
Shaping Nursing Healthcare Policy
A View from the Inside
- 1st Edition - June 23, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Diane Seibert, Beverly Malone, Patrick DeLeon
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 9 9 3 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 5 1 0 - 9
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Request a sales quoteThe next generation of nursing leadership needs in-depth exposure to the real world of health policy, its culture and history, including understanding what historical barriers and professional opposition exists to nursing functioning of its training and expertise. Shaping Nursing Healthcare Policy: A View from the Inside directly addresses the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine landmark reports on the Future of Nursing.
This important work brings to life the practical realties of advanced practice nursing’s maturation and related social change, rather than relying on excessively abstract and theoretical opinions.
- Provides real-life experiences of chapter authors who are on the front-line of shaping and administering health policy for nursing
- Includes significant changes in nursing practice environment over the past several decades, such as nursing-run health clinics and the important financial foundation
- Delivers in-depth discussion of evolving key topics for nursing practice
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1. Health policy for advanced practice nurses: the social structure of Congress
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Know your supporters
- How a bill becomes a law
- Drafting a bill
- The unwritten rules
- Role of nurse leaders in advocating for legislative change
- Federal nursing leaders
- The three “P”s and the power of relationships
- Summary
- Appendix A
- 2. A historic year on Capitol Hill
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- 3. State Action
- Objectives
- Introduction
- History of the future of nursing reports
- Key areas #1 and #2: workforce and access to care—challenges and key messages
- Key area #3: education, emergency preparedness and response: challenges and key messages
- Key area #4: leadership challenges and key messages
- Key area #5: wellbeing challenges and key messages
- Summary
- 4. Health policy for advanced practice nurses: From clinician to policy through promotion to crisis
- Objectives
- Journey from the bedside to policy
- You lead, but will they follow?
- Assessment of mental health disorder care
- Mental health nursing
- Mental health nursing care and health promotion
- Building a program for prevention
- Implementation of policy
- Inpatient mental health (IMH): another nursing policy opportunity
- Crisis intervention and deescalation
- PMDB-M training
- You write but will they follow?
- Conclusion
- 5. Policymaking, equality, and Women's health in the United States
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Equality
- Reproductive freedom
- Prevention and women's health
- Engagement and political competency
- Conclusion
- 6. Battlefield Acupuncture: It’s time to care for the patients and expand nursing practice
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Auricular acupuncture
- Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA)
- Expansion of BFA within the DoD and VA
- Adoption of BFA beyond the DoD/VA
- Personal story
- Conclusion
- 7. The evolving role of social determinants of health to advance health equity
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Social determinants of health: the meaning and the misunderstanding
- Social determinants of health and related terms: why clarity matters
- Social determinants of health, health disparities, health inequities, and health equity
- The history of social determinants of health
- History as a determinant of health
- Evolving SDH frameworks
- Putting it all together: nurses role in informing policy change
- 8. Health policy for advanced practice nurses: from health disparities to health equities
- Objectives
- Social determinants of health
- Equal versus equitable
- Healthcare systems to support and promote equity
- Adolescent healthcare and social determinants of health
- Values and experiences of healthcare providers and their impact on disparities and equity
- A guide
- Conclusion
- 9. Health policy for NPs: health literacy, cultural competence, and communication
- Objectives
- Health literacy
- Conclusion
- 10. Policy and cultural competence for providers
- Objectives
- Introduction
- A culturally competent curriculum
- Strategies to improve cultural competence
- A culturally competent practice
- Summary
- 11. Informatics health policy for the APRN
- Objectives
- Informatics health policy for the APRN
- Principles
- 12. The role of economics and policy in shaping the healthcare workforce and care outcomes
- Objectives
- Introduction
- APRN practice barriers and costs
- Cost of care
- Modeling practice patterns
- Reimbursement
- COVID-19
- Malpractice
- Military health system
- Veterans administration
- A case study
- 13. Interprofessional education: state and federal policy considerations in the tale of two professions
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Evolution of nursing education and practice advancement
- Evolution of pharmacy education and practice advancement
- Overcoming siloes in health professions education
- Policies shaping healthcare professions to move to IPE
- Conclusion
- 14. Mentoring in health policy: moving more nurses into the arena
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- 15. Health policy for advanced practice nurses: the nurse-led care evolution and policy implications for improving services for populations experiencing disproportionate health disparities
- Objectives
- Introduction to nurse-led care
- Nurse-led care and the beginning: the nurse-managed health centers
- The evolution of nurse-led care to the mainstream population
- Nurse-led care internationally
- The future: nurse-led specialty clinics
- The case of Woods Services and nurse-led care
- Policy issues and nurse-led clinics
- Policies that impacted nurse-led care
- Conclusion
- 16. Developing a rural and transcultural doctor of nursing practice program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Geography and population in Hawaii
- Historical perspective of health in Hawaii
- The impact of colonization on native Hawaiian health: emerging health disparities
- Current population health characteristics of Hawaii
- A nursing visionary
- Obligation to succeed
- UH Hilo campus and the school of nursing
- Transcultural nursing as the link to improving health outcomes of Native Hawaiians
- Rural healthcare challenges
- Rural healthcare system, leadership challenges, and provider shortages
- Build a DNP program with a clear mission and vision
- Lead forward with courage and vision
- 17. Opportunities and lessons learned; humanitarian mission to American Samoa
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Student reflections
- Summary
- 18. In harm's way: the strategy to develop operationally competent advanced practice registered nurses for war
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Background
- What is known about the APRN and operational readiness
- The military health system
- Developing readiness training
- Operational courses
- Potential barriers
- Moving forward
- Appendix
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 23, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 272
- No. of pages (eBook): 272
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323999939
- eBook ISBN: 9780323985109
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Diane Seibert
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Beverly Malone
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