Nursing nr 708 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

For a community to improve its health, its members must often change aspects of the physical, social, organizational, and even political environments to eliminate or reduce factors that contribute to health problems or to introduce new elements that promote better health. What are the challenges of initiating and maintaining change in communities? There are many challenges of initiating and maintaining change in communities. Although many communities face some of the same challenges when implem...

Differentiate socioeconomic versus sociopolitical factors that impact healthcare finance and have either a positive or negative impact on a selected healthcare stakeholder (patient, family, nurse, or other identified stakeholder). Phrase your response from a nursing perspective derived from your practice experience. An example of socioeconomic factors that impact healthcare finance is socioeconomic status. Socioeconomic status is the social class of an individual or group. It is often measu...

NR 708 Week 2 Discussion 2: Impact of Socioeconomic and Sociopolitical Factors on Healthcare Finance and Nursing Practice

NR 708 Week 2 Discussion 2: Impact of Socioeconomic and Sociopolitical Factors on Healthcare Finance and Nursing Practice

NR 708 Week 1 Discussion 2: Nursing Advocacy

NR 708 Week 1 Discussion 2: Nursing Advocacy

Differentiate macroeconomic versus microeconomic healthcare conditions that impact a healthcare stakeholder (patient, family, nurse, or other identified stakeholder) from a nursing perspective derived from your practice experience. There are many forces that help shape healthcare. Economic and social policy are two important factors that affect medical treatment in healthcare. The field of economics provides us with microeconomic and macroeconomic methods for distinguishing the positive economi...

NR 708 Week 4 Discussion 1: Nursing Legislation and Nursing Practice

Identify a political issue or agenda in health care. How would you formalize support to advance this agenda? The nurse should understand how the government work and how policies are created and changed in order to influence public officials to accept new agendas that will improve quality of care for all people (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, & O’Grady, 2016). My agenda in health care is to create a health care policy that will improve the obesity rate of all Americans. Having a thorough knowledge of...

In the second discussion question, we are discussing the difference between being a patient advocate and a nursing advocate. I encourage you to take a moment and look back over your career. Are you a true nursing advocate? Were you taught those skills? Patients are vulnerable in a state of illness and it’s the nurse’s responsibility to advocate for the well-being of the patient. The American Nurses Association’s code of Ethics for Nurses and Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice sup...