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By Diana Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Nursing, New York, NY Judith Leavitt, RN, MEd, FAAN, Health Policy Consultant, Barnardsville, NC Mary Chaffee, ScD(h), MS, RN, CNAA, FAAN, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Description The powerhouse author team of Diana J. Mason, Judith K. Leavitt, and Mary W. Chaffee has put together a textbook filled with insights
from well-known nurses and policy makers. This new edition combines scholarly analysis and first-hand narratives from the field to ensure
a well-rounded understanding of important issues. This resource cultivates the development of valuable skills including conflict management,
lobbying, the use of media, and working with communities for change -- essential abilities for any nurse assuming a leadership role in
today's changing health care environment.
Contents
UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO POLICY & POLITICS IN NURSING & HEALTH CARE
1. Policy & Politics: A Framework for Action
a.
The Influence of Values on a Policy Agenda: The Quaker Perspective
2. A Historical Perspective on Policy, Politics and Nursing
3.
Learning the Ropes of Policy, Politics and Advocacy
a. Learning to be the Lead Goose: Making the Leap into Policy
b. The
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship
c. How a Nurse Learned to Advance Geriatric Nursing Issues
4. A Primer on
Political Philosophy
5. Policy Development and Analysis: Understanding the Process
6. Political Analysis And Strategies
a.
The Nightingales Take on the Big Tobacco Industry
7. Communication Skills for Political Success
8. Coalitions: A Powerful
Political Strategy
a. Lessons from the Long-Term Care Coalition
9. Harnessing the Power of the Media to Influence Health
Policy and Politics
a. Getting Free Media Coverage for Nursing Issues
b. Distributed Campaigns: Using the Internet to Empower
Activism
c. Talking the Right Talk about Nursing
d. Changing Poor Portrayals of Nurses in the Media: The Center for Nursing
Advocacy
10. Research as a Political and Policy Tool
a. From Practice to Policy: Improving Wound Care Outcomes
b.
Falls and Public Policy: Creating a Blueprint for Change
11. Conflict Management: A Critical Part of Politics
a. Alternative
Dispute Resolution: A Tool for Managing Conflict
12. Health Policy, Politics and Professional Ethics
UNIT 2: HEALTH
CARE DELIVERY AND FINANCING
13. The US Health Care System
a. The National Health Service in the United Kingdom
b.
Could a National Health System Work in The United States?
c. Community Health Centers: A Successful Strategy for Improving Health
Care Access
d. The Politics of Long Term Care
e. Evolving Policy in Home Health Care
f. Mental Health Parity: Will
it Ever Happen?
g. The Department of Defense TRICARE Program: Health Care for the United States Military
h. The U.S. Veterans
Administration: Policy Change for the Greater Good in an Integrated Health System
i. Successes and Struggles in Complementary
Health Care
j. The Role of Foundations in Improving Health Care
k. Neonatal Palliative Care: Moving a Vision Forward
l.
The Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry
14. A Primer on Health Economics
a. Social Security: Key to Economic Security
15.
Financing Health Care in the U.S.
a. Massachusetts? Strategy for Financing Care for the Uninsured
b. Reforming Medicare
c.
Interests, Ideology, and Institutional Dynamics in the Creation of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
d. Children?s Health
Insurance Coverage: Medicaid and the State Children?s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP)
e. Using Private Funds to Improve School
Health
UNIT 3: POLICY AND POLITICS IN THE WORKPLACE
16. Contemporary Issues In The Health Care Workplace
a.
How Magnet Status Drives Change in Health Care Institutions
b. When a Hurricane Strikes: The Challenge of Crafting Workplace Policy
c.
Health Services Research: Shaping Patient Safety Policy
17. Ten Keys to Unlocking Policy Change in the Workplace
a. Needlestick
Injuries in the Workplace: Implications for Public Policy
b. Transforming Care at the Bedside: Shadyside Hospital?s Code Red
c.
Family Presence at the Bedside: Changing Hospital Policy
18. The Nursing Workforce: Supply and Demand
a. California Nurse
Staffing Ratios
b. Mandatory Staffing: Australia?s Experience
c. Using Technology to Mitigate the Nursing Shortage
d.
