How Financialization is Reshaping the Hospital Industry: What Nurses Need to Know

Course Description

This course will examine the increasing influence of Wall Street in health care and the parallel trend of hospital systems prioritizing their own financial investments over the provision of patient care. We will investigate the causes of these trends and their consequences for patients and nurses.

We will also assess how the increasing influence of financial actors intersects with other key health care trends, including monopolization in the hospital industry, the nurse staffing crisis, increased barriers to care and worsening health outcomes. We will conclude by exploring how nurses can respond to these trends and advocate for their patients and professions.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Understand the relationship between the financial sector of the economy and our health care system
Examine how patient care and nursing practice are adversely impacted by the financialization of health care
Identify potential responses to financialization

Instructor:

Omid Mohamadi

Course Information:

This will be a 3-hour online class via Zoom for 3 hours of continuing education credits.

You will receive Zoom information for this class, via email, a week before your class date.

Registrations will close for these classes at 9am on the prior business day.

Dates:

Tuesday, May 20 – 1pm to 4pm PT/4pm to 7pm ET
Thursday, May 22 – 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
Tuesday, June 3 – 1pm to 4pm PT/4pm to 7pm ET
Thursday, June 5 – 9am to 12pm PT/12pm to 3pm ET
Tuesday, June 10 - 2pm to 5pm PT/5pm to 8pm ET

CE courses are free to National Nurses United members. Classes are only offered to direct-care and staff RNs.

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