This third edition has been revised to incorporate an increased focus on policy and a strengthened feminist perspective. Politics and policy are discussed within each of the four spheres of a nurse's environment: the workplace, government, community, and professional organizations. Contributed to by over 100 nurses, the text includes vignettes exemplifying principles discussed, detailed explanations about the process of change, policy development and analysis, and politics in the four spheres. Other areas addressed are the role of the courts, organizing and mobilizing for action, the involvement of specialty organizations, health care financing and marketing policy issues. This edition includes increased coverage of the policy process and offers a new chapter addressing health care economics as well as expanded content on health care financing. There is also a chapter on political analysis and strategy.
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Höhe: 235 mm
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978-0-7216-7038-6 (9780721670386)
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A nursing perspective: policy and politics - a framework for action; feminist perspectives on policy and politics; historical overview - policy, politics and nursing; organization and delivery of health care in the United States - the health care system that isn't; health care financing. Knowing the process, using the power: policy development and analysis; political analysis and strategy; dynamics of public policy; conflict, politics and policy; coalitions for action; research as a policy/political pool; the economics of health care; the role of the media in influencing policy - getting the message across; ethical issues - politics, power and policy. Policy and politics in the workplace: contemporary issues in the workplace - a glimpse over the horizon into the new age; strategies for working in the workplace; communication and collaborating for change in the workplace; ensuring the future of nurses in clinical practice - issues and strategies for staff nurses and advanced practice nurses; collective action in the workplace; the politics of nursing research. Policy and politics in government: contemporary issues in government; legislative and regulatory process; nursing and the courts; local government; state governement; federal governemnt; political appointments; political parties; lobbying policymakers - individual and collective strategies; the American voter - political campaigns and nursing leadership. Contemporary issues in professional organizations: contemporary issues in professional organizations; you and your professional organization; political action committees. Policy and politcs in the community: contemporary issues in the community; working with the community for change; policy, politics and foundations; nursing, health and health care in the international community. Appendices: internships in policy and politics; Hatch Act; syllabus; nursing agenda for health care reform.
