NR 506 Week 2: Policy-Priority Selection

NR 506 Week 2: Policy-Priority Selection

Identify your selected healthcare policy priority and discuss the rationale for your selection. Describe the model of policy making that you feel would be best applied to your policy issue and the rationale for selecting this model.

NR 506 Week 2: Policy-Priority Selection SAMPLE APPROACH

NR 506 Week 2: Policy-Priority Selection

My selected healthcare policy priority is mandatory human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. The rationale for my selection is human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, and some health effects caused by HPV can be prevented by the HPV vaccines. About 79 million Americans are currently infected with HPV, and about 14 million people become newly infected each year (CDC, 2017). I also had a 32 years old female patient that contracted HPV, developed cervical cancer, had a hysterectomy and somehow the cancer came back and spread everywhere to her other organs. I do believe that everyone has a choice to make their own health care decisions; however, the HPV vaccine is recommended for younger children and parents do not always make the right choices being naïve that their children might not be sexually active. In this instance, a decision that has the potential to impact more than one person should be regulated and mandated by the government. Since I have a son, I cannot even imagine how devastated I would be if something like that happened to him when it could all be prevented with one vaccination.

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The Longest’s Policy Cycle Model would best apply to my policy and it includes three phases to the policy process: a policy formulation phase, an implementation phase, and a policy modification phase. According to Mason et al. (2016), policy formulation includes all of the activities that are involved in policy design, including those activities which inform the legislators; policy implementation comprises the rule-making phase of policy development where the legislative branch passes the law to the executive branch which is charged with implementation; lastly, policy modification allows all previous decisions to be revisited and modified. I selected this model because it seems straightforward and will guide me step-by-step to help pass my policy.

References

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (November, 2017). Genital HPV Infection- CDC FactSheet. Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv.htm

Mason, D. J., Gardner, D. B.,Outlaw, F. H., & O’Grady, E. T. (Eds). (2016). Policy & politics in nursing and healthcare (7th ed.). Retrieved from http://online.vitalsource.com

SAMPLE RESPONSE

I am really interested in your selected healthcare policy and believe it can make a drastic impact in an area many people do not have much knowledge on. I remember as a young girl my mother explaining to me why I needed the vaccine and at that point I believe it was rather new. I know there is now a newer vaccine that covers more types of HPV than the version I received. I am not surprised this is the most common sexually transmitted disease, especially working in maternity this diagnosis is seen on almost every patient’s health history. I also believe bringing about awareness the importance that men must also get vaccinated is necessary. When people think of HPV, I think they only relate it to females without knowing males are also affected by this disease and can spread it without knowing they have it. Since men cannot get tested for HPV women find out later after already having acquired the sexually transmitted disease. I look forward to reading your work.

Thank you.