Do you think it is important for nurses to be involved in their professional organizations? Why or why not?
- What is your vision of nursing’s future? How will you contribute to shaping it?
- Locate the website of a professional organization related to nursing. State the organization’s mission, membership criteria, and standards of practice.
- Describe the nurse of the future.
a-What does he or she do?
b-Do you think nursing will become a more powerful force in health care?
Read Chapter on Davis Plus: Finance
1-Mention the types of budgets that you know and give examples of then?
2- What is budgeting?
3- What is directed and indirect cost?
4- Give examples of productive and non-productive hours?
5- What does HMO, PPO, POS means?
A) Mention one example of each of then in your city, or state?
6- What is DRGs.?
7- Give some examples of strategies for Cost-conscious nursing practice that your Nursing unit use to lower medical care cost?
Read Chapter on Davis Plus: Discussion of Triaxial of action: Policy, Politics and Nursing
1- What is Policy?
2- Explain each of them:
Public policy—
Private policy—
Health policy—
Social policy—
Organizational policy?
3- Who was F lorence Nightingale, and what was her contribution to the Nursing Field?
4- Who was Margaret Sanger, and in what way she helped to the developments of Nursing Field?
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