The Health Insurance Marketplace: What Faculty and Students Need to Know for 2015

Webinar Overview

The 2015 Open Enrollment Period for the Health Insurance Marketplace plans will be November 15, 2014 – February 15, 2015. As this date quickly approaches, nurses, APRNs, and nursing faculty are preparing to educate their students and patients on the marketplace changes. This webinar will address the topics faculty will want to be familiar with to adequately prepare their students for practice, including an overview of the Health Insurance Marketplace, changes for 2015, and information about the state exchanges.

This Webinar is hosted in collaboration with the AACN’s Department of Government Affairs. For more information on our Department of Government Affairs, visit www.aacn.nche.edu/government-affairs.

NOTE: This Webinar is open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff and students.

Webinar Speaker

Patricia Brennan PhD, RN
Paul C. Samson Clinical Professorial Chair & Associate Professor
School of Nursing
Samuel Merritt University

Dr. Brennan is an Associate Professor at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California where she has recently been appointed as the Paul C. Samson Clinical Professorial Chair. Dr. Brennan holds an appointment as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide in Australia and a is a core faculty member of the University of California, San Francisco Centre for Evidence-Based Patient and Family Care. She received her bachelor’s degrees from Emory University (psychology, 1981) and (nursing, 1983), and both her master’s degree (critical care/trauma/education, 1993) and PhD in nursing (health policy, 2008) from the University of California, San Francisco. Her research interests include health policy issues related to access to care, particularly involving acuity-based models of care delivery, including, but not limited to, organ allocation and the application of genetic and genomic technologies in clinical practice. In addition, Dr. Brennan is currently assessing the outcomes of simulation and immersive learning through inter-professional education, particularly related to genomic education. She was appointed as an NIH Faculty Champion in Genetics and Genomics, the goal of which is to provide leadership in curriculum integration of genetics and genomics. She serves as a member of the editorial board of the NIH Genetics/Genomics Competency Center (G2C2) and on the Sutter Health Personalized Medicine Initiative Task Force. Dr. Brennan has been recognized in her role as an educator locally being awarded the Faculty of the Year Award at Samuel Merritt University and nationally as an AACN Novice Faculty Award nominee. She is a Daisy Faculty Award Recipient recognizing her exceptional impact on nursing education. Prior to entering academic education Dr. Brennan spent over 20 years as a clinical specialist, outreach director, and clinical manager for the UCSF Transplant Division, where she had administrative responsibilities for clinical care and inter-professional research endeavors. Dr. Brennan has been recognized as a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow in the National Academies of Practice and recently served as an Inaugural Fellow in AACN’s Faculty Policy Intensive.