• Describe the four basic categories of services provided by the
health care delivery system.
• Describe the shared governance model, and explain its use in
nursing.
• Relate two major mechanisms used to maintain quality in health
care agencies.
• Explain how disparities in health care disproportionately affect
minority and poor populations.
• Identify the key members of the interprofessional health care team,
and explain what each contributes.
• Explain the economic principles of supply and demand, free-market
economies, and price sensitivity, and discuss their relevance to
health care costs.
• Describe current methods of payment for health care.
• Discuss the possibility of universal health care as an outcome of
health care reform.
