Nurs 5335 Legal, Regulatory, and Financial Management
Nurs 5335 Legal, Regulatory, and Financial Management
NURS 5335.060/061
Course Title: Legal, Regulatory, and Financial Management
Course Description: Focuses on the legal, ethical, regulatory, and fiscal environment faced by nurse administrators. Enables the professional nurse to manage the ethical, legal, and regulatory issues facing healthcare organizations and actively participate in the fiscal management of healthcare divisions and organizations.
CREDIT: 3 (2:1) PREREQUISITES: NURS 5331
SEMESTER CREDIT HOURS: Three (3) credit hours, allocated as follows: Two (2) lecture hours per week and thirty-seven and one-half (37.5) clinical hours over the entire semester, with a mutually agreed upon clinical preceptor.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES/ COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have demonstrated the ability to do the following:
1. Participate in health and public policy development and analysis impacting healthcare organizati
2. Examine ethical, legal and regulatory perspectives in the analysis of the professional practice environment and organizational culture.
3. Apply healthcare economics to the strategic planning process with consideration of current economic, legal, and political influences.
4. Advocate for a healthy work environment incorporating informatics, and current emerging technologies within the legal, regulatory, ethical, and fiscal operations of the health care organization.
5. Formulate a business plan utilizing business and economic principles and practice
Grading Policy and Criteria
Specific guidelines and grading criteria for all assignments are in the Modules. Final grades for the course will be determined based upon the following point assignments:
A – 90-100
B – 80-89
C – 70-79
D – 60-69
F – Below 60
Grades will not be rounded when calculating the average (79.5 is not rounded to 80 and 89.5 is not rounded to 90). Students are required to achieve an average of 80% (B) to successfully complete the course.
Late policy: 5% will be deducted each day an assignment is past due unless prior arrangements have been made with your course faculty. Extenuating circumstances may apply.
Criteria for Evaluation:
Percentage of Grade:
1. Discussion Boards (Two @ 10% Each)
20%
2. Finance Quizzes (Four @ 10% Each)
40%
3. Team Business Plan
20%
4. Healthcare Legal Issues Presentation (Group)
10%
Clinical Requirements
5. Clinical Reflective Journal (1 @ 10% each)
10%
6. Clinical (to include satisfactory completion of 37.5 clinical hours and
submission of required clinical logs, journals, preceptor agreement and preceptor evaluation by due dates on Calendar.)
Pass/Fail
Important Course Dates:
Note: The complete course schedule is available in the Canvas course site.
Mid-Term Exam: NONE
Last Date to Withdraw: Tuesday March 23, 2021 (5:00pm)
https://www.uttyler.edu/registrar/registration/withdrawals.php
Final Exam Date: None
Attendance and Make-up Policy
Attendance / participation is expected. Make-up for exams, quizzes, assignments, clinical time missed is at the discretion of the faculty.
**Calls and e-mail are returned within 24 hours Monday through Friday unless out of town. If faculty do not return your call or respond to your email within 24 hours, feel free to repeat.
Required Textbooks/Materials
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
Format: Spiral-Bound ISBN: 978-1-4338-3217-8
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4338-3216-1
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4338-3215-4
Supplemental Resources: https://apastyle.apa.org/products/supplemental-resources2.
All students are required to have an active InPlace Clinical Placement subscription.
Penner, S. J. (2017). Economics and financial management for nurses and nurse leaders (3rd ed.).
Springer Publishing Co., LLC. ISBN:978*0-8261-6001-0
Pozgar, G. D. (2019). Legal aspects of healthcare administration (13th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and
Bartlett Publishers. ISBN:978-1-284-12717-1
RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS:
American Nurses Association. (2016). Nursing administration: Scope and standards of practice. Silver Spring, MD: Author.
Assigned readings from journals and periodicals such as Nursing Administration Quarterly, Modern Healthcare, Journal of Nursing Administration, American Hospital Association News, Nursing Management, Health Affairs, Health Economics etc. will be used to supplement material within the course.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND EVALUATION:
(Please note: Some written assignments will be submitted through Turnitin. Turnitin is a feature provided by Canvas that is designed to detect plagiarism or non-original student work. Your faculty may set up this feature so that when you submit papers, they are automatically sent through Turnitin. The program checks your work against a comprehensive database of source material including previous students’ work and other papers and materials found on the web. An originality report will be generated that indicates the percentage of non-original material (text that matches existing sources) found in your paper. The purpose of using Turnitin in your course is to ensure you are writing original papers and to encourage you and all students to properly attribute all sources used.
GRADING SCALE:
90-100 A
80-89 B
70-79 C
60-69 D
<60 F
The student must achieve an average of 80% for the didactic portion, and a Passing grade for clinical to successfully complete the course.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: Students are expected to assume full responsibility for the content and integrity of all academic work submitted as paperwork and examinations. The official policy is available in the Graduate Nursing Student Guide and the UTT Student Guide.
EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENTS
Participate in course learning activities. These activities will focus on application of concepts presented in required reading.
Students are responsible being familiar with all course expectations to include information provided within the syllabus, course calendar, and all the information and announcements posted in Canvas.
***Students are expected to check their University email and Canvas announcements at least every 2 working days. *** Since this is an online course much of the communication from faculty will be through Canvas and email.
Course Number (NURS 5335) along with issue in subject line in any emails to faculty to facilitate responses to student email. Properly identified student emails are first to be read and receive a response. Faculty will only correspond through University email or Canvas messaging (not personal or work emails).
Students are expected to make arrangements for online access to course even while traveling. Since this is an online course, lack of internet access during travel etc. will not be considered an acceptable excuse for lack of timely participation in course activities.
All assignments will be turned in on the date assigned unless PRIOR arrangements have been made with the faculty. Late work will only be accepted at the discretion of the faculty. If student finds it necessary to submit an assignment late, they are expected to request an extension at least 24 hours before assignment is due; provide a valid reason for requesting the extension; and provide an action plan for completion and submission of assignment to include planned day and time of submission. A five (5) point deduction may be taken for each day the assignment is late. [Faculty may not be available for assistance after 5 pm on Friday until Monday 8:00 am]
All assignments including clinical logs and journals will be submitted to the appropriate assignment link.
NO assignments will be accepted by email except at the discretion of the faculty.
Should students find it necessary to withdraw from the course for any reason, the student is strongly encouraged to notify the graduate nursing advisor and the course faculty as a matter of professional courtesy.
