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After completing the assigned readings, discuss how your perspectives on healthcare policy, political action, and advocacy have changed. Identify five actions you plan to take as a nurse with an advanced practice degree and your rationale for these activities.

Required Readings

• American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.).
  • [ISBN-13: 978-1-4338-3216-1]
  • You should have a copy of the APA Manual for use throughout the program. If you do not have access to a copy, please purchase it from the virtual bookstore or from any bookstore.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2021). The future of nursing 2020–2030: Charting a path to health equity (PDF). The National Academies Press.
• Patton, R. M., Zalon, M. L., & Ludwick, R. (2022). Nurses making policy: From bedside to boardroom (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing.
  • [ISBN: 978-0-8261-6645-6]
  • [e-book ISBN: 978-0-8261-6646-3]

Recommended Readings

• Emanuel, E. (2020). Which country has the world’s best health care? PublicAffairs.
  • [ISBN-13: 978-1-5417-9773-4]
• Makary, M. (2019). The price we pay: What broke American health care, and how to fix it. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • [ISBN-13: 978-1-6355-7411-1]
• Rosenthal, E. (2018). An American sickness: How healthcare became big business and how you can take it back. Penguin Books.
  • [ISBN-13: 978-1-5942-0675-7]

Week 1: Current Perspectives Around Health Care Policy

Required Readings

• The Future of Nursing 2020–2030 (PDF)
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
• Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom
  • Unit 1: Making the Case: Valuing Policy
  • Chapter 1: Marching to Lead in Policy (28 pp.)
  • Chapter 2: Advocating for Nursing and for Health (25 pp.)

Required Resource

• OpenStates: Find Your Legislators
• Watch one of the four films for the Week 1 Discussion:
  • Unfinished Business. (2016, Jul 4). Healthcare at the tipping point (57:29 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
    • Healthcare at the Tipping Point Transcript
  • Unfinished Business. (2018, Dec 6). Big Pharma Market Failure (51:09 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
    • Big Pharma Transcript
  • Fix It Films. (2023, May 31). Big money agenda: Democracy on the brink (45:14 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
    • Big Money Agenda Transcript
  • American Hospitals. (2023). Healing a broken system (59:23 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
    • Healing a Broken System Transcript

Week 2: Entering the Policy Process/Cycle by Identifying the Problem

Required Readings

• Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom
  • Chapter 3: Navigating the Political System (25 pp.)
  • Chapter 4: Identifying a Problem and Analyzing a Policy Issue (26 pp.)
  • Chapter 5: Harnessing Evidence in the Policy Process (34 pp.)
  • Chapter 7: Building Capital: Intellectual, Social, Political, and Financial (24 pp.)
• Chattopadhyay, S., & Zangaro, G. (2019). Economic costs and impacts on scope of practice restrictions on nurse practitioners (PDF). Nursing Economic$, 37(6), 273–283.

Required Resources

• Writing through Art. [TSRA Official]. (2016, April 24). Making an Outline (5:01 minutes) [Video]. YouTube.
  • Making an Outline Transcript

Week 3: Code of Ethics, Human Rights, and Advocacy

Required Readings

• The Future of Nursing 2020–2030 (PDF)
  • Chapter 2: Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity (20 pp.)
  • Chapter 5: The Role of Nurses in Improving Health Equity (30 pp.)
  • Chapter 11: The Future of Nursing: Recommendations and Research Priorities (21 pp.)
• Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom
  • Chapter 9: Implementing the Plan (24 pp.)

Required Resources

• ANA Provisions of the Code of Ethics for Nurses
• ANA position statements on ethics and human rights AND a list of ethics topics and resources
• Sample scripts for advocacy

Week 4: Nursing Workforce Realities, Policy Reform, and Advocacy

Required Readings

• The Future of Nursing 2020–2030 (PDF)
  • Chapter 3: The Nursing Workforce (35 pp.)
  • Chapter 6: Paying for Equity in Health and Health Care (30 pp.)
  • Chapter 10: Supporting the Health and Professional Well-Being of Nurses (37 pp.)
• Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom
  • Chapter 6: Setting the Agenda (24 pp.)
  • Chapter 8: Transforming Policy with Innovation (23 pp.)
  • Chapter 13: Eliminating Health Inequities through National and Global Policies (25 pp.)

Week 5: Advanced Health Policy and Advocacy

No readings this week.

Week 6: Role of the NP in Transforming Healthcare Policy, Leadership Responsibilities, Negotiating, and Collaboration

Required Readings

• The Future of Nursing 2020–2030 (PDF)
  • Chapter 4: The Role of Nursing in Improving Health Equity (33 pp.)
  • Chapter 8: Nurses in Disaster Preparedness and Public Health Emergency Response (21 pp.)
  • Chapter 9: Nurses Leading Change (19 pp.)
• Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom
  • Unit 4: Judging Worth and Advancing the Cause
  • Chapter 14: Valuing Global Realities for Health Policy (23 pp.)
  • Chapter 15: Shaping the Future (24 pp.)

Week 7: Disseminating Health Policy Projects

Required Readings

• Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom
  • Chapter 12: Evaluating Policy: Structures, Processes, and Outcomes (29 pp.)

Week 8: Reflections, Evaluation, and Advancing Health Policy

Required Readings

• The Future of Nursing 2020–2030 (PDF)
  • Chapter 8: Nurses in Disaster Preparedness and Public Health Emergency Response (21 pp.)
  • Chapter 10: Supporting the Health and Professional Well-Being of Nurses (37 pp.)
• Nurses Making Policy: From Bedside to Boardroom
  • Chapter 10: Influencing Public Opinion and Health Policy Through Media Advocacy (30 pp.)
  • Chapter 11: Applying a Nursing Lens to Shape Policy (38 pp.)

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