NURS 8100 – Healthcare Policy and Analysis

As addressed in Week 1, many different policies and reform efforts have influenced health care delivery over the past century. Consider for a moment the health care reform efforts during the 1960s and the implementation of Medicare  and Medicaid. How did these reform initiatives become policy? What challenges do these programs face today? What problems […]

Instructions: To prepare: By Day 3 Post a 1- to 2-paragraph succinct summary of your policy analysis paper. Include at least two of the options or solutions for addressing the policy and the resulting implications for nursing practice and health care consumers Learning Resources Required ReadingsBodenheimer, T., & Grumbach, K. (2020). Understanding health policy: A clinicalapproach […]

To be a professional nurse today means having a world view. With the internationalization of health care issues, it is important to broaden your perspective and explore international health policy and nursing practice.  This week, you will focus on global health care policy. You will examine the nursing profession through an international lens, as well […]

To prepare: By Day 3 Post a cohesive response that addresses the following: Learning Resources Required ReadingsChen, A. S., & Weir, M. (2009). The long shadow of the past: Risk pooling and thepolitical development of health care reform in the States. Journal of Health Politics,Policy & Law, 34 (5), 679-716. The authors provide an analysis of […]

The fragmentation of the U.S. health care system, with its differing modes of financing and service delivery, is a reflection of a dispersed government structure. Policy making is shared and distributed across various branches and levels of government. As a result, policy making processes can be slow to respond, manipulated towards personal interests, and often […]

(Week 3) Assignment 2: Health PolicyProposal Analysis (Policy Brief) Nurses engaged in the policy arena often are asked to provide information on a healthcare topic of interest to policy makers. This is frequently accomplished throughdeveloping a policy brief. A policy brief advocates for a particular recommendation (priorto the enactment of a policy). Learning how to […]

Discussion: Policy Brief Professional nursing organizations have influenced the policy agenda by identifying needs, generating ideas, and bringing them into the policy arena; they have had a positive impact on the profession of nursing as well as nursing practice. This week’s Discussion asks you to consider the policy proposal you examined for the policy brief […]

Instructions: To prepare: By Day 3 Post a cohesive response that addresses the following: Learning Resources Required ReadingsBodenheimer, T., & Grumbach, K. (2020). Understanding health policy: A clinicalapproach (8th ed.). McGraw-Hill.● Chapter 13, “Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care” This chapter discusses the four principles of medical ethics—beneficence,malfeasance, autonomy, and justice, and views current health […]

Care Reform (Interview)According to the AACN (2006), “Political activism and commitment to policydevelopment are central elements of professional nursing practice” (p. 13). Throughoutthis course, you will hone the skills and competencies required for this type ofinvolvement in policy.Research is an essential step in the process of acquiring the skills and competencies,and interviews are one form […]

Discussion: Agenda Setting A key aspect of the policy process is agenda setting. How do topics get on that agenda? Agenda setting requires the support of stakeholders to move the issue forward. In this week’s media presentation, Dr. Kathleen White outlines the policy process and discusses how to move issues into the policy arena through […]