Response To Strategies And Evidence

• You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts and supporting your opinion with a reference. Response posts must be at least 150 words. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response).
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Nurse’s Policy Influence

Paula Andrea Estrada

St Thomas University

NUR 415

Professor Price

3/25/2021

Nurse’s Policy Influence

Health-care services are evolving and changing at a rapid pace. Nurses, as members of healthcare system, should embrace these changes. Nurses must influence the development of health policies rather than only implementing them to achieve policy objectives. Nurses may participate in policy and politics at the state and federal levels by joining a professional nursing association (Kurnat-Thoma et al., 2021). These associations also engage lobbyists to introduce nursing concerns to Congress. Nurses may also appeal to their state legislators to voice their displeasure about healthcare policy (Schaeffer & Haebler, 2019). Internships with officials are available for nurses who choose to work directly on healthcare issues.

Nurses may become involved in politics on a local level by engaging in leadership responsibilities in the nursing profession or lobbying elected representatives about industry-related legislation. Nurses may pursue formal political preparation, engage on city councils and committees, and even run for local office (Kurnat-Thoma et al., 2021). Even basic things like exercising individual right to vote may affect healthcare policy. On the other hand, nurses need assistance to affect improvement (Schaeffer & Haebler, 2019). And it all begins with the love of one’s kin and family. Democratic participation should be encouraged by nurses’ families and friends. Nursing schools should integrate healthcare policy education into their syllabuses and allow nursing students to participate in politics.

Additionally, nursing school faculty members should assist in reforms as role models for their learners. Finally, employers must have time, money, and staff nurses’ opportunities to influence local, state, and federal policy (Wichaikhum et al., 2020). After all, healthcare reform impacts us all in the end. Therefore, nurses must be trained in patient care, interdisciplinary collaboration, informatics and technology, applying evidence-based practice, and quality assurance for this to happen.