Health Care policy

Part 1: Health Care policy

Reflect on the current roles of advanced practice nurses in healthcare as the care providers at the front line of disease management and health promotion in primary care and many other specialty settings.

1. What do you think are some effective tactics for APN strategic positioning regarding pay equality?

2. Should APNs position themselves as lower-cost providers who provide better care or push for comparable worth, same service and same pay?

Below is an article that provides great practical information that highlights how provider productivity is calculated in the clinical setting, which is important to know as future nurse practitioners.

Calculating Your Worth: Understanding Productivity and value-

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4093517/

Part 2: Health Care policy

1. Reflect on advocating for nursing professionals and nurses- readings pertaining to health policy and politics.

2. Identify which one MSN Essential most relates to your selected topic.

Part 3: Nursing Research

1. What are the challenges encountered in data collection as it applies to research?

Data collection techniques and instruments:

The technique that was used is the survey, which will allow to the collection of information that will be provided by the study subjects to obtain an answer to the research problem. Regarding the data collection instrument, the following were used:

• Scale to measure lifestyles in diabetic patients.

2. What are the types of interview technique when interviewing participants?

3 List your preferences and tell us why?

Part 4: Nursing Research

1. Reflect on Chapter 16: Internet, Secondary Analysis, and Historical Research (See File attached)

Part 5: Nursing Theory

Reviewing the Nursing as Caring Theory, we come to understand that humans are intrinsically motivated to care for others. Based on this theory:

1. How do you provide care for someone who is a criminal that needs care? (Example, a prisoner is brought to your unit for care, after being beaten for molesting a child).

The transitions theory incorporates intervention and comprehension of what has taken place.

2. How do you apply the transitions theory to your current nursing practice?