This is a two-part, in-person CE Class from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (6 hours of CE credits). If you’re a UC nurse, an extra hour will be available from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Participants must be in attendance all day to receive the full 6 CEU CE credits, even if they have taken one of the classes prior to the sign-up date.

Part 1: The Biology of Inequality: The Health Impacts of Social Environments

Description

Nurses know firsthand that social conditions affect access to health care, exposure to health risks, and health outcomes for patients. But what exactly are the pathways and mechanisms by which “social determinants” like poverty, pollution, and discrimination manifest in the body and impact health? This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how social, economic, and political inequalities and injustices materialize in individual, population, and even generational health. The class will also consider what the implications are for union nurses as patient advocates and discuss how nurses can help remedy the pathogenic effects of inequality and injustice on human health and society.

Objectives

• Explain how economic, social, and political inequalities engender and shape health outcomes and identify root causes of health disparities;
• Articulate the connections between structural, social, environmental, and individual determinants of health and disease;
• Explore interpersonal, collective, and structural responses that address health disparities and their related social inequities.

Instructor: Kel Montalvo-Quiñones

Part 2: How Financialization is Reshaping the Hospital Industry: What Nurses Need to Know

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.

Objectives

• 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

Dates and Locations

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Pacific Palms Resort
1 Industry Hills Pkwy
City of Industry, CA 91744

Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Margaritaville Resort Palm Springs
1600 N Indian Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs, CA 92262

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Marina del Rey Marriott
4100 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292

Please note: CNA/NNOC/NNU is taking all necessary precautions to ensure the safety and health of nurses, our patients, and our communities during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. All in-person course participants are required to be fully vaccinated, wear masks while indoors, and practice social distancing to the extent possible.

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