NU 604 - Applied Financial Management and Budgeting

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Describe the nurse manager’s role in assessing, planning for, and controlling financial resources and the impact on the patient, nursing role and the health-care facility. 
• Discuss how financial management fits into the delivery of patient services within the health-care organization. 
• Use financial information in decision making in nursing within health-care organizations. 
• Apply budgetary planning, assessment, and evaluation of financial resources to a nursing/health-related department in a health-care setting. 
• Apply cost and budgeting concepts to a nursing and /or health-care setting. 
• Evaluate the nurse manager and/or leader role in managing financial resources in a health-care setting. 
• Apply concepts and research knowledge to interpret the impact of the changing health-care environment on the practice of providing high-quality care in a cost-effective manner.
• Analyze the future roles of nurse leaders and managers in relation to financial management within an organization.