Question

1. What do you think about the voice of the nurse for change as it relates to healthcare policies?

2. What is your feelings/attitudes to healthcare policies and, specifically, and the role of the professional nurse as an advocate using policy?

Answer 1

Ans) 1) Nursing voice as patient advocacy where you speak up on other's behalf is an indivisible part of nursing.”

Policy, seen as an access to power, access to money and access to decision-makers, starts with political leaders, she says. Political leaders move through political process, campaigns and more.

Policy decides who gets what, how much, what programs can be funded, what departments will flourish, and what projects will be canceled. Voice of nurses are sorely missing.

Today nurses continue to make an important contribution to planning and decision-making, and to the development of appropriate and effective public, health and nursing policy on all levels.” The work nurses do in influencing policy affects decisions that impact quality of life and universal access to care.

2) The work nurses do in influencing policy affects decisions that impact quality of life and universal access to care. Becoming influential in policy work is a process that requires commitment to developing skills and acquiring knowledge about activities that lead to change. It involves making choices.

Nurses instinctively advocate for their patients, in their workplaces, and in their communities; but legislative and political advocacy is no less important to advancing the profession and patient care. With energetic participation in advocacy, every nurse can help the profession to improve and move to higher levels.