Politics in Nursing

Question 1

a citizen who has the opportunity to vote for candidates in elections for representation at the local, state, and federal level

Answer 1

constituent

Question 2

the professional organizational unit member of the ANA that represents all professional nurses within a state of territory or other defined organizational entity or boundary

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Constituent/State Nurses Association (C/SNA)

Question 3

personal advocacy by individual constituents- everyday citizens- in support of a problem/position/option related to a policy issue

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Grassroots Lobbying

Question 4

the act of persuading or otherwise attempting to educate and/or convince policymakers to respond positively to a particular position on an issue or to follow a particular course of legislative or regulatory action

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Lobbying

Question 5

the statement of prniciples and policies of a political party, candidate, or elected official

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Platform

Question 6

a local, state, or federally elected or appointed official who can propose legislation, regulations or programs that can become actualized

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Policymaker

Question 7

rules used to implement legislation and translate concepts into actions that can be put into practice

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Regulation

Question 8

individuals, groups, or organizations who have a vested interest in and may be affected by policy decisions and actions being taken and thus may attempt to influence those decisions and actions

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Stakeholders

Question 9

What legislation was established in 1910?

Answer 9

Nurse Practice Acts & registration of nurses

Question 10

What legislation for the disabled and older adultswas established in 1965?

Answer 10

Medicare

Question 11

2003 legislation that provided needed access to medicaitons for Medicare enrollees, and calls attention to cost-and-effectiveness outcome from policymakers, requiring nurses to stay alert to proposed legilation and to advocate for appropriate benifits for the nation’s older adults

Answer 11

Medicare Modernization Act (Medicare Part D)

Question 12

Political influence can be acheived through these methods:

Answer 12

• Campaign Contributions
• Knowledge
• Relationships
• Information/Data
• Talent
• Perceived Control over Large Groups of Votes

Question 13

nursing process step of collecting information

Answer 13

Assessment

Question 14

nursing process step in which a specific, targeted issue is identified

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Diagnosis or Analysis

Question 15

nursing process step in which options for action are developed

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Planning

Question 16

nursing process step in which actions are taken to put the plan in place

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Implementation

Question 17

nursing process step in which evidence is evaluated to determine the success (or not & the why or why not) of the intervention

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Evaluation

Question 18

this can help develop the necessary skills to understand and participate in political issues and provide increased access to policymakers

Answer 18

Joining a professional nursing organization that has a political action committee (PAC)

Question 19

an arm of a corporation, association, or union formed to provide support and resources either to work toward the election or re-election of policymakers who support the organization’s overal goals or to persuade a policy maker to support a certain policy

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Political Action Committee (PAC)

Question 20

an ANA program that unifies nurses’ political boices across the country to enact measures to benifit health care for everyone and to defeat measures that would have serious negative effects on the health care system

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Nurses Strategic Action Team (N-STAT)

Question 21

the process of negotiation sanctioned in the US by the National LAbor Relations Board…it is the method used for formal talks between management and labor within modern business, industry, or service organizations

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arbitration

Question 22

all parties must obey the arbirator’s recommendations

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binding arbitration

Question 23

the process whereby workers organize under the representation of a union in order to share a degree of power with management to determine selected aspects of teh conditions of employment

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Collective Bargaining

Question 24

a term associated with a negative workplace event that results in an allegation by an employee that he or she has not been treated fairly and equitably…can oocur in union and non-union settings…often involve job security or safety (union priority) or job performance or discipline (management priority)

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grievance

Question 25

occurs when there is a sincle union for all workers ina corporation…for example, all people who work in an auto manufacturing company may be grouped together under the United Auto Workers…possibly the strongest collective group

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Industrial Unionism

Question 26

a group composed of those who work for others to receive salary

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Labor

Question 27

the group of people within a business or company who plan, organize, lead, or control the activities of employees who hav agreed to work to receive a salary

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management

Question 28

a form of settling disputes that involves a trained person who listens to all parties and makes recommendations (not legally binding)

Answer 28

mediation

Question 29

ach occupation within a given company has separate unions; these occupational grups might join others of like work across boundaries and across the country…white-collar workers coming from a background of higher education and some measure of job security tend to prefer this (i.e nurses)

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Occupational Unionism

Question 30

form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or locatio wher ean event is taking place…often done to dissuade others from going in but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause

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picketing

Question 31

statutes enforced in 22 US states, mostly in the southern and western US, allowed under provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, which prohbit agreements between unions and employers that make membership or payment of union dues or “fees” a condition of employement, either before or after hiring

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Right-to-Work Laws

Question 32

to establish a union in a workplace, a majority of employees must express support for the union and this is how employees prove majority (conducted through the National Labor Relations Board)

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Secret Ballot Elections

Question 33

a work stoppage caused by the refusal of a large portion of employees to perform work; usually takes place to enforce demands relating to employement conditions on their employer or to protest unfair labor practices

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strike

Question 34

occurs when one union stops work to support the strike of another union

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sympathy strike

Question 35

actions that interfere with the rights of employees or employers as identified under the National LAbor Relations Act…can be something as simple as suspicion by an employee that he or she was assigned to an unpopular task unfairly, or it can be as complex as the identification pattern of many employees receiving discriminatory treatment in the workplace because of being union supporters…a frequent source of either strikes or initiation of union activity within a setting

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Unfair Labor Practices

Question 36

a group of workers who ban together to accomplish goals related to conditions of employment

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refers to a worksite that requires all new employees in a specific work group to joining the union…dues will be deducted automatically from employees’ paychecks as defined in the facility’s contract

Question 37

with over 170,000 members, this is the largest union in the US representing registered nurses…formed by the merging of United American Nurses (UAN) & California Nurses Assocation/National Nurses Organizing Committee and the Massachusetts Nurses Association

Answer 37

National Nurses United

Question 38

To have an election, ___% of nurses must sign the cards.

Answer 38

30%

Question 39

To become unionized, ___% + ___ nurse must vote “yes.”

Answer 39

50% + 1

Question 40

Questions to Ask When Confronted by a Union Organizer:

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