Nurse Staffing Impact on Organizational Outcomes
e. Diversity in Nursing: A Long Road Ahead
19. Politics of Advanced Practice
Nursing
a. Diminishing Reproductive Choices in New York City: The Demise of the Midwifery Model
b. Reimbursement Issues
for Nurse Anesthetists: A Continuing Challenge
20. Collective Action in the Workplace: The Role of Unions
a. Non-Union
Collective Action in Nursing
21. A Political Minefield: Conducting Nursing Research
UNIT 4: POLICY AND POLITICS
IN THE GOVERNMENT
22. Contemporary Issues in Government
a. Stem Cell Research in Maryland: A Nurse-Legislator?s
Initiative
b. Reefer Madness: The Illogical Politics of Medical Marijuana
c. Genetics, Discrimination, and Privacy
d.
Intimate Partner Violence: A Public Health and Policy Problem
23. How Government Works and What You Need to Know to Influence
the Process
a. Political Appointments
b. Making the Most of Political Appointments: My Life as a Federal and State Official
24.
An Overview of Legislation and Regulation: How the Sausage is made
a. From Sewage Problems to the Statehouse: My Life as an Elected
Official
b. Farm-girl, Nurse, and Legislator: My Journey to the Delaware General Assembly
c. A Nurse in Congress: The Honorable
Lois Capps
d. I Believed I Could Make a Difference: The Honorable Carolyn McCarthy
e. My Path to Congress: The Honorable
Eddie Bernice Johnson
f. Hog-Housed: The Life and Death of BSN Entry to Practice in North Dakota
g. The Politics Of Nursing
Regulation and Licensure
25. Lobbying Policymakers: Individual and Collective Strategies
a. An Insider?s View of Lobbying
26.
Interest Groups: Powerful Political Catalysts in Health Care
a. Extending Influence: Serving on the AARP Board
27. The
American Voter and Electoral Politics
a. Political Activity: Different Rules for Government-Employed Nurses
b. The Power
Of Political Contributions
c. Anatomy of a Political Campaign
d. Truth or Dare: One Nurse?s Political Campaign
e.
There?s Nothing Quite Like Campaigning for Office
28. Nursing and the Courts
UNIT 5: POLICY AND POLITICS IN ORGANIZATIONS
29.
Contemporary Issues in Nursing Organizations
30. You and Your Professional Nursing Organization
31. Nursing in Action:
Policy Initiatives of Specialty Nursing Associations
a. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses: Establishing and Sustaining
Healthy Work Environments
b. The Oncology Nursing Society: Engaging Support for the Nurse Reinvestment Act
c. The American
Nephrology Nurses? Association: A Grassroots Initiative to Educate Lawmakers
d. The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses:
Reimbursement Policy for Registered Nurse First Assistants
e. The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses: Policy Initiatives
to Address Workplace Violence
f. The Emergency Nurses Association: Making the Case for Safe Staffing Systems
g. The National
Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners: Taking Action on the Epidemic of Childhood Overweight
h. The Association
of Women?s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses: Folic Acid Advocacy
i. The National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses: All Terrain
Vehicle (ATV) Safety Education and Legislation
UNIT 6: POLICY AND POLITICS IN THE COMMUNITY
32. Where
Policy Hits the Pavement: Contemporary Issues In Communities
a. Homelessness and Health: Creating Lasting Solutions
b.
Sex, Science and Policy: Approaches to Adolescent Sexual Health
c. The Demise of an Adolescent Sexuality Education Program
d.
The Politics of Childhood Immunizations
e. Wake-up Call: Mobilizing Communities to Improve Health Literacy
f. Child Care
Policy: A Challenge for the Nation
33. Working with the Community for Change
a. Regulating Industrial Chemicals to Protect
the Environment and Human Health
b. The Condom Lady
c. Influencing the Community by Serving on a Board
34. Nursing
in the International Community: A Broader View of Nursing Issues
a. Global Nurse Migration: Policies for Managing a Scarce Resource
b.
Infectious Disease: A Global Health Care Challenge
c. The Global HIV/AIDS Crisis: Policy Responses in the Face of Limited Resources
d.
Conflict and War: Impact on the Health of Societies
e. International Emergencies: Health Care and Human Rights
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