APNs as Healthcare Policy Leaders (Discussion post)
Purpose
This
week’s discussion assignment focuses on the APN as a Health Policy Leader: The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner
Faculties (NONPF) created a list of nine core
competencies to use as guidelines for nurse practitioner (NP) programs. https://nursejournal.org/resources/what-are-the-nurse-practitioner-core-competencies/
* NONPF NP competency I’ve chosen is: [Technology
and Information Literacy] *
Analyze and discuss how health policy of the APN profession and
how Transformational Leadership can help to influence policy changes in [Technology and Information
Literacy]
Activity Learning Outcomes
Through this discussion,
the student will demonstrate the ability to:
1.
Critically analyze how healthcare systems and APRN practice are organized and
influenced by ethical, legal, economic, and political factors (CO2)
2.
Demonstrate professional and personal growth concerning the advocacy
role of advanced practice nursing in fostering policy within diverse healthcare
settings (CO3)
3. Advocate for institutional,
local, national, and international policies that fosters person-centered healthcare and
nursing practice (CO4)
Preparing the Discussion
Criteria
for Content
·
Explanation of how healthcare
policy can impact the advanced practice nurse profession
·
Explanation of why advocacy is
considered an essential component of the advance practice nurse’s role
·
Discuss the four pillars of
Transformational leadership and the effect they may have on influencing policy
change
· A scholarly resource must be used for EACH discussion question each week.
DISCUSSION
RUBERIC:
Policy Impact on
APN: Provides relevant evidence of scholarly inquiry
of how healthcare policy can impact the advanced practice nurse profession. Uses valid, relevant, and reliable outside scholarly sources
to contribute to the threaded discussion.
Advocacy: Provides
relevant evidence of scholarly inquiry of why advocacy is an essential
component of advanced practice nurse role.
Uses valid, relevant, and reliable outside scholarly sources to contribute to
the threaded discussion.
Pillars of
Transformational Leadership:
Provides relevant evidence of scholarly inquiry
of Transformational Leadership and the effects it may have on influencing
policy change. Uses valid, relevant, and
reliable outside scholarly sources to contribute to the threaded discussion.