Healthcare Policy Development and Advanced Nursing Practice Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of healthcare policy and development, focusing on its impact on advanced nursing practices. It begins by defining advanced nursing practices and highlighting their importance in improving patient outcomes through diagnosis and treatment. The report then delves into the development of healthcare policies, discussing key stakeholders such as investors, patients, healthcare professionals, carers, and staff, and emphasizing their roles in policy formation and implementation. The report further explores the impact of policy on the advancement of nursing practices, emphasizing the need for both theoretical and clinical skills among nurses to meet the evolving demands of the healthcare industry. It concludes by underscoring the significance of stakeholder consideration in policy development and the crucial role of advanced nursing practices in delivering high-quality patient care. The report also highlights the advantages of well-developed healthcare policies, including increased patient satisfaction and cost savings.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Health Care Policy and Development..........................................................................................1
Stakeholders in policy development and implementation...........................................................1
Impact of policy on the development and implementation of advanced nursing practice..........2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Advanced Nursing practices are best known for their best deliverables to the ultimate
patients. It helps in setting benchmark for the other nurses in relation with the process of
diagnosis and treatment that has been initiated by them for each and every patient. The report
makes comprehensive discussion regarding importance of development of health care policies
that can help in its development in a well defined manner. The report then focuses on various
stakeholders that are linked to policy formation and development. In such case, role of
customers, that are patients, nurses, health care professionals and investors will be discussed. In
the end, the report will make discussion regarding, Impact of policy on the development and
implementation of advanced nursing practice for better adoption of advanced nursing practices.
Health Care Policy and Development
Impact of policy on development and implantation of advanced nursing practices :
This is a term which is explained as an advanced level of clinical nursing practices. It
invovles :
• analysis of knowledge
• understanding and applying nursing researches
• developing nursing knowledge (Butcher and et.al., 2018)
Many of the nursing organizations are using and promoting active participation through
implantation of advanced nursing practices. The ultimate goal of the development and
implantation is to promote health result for patients and families, and to give them higher quality
of medicals. These goals can be achieved through this process :
• need to provide full guidance
• identify decision making needs
• conduct evaluation
• gather information related to stakeholders
By development of these policies, nurses influence quality of care. According to the
concept of policy development in advanced nursing practices is a new concept. For the
development, there are eight stages to be followed :
firstly identify the suitable conceptthen determine the objectives review
• clarification of attributes
• presenting model
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• clarification of antecedents
• clarify of consequences
• empirical referents
• There are many advantages to the customers or patients from the development of policies
in an organization. Such as :
1) Patient satisfaction : high level of patient will be satisfied through this development. In
this advanced nursing practices, nurses focus on dissatisfaction reasons. Then try to be solved all
these types of dissatisfaction (Tappen, 2015).
2) Financial implications : advanced nursing practices are cost savings method for nursing
organizations. The public was more satisfied with care provided by APNs. Generally APNs
provide care more safe and more effectively.
Stakeholders in policy development and implementation
Stakeholder is a person or group involved in implementation of policy. Stakeholders may
be in support decision or may be in oppose decision. These are the persons, who may be affected
by implementation and may be influence the process of implementation. Stakeholders generally
involved in genomics policy of development. This may depend on purpose of engagement.
Reasons for engage stakeholders in policies are :
1) to identify the areas of agreement
2) to identify the areas of differences
3) to improve mutual perspective
4) to promote transparency
5) to increase the quality (Zimmermann and et.al., 2014)
they play an important role in increasing the quality of health policy. Stakeholders may
engaged in policy at different type of stages such as : agenda setting, analysis process, policy
information, implementation, evaluation of policy. In other word, stakeholders are the recipient
in the development of policies. Determination of success and failure of public policy is depended
upon the improvement in the lives of them (Rice, Hartmann‐Boyce and Stead, 2013).
Policy makers in an organization must listen to the stakeholders. they can utilize these
opportunities to influence the policies in many ways in the business. The relationship between
policy makers and stakeholders is in two way process.
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There are various stakeholders that are required to be considered while framing any
policies with respect to advanced nursing practices. In such cases, stakeholders in case of health
care department can be as follows: Investors: These are the people who are involved in investment aspects of the health care set
up. If any changes are brought in policy formation of the organization it is important to make
them notice. In such cases, it is important to ensure that the new policy structure for
advanced care of nursing has been discussed with them. It also helps in addressing the issue
of financial and resource feasibility that may not be noticed by the management (Butts and
Rich, 2013). Patients / Service users: Since, these are the ultimate users and client for the organization, it
is important that their aspects have been taken into consideration without bringing any type
of change in policies and procedure. In such cases, feedback from the clients can help in
resolving this issue, where they can share their views regarding how advanced nursing
practice must appropriately be. Health care professionals: These are the people who are responsible for delivering health
care services to the patient. They are the best people who are best known that what type of
services are required to be given to the patient based on the diagnosis and type of treatment
they are going through. Further, it is also essential to ensure that what type of nursing
services must be present in the health care set up to deliver the best to ultimate patients. Carers and Staff: these are the people who tend to come in frequent contact with the patients
and hence are effectively aware regarding what is actually required by them. Therefore, it ios
important to take their views regarding the subject matter.
Impact of policy on the development and implementation of advanced nursing practice
Policy plays an important role in development and implementation of advanced nursing
practices. It helps in ensuring that all the practices are adopted in such a manner that advanced
nursing practices have been adopted by the health care centre in a well-defined manner.
Exploring all the critical elements helps in ensuring that optimal structure of clinical practice
have been adopted. The evolution that health care industry has been experiencing is due to
changes in healthcare delivery, consumer demand and financial constraints that may crop up on
health care centre. Flexible and visionary plan helps in pioneering professional and clinical
leadership that is being adopted buy researcher and practitioner. It is important for the nurses to
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have both theoretical and clinical skills so as to meet the requirements of the client, family and
community. In people centred organization requires that advanced nursing practices must be
adopted in such a manner that appropriate practice for advanced care practice can be initiated by
the nursing team to the ultimate service users of the organization. Health care environment with
advanced nursing practices makes stronger contribution regarding health care delivery of
services. It helps in articulating the role of nurse and qualify the health care outcomes of the
research (Donald and et.al., 2013).
Policy formation plays an important role in development and implementation of advanced
nursing practices. It helps in ensuring that the best is ultimately transferred to the clients without
compromising on any of the resources. Advanced nursing care plays an important role in
exploring innovative options for the provisions of health care services. Since, the role of nurse
keeps on changing due to ever changing dynamics of health care industry. It is important to opt
for suitable policies that can help in delivering these practices that are related to advanced
nursing scenario.
Another important aspect that is directly linked to advanced nursing practice is quality
assessment of treatment that is ultimately delivered to the clients. In such cases, prior
examination of barriers and making appropriate diagnosis linked to each patient helps in
ensuring that the best possible services are delivered to the patients in the end. Outcome related
aspects, inclusive of patients, helps in exploring health system outcomes. Hence, it can be stated
that policy formation plays an important role in ensuring that the best is delivered to the patients
in the end.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that advanced nursing practices plays an
important role in ensuring that the best is delivered to the patients in the end. The report assesses
that while forming policies for advanced nursing practices it is important to ensure that all the
stakeholders are taken into consideration, such as, investors, health care professionals, nurses,
staff members, etc. The report also made the discussion regarding Impact of policy on the
development and implementation of advanced nursing practice. In the end, it can be stated that it
is important for the nurses to have both theoretical and clinical skills so as to meet the
requirements of the client, family and community.
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Butts, J. B. and Rich, K. L., 2013. Philosophies and theories for advanced nursing practice.
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