Identify a Financial Issue

Assignment 3: Project – Identify a Financial Issue
Introduction of Project:

As a healthcare provider, you may or may not be responsible for financial and budget tasks, but you will encounter situations and issues, which will relate to financial management. Your project in this course is a threaded project and will provide you with an opportunity to better understand the literature on financial management in the healthcare setting. Each week you will work on an aspect of this project.
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Ensure that you save a copy of this course project after you have submitted it at the end of this course. You are expected to resubmit this project along with the other course projects at the end of the RN to BSN program. FTP details will be provided in the Capstone course.

Identify a patient care problem with an impact on budget as a financial management issue in your workplace. Conduct a search for a minimum of two peer-reviewed articles that discuss the issue you have identified. Write a 2-3 page paper summarizing the literature you have found and describe how the literature helps to provide insight into the problem you have identified.  Provide a short analysis of the role of the nurse in relationship to this problem as described in the literature.
Post your responses to the W1: Assignment 3 Dropbox as a Word document. Cite all sources in APA format.

Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Identified a minimum of two peer-reviewed articles related to the identified financial management issue in the student’s workplace.
8
A summary of the articles is provided including the audience for the article, the review of the literature and a summary of the recommendations provided in the article.
12
Provided a synthesis and analysis of the information described in the articles and explains the applicability to the identified situation. Any similarities or differences between the articles are reviewed.
20
Provided a critical analysis of the information found in the literature and its applicability to the identified situation.
20
Discussed how the information can be used in a practice setting.
20
Used APA style (which includes grammar, spelling, and punctuation, as well as formatting).
20
Total:
100