Health Policy: Application for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals

Health care providers, especially nurses, engage in policy agenda setting, formulation, implementation, and evaluation at multiple levels – individual, system, institutional, and societal/public level. Health Policy: Application for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals provides a comprehensive and multi-perspective approach to policy development and formulation that includes policy evaluation and research. Unlike other tests, it utilizes a condensed format without a large amount of explanatory text. Features include tables, figures, chapter summaries, and a resource list.

ChapterDedication
ChapterAcknowledgments
ChapterPreface
ChapterChapter 1 Policy Overview
ChapterChapter 2 Governmental Structure
ChapterChapter 3 Executive Branch: Federal Governmental Agencies and Appointed Bodies
ChapterChapter 4 Legislative Branch: Role in Policy
ChapterChapter 5 Judicial System
ChapterChapter 6 Public Health Policy
ChapterChapter 7 Policy Formulation and Implementation
ChapterChapter 8 Policy Analysis
ChapterChapter 9 Policy Research, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement
ChapterChapter 10 Politics: Theory and Practice
ChapterChapter 11 Policy, Law, and Politics: Ethical Perspective
ChapterChapter 12 Policy Institutes
ChapterAppendix A Presidential and Congressional Leadership: Political Party Leadership
ChapterAppendix B List of Public Laws
ChapterAppendix C Policy Resources
ChapterAppendix D Policy and Politics Journals