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Required Readings

Milstead, J. A. (2019). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (6th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

· Chapter 4, “Government Response: Regulation” (pp. 56-81)

This chapter explains the major concepts of the regulation of health professionals, with emphasis on advanced practice nurses (APN) and the process of licensure and credentialing.

ANA’s Foundation of Nursing Package - (Access this resource from the Walden Library databases through your NURS 6050 Course Readings List)

· Guide to the Code of Ethics: Interpretation and Application This guide details the history, purpose and theory, application, and case studies of this must-have Code of Ethics.

· Nursing Social Policy Statement The Nursing Social Policy Statement provides an understanding of the social framework and obligations of the nursing profession.

· Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice This book contains several national standards of practice that can be used to inform the decision-making process, development, implementation, and evaluation of several functions and aspects of advanced practice nursing.

Gallagher, T. H. (2009). A 62-year-old woman with skin cancer who experienced wrong-site surgery: Review of medical error. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(6), 669–677.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

 

The article showcases the different sides of medical error, from a 62-year-old patient who suffered and the components of the medical error’s impact and aftermath.

Reinhardt, U. E. (2010, Jan 30). Repercussions of simplicity. New York Times, p. A14.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

 

This article determines that the government should take low-income families into account when determining mandatory health insurance because many Americans choose to go without insurance despite preexisting conditions presumably no longer being an issue.

Board on Health Care Services. (2007). Preventing medication errors: Quality Chasm Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Retrieved from http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11623&page=43

· Part 1, “Understanding the Causes and Costs of Medication Errors” (pp. 43–49)

This article discusses the multilayered nature of medication error as a system of failures due to individual behaviors and conditions