THE ROLE OF THE RN/APRN IN POLICY-MAKING
Word cloud generators have become popular tools for meetings and team-building events. Groups or teams are asked to use these applications to input words they feel best describe their team or their role. A “word cloud” is generated by the application that makes prominent the most-used terms, offering an image of the common thinking among participants of that role.
What types of words would you use to build a nursing word cloud? Empathetic, organized, hard-working, or advocate would all certainly apply. Would you add policy-maker to your list? Do you think it would be a very prominent component of the word cloud?
Nursing has become one of the largest professions in the world, and as such, nurses have the potential to influence policy and politics on a global scale. When nurses influence the politics that improve the delivery of healthcare, they are ultimately advocating for their patients. Hence, policy-making has become an increasingly popular term among nurses as they recognize a moral and professional obligation to be engaged in healthcare legislation.
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
To Prepare:
· Revisit the Congress.gov website provided in the Resources and consider the role of RNs and APRNs in policy-making.
· Reflect on potential opportunities that may exist for RNs and APRNs to participate in the policy-making process.
BY DAY 3 OF WEEK 8
Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy-making. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities to participate in policy-making. Be specific and provide examples.
BY DAY 6 OF WEEK 8
Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ * posts by suggesting additional opportunities or recommendations for overcoming the challenges described by your colleagues.
*Note: Throughout this program, your fellow students are referred to as colleagues.
LEARNING RESOURCES
Required Readings
· Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
· Chapter 5, “Public Policy Design” (pp. 87–95 only)
· Chapter 8, “The Impact of EHRs, Big Data, and Evidence-Informed Practice” (pp. 137–146)
· Chapter 9, “Interprofessional Practice” (pp. 152–160 only)
· Chapter 10, “Overview: The Economics and Finance of Health Care” (pp. 183–191 only)
· American Nurses Association (ANA). (n.d.). Advocacy Links to an external site. . Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/advocacy/
· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (n.d.). Step by step: Evaluating violence and injury prevention policies: Brief 4: Evaluating policy implementation Links to an external site. . Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/injury/pdfs/policy/Brief%204-a.pdf
· Congress.govLinks to an external site. . (n.d.). Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.congress.gov/
· Klein, K. J., & Sorra, J. S. (1996). The challenge of innovation implementationLinks to an external site. . Academy of Management Review, 21(4), 1055–1080.
· Sacristán, J., & Dilla, T. D. (2015). No big data without small data: Learning health care systems begin and end with the individual patientLinks to an external site. . Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21(6), 1014–1017.
· Tummers, L., & Bekkers, V. (2014). Policy implementation, street level bureaucracy, and the importance of discretionLinks to an external site. . Public Management Review, 16(4), 527–547.
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