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Empowering Healthcare Leaders Through Economics
FINE Overview
The FINE program empowers healthcare professionals with the economic expertise they need to lead healthcare transformation. We believe that by providing healthcare professionals with a strong foundation in economics, we can help them positively impact the healthcare system.
Our program is unique because it blends flexible online learning with live expert-led lectures and mentorship. Fellows can learn from renowned nursing, business, and healthcare economics leaders.
Applications are open from February 6 to February 28, 2025. The first cohort begins in April 2025.
The $50 application fee must be paid in full when applying and submitted along with a personal statement, current CV, and two letters of recommendation.
Why Become a Fellow?
BENEFITS
The FINE fellowship offers a wealth of benefits to help you advance your healthcare career and make a real difference in the healthcare system. Here are just a few of the advantages of becoming a FINE fellow:
- Develop expertise in nursing economics: Gain a deep understanding of the economic principles driving healthcare and learn to leverage them to improve the nursing workforce.
- Enhance your leadership skills: Develop the skills and confidence to lead healthcare transformation and advocate for policies that improve patient care.
- Expand your professional network: Connect with other healthcare leaders and build relationships with mentors and experts in the field.
- Publish your work: Receive support, guidance, and publication opportunities for your capstone project in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Become a thought leader: Contribute to the growing body of knowledge in nursing economics and help shape the future of healthcare.
- Boost your professional development: Gain specialized knowledge and skills in a high-demand field to increase your earning potential.
- Make a difference: Be a part of a movement to improve the healthcare system and positively impact the lives of patients and nurses alike.
Be a Founding Fellow!
Our inaugural cohort joins at a fraction of the price.
Fellowship Tuition: $5000
Early Adopter Special: $500 (Granted to the first 10 candidates to apply and be accepted)
Cohort Founding Member Price: $1,000
Cohort 2: $1500
Don't miss this incredible opportunity to advance the nursing profession! Spaces are limited.
Curriculum overview
Month 1: Economic Foundations
Month 2: Financial Wellness for Healthcare Professionals
Month 2: Financial Wellness for Healthcare Professionals
Grasp the basics of economics and how they apply to healthcare. Think "Economics 101 for healthcare professionals."
Month 2: Financial Wellness for Healthcare Professionals
Month 2: Financial Wellness for Healthcare Professionals
Month 2: Financial Wellness for Healthcare Professionals
Focuses on personal finance and career development specifically for healthcare professionals.
Month 3: Economics of the Nursing Workforce
Month 2: Financial Wellness for Healthcare Professionals
Month 4: Modeling and Integrating Nursing Economics
Explore the economics of the nursing workforce, emphasizing the Nursing Human Capital Value Model and its impact on patient outcomes and healthcare costs.
Month 4: Modeling and Integrating Nursing Economics
Month 2: Financial Wellness for Healthcare Professionals
Month 4: Modeling and Integrating Nursing Economics
Apply economic modeling to nursing practice, integrate economic principles into healthcare decision-making, and analyze new research on alternative payment models.
Month 5: Future of Nursing Economics
Month 7: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nursing
Month 5: Future of Nursing Economics
Explore emerging trends and challenges in nursing economics, focusing on future directions and leadership, with a special emphasis on new billing and reimbursement models.
Month 6: Advocacy and Policy
Month 7: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nursing
Month 5: Future of Nursing Economics
Develop a policy brief on a healthcare issue impacting nurses.
Month 7: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nursing
Month 7: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nursing
Month 7: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nursing
Explore the intersection of nursing and entrepreneurship, learning from nurse entrepreneurs and developing business plans for new healthcare products or services.
Month 8: Business of Healthcare
Month 7: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nursing
Month 7: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nursing
Analyze the financial statements of healthcare organizations and evaluate investment decisions.
Month 9: Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Month 12: Culminating Project Presentation and Dissemination
Month 9: Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Develop leadership skills and create strategic plans for nursing departments or units.
Month 10: Culminating Project Planning
Month 12: Culminating Project Presentation and Dissemination
Month 9: Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Embark on the capstone journey by selecting a preferred track and crafting a comprehensive proposal that outlines the project's objectives, methodology, and anticipated deliverables.
Month 11: Culminating Project Development
Month 12: Culminating Project Presentation and Dissemination
Month 12: Culminating Project Presentation and Dissemination
Conduct research, gather data, and shape the capstone findings. Meet one-on-one with assigned faculty mentors who provide individualized support and guidance, ensuring the project stays on track and reaches its full potential.
Month 12: Culminating Project Presentation and Dissemination
Month 12: Culminating Project Presentation and Dissemination
Month 12: Culminating Project Presentation and Dissemination
Present the completed capstone project to FINE faculty, peers, and invited guests to showcase the hard work and dedication put into it.
Got Questions?
Contact Fellowship Staff
If you're interested in learning more or have a question, contact our Fellowship staff by email at fellowship@commissionfornursereimbursement.com.