Business-Savvy Nursing
March 17, 2009 | Terry Sharrer
Insurance company United Health Group (Minnetonka, MN) believes that nurses should be more aware of the healthcare business-beyond care-giving-and, last September, set up a Center for Nursing Advancement that is now offering courses on macroeconomics, budget planning, and costing, etc. This, indeed, may allow nurses to find new career opportunities within healthcare, but close reading between the lines of this story in the Minneapolis/StPaul Business Journal suggests other interests are involved. MORE