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NR717 Healthcare Policy Paper

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NR717 Healthcare Policy Paper

Consider a time when there was an issue related to healthcare policy in your local, regional, or national community. If you pursued an opportunity to address the issue, describe the results. If you did not pursue the opportunity, describe the reasons.

Health policies outline the strategies, decisions, and activities to meet the objectives. Infectious illness prevention and management posed a difficulty in my neighborhood and national community. At the beginning of the world pandemic, COVID-19, the economy was crippled.  Public spaces and other forms of social interaction were closed off. I was presented with an opportunity to help people understand the problem and how to take preventative actions. Individuals were instructed to maintain their distance from one another, cover their faces with masks, and frequently wash their hands with soap and water (Rahman et al., 2021).

People were also required to spend as much time as necessary in their homes and away from public gatherings. Moreover, vaccinations were used to lessen the likelihood of people being infected. These precautions were successful since they slowed the spread of Covid – 19. These efforts helped to minimize the possibility of developing the illness, and there was a corresponding drop in reported cases (Vitiello et al., 2021).

Propose an area of your political competency that needs further development and an action you could take to become more politically competent to impact your selected population.

I want to enhance my networking abilities to establish connections with additional national political figures. It will make it easy to persuade them and facilitate the adoption of the prevalent health policy efforts to improve the efficacy of healthcare delivery (Myers, 2020). I believe that my ability to network will aid me in pursuing better availability of clinical resources, which are necessary for providing patients with the all-encompassing care they need to achieve positive health outcomes. Facilitating development initiatives within the clinical domains to ensure clients obtain fast and good healthcare will be simple with the help of politicians.

References

Myers, R. (2020). Promoting population health. Nursing Clinics of North America, 55(1), 11–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnur.2019.11.001

Rahman, S., Montero, V., Rowe, K., Kirton, R., & Kunik, F. (2021). Epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentations, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19: A review of current evidence. Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, 14(5). https://doi.org/10.1080/17512433.2021.1902303

Vitiello, A., Ferrara, F., Troiano, V., & La Porta, R. (2021). COVID-19 vaccines and decreased transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Inflammopharmacology, 29(5). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10787-021-00847-2

Healthcare Policy Discussion

Purpose

The purpose of this discussion is to reflect on opportunities to impact healthcare policies while further developing your own political competency using Warner’s article (2003) as a guide.

Instructions

Read the Warner (2003) article (located in Student Learning Resources). Reflect upon the development of your political competency and address the following:

  1. Consider a time when there was an issue related to healthcare policy in your local, regional, or national community. If you pursued an opportunity to address the issue, describe the results. If you did not pursue the opportunity, describe the reasons.
  2. Propose an area of your political competency that needs further development and an action you could take to become more politically competent to impact your selected population.

Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:

Program Competencies

This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:

  1. Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)
  1. Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
  1. Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience, and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (PO 1)

Course Outcomes

This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

  1. Critically analyze the history, formation, and implementation of local, state and national health policies from the perspectives of stakeholders and the profession of nursing. (PC 5; PO 2)
  1. Assimilate epidemiology principles and interventions to impact the social determinants of health, Global Burden of Disease, and population health outcomes. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
  1. Demonstrate collaborative interprofessional leadership and political competency to develop and implement healthcare policy to improve healthcare delivery and population health outcomes. (PC 5; PO 2)