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Committees and Communication NAME Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 554: Nurse Leader and Healthcare Policy DATE Communication effectiveness is a key factor throughout nursing regardless of the level or type of practice. Select a specific venue where healthcare policy discussions may be held. What communication strategy would you use to communicate with stakeholders on politics, economics, team building, legal, or regulation? Week 6: Committees and Communication Effective communic...

Nurse Advocate Power NAME Chamberlain College of Nursing NR554: Nurse Leader in Healthcare Policy DATE Nursing leaders are under pressure to share their professional expertise. What is your obligation as a professional nurse to advocate for healthcare policy issues? What are the influences that impact nursing advocacy in the healthcare policy realm? What skills should you gain to successfully advocate for change? Week 6: Nurse Advocate Power The American Nurses Association (ANA) ...

Leader Responsibility to Influence and Inform Healthcare Policy NAME Chamberlain College of Nursing NR554: Nurse Leader in Healthcare Policy DATE Week 5: Leader Responsibility to Influence and Inform Healthcare Policy Discuss the main task of leaders’ responsibility related to influencing and informing healthcare policy issues and how you will apply these tasks within your current role and/or expected role after graduation. Nurses are the front-line caregivers in our health syst...

Imbedding Policy into Healthcare Culture NAME Chamberlain College of Nursing NR554: Leadership in Healthcare Policy DATE From the perspective of the nursing leadership position that you expect to have upon graduation, consider how you would move a new healthcare policy into your healthcare organization. What would be the first steps taken with the organization’s leadership to gain buy-in? Week 5: Imbedding Policy into Healthcare Culture Buy-in is critical to making any large org...

Social Visibility of Health Issue NAME Chamberlain College of Nursing NR554: Nurse Leader and Healthcare Policy DATE Discuss how social visibility and financial cost impact healthcare policy Social Visibility of Health Issue Mental health disorders have gained a lot of visibility in the news with the recent mass shooting. Mass shootings create outpourings of public horror and outrage. With each tragedy, we hear arguments about gun violence and mental health. On December 14, 2012, 2...

Politics of Science Policy NAME Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 554: Nurse Leader and Healthcare Policy DATE Identify a current or previously funded National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) research study and identify the area of 'determination of need' that this research study addresses. Identify the population that the findings of this research support and list several potential outcomes and the policy that it would support. What are the key drivers of this issue? Politic...

Applied Change Implementation NAME Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 554: Nurse Leader and Healthcare Policy DATE Identify a socially visible healthcare issue that you would like to see developed into a healthcare policy. It can be an issue that you are aware of through the course textbook, literature, peers, or through experiences with other healthcare systems. What change strategy could be developed to present to leaders within your healthcare organization? Applied Change Implementa...

Leading Change NAME Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 554: Nurse Leader and Healthcare Policy DATE Consider an educational or healthcare organization with which you are familiar. Analyze the organization with respect to its attitude toward change. Identify a healthcare policy that has been adopted by this organization and determine the change model used throughout the change process (if any). Include the history of the change in terms of how the issue was identified, who the stakeholders...

Problem Identification for Public and Policy Decision Makers NAME Chamberlain College of Nursing NR554: Nurse Leader and Healthcare Policy DATE Nursing leaders and bedside staff are often confronted with problems that affect their workflow and ability to deliver best practices to their patients. One example of a policy that has been adopted by many healthcare organizations to reduce confusion and improve efficiency in communication is the use of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessm...

Week 8: Reflection of Global Health Concepts The course Global Health has been enlightening on many issues including the various burden of disease, particularly, in the developing countries, emerging threats to global health such as mental health, and health inequities which are prevalent globally, even in the developed countries particularly due to poverty. It also highlighted the importance of nurses partnering with agencies such as non-governmental organizations. Besides, I enjoyed the dis...