NSE 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Policy, Seat Belt, Policy
2 Dec 2015
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Effective support for political action within the profession. Encourages nurses to speak in unison on issues/organize themselves to act provincially/territorially, nationally, and internationally. To articulate a professional nursing issue goes beyond the individual nurse. To have greater impact nurses need to articulate issues as a large collective/organization of nurses. Issues should be explored fully and critically assessed in order to challenge pre-conceived views. Articulate an issue fully means to consider political, historical, social, & economic realities on + through which issues are constructed. And public policy, nursing involvement in health policy and impact on nursing profession. Our federal and provincial governments are responsible for creating policy, laws and legislation. Public policy: a statement of direction resulting from a decision making process that applies reason, evidence and values in public or private settings . Public policy can include a choice to: take action or take no action or maintain the status quo. Health policy is a form of public policy.
