Budgeting

Before "class," I had hoped to learn anything about what we should be doing. Class was cancelled but we never got any information about what we should be doing to learn the material we would have covered. I had no idea what we would learn since there was going to be no class and only a portion of the learning would be from the other activities.

I learned that I just have to do stuff and hope that I don't get a bad grade for making a wild guess. I also learned a little bit about budgeting. One of the main things that caught my attention was the idea of including the costs of space to store supplies. I had thought of the costs to stock them (paying personnel to do that), but never the cost to have the space to keep them. Interesting idea. I also have a very, very slightly better idea of what it takes to manage a healthcare budget.

I will be able to utilize the information I learned by being more concious of budgets when I am working. Realizing there is more to money than I thought will help me be more respectful of it.

I feel that the power point had a lot of good topics with some information lacking. It would be nice to have definitions for the types of budgets, budgeting terms, and types of provider reimbursement. However, there were some other good points made in the powerpoint. Besides that, the articles were informative but pretty basic.