Course Description

This course will examine how nurses can continue to fight for our patients and profession in the wake of recent federal funding cuts to Medicaid and other vital health care and public health programs.

We will analyze how these dramatic cuts could accelerate the hospital closure epidemic, significantly increase health care costs, and create further barriers to care. We will investigate how hospitals may respond to these potential changes and how that response could affect patient care. This course will conclude by exploring how nurses can use the tools of public policy and collective action to protect our patients and heal our broken health care system.

Course Objectives

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

• Understand how recent economic and social policy changes may worsen health care disparities, further disrupt patient care and jeopardize public health.
• Examine how our for-profit health care system has made patients and hospitals more vulnerable the destructive consequences of these policy changes.
• Identify how nurses can respond to these challenges, protect our patients and reshape the future of the hospital industry.

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

• Thursday, May 7 – 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
• Tuesday, May 26 – 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
• Tuesday, June 23 – 1pm to 4pm PT/4pm to 7pm ET
• Tuesday, July 28 – 1pm to 4pm PT/4pm to 7pm ET
• Thursday, July 30 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
• Wednesday, August 5 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
• Thursday, August 20 - 1pm to 4pm PT/4pm to 7pm ET
• Tuesday, October 13 - 1pm to 4pm PT/4pm to 7pm ET
• Tuesday, October 20 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
• Tuesday, November 10 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
• Tuesday, December 15 - 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.