PROFESSIONAL NURSE IN HEALTH POLICY PAPER SUBMISSION 2
Introduction
Nurses can and ought to impact practice processes and standards to ascertain quality
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Policies also influence resource allocation to sustain delivery of healthcare, which majorly is
done by the nurses. Nurses are available in every healthcare environment and hold a unique responsibility in formulating policies. Therefore, they should be playing a more prominent role
than they are today in health policy. To realize these objectives, it is crucial that policies exist in
integrate and define suitable standards for the provision of care and discourse condition essential
for care to occur. This paper discusses the professional role of nurses in health policy and further
identifies an action plan for nurses to increase involvement.
Roles of nurses in health policy
Report from the Institute of Medicine recognized the benefits of these roles and recommended nurses to involve themselves in leadership and to advance quality care in the health sector. One of the major roles in healthcare policies is participating actively in policy formulation
(Smolowitz et al., 2015). For instance, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing stresses
the role of nursing in identifies and policy, the anticipated policy participation that ought to be
conveyed in educational programs at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral classes of professional nursing, advanced practice included.
Secondly, nurse leadership plays a role in collaborative policy work. This collaborative
work stresses on nurse leaders from different regions, either nationally or internationally, working together to convey health issues policy matters. Recently, the leader of the Singapore Nurse
Association, Swee, met with the leader of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organization, Liam
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