- Choose two different practice settings--one that represents where you have an interest in exploring. (Hospital, ambulatory, long term care, home care, dialysis, free-standing outpatient surgery, etc.). The practice setting MUST accept Medicare and/or Medicaid.
Examples:
Hospital operating room compared to free-standing ambulatory surgery center
Long term care compared to hospice
Rehabilitation compared to long term care
Inpatient dialysis compared to outpatient dialysis
Home health compared to hospice
- Examine the similarities and differences in conditions of coverage and participation related to two factors selected from the list below. Consider:
Staffing requirements
Administrative structure including nursing
Payment
Another aspect relative to the specific care environment
Cite at least three peer-reviewed sources published within the last five years.