University Essay: Nursing Leadership and Health Policy Analysis

This essay explores the crucial role of nursing leadership in shaping health policy and improving patient care. It emphasizes the need for nurses to develop leadership skills, advocate for policy changes, and actively participate in decision-making processes within healthcare systems. The essay highlights specific policy areas, such as patient privacy, healthcare quality, and patient self-determination, suggesting modifications to enhance patient safety and ethical practices. It also discusses the importance of nurses being well-versed in cultural beliefs, economic factors, and current research to propose effective treatment plans. The essay concludes by advocating for nurses to be educated in critical thinking and to voice their opinions for improvements in medical practice. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of nurses' involvement in multidisciplinary teams and emphasizes the need for nurses to take on leadership roles to enhance healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.

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Nursing leadership health policy
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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

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(1974) regulates the collection and maintenance of the personal document that recorded in the
computer (Kerr, 2014). This act needs to be modified where this act should penalize those health
care experts who try to breach the confidentiality of patients. Record access should be password
protected so that privacy remains intact. Health care quality improvement act (1990) which
encourages the hospital in providing quality care to the customers (Burwell, 2015). This act
needs to be modified which can protect the patient from the wrong treatment procedure; personal
investigation teams should be created in order to prevent the all the criminal deeds and other
illegal actions. Federal patient self-determination act( PSDA 1990) stated that all the medical
care received by every individual should be in written form. This act needs to be modified for the
sake of patient safety since every health professionals even healthcare organizations are not
transparent to the patients. In the case of reported child abuse, child protection law (1975) stated
that health care professionals are not able to judge any child abuse without any specific
evidences. It should be recommended to modify this activity for emergency cases where the
action needed to for severe violations (Bern‐Klug & Stensland, 2015) Multidisciplinary team
should involve nurses and their decision should be prioritized for the improvement of health care
system. Nurses should also aware of cultural beliefs, economic status of particular patients and
aware of all researches going on involving treatment and propose a better implementation plan.
Thus, it can be concluded that string leadership quality part of not only health
professionals but also an active part of nursing. Nursing leaders should enhance their skills and
competence to contribute to the society. There are few public policy and ethics need to be
modified in order to filter preferred methods of care and prevent the malpractice of the nursing
profession. Nurses should be well aware of the changes that occur in the health care centers.
Moreover, nurses should be educated by analytical thinking procedure and practice learning to

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voice their decision and other improvements in the medical practice. By improving, capabilities
and essential nurses of thinking can be the leader of the health care centers and will get the
chance to voice their opinion for parents.

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