Reimbursement & Financing Issues

• As decisions are made to address changes in reimbursement in your work place, how are these changes shared with the nursing staff?
• What suggestions do you have that could increase nurses’ awareness of health care financing issues?

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post must be at least 500 words, formatted, and cited in current APA style with support from at least two academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points.
• You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts and supporting your opinion with a reference. Response posts must be at least 150 words. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response).
• Quotes “…” cannot be used at a higher learning level for your assignments, so sentences need to be paraphrased and referenced.
• Acceptable references include scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions), journal articles, and books published in the last five years—no websites to be referenced without prior approval.
• Discussions must be posted in CANVAS to be graded. Uploaded documents will not be accepted.