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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR7767
Tracking Number - 1548
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Approved, Permanent Archive - 2009-06-03
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2009-02-23
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: HSC 006201-10000
- Contact Person: Fran D'Avanzo-Schrader
- Phone: 69978
- Email: fdavanzo@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 7767
- Full Title: Practice Management
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Practice Management
- Course Online?: -
- Percentage Online:
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites:
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course presents the legal, economic and business basis for developing advanced nursing clinical practice models.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: The courses has been taught under special topics number, and a permanent number is being requested. Suggested number is NGR 7767.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? The course is required for the DNP degree program.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, several semesters
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph. D Nursing
- Objectives: During this course the student will have the opportunity to:
1. recognize the regulatory and legal requirements for advanced nursing practice and healthcare organizations
2. analyze principles of practice management, including clinical practice models and conceptual and practical strategies for balancing productivity with quality of care
3. analyze the financial structures that support advanced nursing practice
4. learn economic, business and financial strategies needed for the analysis of clinical quality and costs
5. apply economic, business, and financial strategies to develop system-wide initiatives that will improve the health-care outcomes and quality
6. plan communication and marketing strategies for advanced nursing practice
7. analyze the cost-effectiveness of clinical initiatives accounting for risk and improvement of healthcare outcomes
8. select, implement and evaluate the use of patient care technology relevant to a specialized area of practice (i.e., practice site clinical information systems, Web-based tools, electronic medical records)
9. evaluate consumer health information sources for accuracy, timeliness, and appropriateness
- Learning Outcomes: During this course the student will have the opportunity to:
1. recognize the regulatory and legal requirements for advanced nursing practice and healthcare organizations
2. analyze principles of practice management, including clinical practice models and conceptual and practical strategies for balancing productivity with quality of care
3. analyze the financial structures that support advanced nursing practice
4. learn economic, business and financial strategies needed for the analysis of clinical quality and costs
5. apply economic, business, and financial strategies to develop system-wide initiatives that will improve the health-care outcomes and quality
6. plan communication and marketing strategies for advanced nursing practice
7. analyze the cost-effectiveness of clinical initiatives accounting for risk and improvement of healthcare outcomes
8. select, implement and evaluate the use of patient care technology relevant to a specialized area of practice (i.e., practice site clinical information systems, Web-based tools, electronic medical records)
9. evaluate consumer health information sources for accuracy, timeliness, and appropriateness
- Major Topics: Week 1 Aug 25: Introduction- Issues Related to Nurse Practitioner Owned Practice and Political Action
Week 2 Sept 1: Labor Day
No classes
Week 3 Sept 8: Basic Practice Management Concepts
Week4 Sept 15: Political and Professional Involvement
Assignment 1 provided
Week 5 Sept 22: Developing a Practice Management Plan
Assignment 2 provided
Week 6 Sept 29: Small Business Resources, Professional Collaboration and Mentoring Opportunities
Week 7 Oct 6: Personal Finance
Week 8 Oct 13: Business Finance
Assignment 1 Due
Week9 Oct 20: Negotiating Employment Contracts
Week 10 Oct 27: Malpractice Protection
Week 11 Nov 3: Marketing Strategies
Week 12 Nov 10: Reimbursement Issues: 3rd Party Payers, Medicare, Medicaid
Week 13 Nov 17: Reimbursement Issues: Billing and Coding
Week 14 Nov 24: Selecting Electronic Medical Record Systems and Physical Space Considerations
Week 15 Dec 1: Performance, Quality of Care and Risk Management Issues
Guest Presenter:
Week 16 Dec 8: Final Exam Week: Final Assignments Due
Assignment 3 due
The above topics and dates of these topics are subject to change. The course will be tailored and changed as needed to fit the participant’s special interests and needs.
- Textbooks: Business and Legal Essentials for Nurse Practitioners, Author: Sally J. Reel and Ivo L Abraham
Or
Starting Your Practice: A Survival Guide for Nurse Practitioners, Author: Jean Nagelkerk
Or
Nurse Practitioner’s Business and Legal Guide, Author: Carolyn Buppert
Required Readings:
Selected articles from peer-reviewed journals will be posted on Blackboard
Web Content:
Selected web sites will be posted on Blackboard for review and are required reading resources.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurship
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.