NR506 Week 8 Assignment Paper

NR506 Week 8 Assignment Paper

NR506 Week 8 Assignment Paper

Week 8 NR506

Berwick et al. (2018) highlight that primary research, clinical trials, and implementation research should inform global patient care decisions and nursing practice decisions. I have learned that interventions proposed to enhance health outcomes, especially in low-resource settings, should be evaluated and their efficacy proved locally before being implemented in other larger settings.

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Nurses engage in evidence-informed decision-making, which is crucial in promoting optimal health outcomes. Evidence-informed decision-making is a continuous process that incorporates evidence from clinical expertise, research findings, client preferences, and other available resources to inform nurses’ decisions that affect patients and nursing practice. Evidence is an important element in making informed decisions in all domains of nursing (Williams et al., 2018). It is also fundamental to improving the healthcare system. Nurses obtain evidence to guide decision-making from research and the scientific evaluation of practice. The types of evidence that nurses can use include information obtained from a wide range of rigorous methodologies, including quantitative studies, qualitative studies, and meta-analyses.

This course has equipped me with immense knowledge of health policy and advocacy. I will apply the knowledge from this course to lobby state and federal governments for healthy public policy, regulation, and legislation that are evidence-informed. In the upcoming practicum experience, I will use knowledge from this course to champion equitable population health services and policies. This is by engaging in advocacy initiatives for equity and social justice in health care access, allocation of resources, and access to other economic and social services. Economically and socially disadvantaged people are the most impacted by public policy health (Williams et al., 2018). Therefore, they can significantly benefit from policies that seek to ameliorate social circumstances that affect them. 

I will apply the content from NR506NP to the upcoming clinical courses to identify healthcare issues that can be addressed through policy and advocacy. Besides, I can apply the course content to identify the ethical, political, and historical factors that impact healthcare policies. Furthermore, I will apply the knowledge in other courses when assessing the controversies and challenges concerning the existing and upcoming healthcare policies and understand what bars some policies from being enacted.

References

Berwick, D., Snair, M., & Nishtar, S. (2018). Crossing the Global Health Care Quality Chasm. JAMA. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.13696 

Williams, S. D., Phillips, J. M., & Koyama, K. (2018). Nurse advocacy: Adopting a health in all policies approach. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 23(3). https://doi.org/10.3912/OJIN.Vol23No03Man01

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Requirements

Berwick, D., Snair, M., & Nishtar, S. (2018). Crossing the global health care quality chasm: A key component of universal health coverage. Journal of American Medical Association, 320(13), 1317-1318.

Read the Berwick article and reflect on the concepts and practices you have learned in NR506 on healthcare systems, politics, and health policy. Reflections should include the following:

How to make informed decisions on nursing practice and patient outcomes on a global basis.  In addition, state how you will apply what you have learned in this course to your upcoming practicum experience. 

Describe how one will apply content from NR506NP to the upcoming clinical courses.