policy quiz Flashcards
Eight Recommendations from the Future of Nursing Report
Remove scope-of-practice barriers.
- Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts.
- Implement nurse residency programs.
- Increase proportion of nurses with BSN degree to 80% by 2020.
- Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020.
- Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.
- Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health.
- Build an infrastructure to collect and analyze health care workforce data.
What are the three components of dynamic tension around federalism, participative governance?
Cost, Quality, Access
What are the theoretical links
agenda setting – policy formation– policy adoption –policy implementation–policy evaluation
What are the major public authorities operating federal, state and local levels
(1) state and national legislatures, (2) state and national as well as local courts and judiciary, (3) the executive branches of federal and state governments, and (4) regulatory agencies.3,7
What do NPA’s include
Nurse practice acts include;
Definitions
authority, power, and composition of BON
standards and scope of nursing practice
types of titles and licenses
protection of titles
requirements for licensure
grounds for disciplinary action, other violations, and possible remedies.
Difference between reactivation and reinstatement
Reinstatement refers to reissue of a license following disciplinary action, whereas reactivation is a reissuance not related to disciplinary action
What is a realistic definition of health policy?
A realistic definition of the concept health policy is goal-directed decision making about health that is the result of an authorized, public decision-making process. Health policy is further defined as those actions, nonactions, directions, and/or guidance related to health that are decided by governments or other authorized entities.
