Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 506 Health Care TD

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Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 506 Health Care TDNR 506 Healthcare Policy Week 1, TD1 The Four Spheres of Political Action in Nursing. Please discuss the four spheres of political action in nursi... ng. In addition, please develop a brief argument sharing how these spheres are interconnected and overlapping by applying an example from your practice. Nursing should not consist of only the monotonous tasks completed to provide basic patient care, but rather nursing today is multidimensional where nurses are responsible for the protection, promotion, and prevention of disease or injury for individuals, families, communities, and population. For this reason, nurses have the opportunity to become politically involved impacting and improving the level of care that they are able to provide. According to Chaffee, Mason, & Leavitt (2014), the four spheres of political action in nursing include workplace or workforce, government, professional organization, and community. Each of these sphere have their own independent functions, but they can also overlap and affect the other sphere working together to create changes. Workplace sphere addresses issues regarding jobs and patient care, as well as influencing policies and procedures. It can be in any setting like acute care, home care, nursing homes, school based clinics, occupational health clinics, and physician’s office. Government sphere addresses laws and regulations regarding practice, as well as influencing local, state, and national policies. Government actions can consists of laws requiring to keep birth records, immunizations, legal establishment of drinking age, laws determining what health services people are eligible for at certain age. Government has grown bigger and centralized, which plays a important role in nursing. Government also influences systems for healthcare, and nursing service, and determines who receives what type of health services. Professional organizations sphere addresses the many areas that shape the practice of [Show More]

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