing unit, projecting FTE needs related to census changes, and analyzing a variance scenario. Requirements Description of the Assignment This assignment is in two scenario-based sections each related to st...

Course   NR 533 Financial Management In Healthcare Organizations Instructions   After exploration of the types of budgets and the processes for their development at your institution. How and from whom is input into the budgets acquired and used? Where does control of the budget lie? What influence do unit and midlevel managers have on the various kinds of budgets? ANSWER  A budget allows a facility to have a fiscal plan for the year, and allows for management to look back an...