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Policy Making Flashcards

1
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What about policy making is important for nurses to know? And why?

A

Competence of policy
Implementation
Modification

So that they can help influence the policies that are made.
- so a nurse needs to know the process of policy making to make an impact

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What 3 things do we as the public choose to put our time in to further health care?

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Regulations/rules
Legislations
Funding

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Four major stages of health policy listed

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Formulation
Adoption
Implementation
Evaluation

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Formulation stage

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Formulate goals by establishing the problems and providing potential solutions
- know the pros and cons

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Adoption stage

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Adopting a selection and making specifications to achieve goals

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Implementation stage

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Implementing your policy

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Evaluation stage

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Evaluating the policy effectiveness by comparing the outcomes to the desired effects

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What does “Policy” mean?

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Plan of action or agent outlining steps to implement a goal

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Public policy

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Issued at a national or state level of government

  • have to deal with politics
  • need stakeholders
  • right timing and funding
  • resources
  • overlap & priorities
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Health policy

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Policy for providing health services at local, state, national, or even international level

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Substantive Policy

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Action or activity like funding for Indian health service activities

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Distributive Health Policy

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Promotes nongovernment activities for society to benefit

- giving subsidies so more people would go to school become nurses for the good of everyone

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Redistributive Health Policy

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Takes resources from one group and redistributes them to others
- medicare

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Procedural Policy

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How something is done like how we go about voting.

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Regulatory healthPolicy

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Puts limitations and regulations on certain activities

- age limit for purchasing alcohol

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Many policies that impact health care happen at this level of policy

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Local level of policy

  • tobacco use, farmers market, exercise, masks
  • guns and speeding limits
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There is a limit to municipal powers at this level but some policies are still developed here

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State level.

  • Act as public health guardians
  • healthcare purchasers
  • healthcare educators
  • healthcare lab services
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Medicare, Medicaid, and health research fall into this level of policy

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National level of policy
- can impact population
- very political too
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Health policy issues?

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  • Problem you want to fix
  • Solution or your idea
  • Interested parties that can help you
  • Power and influence bc you still might need more help
20
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Rational framework behind making a policy

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Find the problem. Come up with the solution. Get involved with the politics. Implement it. Then evaluate it

21
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What did Kindgon’s framework address?

What was needed for policy to happen according to him?

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Why some policies were focused on while others were not .

  • A window of opportunity was needed and it did not stay open forever
  • And then you needed a policy problem, a viable policy to fix it (solution), and politics to help you.
22
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Kingdon’s problem word

His word for attention getting events

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indicators

focusing events

  • Both could help you find a problem
23
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Grassroot efforts

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Political movement driven by community members

24
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Lobbying

A

influencing policy makers to do your bidding

25
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Special Interest groups

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Group of people who share a common interest and want to politically achieve their goals
- BLM

26
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Professional Organizations can make policy how?

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Members of a profession who can be considered a special interest group to influence policy
- nurses

27
Q

What is the nursing process like with the community

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Nurses must be deliberate but also able to adapt. And they need to remember to stay client focused.
When out w community they need to interact & form partnerships

28
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Community needs assessments

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Process of determining real or perceived needs of a defined community

29
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Empowerment

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Explaining how communities can come together to express their values and ideas to those outside the community

30
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Policy analysis

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Understanding a policy from a variety of perspectives

31
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Who are lobbyists

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Professionals who know rules of state and federal govt and political process
- they have connections w the policy makers

32
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Polarization

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When 2 groups are split into two over a political issues

33
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Types of community assessments

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Windshield

Problem oriented

Community subsystem

Comprehensive assessment

Community assets assessment

34
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Windshield survery

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Driving around and recording observations

35
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Familiarization assessment

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Study date already available to become familiar, then gather gather your own first hand data

36
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Problem orientated assessment

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Starts from 1 problem

37
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Comprehensive assessment

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Discovers all relevant community health problems and info

38
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Community assets assessment

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Focused on the strengths

- asset mapping

39
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Coalition

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alliance of group that work to influence outcomes of a problem

40
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community subsystem assessment

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community health nurses focuses on a single dimension of community life

41
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How should the community dx be portayed

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community focused

42
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How should the community response and related factors be included in dx?

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Ones with a potential for change w a community health nurse

- so it needs to make sense

43
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What type of statements are needed

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Narrow to guide interventions

44
Q

Should you use a risk, goal, need or community response statement in dx

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community response

45
Q

What do the deficit and wellness diagnoses include

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Maintenance or potential change responses

46
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Formative evaluation

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Focus on process during actual interventions

- standards of performance should be develoepd

47
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Summative evaluation

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Focus on outcomes of the interventions

- the effect and its impact

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