Importance of Master's Nursing Education in Health Policy and Advocacy

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
HEALTH POLICY AND ADVOCACY ASSIGNMENT.
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Introduction
With development and advancement in the healthcare services throughout the world,
the demand of skilled and efficient nursing professionals has increased by multiple times
(Drayton-Brooks et al., 2017). Besides this, it has become important for the nursing
professionals to be aware of the needs and requirements of the patients and through proper
anticipation of future, develop strategies so that ethically fundamentally complied care could
be provided to the patients. In such situation, it is important that the nursing professionals are
equipped with further knowledge of the healthcare settings and other complementary care
settings (Visekruna et al., 2016). This is the reason that majority of the nursing bachelor’s
should be provided master’s education. This report mentions about the importance of
master’s nursing education in current situation and would discuss about one of the essential
streams that I would like to pursue in future.
Importance of master’s nursing education
As per Drayton-Brooks et al. (2017), the master’s nursing educational course has been
developed in a manner that helps them to understand the aspects that would be required to
effectively address the needs and requirements of the patients in future. Besides this, it would
help them to improve their healthcare delivery process and they would be able to obtain
improved outcome for their patients. Further, it would help them to develop effective care
process through navigating it across healthcare systems. Moreover, through the acquired
skills, nursing professionals would be able to develop collaborative inter-professional skills
that would help them to develop innovative nursing practices. Therefore, it would help them
with lifelong effective education and excellence that would make them to develop effective
educational abilities and they would be able to develop themselves as a nursing professionals
who are able to translate their nursing evidences into practice.

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The Essential Master’s Education
The chosen essentials of Master’s Education that has been developed for the nursing
professionals so that they could serve the healthcare process effectively is “Health Policy and
Advocacy”. As mentioned by Jha et al. (2016), the health policy and advocacy helps the
nursing professionals to comply with the healthcare policies and understand the strategies so
that health and healthcare development could be complied with. There are multiple reasons
or rationale due to which this aspect has been chosen as the essential area, as with chances
and development in the healthcare interventions, these factors also evolve. As mentioned by
Visekruna et al. (2016), multiple factors such as economic, social, cultural, technological and
political factors that governs health policy development and patient advocacy and to
understand these factors, it is important that nursing students undergo master’s education. In
this aspect, it should be mentioned that bachelors of nursing provides detailed idea of health
promotion, develops understanding of health delivery system and develops their value related
so social justice (Markey & Okantey, 2016). However their understanding of policy and
political activism requires more knowledge and enthusiasm so that they could influence the
policy makers and higher authorities to develop and modify the health policies for the benefit
of the patients. Therefore, through the application of patient advocacy, nursing professionals
are able to develop attributes that would help them to safeguard autonomy, and the
relationship between the healthcare economic and healthcare policy (Justus & Nangombe,
2016). Therefore, if the benefit of master’s education could be discussed with the help of
increased research ability, development of nursing perspective and ability to develop policy
making and advocacy skills so that they could provide their patients with effective care.
Concept of Master’s Education in Nursing
While discussing the concepts of nursing master’s education, the discussion of
multiple and important theories related to patient-centered approach, organizational issues,