• For your introductory post, imagine you are on an interview. Please provide a response to the following questions via a video response:
  1. Tell us your name and, if you have a nickname, let us know what you like to go by.
  2. If you feel comfortable, tell us a little about where you are from and any hobbies that you enjoy.
  3. Tell us what your current nursing role is and what your future goals are for your nursing career.
  4. Tell us what you hope you gain from class and how you hope it will help you in your role as a nurse.

Let’s dive into stakeholder perceptions of the U.S. healthcare system as this will be a great foundation for the rest of the course.

As a consumer of healthcare services and insurance, consider your own perspectives of the U.S. healthcare system. Please address each of the following aspects in your discussion response and support your answer with evidence from the literature.

• As a nurse, you wear at least two or more stakeholder hats; how does being a nurse influence your role as a consumer of healthcare?
• How does your knowledge of the U.S. health care system impact how you can help other stakeholders?
• Explain the various sphere(s) of influence (consumer, provider, etc.) that would be the most impactful in advancing healthcare policy initiatives and explain wh