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Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care

  • 8th Edition - October 9, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Diana J. Mason, Adriana Perez, Monica R. McLemore, Elizabeth Dickson
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Health Policy/Reform**Learn how to influence policy and become a leader in today's changing hea… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Health Policy/Reform**

Learn how to influence policy and become a leader in today's changing health care environment. Featuring analysis of cutting-edge healthcare issues and first-person insights, Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 8th Edition continues to be the leading text on nursing action and activism. Approximately 150 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. This expanded 8th edition helps you develop a global understanding of nursing leadership and political activism, as well as the complex business and financial issues that drive many actions in the health system. Discussions include the latest updates on conflict management, health economics, lobbying, the use of media, and working with communities for change. With these innovative insights and strategies, you will 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.

Key features

  • 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.
  • Key Points at the end of chapters helps you review important, need-to-know lesson content.
  • Taking Action essays include personal accounts of how nurses have participated in politics and what they have accomplished.
  • 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.

Table of contents

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO POLICY AND POLITICS IN NURSING AND HEALTH CARE

1.Frameworks for Action in Policy and Politics

2.A Historical Perspective on Policy, Politics and Nursing

3.Advocacy in Nursing and Health Care

4.Learning the Ropes of Policy and Politics

5.TAKING ACTION: Just Say Yes: Learning to Move Beyond the Fear

6.A Primer on Political Philosophy

7.The Policy Process

8.Political Analysis and Strategies

9.Communication and Conflict Management in Health Policy

10.Research as a Political and Policy Tool

11.Using Research to Advance Health and Social Policies for Children

12.Using the Power of the Media to Influence Health Policy and Politics

13.TAKING ACTION: How A Social Media Campaign and Billboards Can Influence Policy

14.Health Policy, Politics, and Professional Ethics

UNIT 2: HEALTH CARE DELIVERY AND FINANCING

15.The Changing United States Health Care System

16.A Primer on Health Economics of Nursing and Health Policy

17.Financing Health Care in the United States

18.The Affordable Care Act: An Uncertain Future

19.The National Association of Hispanic Nurses Educating Multicultural Communities on the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act

20.Patient Engagement and Public Policy: Emerging New Paradigms and Roles

21.The Marinated Mind: Why Overuse Is an Epidemic and How to Reduce It

22.Policy Approaches to Address Health Disparities

23.TAKING ACTION: Policy Advocacy for American Indian/Alaska Native Children: School Nutrition and the Need for Indigenous Food Sovereignty

24.TAKING ACTION: Addressing the Health Needs of Immigrant/Migrant Farmworkers

25.The Unfulfilled Promise of Mental Health and Addiction Parity

26.Improving LGBTQ+ Health: Nursing Policy Can Make a Difference

27.Reproductive Health Policy

28.Public and Population Health: Promoting the Health of the Public

29.TAKING ACTION: Influencing Public Health in a Politically Charged Environment

30.The Politics and Policy of Disaster Response and Public Health Emergency Preparedness

31.Advancing New Models of Primary Care

32.Family Caregiving and Social Policy

33.Dual Eligibles: Challenges and Innovations in Care

34.HOMECARE, HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY BASED CARE: EVOLVING POLICY

35.Long-Term Services and Supports Policy Issues

36.The United States Military and Veterans Administration Health Systems: Contemporary Overview and Policy Challenges

UNIT 3: POLICY AND POLITICS IN THE GOVERNMENT

37.Contemporary Issues in Government

38.How Government Works: What You Need to Know to Influence the Process

39.An Overview of Legislative and Regulatory Processes

40.Lobbying Policymakers: Individual and Collective Strategies

41.Political Activity: Different Rules for Government-Employees

42.TAKING ACTION: Reflective Musings from a Nurse Politician!

43.TAKING ACTION: Running Against the Odds: There’s a Nurse in the Assembly

44.Political Appointments

45.Nursing and the Courts

46.Nursing Licensure and Regulations

47.TAKING ACTION: Nurse, Educator, and Legislator: My Journey to the Delaware General Assembly and as Lieutenant Governor

UNIT 4: POLICY AND POLITICS IN THE WORKPLACE AND WORKFORCE

48.Policy and Politics in Health Care Organizations

49.Taking Your Place at the Table: Board Appointments and Service

50.TAKING ACTION: Nurse Leaders in the Boardroom

51.Quality and Safety in Healthcare: Policy Issues

52.Politics and Evidence-Based Practice and Policy

53.The Nursing Workforce

54.Rural Health Care: Workforce Challenges and Opportunities

55.TAKING ACTION: Increasing Specialty Medical Care ACCESS in Rural Communities

56.Nurse Staffing Ratios: Policy Options

57.The Contemporary Work Environment of Nursing

58.Taking Action: Racism in the Workplace

59.Collective Strategies for Transformation in the Workplace

60.Political Context of Advanced Practice Nursing

61.TAKING ACTION: Never Underestimate the Power of a Personal Story!

62.TAKING ACTION: Removing APRN Regulatory Barriers in West Virginia

63.TAKING ACTION: Full Practice Authority: A Tale of Two States

64.Policy and Politics in Nursing Academia

65.The Intersection of Technology and Health Care: Policy and Practice Implications

UNIT 5: POLICY AND POLITICS IN ASSOCIATIONS AND INTEREST GROUPS

66.Interest Group in Health Care Policy and Politics

67.Policy Issues in Nursing Associations

68.TAKING ACTION: School Nursing at the Intersection of Health and Education

69.TAKING ACTION: The Alliance of Nursing for Healthy Environments Promoting Environmental Health

70.Coalitions: A Powerful Political Strategy

71.TAKING ACTION: Campaign For Action

72.TAKING ACTION: Why Not Minot? The battle over North Dakota's first smoke-free ordinance

UNIT 6: POLICY AND POLITICS IN THE COMMUNITY

73.Where Policy Hits the Pavement: Contemporary Issues In Communities

74.An Introduction to Community Activism

75.TAKING ACTION: From Sewage Problems to the State House: Serving Communities

76.TAKING ACTION: Contaminated Water and Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Flint

77.Creating Culture of Health and working with communities

78.TAKING ACTION: Activism: A Community Rises

79.Family and Sexual Violence: Nursing and U.S. Policy

80.Human Trafficking: The Need for Nursing Advocacy

81.TAKING ACTION: Policy, Politics, and Advocating for Medicinal Cannabis Use

82.Think Globally, Act Locally: Nursing and Global Health

83.Infectious Disease in a Highly Connected World: Nurses' Role to Prevent, Detect, Respond

Product details

  • Edition: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 3, 2020
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Diana J. Mason

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Policy Service Professor, Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing Programme Director, International Council of Nurses, Global Nursing Leadership Institute,Professor Emerita,Hunter College, City University of New York,New York, New York

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Adriana Perez

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Nursing,Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics,University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Claire M. Fagin Hall

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Monica R. McLemore

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Family Health Care Nursing; Clinician-Scientist, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

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Elizabeth Dickson

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor,College of Nursing,University of New Mexico,Albuquerque, New Mexico,MS09 5350, 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque