Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

Author: Donna M. Nickitas

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2010-10-25

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1449654592

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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and healthcare providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics. This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how healthcare professionals can get involved and be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients. Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a tool kit that includes a "skills" section.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action

Author: Donna M. Nickitas

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2024-05-21

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 1284257746

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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action, Fourth Edition reflects a well-honed vision of what nursing and health professionals need to know to both understand and influence modern health policy. The authors focus on the most relevant health policy issues while taking an interdisciplinary approach to create an understanding of healthcare practice and policy across interprofessional teams. Through their focus on relevant issues, the authors discuss how healthcare professionals can prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political, and policy dimensions of health care. The Fourth Edition has been carefully revised and updated to reflect essential shifts to improve health and public policy as well as dramatic improvements in health care cost, quality, reliability, and technology around public health and data infrastructure.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

Author: Donna M. Nickitas

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2018-08-01

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 1284180522

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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals, Third Edition focuses on the idea that all healthcare providers require a fundamental understanding of the healthcare system including but not limited to knowledge required to practice their discipline.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

Author: Donna Nickitas

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2010-10-25

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 0763756598

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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and healthcare providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics. This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how healthcare professionals can get involved and be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients. Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a tool kit that includes a "skills" section.

Policy and Politics in Nursing and Healthcare - Revised Reprint - E-Book
Policy and Politics in Nursing and Healthcare - Revised Reprint - E-Book

Author: Diana J. Mason

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 829

ISBN-13: 0323244785

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Featuring analysis of healthcare issues and first-person stories, Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care helps you develop skills in influencing policy in today’s changing health care environment. 145 expert contributors present a wide range of topics in policies and politics, providing a more complete background than can be found in any other policy textbook on the market. Discussions include the latest updates on conflict management, health economics, lobbying, the use of media, and working with communities for change. The revised reprint includes a new appendix with coverage of the new Affordable Care Act. With these insights and strategies, you’ll be prepared to play a leadership role in the four spheres in which nurses are politically active: the workplace, government, professional organizations, and the community. Up-to-date coverage on the Affordable Care Act in an Appendix new to the revised reprint. Comprehensive coverage of healthcare policies and politics provides a broader understanding of nursing leadership and political activism, as well as complex business and financial issues. Expert authors make up a virtual Nursing Who's Who in healthcare policy, sharing information and personal perspectives gained in the crafting of healthcare policy. Taking Action essays include personal accounts of how nurses have participated in politics and what they have accomplished. Winner of several American Journal of Nursing "Book of the Year" awards! A new Appendix on the Affordable Care Act, its implementation as of mid-2013, and the implications for nursing, is included in the revised reprint. 18 new chapters ensure that you have the most up-to-date information on policy and politics. The latest information and perspectives are provided by nursing leaders who influenced health care reform with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

Shaping Health Policy Through Nursing Research
Shaping Health Policy Through Nursing Research

Author: Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0826110703

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Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! 2011 AJN Book of the Year Winner in Nursing Research! "This is a much needed addition to nursing's arsenal of policy books. It is the first to really examine the need for scientific evidence to underpin policy. The two editors are pioneers in research and have led nursing research to new levels. It is fitting they do the same in underscoring the important role nurses have in using their programs of research to develop policy agendas."Score: 94, 4 stars --Doody's A must-read for health care policy makers, as well as nursing students, faculty, and professionals, this groundbreaking text provides actual strategies for translating nursing research to health policy at all levels of policy-making. The editors, both leaders in nursing research, provide key findings from research programs that have positively influenced health policy decisions and programs at community, state, national, and international levels. The first compilation of information linking health policy and nursing research, this text presents perspectives and frameworks for understanding the processes bridging research and health policy; multiple factors influencing the processes; and actual examples of National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)-funded research that has influenced health policy programs. Key Features: Examples of NINR-funded research that has been used at all levels to influence health policy, including settings, populations, and age spectrums Models and strategies for linking research and health policy Lessons learned from pioneer nurse scientists who have shaped health policy with nursing research Recommendations for improving nurses' work environments for better patient outcomes

Nurses Making Policy
Nurses Making Policy

Author: Rebecca Patton

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 0826198910

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Health Policy
Health Policy

Author: Demetrius J. Porche

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 128413038X

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Nurses have the unique opportunity to contribute to setting health policy agendas at the local, institutional, and national levels. Health Policy: Application for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals, Second Edition provides nursing students with foundational information about the governance structures in the United States and processes that influence policymaking. Students can use this text to gain civic competence and understand how they can impact processes of governance, including healthcare policy. The Second Edition employs a streamlined format without excessive explanatory text. Topics include the structure of the U.S. government, political theory and practice, policy formulation and evaluation, public health laws, and ethical perspectives. Ideal for both students and professionals, it fills the need for a textbook about policymaking and political strategies for those pursuing a career in the field of nursing or other health professions. The Second Edition features new chapters on: Healthcare systems, Global, international, and planetary health policy, Evidence-informed policymaking, Board governance and policy leadership, Institutional and organizational/association policy, A new appendix on executive department functions.