Introduction
Healthcare providers can actively participate in developing policies related to the practice of medicine. Nurses can identify significant issues and problems that need change or urgent interventions. This is because they are confronted in the process with shortcomings in how nursing policies have already been developed (Mason et al., 2020).
Discussion
Importantly, the state’s main hospital will hold a nursing conference aimed at identifying problematic issues and dealing with them. The nurses will be permitted to note essential suggestions they would like to submit to the agenda. After a collaborative discussion, their proposal can be implemented in state policy or even on a national scale.
The key points nurses can provide for discussion are working conditions. For example, nurses often work overtime due to a lack of experienced specialists in hospitals, and their salaries are not proportionate to their workload. Thus, issues related to encouraging the population to become nurses need to be addressed (Drennan & Ross, 2019). In addition, higher salaries can be used as an incentive tool. Other important issues that nurses can raise are emotional burnout and additional training. Thus, they can explain the need for emotional recovery for nurses working with seriously ill patients (Drennan & Ross, 2019). Nurses can describe situations that have emotionally disturbed them and suggest additional remedies for recovery as a way to rest. Moreover, there is the challenge of changing technology in hospitals, which requires nurses to receive additional training to provide quality care (Barton et al., 2018).
Conclusion
Thus, the participation of nurses is essential to the development of a policy model in the medical industry. This is because only medical professionals can offer issues for discussion that are critical in their practice. In addition, they have ideas about how to address these problems.
References
Barton, G., Bruce, A., & Schreiber, R. (2018). Teaching nurses teamwork: Integrative review of competency-based team training in nursing education. Nurse Education in Practice, 32, 129-137.
Drennan, V. M., & Ross, F. (2019). Global nurse shortages: The facts, the impact and action for change. British Medical Bulletin, 130(1), 25-37.
Mason, D. J., Perez, A., McLemore, M. R., & Dickson, E. (2020). Policy & politics in nursing and health care-e-book. Elsevier Health Sciences.