Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action (eBook)

Veronica Feeg, Donna J. Middaugh, Donna M. Nickitas (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
400 Seiten
Jones & Bartlett Learning (Verlag)
9781284257724 (ISBN)

Infos

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action, Fourth Edition reflects a well-honed vision of what nursing and health professionals need to know to both understand and influence modern health policy. The authors focus on the most relevant health policy issues while taking an interdisciplinary approach to create an understanding of healthcare practice and policy across interprofessional teams. Through their focus on relevant issues, the authors discuss how healthcare professionals can prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political, and policy dimensions of health care. The Fourth Edition has been carefully revised and updated to reflect essential shifts to improve health and public policy as well as dramatic improvements in health care cost, quality, reliability, and technology around public health and data infrastructure. In addition, global and population health issues such as war, terrorism, pandemics, disease, and natural disasters that impact health professionals are also covered in detail. Presents thoughtfully curated timely and relevant issues for nursing students and healthcare professionals. NEW chapter discusses opportunities of value-based payments for nurses with content on historical cost factors and models of care in value-based care.Emphasizes the importance of interprofessional teamwork to provide optimal patient-centered care. Integrates current content on health disparities, systemic racism, pandemic/disaster management & preparedness, and the impact on the health care delivery system.Contains new and expanded content on Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, medical wearables and the rise of consumer medical devices, expansion of telehealth and its impact on privacy, and more timely topics.Features case studies that demonstrate how health professionals creatively problem-solve and leverage resources to address policies and politics of health care. Instructor resources include an Instructor's Manual, Case studies with questions and answers, Practice Activities with answers, Test Bank, and Sides in PowerPoint format. This text is intended for higher-level undergraduate and graduate-level health policy courses.Sample Courses include:Advanced Health PolicyPolicy and PracticePolicy and AdvocacyHealthcare SystemsNursing and Societal forces (c) 2025 | 400 pages

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• ISBN-13: 9781284257724 / 9781284257724