Nursing Leadership Health Policy

Running head: NURSING LEADERSHIP HEALTH POLICY
Nursing leadership health policy
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NURSING LEADERSHIP HEALTH POLICY
Nurses are a key player of the healthcare organization that provides health promotion,
administrate medication and numerous other interventions for the healing of the patients
(Tyczkowski et al., 2015). Making a health-related critical decision of patients, interpreting the
medical conditions and improving medical practices in order to get better outcome are also part
of her job. However, nurses need leadership skills for working with physicians (Ross et al.,
2014).there are few public health policies, which need a change in nursing to give a vision of
better health care system. Therefore, This essay focuses on a few policy changes in nursing
professions for the sake of these professionals and public health benefits.
At a different level of health care practices, nurses require adequate leadership quality to
contribute their best version to patient safety and quality health care. However, for decades
different layers of health professionals and public view nurses only as health care professions
who obey the instructions of the hierarchy of the health care system, not someone who makes
Rational decision for a patient that is based on pieces of evidence and experiences( Johnstone ,
2015). Leadership surveys of different working field suggested that a significant number of
nurses especially frontline nurses possess critical thinking and sound knowledge about the safety
of patients and other healthcare protocol but do not voice their opinion when needed (Shaban,
2015). Gallup poll stated that as most trusted healthcare professionals they should have more
influence in health care system than the functions them currently serving in the critical areas of
patient safety (Virginia & Keeney, 2016)
Every practitioner must learn leadership skills in healthcare society. Nurses being the
closest to the patient and crucial part of the healthcare practice require leadership skills to
proceed with the quality action in the safety department. Therefore, nursing educators must
provide the relevant knowledge about healthcare competencies and other personal characteristics

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for serving better services. Irrespective of nursing knowledge, public health policy should be
changed for giving nurses opportunities for voicing their opinion, involve themselves in policy-
making positions in healthcare systems, include them in the regulatory post so that when needed
they can take independent decisions. To be an active part of health care protocol and accepted as
leader nurses should look into legal and ethics of the health care for structuring the law and
reshaping each treatment procedure for providing a better treatment plan to the patients
(Chadwick & Gallagher, 2016). A significant number of nurses do not frame their life as leader
of healthcare protocol but to be accepted as the leader of the organization they should engage
themselves ineffective political processes. They should take the responsibility of identification of
an area of problem, track the improvement in the delivery procedure of patient care and make the
decision for the development of the concern (Ramos et al., 2015). The national student nurse
association initiated an online university to allow the student to facilitate the potency of
leadership by discussing different issues of faculty, learning session and different conferences so
that students can enhance themselves.
American nurses association (ANA) stated that irrespective of the role, educational
background and personal characteristics every registered nurse should perform in the medical
field with competency and standard (Andrew et al., .2014). The legal aspect of nursing has an
enormous impact in the delivery of care and quality of the attention. Federal and state laws also
have massive implications in nursing practices, as healthcare is one of the most regulated centers.
The greatest loophole of nursing professions is ordinary negligence and nursing malpractices.
Due to atmosphere and circumstances of healthcare organization a significant number of cases
filed in the emergency department where nurses ill-treat the patients specifically older patients.
There are few policies need to change in order to achieve the best care method. The Privacy act