Nursing 4105 Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy

Walden University Nursing 4105, Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Topic 2, Discussion Question 1: The Cost of Health Care The policy discussed in this paper is the use of medicinal marijuana in the state of Colorado. In 2000 the state of Colorado appealed the Colorado state constitution to legalize medicinal marijuana (Monte, Zane, & Heard, 2015). Patients may receive a prescription for medicinal marijuana for Cancer, Glaucoma, HIV or AIDS ("Colorado Department of Public Health & Envi...

Walden University Nursing 4105, Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Topic 2, Discussion Question 1: In what ways can an understanding of health care financing better equip nurses to be more effective advocates?

Walden University Nursing 4105 Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Assignment 3 Financial Impacts of Nurse Staffing Ratios: As nurses, we understand that we are required to have many different job responsibilities. Nurses are required to maintain patient care, administer medications, and, in certain circumstances, save lives. In addition to the registered nurses' standard scope of practice, it is required to take on higher than average patient to nurse ratios that make care unsafe and ha...

Walden University NURS 4105: Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Assignment 1, Death with Dignity Act The state of Oregon is known for a variety of attractions, such as the weird city of Portland, the famed University of Oregon, beautiful scenery, and, since 1997, the legalization of the Death with Dignity Act (DWDA).......

Walden University Nursing 4105 Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Week 1, Discussion Question 2: It doesn’t matter how long you have been a nurse or where you work; staffing is an issue. I work the night shift as an assistant nurse manager on one of the mother/baby units, and one of my responsibilities is making the assignment for the day shift...........