Consider your own schedule for a week. How would these strategies apply to your own personal methods for handling your time? How would they affect your time management, both positively and negatively?...

Consider your own schedule for a week. How would these strategies apply to your own personal methods for handling your time? How would they affect your time management, both positively and negatively?

Keep this list, and during your clinical experiences, consider whether you are using these strategies to create more time. Can time really be created? How might you solve this problem?

Select one of the following topics and search the Internet to learn more about the issue. Why would this issue be of interest to nursing? Why would this be a healthcare policy issue for a state or nationally, or both? Has anything been done recently to initiate legislation on this issue? Teams of students can work on an issue and then share their work.

a.

Rural health care

b.

Mental health parity

c.

Aging and long-term care

d.

Healthcare unions

e.

Home care

f.

Emergency room diversions