Policy and Politics in Nursing and Healthcare - Revised Reprint

Unit 1: Introduction to Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care
1.� A Framework for Action in Policy and Politics
2.� A Historical Perspective on Policy, Politics and Nursing
3.� Learning the Ropes of Policy, Politics, and Advocacy
4.� TAKING ACTION How I Learned the Ropes of Policy and Politics
5.� Advocacy in Nursing and Health Care��
6.� A Primer on Political Philosophy
7.� The Policy Process
8.� Political Analysis and Strategies
9.� Health Policy, Politics, and Professional Ethics
10. Using the Power of Media to Influence Health Policy and Politics
11.� Communications Skills for Success in Policy and Politics
12.� Conflict Management in Health Care: The Tipping Point Arrives
Unit 2: Health Care Delivery and Financing
13.� The United States Health Care System
14.� Financing Health Care in the United States
15.� Could a National Health System Work in the United States?
16.� A Primer on Health Economics
17.� Reforming Medicare
18.� Children's Health Insurance Coverage: Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program
19.� The United States Military Health System: Policy Challenges in Wartime and Peacetime
20.� The Veteran's Administration Health System: An Overview of Major Policy Issues
21.� The Uninsured and Underinsured-On the Cusp of Health Reform��
22.� Policy Approaches to Address Health Disparities��
23.� The Rural Health Care Tundra��
24.� Long-Term Care Policy Issues
25.� Home Care and Hospice: Evolving Policy��
26.� Achieving Mental Health Parity
27.� Integrative Health: Pathway to Health Reform and a Healthier Nation
28.� Nursing's Influence on Drug Development and Safety
29.� Chronic Care Policy: Medical Homes and Primary Care��
30.� Family Caregiving and Social Policy
31.� Retail Health Care Clinics: Filling a Gap in the Health Care System�
32.� Nurse-Managed Health Centers
33.� Community Health Centers: Successful Advocacy for Expanding Health Care Access
34.� TAKING ACTION Setting Health Care in its Social Context
35.� TAKING ACTION Reimbursement Issues for Nurse Anesthetists: A Continuing Challenge
36.� The Role of Foundations in Improving Health Care
37.� Social Security: Key to Economic Security
38.� The United Kingdom's Health System: Myths and Realities
Unit 3: Policy and Politics in Research and Nursing Science
39.� Science, Policy, and Politics�
40.� Research as a Political and Policy Tool
41.� Health Services Research: Translating Research into Policy
42.� Politics and Evidence-Based Practice and Policy�
43.� The Society for Women's Health Research: Using Evidence-Based Policy to Improve Health
44.� Using Research to Advance Healthy Social Policies for Children
45.� TAKING ACTION Reefer Madness: The Clash of Science, Politics, and Medical Marijuana
46.� TAKING ACTION The Journey into the Hallowed Halls of Politics: How Nurse Practitioners Changed Pennsylvania Policy
Unit 4: Policy and Politics in the Workplace and Workforce
47.� Policy and Politics in the Contemporary Work Environment
48.� Quality and Safety in Healthcare: Policy Issues��
49.� The Nursing Workforce
50.� Nursing Education Policy: The Unending Debate Over Entry into Practice and the New Debate over Doctoral Degrees�
51.� The Politics of Advanced Practice Nursing
52.� Global Nurse Migration�
53.� Nurse Staffing Ratios: Policy Options�
54.� TAKING ACTION Aligning Care at the Bedside with the C-Suite
55.� TAKING ACTION When a Hurricane Strikes: The Challenge of Crafting Workplace Policy
56.� Workplace Abuse in Nursing: Policy Strategies�
57.� TAKING ACTION Advocating for Nurses Injured in the Workplace�
58.� TAKING ACTION Influencing the Workplace by Serving on a Hospital's Board of Directors
59.� The Intersection of Technology and Health Care: Policy and Practice Implications
60.� Influence of Magnet� Recognition� on Organization and Workplace Policy
61.� Collective Bargaining in Nursing
62.� Workplace Advocacy
Unit 5: Policy and Politics in the Government
63.� Contemporary Issues in Government
64.� How Government Works: What You Need to Know to Influence the Process
65.� An Overview of Legislation and Regulation
66.� Nursing Licensure and Regulation
67.� Regulating Industrial Chemicals to Protect the Environment and Human Health
68.� Lobbying Policymakers: Individual and Collective Strategies
69.� TAKING ACTION An Insider's View of Lobbying
70.� Political Appointments
71.� TAKING ACTION Influencing Policy as a Member of the San Francisco Health Commission
72.� Nursing and the Courts
73.� The American Voter and the Electoral Process
74.� TAKING ACTION Anatomy of a Political Campaign
75.� TAKING ACTION Nurses for Obama: My Advocacy and Experience on the Campaign Trail
76.� Is There a Nurse in the House? The Nurses in the United States Congress
77.� TAKING ACTION Nurse, Educator, and Legislator: My Journey to the Delaware General Assembly
78.� TAKING ACTION Into the Rabbit Hole: My Journey to Service on a City Council
79.� TAKING ACTION Truth or Dare: One Nurse's Political Campaign
80.� Political Activity: Different Rules for Government-Employed Nurses
Unit 6: Policy and Politics in Associations and Interest Groups
81.� Interest Groups in Health Care Policy and Politics
82.� Current Issues in Nursing Associations
83.� Professional Nursing Associations: Meeting Needs of Nurses and the Profession
84.� TAKING ACTION The Center to Champion Nursing in America: Mobilizing Consumers and Other Stakeholders
85.� TAKING ACTION The Raise the Voice Campaign: Nurse-Led Innovations Changing Public Policy�
86.� Coalitions: A Powerful Political Strategy
87.� TAKING ACTION A Rough Road in Texas: Advanced Practice Nurses Build a Strong Coalition
88.� TAKING ACTION The National Coalition for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health
89.� TAKING ACTION The Virginia Nursing Kitchen Cabinet
90.� The Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Unit 7: Policy and Politics in the Community
91.� Where Policy Hits the Pavement: Contemporary Issues in Communities
92.� An Introduction to Community Activism
93.� TAKING ACTION From Sewage Problems to the Statehouse: My Life as an Elected Official
94.� TAKING ACTION Community Advocacy in Pennsylvania: How I Worked to Make My Community Healthier
95.� TAKING ACTION A Nurse Practitioner's Advocacy Efforts in Nevada
96.� TAKING ACTION One Nurse's Fight Against Gang Violence in California
97.� TAKING ACTION The Canary Coalition for Clean Air in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains
98.� TAKING ACTION The Nightingales Take on Big Tobacco
99.� Lactivism: Breastfeeding Advocacy in the United States
100.� TAKING ACTION Postpartum Depression: The Convergence of Media Coverage and Community Activism to Influence Health Policy
101.� Nursing in the International Community: A Broader View of Nursing Issues
102.� TAKING ACTION Ugandan Nurses Leading Health Policy Change��
103.� Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Disease: A Global Challenge
104.� Human Trafficking: The Need for Nursing Advocacy��
Appendix A: The Affordable Care Act: Historical Context and an Introduction to the State of Health Care in the United States��NEW!
Appendix B: Health Policy Internships and Fellowships