Policy Review: Opportunities and Challenges for RN and APRN Roles

This assignment examines the opportunities and challenges faced by Registered Nurses (RNs) and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in healthcare policy review. It identifies two key opportunities: engagement with professional organizations like the American Nurses Association and involvement within the workplace to influence healthcare delivery programs. The assignment then discusses challenges such as disinterest in professional organizations and poor leadership, which can hinder nurses' participation. To overcome these challenges, the assignment suggests strategies like providing proper nursing training and implementing strong leadership qualities. The solution emphasizes effective communication and advocacy for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy review, ultimately aiming to improve healthcare quality. The assignment includes references to support the arguments.

Running head: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR RN AND APRN 1
Opportunities and Challenges for RN and APRN
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OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR RN AND APRN 2
1.0 Two opportunities for RNs and APRNs
According to the research, it has been identified that the first benefit for the APNs and
RNs associated with the reviewing of healthcare policies is through professional organizations.
For reviewing any kind of healthcare policy, the registered nurses can directly contact
professional organizations including the American Academy of Nursing, Emergency Nurses
Association, and American Nurses Association (Milstead & Short, 2019). It is the duty of the
professional organizations to ensure the nurses about the effective implementation of policies on
them.
The second benefit that the APRNs and RNs could get is via their workplace. The most
crucial duty of the nurses is to provide good healthcare to patients with the utilization of
healthcare delivery events and programs (Monsees et al., 2018). When a healthcare policy is not
capable of promoting quality care, then the APRNs and RNs can ask for reviewing the healthcare
policies.
2.0 Challenges associated with the identified opportunities for RNs and
APRNs
Many nurses do not show interest in joining professional organizations due to the
complexity involved and some of the nursing associations are found to have poor leadership
qualities. Due to this reason, professional organizations can create challenges for RNs and
APRNs (Lee, Chiang & Kuo, 2019).

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The challenges associated with the workplace are about breaking the unity of the nurses
due to the poor leadership qualities. Some nurses may not have proper knowledge regarding any
proposed policies and which can create a complex situation in the workplace.
3.0 Two strategies for communicating with the identified opportunities
After thorough research, it can be said that the first strategy is providing proper nursing
training to the nurses. The second strategy is about implementation of good leadership qualities
on the nurses can result in making a better communicational path among the nurses. For
example, it can be said that to make a nursing team more aware about any healthcare policies it
is necessary to groom their leadership qualities followed by providing them proper training
(Robinson et al., 2018).

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4.0 References
Lee, H. F., Chiang, H. Y., & Kuo, H. T. (2019). Relationship between authentic leadership and
nurses' intent to leave: The mediating role of work environment and burnout. Journal of
nursing management, 27(1), 52-65.
Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019). Informing Public Policy: An Important Role for
Registered Nurses. Health policy and politics: A nurse's guide, 1-16.
Monsees, E., Popejoy, L., Jackson, M. A., Lee, B., & Goldman, J. (2018). Integrating staff
nurses in antibiotic stewardship: Opportunities and barriers. American journal of
infection control, 46(7), 737-742.
Robinson, P., Oyemaja, J., Beachy, B., Goodie, J., Sprague, L., Bell, J., ... & Ward, C. (2018).
Creating a primary care workforce: Strategies for leaders, clinicians, and nurses. Journal
of clinical psychology in medical settings, 25(2), 169-186.