"[This book] will change how you practice, how you think about health care and your contributions as a nurse, and it will better prepare you to thrive and advance in the future"
-Peter I. Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAANP(h)
Professor of Nursing
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies
Montana State University
From the Foreword
This succinct, engaging text for graduate and undergraduate nursing programs distills the complexities of health care finance, economics, and policy into a highly accessible resource that can be applied to any practice setting. It presents economic and financial dynamics in healthcare as a precursor to policy and advocacy in nurses. The second edition adds graduate-level considerations and is updated to reflect our current political and legislative landscape.
Real-life illustrations support foundational concepts and interactive quizzes reinforce information. Faculty resources include PowerPoint slides, a test bank, comprehensive review questions, and a sample syllabus.
New to the Second Edition:
- New chapter on early lessons from COVID-19
- Adds graduate-level considerations to content
- Updated to reflect current political and legislative landscape
- Expands payment section to include advanced practice roles
- Includes updated information on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and Supreme Court deliberations
Key Features:
- Presents complex concepts in easy-to-understand language
- Addresses policy and payment competencies that align with nursing program accreditation criteria
- Breaks down complex financial principles to educate nurses with no prior understanding of health care finance
- Includes practical, accessible real-life examples to help make sense of complex health care systems
- Provides interactive quizzes so readers can test knowledge
- Includes a step-by-step, skill-building guide to enhancing professional influence through participation on governing boards
- Compatible with online teaching and coursework
Betty Rambur, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Routhier Endowed Chair for Practice and professor of nursing at the University of Rhode Island. She was formerly professor of nursing and health policy and at the University of Vermont and from 2000 to 2009 served there as an academic dean. In this role, she led the 2002 merger of the School of Nursing and the School of Allied Health Science to establish the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
These experiences build on Dr. Rambur's substantive leadership history in health policy and payment reform. From 1991-1995 she led North Dakota's 33-member, statewide public/private health financing and delivery reform effort that led to omnibus legislation. In 2013, Dr. Rambur was appointed to Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board by Governor Peter Shumlin and served in this role until 2017. The five member Green Mountain Care board is a quasi-judicial body. It oversees Vermont's financing, payment and delivery reform and holds broad regulatory, innovation, and evaluation authority. In May 2020, Dr.. Rambur appointed to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by the U.S. Comptroller General, Director of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. MedPAC is an influential, nonpartisan group of policy experts who advise the U.S. Congress on Medicare payment and policy. She was reappointed to this role in 2003. She has also served on numerous advisory and governing boards, including the boards of trustees of an academic medical center and an independent community hospital.
