The purpose of this discussion is to reflect on opportunities to impact healthcare policies while further developing your own political competency using Warner’s article (2003) as a guide.

Instructions

Read the Warner (2003) article (located in Student Learning Resources). Reflect upon the development of your political competency and address the following:

1. Consider a time when there was an issue related to healthcare policy in your local, regional, or national community. If you pursued an opportunity to address the issue, describe the results. If you did not pursue the opportunity, describe the reasons.
2. Propose an area of your political competency that needs further development and an action you could take to become more politically competent to impact your selected population.

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SOLUTION:

Healthcare policy has never been an area of high interest to me, my interests within the nursing profession tend to be in other areas such as education and bedside intervention guidelines/processes. While I am aware of the general issues related to healthcare policy within my area, it is also difficult for me to stay completely aware and involved as I work in multiple states which do not all share the same issues. This combined with my lack of interest tends to steer me in the other direction. Warner (2003), states that in order to have a better “understanding of the nature of health” nurses need to be active “within policy and political work”. “Evidence links health status to psychosocial factors, environmental conditions, gender stratification, and cultural-economic issues—factors outside of the health care arena” (Warner, 2003). After reviewing Warner’s article, I have a better insight and understanding into why I should start taking more of an interest in this area.  Not only will it allow me to understand the nature of health within my area and scope of practice it will also allow to better understand and advocate for the “values of caring, equality, multiculturalism, connectedness, and power sharing to policy and political discussions” (Warner, 2003)………….Kindly click on the link below to access the entire document for $10