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The purpose of this assignment is to promote awareness for enhanced learning of health policy and politics in nursing and healthcare. Health policy and politic issues identified can relate directly to nursing, such as the APRN Consensus Model, or to various healthcare disciplines including nursing such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. These issues can be on a local, regional, state, national, or international level

Web Sites

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
www.ahrq.gov

Innovations Exchange Patient- and Family-Centered Care Video Series 
http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/videos.aspx?tabID=5

US National Library of Medicine Health Care Reform, Health Economics, and Health Policy
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrinfo/health_economics.html

National Center for Health Statistics
www.cdc.gov/nchs

National Coalition on Health Care
www.nchc.org

U.S. Government Spending
www.usgovernmentspending.com/

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
www.cms.gov