This second edition of the 1985 four time AJN Book-of-the-Year award winning book has been substantially 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 by apporoximately 110 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 second edition of the 1985 four time AJN Book-of-the-Year award winning book has been substantially 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 by apporoximately 110 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.
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-0-7216-4668-8 (9780721646688)
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School of Nursing, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Part 1 Policy and politics - a nursing perspective: policy and politics - a framework for action; feminist perspective on policy and politics for nursing; historical overview - policy, politics and nursing; learning the ropes. Part 2 Policy and politics: knowing the process, using the power: policy development and analysis; the dynamics of public policy - a walk through the process; politics - a humanistic process; perspective on power; political analysis - structure and process; dynamics of conflict and conflict management; collective strategies for action; marketing and media; ethical issues - politics, power and policy case study - rationing health care - the Oregon story. Part 3 Policy and politics in the workplace: contemporary issues in the workplace; analyzing your workplace; interdisciplinary politics; creating a supportive work environment; the politics of collective bargaining; collective action in the workplace; when the workplace is academia - the faculty perspective, the student perspective; the politics of nursing research case study - transforming the workplace. Part 4 Policy and politics in government: contemporary issues in government; health care financing - policy and politics; legislative and regulatory processes; the courts; local government; state government; the federal government; political appointments - getting appointed; political parties; lobbying policymakers - strategies for individual nurses; voter participation and campaigning case study - the nurse as legislatory - making a difference. Part 5 Policy and politics in professional organizations: contemporary issues in nursing organization; you and your professional organization; political action committees; organizations in action case study - professional commitment and professional activities - the American public health association. Part 6 Policy and politics in the community: contemporary issues in the community; working with the community for change; nursing and the international community; policy, politics and foundations; case study - the community and childbearing centres; end case study - nurses, consumers, activists and the politics of AIDS.
