Policy & politics in nursing and health care /
Policy & politics in nursing and health care /
Policy and politics in nursing and health care
edited by Diana J. Mason, [and 3 others].
- Eighth edition.
- xxiii, 856 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
3Revised edition of: Policy & politics in nursing and health care. 5th edition c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit 1. Introduction to policy and politics in nursing and health care -- Frameworks for action in policy and politics -- Historical perspective on policy, politics, and nursing -- Advocacy in nursing and health care -- Learning the ropes of policy and politics -- TAKING ACTION: Just say yes: learning to move beyond the fear -- A primer on political philosophy -- The policy process -- Political analysis and strategies -- Communication and conflict management in health policy -- Research as a political policy tool -- Using research to advance health and social policies for children -- Using the power of the media to influence health policy and politics -- TAKING ACTION: Billboards and a social media campaign -- Health policy, politics, and professional ethics -- Unit 2. Health care delivery and financing -- The changing United States health care system -- A primer on health economics of nursing and health policy -- Financing health care in the United States -- The affordable care act: an uncertain future -- The national association of Hispanic nurses educating multicultural communities on the patient protection and affordable care act -- Patient engagement and public policy: emerging new paradigms and roles -- The marinated mind: why overuse is an epidemic and how to reduce -- Policy approaches to address health disparities -- TAKING ACTION: Policy advocacy for American Indian/Alaska native children: school nutrition and indigenous food sovereignty -- TAKING ACTION: Addressing the health needs of immigrant/migrant farmworkers -- The unfulfilled promise of mental health and addiction parity -- Improving LGBTQ+ Health: nursing policy can make a difference -- Reproductive health policy -- Public and population health: promoting the health of the public -- TAKING ACTION: Influencing public health in a politically charged environment -- Disaster response and public health emergency preparedness -- Advancing new models of primary care -- Family caregiving and social policy -- Dual eligibles: challenges and innovations in care -- Home care, hospice, and community-based care: evolving policy -- Long-term services and supports policy issues -- The United States military and veterans administration health systems: contemporary overview and policy challenges -- Unit 3. Policy and politics in the government -- Contemporary issues in government -- How government works: what you need to know to influence the process -- An overview of legislative and regulatory processes -- Lobbying policymakers: individual and collective strategies -- Political activity: different rules for government employees -- TAKING ACTION: Reflective musings from a nurse politician -- TAKING ACTION: Running against the odds: there's a nurse in the assembly -- Political appointments -- Nursing and the courts -- Nursing licensure and regulation -- TAKING ACTION: Nurse, educator, and legislator: my journey to the Delaware general assembly and as lieutenant governor -- Unit 4. Policy and politics in the workplace and workforce -- Policy and politics in health care organizations -- Taking your place at the table: board appointments and service -- TAKING ACTION: Nurse leaders in the boardroom -- Quality and safety in health care: policy issues -- Politics and evidence-based practice and policy -- The nursing workforce -- Rural health care: workforce challenges and opportunities -- TAKING ACTION: Increasing specialty medical care ACCESS in rural communities -- Nurse staffing ratios: policy options -- The contemporary work environment of nursing -- TAKING ACTION: Racism in the workplace -- Collective strategies for transformation in the workplace -- Political context of advanced practice nursing -- TAKING ACTION: Never underestimate the power of a personal story -- TAKING ACTION: Removing APRN regulatory barriers in West Virginia -- TAKING ACTION: Full practice authority: a tale of two states -- Policy and politics in nursing academia -- The intersection of technology and health care: policy and practice implications -- Unit 5. Policy and politics in associations and interest groups -- Interest groups in health care policy and politics -- Policy issues in nursing associations -- TAKING ACTION: School nursing at the intersection of health and education -- TAKING ACTION: The alliance of nurses for healthy environments promoting environmental health -- Coalitions: a powerful political strategy -- TAKING ACTION: Campaign for action -- TAKING ACTION: Why not Minot? The battle over North Dakota's first smoke-free ordinance -- Unit 6. Policy and politics in the community -- Where policy hits the pavement: contemporary issues in communities -- An introduction to community activism -- TAKING ACTION: From sewage problems to the statehouse: serving communities -- TAKING ACTION: Contaminated water and elevated blood lead levels in Flint -- Creating a culture of health and working with communities -- TAKING ACTION: Activism: a community rises -- Family and sexual violence, nursing, and U.S. policy -- Human trafficking: the need for nursing advocacy -- TAKING ACTION: policy, politics, and advocating for medicinal cannabis use -- Think globally, act locally: nursing and global health -- Infectious disease in a highly connected world: nurses' role to prevent, detect, respond.
"Learn how to influence policy and become a leader in today's changing health care environment. Featuring analysis of cutting-edge healthcare issues and first-person insights, the expanded 8th edition of Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care continues to be the leading text on nursing action and activism with approximately 150 expert contributors presenting a wide range of topics in policies and politics, providing a more complete background than can be found in any other policy textbook on the market. The book helps you develop a global understanding of nursing leadership and political activism, as well as the complex business and financial issues that drive many actions in the health system. Discussions include the latest updates on conflict management, health economics, lobbying, the use of media, and working with communities for change. With these innovative insights and strategies, you will be prepared to play a leadership role in the four spheres in which nurses are politically active: the workplace, government, professional organizations, and the community"-- Worldcat.
9780323554985
2015008880
Nurses--Political activity--United States.
Nursing--Political aspects--United States.
Medical policy--United States.
Medical care--Political aspects--United States.
Nursing--United States.
Delivery of Health Care--United States.
Politics--United States.
