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Healthcare Concern
Summary
Presentation:
Childhood Obesity
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Healthcare Policy
,Impact of Healthcare Policy on the Nursing
Profession
• It offers a general guide that is used in the development of the nursing policy and regulations.
• It addresses numerous fundamental issues regarding different groups of the society.
• It covers both short term and long term policy issues regarding the approaches to be used by health
professionals, including nurses.
• It covers diverse areas including public health, insurance, personal health, and pharmaceuticals among
others.
• It offers a guide for the nurses in relation to the appropriate approaches of healthcare delivery.
• It affects the future of the nursing profession as changes in the healthcare policy influences the nurses
directly.
• It is also affected by the nurses as their work has a direct impact on the success or failure of the policy.
• It is the responsibility of the nurses to ensure that their facet of the policy gets implemented successfully.
, Importance of Advocacy in Advanced Practice
Nurse’s Role
• Advocacy refers to the act of supporting a proposal or a cause.
• Nurses are central in advocacy, and they can advocate for a variety of issues.
• Advocacy is at the core of the nursing profession and it is inscribed in the nursing policies throughout the
world.
• Advocacy promotes the needs of the nurses in policy making on issues relating to:
• Service delivery
• Patient outcomes
• Development of the nursing workforce, and
• Other issues that have an impact on the profession.
• Nurses also have a role to play in ensuring that the needs of the patients and community are advocated for.
• Nurses deal with the community and the patients closely and regularly, which gives them an edge in
understanding various issues that affect these groups.
• Advocacy requires influential people who are also experts in their fields, and this makes nurses ideal to
contribute on advocacy matters relating to the health sector.
Healthcare Concern
Summary
Presentation:
Childhood Obesity
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Healthcare Policy
,Impact of Healthcare Policy on the Nursing
Profession
• It offers a general guide that is used in the development of the nursing policy and regulations.
• It addresses numerous fundamental issues regarding different groups of the society.
• It covers both short term and long term policy issues regarding the approaches to be used by health
professionals, including nurses.
• It covers diverse areas including public health, insurance, personal health, and pharmaceuticals among
others.
• It offers a guide for the nurses in relation to the appropriate approaches of healthcare delivery.
• It affects the future of the nursing profession as changes in the healthcare policy influences the nurses
directly.
• It is also affected by the nurses as their work has a direct impact on the success or failure of the policy.
• It is the responsibility of the nurses to ensure that their facet of the policy gets implemented successfully.
, Importance of Advocacy in Advanced Practice
Nurse’s Role
• Advocacy refers to the act of supporting a proposal or a cause.
• Nurses are central in advocacy, and they can advocate for a variety of issues.
• Advocacy is at the core of the nursing profession and it is inscribed in the nursing policies throughout the
world.
• Advocacy promotes the needs of the nurses in policy making on issues relating to:
• Service delivery
• Patient outcomes
• Development of the nursing workforce, and
• Other issues that have an impact on the profession.
• Nurses also have a role to play in ensuring that the needs of the patients and community are advocated for.
• Nurses deal with the community and the patients closely and regularly, which gives them an edge in
understanding various issues that affect these groups.
• Advocacy requires influential people who are also experts in their fields, and this makes nurses ideal to
contribute on advocacy matters relating to the health sector.
