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Policies are the key
to promoting (or potentially restricts) health
Policies often
- Ensure the health of patients, families, groups, and
communities that we care for
- Promote social justice
- Formalize and preserve long lasting change
- Encompasses almost every aspect of life (i.e. health, social,
economic, etc.).
- Impact nurses' scope of practice, resources needed to
provide good care, and working conditions
- Provide an avenue to becoming "politically engaged."
- Compel nurses to act as part of our professional mandat
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If we want to have a long term impact on social justice we have to
consider the use of policy
Policy is a
statement of direction resulting from a decision- making process that applies, evidence and values in public or private
setting
anthropomorphizing policy means
to give a nonhuman thing a human form, characteristic or behavior to policy
Why is it important to not anthropomorphize policy?
policies have authors therefore they are made by someone with a particular political agenda in mind
What are the various levels of healthcare?
1) Macro
2) Meso
3) Micro
Description of the macro level
- National policies
- Provincial policies
, Who are decision makers at the macro level?
- National/provincial health ministry
- Members of Parliament/MPPs
- National leaders
Description of meso level
- Regional policies
- Institutional policies
Who are meso level decision makers?
- Hospital directors or CNOs
- Nurse executives
- APNs
Description of micro level
- Local or unit based policies
- Clinical programs
Who are the micro level decision makers?
- Program or department directors
- Nurses or APNs
- Nurse managers
Public policy is usually enacted at what level?
at a governmental level (i.e. federal,
provincial, or municipal).
Public policy rarely deals with
a single issue/problem, but rather clusters of issues.
What factors does public policy usually consider?
the "upstream" and "downstream"
factors of the issue in question.
Public policy often impacts
the health of Canadians
Public policy can be seen to be for
public good or for its detriment, depending on the individuals perspective
Bill 135 continues
health system transformation through
changes to home and community care
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