Question

Untitled 1.Discuss the importance of the baccalaureate prepared nurse becoming involved in healthcare policy. 2.Discuss a recent healthcare policy that has had a direct impact on your personal clinical practice or in your place of work as it relates to finance.

Answer 1

Ans) 1) Nurse leaders and health-care experts agree that nurses have a responsibility to address the health problems facing the nation by participating in health policy development.

- However, nurses have not fully realized their potential when it comes to engaging in health policy advocacy and leadership.

- Nurse leaders, professional nursing organizations, accrediting bodies, and the Institute of Medicine have all identified the need to educate nurses in heath policy.

- Valuable recommendations for content and learning activities in health policy have been made. We argue that nursing education in health policy and the many recommendations offered have been broad and overly ambitious.

- The approach would tailor content to the role of the nurse at each level of nursing education.

- The focus of health policy content would progress from the organizational level to local, state, and finally national level health policies.

- The goal of this approach is to better prepare all levels of nursing students to participate in shaping effective health policies.

2) Information and communication technology offer powerful means for restructuring many health service processes, and there currently are an increasing array of communication channels, media, and devices from which communication services can be constructed. In health care, where we are constantly reminded of the need to make pragmatic improvements to the outcomes of health care delivery, empirical evidence is needed to guide the use of new technologies, and there is a now thankfully a growing literature on the value of communication systems in health service delivery.

- Nevertheless there remains a substantial imbalance in the attention that is given to communication support, compared to that paid to traditional information systems.

- Yet communication enhancements seem to be one of the cheapest and most cost effective interventions we have available to improve the quality and safety of clinical services, and deserve much greater attention than they currently receive.

- This has impact on our personal clinic practice & work at times relating to finance.