Importance of Health Policy and Advocacy in Nursing

Health Policy and
Advocacy
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INTRODUCTION
As per World Health Organisation (2019), it
is important for the nursing professionals to
understand their roles and responsibilities
towards the healthcare system, institutes
and patients as their broad participation is
important for development of effective and
quality healthcare. This brochure has been
developed to outline the role of nursing
professionals and their understanding about
the healthcare policy and patient advocacy
that would help to shape the future of
healthcare process (Buchan et al., 2015).
Health Policy and Advocacy should
be considered their professional
and moral obligation.
As per American Nursing Association (2019),
while working in healthcare orgnaisations,
nursing professionals can influence the
policy development and modify standards so
that effective and quality healthcare could
be provided to the patients. Further, they
could influence the allocation of resources
and through their unique and specific care,
patients and their rights are protected.
Health policy are action plans and
decisions that has been
implemented to help the healthcare
system to achieve a specific goal.
IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH
POLICY
As per Douthit et al. (2015), through the
application of healthcare policies and
procedures, healthcare professionals are
able to provide a standardization to
healthcare process.
Through the application of healthcare
policies, the nursing professionals are able
to overcome their fear and implement legal
and regulatory aspects in the care process
with safety and security liabilities.
Further, as per Miotto et al. (2017), it has
been observed that through the use of
healthcare policies, nursing professionals are
able to develop cost effective and accurate
care interventions that would help to elevate
the quality of healthcare processes. Finally,
it could also be observed that with
application of healthcare policies,
orgnaisations are able to develop
transparent and effective care.