Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and healthcare providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics. This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how healthcare professionals can get involved and be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients.

Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a tool kit that includes a "skills" section of how-tos.

Table of Contents

Foreword  
Preface  
Section I  Introduction
  Chapter 1  To Engage or Not Engage: The choice confronting nurses and other health professionals
  Chapter 2  Health Status & Access to Care
Section II  The Health Labor Force: Understanding the distribution of power and Influence
  Chapter 3  Physicians
  Chapter 4  Nurses
  Chapter 5  Other Health Professionals
Section III  Health Care Providers: Understanding how Power, Markets and Government Impact the Organization & Delivery of Care
  Chapter 6  Hospitals 
  Chapter 7  Long Term Care
  Chapter 8  Behavioral Health 
  Chapter 9  Public Health 
Section IV  Healthcare Finance: Understanding the Role of Markets in Government 
  Chapter 10  Health Care Costs: Follow the Money!
  Chapter 11  The History of Health Insurance in the United States
Section V  Drivers
  Chapter 12  The Role of Technology in the Organization & Delivery of Health Care
  Chapter 13  Health Care Quality 
  Chapter 14  Health Services Research 
  Chapter 15  Conclusions: A policy toolkit for Health Care Providers and Activist