Select a specific health policy in which you are interested and is of significance to the nursing profession. The policy should focus on one of the following health issues: health promotion, illness reduction, patient safety, or work place safety. The health policy is one at the state or national level or one that a health care organization has developed. Be careful, for the purposes of this assignment, a health policy is not legislation.
Write a minimum of six full pages to a maximum of eight pages of text regarding this health policy Introduction to health policy and the reason for selection including significance to the nursing profession.
• The policy should focus on one of the following health issues: health promotion, illness reduction, patient safety, or work place safety, etc.
• The health policy is one at the state, national, international or global level.
• Significance to the nursing profession. (Statistics can be very powerful in supporting the significance of the selected health policy.)
• Be careful, for the purposes of this assignment, a health policy is not legislation.
Health Policy Overview utilizing a minimum of 5 scholarly references. Include the following components:
• Discuss how the health policy would eradicate the health issue.
• Interventions proposed by the policy.
Advocacy
• Steps that can be taken to advocate for the health policy as a professional nurse.
• Be as specific as possible to include steps specific to your chosen policy.
Conclusion
• Recap main ideas in a clear, summarizing manner.
• Address opposing viewpoints and explain why readers should align with your position. Provide something to take away that will help readers see things differently or appreciate the topic in personally relevant ways.
Call for action or overview of future possibilities.
