TY - JOUR
T1 - Advanced practice nursing
T2 - Shaping health through policy
AU - Kostas-Polston, Elizabeth A.
AU - Thanavaro, Joanne
AU - Arvidson, Cathy
AU - Taub, Leslie Faith Morritt
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©2014 American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Purpose: To highlight the importance of advanced practice nurses (APNs) becoming politically engaged as key to promoting the healthcare interests of patients, communities and the profession and to offer specific strategies on how to become politically competent. Data sources: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CINAHL, PubMed. Conclusions: APNs must come to see political engagement as a professional obligation and health policy as something that they can shape rather than something that happens to them. Implications for practice: The overall goal of healthcare reform is the provision of quality, safe and cost-effective healthcare for all Americans. APNs are graduate prepared clinicians that focus on health and illness management and are strategically positioned to lead the way in shaping and implementing health policy priorities.
AB - Purpose: To highlight the importance of advanced practice nurses (APNs) becoming politically engaged as key to promoting the healthcare interests of patients, communities and the profession and to offer specific strategies on how to become politically competent. Data sources: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CINAHL, PubMed. Conclusions: APNs must come to see political engagement as a professional obligation and health policy as something that they can shape rather than something that happens to them. Implications for practice: The overall goal of healthcare reform is the provision of quality, safe and cost-effective healthcare for all Americans. APNs are graduate prepared clinicians that focus on health and illness management and are strategically positioned to lead the way in shaping and implementing health policy priorities.
KW - Advanced practice nurse (APN)
KW - Health policy
KW - Leadership
KW - Legislation
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U2 - 10.1002/2327-6924.12192
DO - 10.1002/2327-6924.12192
M3 - Article
C2 - 25421837
AN - SCOPUS:84921395874
SN - 2327-6886
VL - 27
SP - 11
EP - 20
JO - Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
JF - Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
IS - 1
ER -