Nurses Making Policy
In today’s nursing facilities, nurses are often involved in formulating policies for their tasks. They create policies that take into account the problems and challenges they face in their daily activities. By participating, nurses perform the basic functions of shaping health policies. Later, nurses also have the opportunity to express and complain through their nursing leaders, locally and nationally. Creating new policies requires policy changes. This can help to provide important solutions to important problems. However, they must have the resources to complete the policy change process.
The journal Nurses Making Policy by Patton, Zalon, & Ludwick is very significant to my course since nursing entails policymaking. The authors were able to elaborate their understanding of policymaking. Some of the challenges we face is raising out issues that affect us. Before starting the Nursing Making Policy course, I had a goal that should have been achieved at some point. Fortunately, most of the goals have been achieved through work and tasks designed to broaden our understanding (Patton, Zalon, &Ludwick, 2018). I found the goals of my nursing area very important. One of the objectives was to highlight the important role that nurses play in creating new policies. Nurses provide important information that is very useful not only for identification but also for problem-solving (Gebbie, Wakefield, and Kerfoot, 2014).
The medical history material also helped me to understand some of the measures that took place in the 20th century and their effects. I got to know some of the guidelines used in today’s society. The existence of prominent nurses acted as a bridge between the nurse and the boards of directors (Morgan, 2018). For example, if nurses complain about working hours, senior nurses can submit complaints. The other objective was to help leading nurses and innovative students to develop the skills needed to develop guidelines. The skills will help them to defend the rights of nurses and patients (Gebbie, Wakefield, and Kerfoot, 2014). For example, decision making, cultural skills, and critical thinking are required.
Understanding the structure for the analysis of health policies was another important objective that was achieved. Nurses cannot propose guidelines and leave them at the moment. You must have a structure to analyze the effectiveness of strategies aimed at your audience (Gebbie, Wakefield &Kerfoot, 2014). These objectives were successfully achieved through the development of basic content and tasks related to the subject taught by the tutor. At the end of the course, I had a lot of understanding and aptitude for all of the above goals.
Most of my success is due to the live seminars I attended with my classmates. However, I had to face some challenges, as some of the tasks assigned to me were very complex and forced me to do a thorough search to obtain the relevant content (Waring, 2017). Other volumes of books were enormous, and it was not easy to extract good content. Besides, the course was a little difficult and forced me to spend a lot of time reading what the tutor had taught in the classroom. Finally, some of the terms used in the course were difficult, and there were no definitions.
References
Gebbie, K. M., Wakefield, M., &Kerfoot, K. (2014). Nursing and health policy. Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
Patton, R. M., Zalon, M. L., &Ludwick, R. (Eds.). (2018). Nurses making policy: From bedside to boardroom. Springer Publishing Company.
Morgan, P. (2018). Minority Nurses Making a Difference in Nursing Education and Health
Disparities Research Part II. ABNF Journal, 29(4), 104.
Waring, J. (2017). Narrowing the Gap Between Safety Policy and Practice: The Role of Nurses’
Implicit Theories and Heuristics. In A Socio-cultural Perspective on Patient Safety (pp.
67-86). CRC Press.