Introduction
Health policy is an issue of greater essence in the general development of any given society since it usually measures the degree at which production levels rise.
The health status of the public is the communal responsibility of organizations and welfare in the community and this relates to the extent through which these healthy policy makers are prepared. Some of the stakeholders for instance involve organizations such as schools, employers, healthcare providers, out-patient health departments, park and leisure departments, city planners, traffic controllers and the people who are in a given locality and other departments (Lois, 2002). Negotiating the interests of such an assorted group of apprehensive citizens and health service stakeholders is essential to engineer the political process especially in policy formulation. For along period of time it has been noted that, political superiority and intrigues is the negotiating route through which a social culture decides who gets what, when and how in the process of allocating it’s available scarce resources, giving Politics a general formulator of policy (Jeri, 2004). This is for the reason that a better health policy in a given nation signifies a fundamental role towards human happiness and well-being and therefore this contributes significantly to economic progress, as healthy populations live longer and are more industrious leading to increased savings.
Process for developing or changing a health policy
Healthy care services should be addressed in a way that they should be directed to these nurses and other clinicians instead of the policy issues being centered in governance. To make use of the nurses combined power and influence efficiently, there is need for development of awareness of the legislative process and polish our clinical and health service operational knowledge of the political ground such as in the senate. For along period of time the nurses have been somehow reluctant to develop this infrastructure of health care policies. This is because most of the health care providers, for instance, clinical officers and nurses have just focused (for most of their time) in the taking care of patients without giving time or interest in the politics of individual institutions and even less interest in the political actions which regulates their profession that is the health care policies (Philips and Regina, 2003). Therefore the nurses should start by engaging themselves in the definition of public health policies, something which is of great significant to the health care service provision and regulation in the community.
Healthy policies are developed by many of the governance stakeholders and this is due the responsibility given to them by the community. Health Policy describes the protocols followed on administrator processing of public policy making, including agenda setting, government response, program response, implementation, and evaluation and teaches nurses in advance practice how to deliver quality health care by appropriate providers in a cost-effective manner. First the clinicians and health care services provider should be well equipped with the skills and knowledge on importance of leading in the health policy formulation and how these policies affects them (Jeri, 2004). This then gives the advanced registered nurse a chance to find new areas to venture into when improving health services and this has been underlined in the influence they put into obtaining better health policies. Steps for acquisition of these changes lies on response for the nurses in; sparkle nurses’ attention in the legislative process, exhibit the importance of nurses’ joint voice, give an explanation on what nurses require to know about legislation, display why this information is vital to nurses and show how (and when) nurses can find themselves involved in the legislative practice (Philips and Regina, 2003).
Conclusion
If adopted, the above policy can be very instrumental in improving healthcare in the society
References
Jeri A. Milstead (2004), Health Policy and Politics: A Nurse’s Guide, Edition: 2 illustrated Published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers ISBN 0763731587, 9780763731588
Lois Wright Morton (2002), Building Local Knowledge for Developing Health Policy through Key Informant Interviews: Iowa State University Ames, Iowa.
Philips and Regina C (2003), Health Care Policy the Nurse’s Crucial Role: AAACN
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