Healthcare Utilization and Finance

post has two assignments

1:NURSING SCIENCE

734.3.4: Healthcare Utilization and Finance – The graduate analyzes financial implications related to healthcare delivery, reimbursement, access, and national initiatives.

Introduction:

It is essential that nurses understand the issues related to healthcare financing, including local, state, and national healthcare policies and initiatives that affect healthcare delivery. As a patient advocate, the professional nurse is in a position to work with patients and families to access available resources to meet their healthcare needs.

Requirements:
A. Compare the U.S. healthcare system with the healthcare system of Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland, by doing the following:
1. Identify one country from the following list whose healthcare system you will compare to the U.S. healthcare system: Great Britain, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland.
2. Compare access between the two healthcare systems for children, people who are unemployed, and for people who are retired.
a. Discuss coverage for medications in the two healthcare systems.
b. Determine the requirements to get a referral to see a specialist in the two healthcare systems.
c. Discuss coverage for preexisting conditions in the two healthcare systems.
3. Explain two financial implications for the patient with regard to the healthcare delivery differences between the two countries.

B. When you use sources to support ideas and elements in a paper or project, provide acknowledgement of source information for any content that is quoted, paraphrased or summarized. Acknowledgement of source information includes in-text citation noting specifically where in the submission the source is used and a corresponding reference, which includes:
• Author
• Date
• Title
• Location of information (e.g., publisher, journal, or website URL)

2: Overcoming Adversity

Order Description

Choose a book or film to review, in which an individual overcomes adversity, hardship or obstacles in their lives.
supply a permission note from your parent if you have chosen a film rated M. Do not choose a film that is rated MA or R.

Complete the following:

• Design a character web of the individual using the example from the workbook as a guide.
o Personality Traits
o Adversities/obstacles they over came
o Successfully strategies
o Ways in which the character grew

• Write a letter to a friend or relative as if you are the individual that (from the film or book) has overcome the adversity. In the letter:

o Outline the hardships and challenges “you” faced.
o Describe the coping strategies “you” used to cope
o Evaluate the success of the strategies
o Identify how “you” have grown by going through the tough time.

• Describe what you learnt from the book/film that could help you change as a person.

• Review this book/film for the school library in 150 words or less, giving it a rating and explaining its main message. Make sure to include the strengthens and weakness of the narrative in relation to overcoming adversity. To do this reflect on the:

o Plot
o Characterisation
o Narrative Arch

Healthcare Utilization