Healthcare Policy Analysis and Nursing Practice

Discuss how nursing impacts and is impacted by the quality and safety agenda emphasized by the Affordable Care Act. What elements of both legitimate and illegitimate power are evident in this case? How do ethics play a role in the development and implementation of policy? What is the role of the DNP-prepared nurse in policy analysis, and what would you have done differently in this case, and why? What response might you give nurses planning to leave nursing and/or healthcare following a healthcare situation such as what occurred above? What policy intervention might you explore on behalf of these nurses? What resources using legitimate power are justified in light of this scenario? What is the policy process that exists in your current employment setting. Is the process well-known? Do nurses have adequate input into the process and how could you effect policy change if you were involved in a scenario such as the one presented in this week’s case study?                  

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