Identify Needed Community Change
Consider the health care issues and deficits you have recognized in your professional practice.
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Consider the health care issues and deficits you have recognized in your professional practice. During NP clinical practicum experiences, we identify, as nurses, many health care issues that need to be addressed at the local, state, or national level. Addressing the need for change in health care policy is now an intricate part of your role as a social change agent.
For this Discussion, you will identify a change needed in your community and what your nursing legacy for positive social change will be.
To prepare:
Consider the health care issues and deficits you have recognized in your professional practice.
Identify a change needed in your community in health care policy and discuss how you could impart change during your career as an NP.
Consider your future as a NP and what your nursing legacy will be. How will you impart Social Change?
Consider the health care issues and deficits you have recognized in your professional practice.
By Day 3
Post a change needed in your community (universal electronic medical records)
and an explanation for how you will begin to implement that change. Then, share with your colleagues a brief explanation of what your nursing legacy will be (a legacy of caring for other without bias)
and how will you impart Social Change (lobbying for the state of Georgia to allow for prescription writing authority for nurse practitioners.
Learning Resources
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Required Readings
Buppert, C. (2015). Buppert, C. (2015). Lawmaking and Health Policy. In Nurse Practitioner’s Business Practice and Legal Guide (5th ed.). (423-436). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
This chapter covers the legal process, the judicial system and health policy. Additionally, law and rules that affect NPs, how to initiate a change in law and the process involved from beginning until law or rule is finalized.
Christensen, C. M., Bohmer, R. M. J., & Kenagy, J. (2000). Will disruptive innovations cure health care? Harvard Business Review, 78(5), 102-112, 199.
Consider the health care issues and deficits you have recognized in your professional practice.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Heidesch, T. (2008). Disruptive innovation NPs are true Health Care Reformers. Advance Healthcare Network for NPs & PAs, 16(12), 94. Retrieved from http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Disruptive-Innovator.aspx
National Conference of State Legislatures (n.d.). Glossary of Legislative Terms. Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/glossary-of-legislative-terms.aspx
Discussion: State Practice Agreements