Respond to your colleague posts by suggesting additional opportunities or recommendations for overcoming the challenges described by your colleagues.
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In the political world of healthcare policymaking, nurses from all levels of education and training belong on these congressional committees. That is developed to help address and identified problems in the public health sector as well as helping to create healthcare policies and their implementation. There are several ways in which nursing has opportunities to help create, mold, and shape healthcare policies and how they affect nursing as a profession.
There is one unchanging truth in the world no matter the stage, there is strength in numbers. As a member of a nursing organization nurses could have their voices heard. They have the ability to represent their beliefs, and their profession to advocate for that which they wish to be introduced to congress for healthcare policy reform or creation.
Debbie D. Hatmaker, Ph.D., RN, FAAN Acting Chief Executive Officer/Chief Nursing Officer of the ANA, wrote a letter to the leaders of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. In which she is advocating for her nursing colleges who want to have their voices heard and their needs identified. She opens with, Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader McConnell, Leader McCarthy, and Leader Schumer: On behalf of the American Nurses Association (ANA), we thank the United States Congress for its efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic (A Letter to Congress.,2020). As Congress finishes its work for the 116th session, we urge you to pass additional legislation to respond to the unprecedented public health crisis caused by the COVID19 pandemic. A continued delay will prevent the ability of our nation’s nurses and other health care providers to perform their jobs to the fullest extent possible and keep not only their patients safe, but themselves, their families, and communities safe as well (A Letter to Congress.,2020).
In this letter, she urges Congress to put aside their political beliefs and help nursing fight this battle with Covid-19 bypassing the listed bills that would not only provide the release of extra vaccinations but would also provide for the regulation of the reuse of PPE and the addition resources to be provided to help with the increased production of PPE to be distributed throughout each sate to help protect all the nursing involved in this fight. She ends it with I encourage you to work in a bipartisan manner to pass comprehensive legislation that will protect our nation’s frontline health care workers. We look forward to continuing to work with you to protect the health of our nation and stand ready to serve as a resource (A Letter to Congress.,2020). That is the actions of one nurse helping to effect healthcare policy.
Another opportunity for nursing to become involved in health care policy reform and implementation is to be appointed to one of the congressional committees that are responsible for the creation and implementation of these policies that affect nursing and public health. Some of the challenges nursing will face will be learning how the inner workings are navigated through in this political arena, as wells the whole process on how to make a healthcare policy. Being able to understand if the key components of the policy that you are helping to shape, or how levels of its implementation varies across different settings, policymakers can make comparisons between implementing jurisdictions (Frieden, 2010). Having an understanding of how comparing actual implementation to established standards can clarify discrepancies between the planned and actual implementation of healthcare policies (Frieden, 2010). The ability to identify which components or features of the implementation are barriers or catalysts, that is linked to the policy impacts on public health (Frieden, 2010). These are just a few of the challenges that would have to be navigated through when helping to effect healthcare policies.
In the end, it does not matter in what way you wish to affect matters of state or national public health. It only matters that you try. You can stand with a group by joining an organization of like-minded nurses who have the same wants and beliefs as you do, or you can act as a representative for your community and be their voice to policymakers to hear and understand. No matter the choice you make getting involved they all have varying levels of opportunities and challenges it is important how we face these as nursing professionals together that matters.
References:
Frieden, T. (2010). Brief 4 : Evaluating Policy Implementation. 1–4. http://www.cdc.gov/injury/pdfs/policy/Brief 4-a.pdf
https://www.nursingworld.org/news/news-releases/2020/new-survey-findings-from-21k-us-nurses--ppe- shortages-persist-re-use-practices-on-the-rise-amid-covid-19-pandemic/. (2020). 2–4.
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