Public Policy--United States.
RT86.5 / .P58 2021
362.173 / P758
WY 16 AA1
3Revised edition of: Policy & politics in nursing and health care. 5th edition c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit 1. Introduction to policy and politics in nursing and health care -- Frameworks for action in policy and politics -- Historical perspective on policy, politics, and nursing -- Advocacy in nursing and health care -- Learning the ropes of policy and politics -- TAKING ACTION: Just say yes: learning to move beyond the fear -- A primer on political philosophy -- The policy process -- Political analysis and strategies -- Communication and conflict management in health policy -- Research as a political policy tool -- Using research to advance health and social policies for children -- Using the power of the media to influence health policy and politics -- TAKING ACTION: Billboards and a social media campaign -- Health policy, politics, and professional ethics -- Unit 2. Health care delivery and financing -- The changing United States health care system -- A primer on health economics of nursing and health policy -- Financing health care in the United States -- The affordable care act: an uncertain future -- The national association of Hispanic nurses educating multicultural communities on the patient protection and affordable care act -- Patient engagement and public policy: emerging new paradigms and roles -- The marinated mind: why overuse is an epidemic and how to reduce -- Policy approaches to address health disparities -- TAKING ACTION: Policy advocacy for American Indian/Alaska native children: school nutrition and indigenous food sovereignty -- TAKING ACTION: Addressing the health needs of immigrant/migrant farmworkers -- The unfulfilled promise of mental health and addiction parity -- Improving LGBTQ+ Health: nursing policy can make a difference -- Reproductive health policy -- Public and population health: promoting the health of the public -- TAKING ACTION: Influencing public health in a politically charged environment -- Disaster response and public health emergency preparedness -- Advancing new models of primary care -- Family caregiving and social policy -- Dual eligibles: challenges and innovations in care -- Home care, hospice, and community-based care: evolving policy -- Long-term services and supports policy issues -- The United States military and veterans administration health systems: contemporary overview and policy challenges -- Unit 3. Policy and politics in the government -- Contemporary issues in government -- How government works: what you need to know to influence the process -- An overview of legislative and regulatory processes -- Lobbying policymakers: individual and collective strategies -- Political activity: different rules for government employees -- TAKING ACTION: Reflective musings from a nurse politician -- TAKING ACTION: Running against the odds: there's a nurse in the assembly -- Political appointments -- Nursing and the courts -- Nursing licensure and regulation -- TAKING ACTION: Nurse, educator, and legislator: my journey to the Delaware general assembly and as lieutenant governor -- Unit 4. Policy and politics in the workplace and workforce -- Policy and politics in health care organizations -- Taking your place at the table: board appointments and service -- TAKING ACTION: Nurse leaders in the boardroom -- Quality and safety in health care: policy issues -- Politics and evidence-based practice and policy -- The nursing workforce -- Rural health care: workforce challenges and opportunities -- TAKING ACTION: Increasing specialty medical care ACCESS in rural communities -- Nurse staffing ratios: policy options -- The contemporary work environment of nursing -- TAKING ACTION: Racism in the workplace -- Collective strategies for transformation in the workplace -- Political context of advanced practice nursing -- TAKING ACTION: Never underestimate the power of a personal story -- TAKING ACTION: Removing APRN regulatory barriers in West Virginia -- TAKING ACTION: Full practice authority: a tale of two states -- Policy and politics in nursing academia -- The intersection of technology and health care: policy and practice implications -- Unit 5. Policy and politics in associations and interest groups -- Interest groups in health care policy and politics -- Policy issues in nursing associations -- TAKING ACTION: School nursing at the intersection of health and education -- TAKING ACTION: The alliance of nurses for healthy environments promoting environmental health -- Coalitions: a powerful political strategy -- TAKING ACTION: Campaign for action -- TAKING ACTION: Why not Minot? The battle over North Dakota's first smoke-free ordinance -- Unit 6. Policy and politics in the community -- Where policy hits the pavement: contemporary issues in communities -- An introduction to community activism -- TAKING ACTION: From sewage problems to the statehouse: serving communities -- TAKING ACTION: Contaminated water and elevated blood lead levels in Flint -- Creating a culture of health and working with communities -- TAKING ACTION: Activism: a community rises -- Family and sexual violence, nursing, and U.S. policy -- Human trafficking: the need for nursing advocacy -- TAKING ACTION: policy, politics, and advocating for medicinal cannabis use -- Think globally, act locally: nursing and global health -- Infectious disease in a highly connected world: nurses' role to prevent, detect, respond.
"Learn how to influence policy and become a leader in today's changing health care environment. Featuring analysis of cutting-edge healthcare issues and first-person insights, the expanded 8th edition of Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care continues to be the leading text on nursing action and activism with approximately 150 expert contributors presenting a wide range of topics in policies and politics, providing a more complete background than can be found in any other policy textbook on the market. The book helps you develop a global understanding of nursing leadership and political activism, as well as the complex business and financial issues that drive many actions in the health system. Discussions include the latest updates on conflict management, health economics, lobbying, the use of media, and working with communities for change. With these innovative insights and strategies, you will be prepared to play a leadership role in the four spheres in which nurses are politically active: the workplace, government, professional organizations, and the community"-- Worldcat.
9780323554985
2015008880
Nurses--Political activity--United States.
Nursing--Political aspects--United States.
Medical policy--United States.
Medical care--Political aspects--United States.
Nursing--United States.
Delivery of Health Care--United States.
Politics--United States.
Public Policy--United States.
RT86.5 / .P58 2021
362.173 / P758
WY 16 AA1