21 Jan Learning Components

MSN6218 Leading the Future of Health Care

Unit 4 Discussion

DQ1 Providing Health Care

As a profession, nurses have seen many changes to the U.S. health care system with the ACA.

What are some of the hopeful new approaches seen in the ACA?

Support your statements with citations of professional literature that show improved health outcomes related to those provisions of the ACA.

In response to the ACA, how has the health care system developed incentives to provide more efficient health care?

What aspects of the ACA do you find confusing or difficult to understand?

What have been some disappointments or shortcomings of the ACA?

Which provisions of the ACA would benefit the U.S. health care system in the future?

Support your statements with evidence.

Which provisions of the ACA would not benefit the U.S. health care system in the future?

Support your statements with evidence.

If you had the power to change the U.S. health care system, what additional information would you need to make the best possible decisions?

Note: Remember to adhere to the requirements listed in the Faculty Expectations Message for unit discussion posts and peer responses.

Response Guidelines

In responding to a colleague’s post, assume the role of a patient who has a debilitating chronic or acute condition. Respond to the points made by your colleague from the perspective of someone who is not as highly educated in health care as you are, but who is very dependent on health care.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Determine the effects of the health care system on health outcomes.

Determine the effects of specific changes on outcomes.

Recognize the components of a health care system and the contributing factors that produce the best possible outcomes.

Determine the potential short- and long-term effects of a proposed change to a health care system or program.

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DQ2 Health Care Payment

Some would say that the United States is increasing the amount of money spent on health care as a response to increased consumer demand; others would argue that we are wastefully spending with no increase in the quality of care. Multiple programs have been instituted in this country to help provide better care.

Use evidence from the health care literature to support the position that increased spending on health care has resulted in the provision of better care in the United States.

Then, use evidence from the health care literature to support the position that increased spending on health care has not resulted in the provision of better care in the United States.

Present both arguments impartially, so that the reader cannot tell what your own opinion might be.

Note: Remember to adhere to the requirements listed in the Faculty Expectations Message for unit discussion posts and peer responses.

Response Guidelines

In responding to a colleague’s post, evaluate their arguments.

Are they well supported by evidence?

Could you provide additional evidence that would strengthen either or both arguments?

Did your colleague argue well and impartially for both positions?

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Apply basic financial principles to budget development.

Identify the resources needed to effect lasting change.

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