Write a paper on the role of the professional nurse in health policy.
- Discuss the professional nurse’s role in health policy.
- Identify an action plan for nurses to increase involvement.
Submission Instructions:
- The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
- The paper is to be no shorter than 5 pages; nor longer than 7 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
- Your paper should be formatted per APA and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions).
- Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to current APA style (the library (Links to an external site.) has a copy of the APA Manual).
Answer preview
The nursing profession carries significant weight in the healthcare sector. Therefore nurses are in a prime position to influence policy. Despite having this power and moral responsibility in the recent past, patients’ agents’ nurses have recorded low participation in health policy formulation (Gandelman & Moran, 2021). Several barriers exist that have been hampering the active involvement of nurse in policymaking. Notable challenges are the lack of healthcare policy knowledge, information and skills. Besides, there has been an inadequate promotion of this role in both academic and professional practice nursing settings. Elimination of these barriers will empower nurses to promote transformational ideas in the healthcare sector through the legislature. Therefore, measure4s such as creating workshops to teach and promote the nursing role in policymaking have proven to be effective. Individually,
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