DNP812 Healthcare System Leadership 3: Healthcare Policy, Finance, and Business Management for Nurse Anesthetists (2 cr.)

Prerequisite(s): DNP810 , DNP811 
This course examines the practices and procedures associated with leading a healthcare organization. This course examines the tools of financial forecasting, planning, auditing programs, reporting systems, and control needed to make managerial decisions within the health sector. This course provides an overview of how to interpret financial statements, create and evaluate operating and capital budgets, and incorporate general principles of financial management.  This course also examines leadership processes, including strategic planning, problem solving and decision making, team building, supervision, and project management. These leadership skills are discussed within the context of providing effective patient care.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Apply a variety of approaches to the leadership challenges of clinical practice.
2. Create approaches for determining the effectiveness of leadership initiatives.
3. Integrate critical and reflective thinking in a leadership approach.
4. Relate the historical context of healthcare financial management, theory, and concepts to the current state of the health sector.
5. Create and evaluate an operating and capital budget for an organization.
6. Examine the reimbursement requirements and regulatory compliance on financial performance, including exploration billing and collections practices.
7. Analyze and evaluate the financial statements of organizations in the health or human service sectors.
8. Analyze business practices encountered in nurse anesthesia delivery settings.