Public Policy & Nursing

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Working on writing a paper. One section asks "what are some issues that are in the public policy arena now that nurses should address, either positively or negatively." I know what issues are important to me but am curious what everyone else views as being important?

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What issues are important to you? Give us a jumping off point :)

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For me a couple are access to healthcare for the homeless, ban on mandatory overtime for nurses, expansion of roles of advance practice nurses

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Organ donation awareness with push for increased registration of potential donors.

(There's a current series on donations.)

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Specializes in retired LTC.

To tag on to my previous post, more community awareness re Advanced Directives (and those POLST documents).

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

I don't know where you are geographically, but here there is an opiod epidemic eating away at all aspects of healthcare delivery and little done for prevention.

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Affordability of preventive care for everyone. To me, it doesn't have to be an insurance issue so much as a question of why we can't make basic preventive care affordable in and of itself. The cost of "going to the doctor" unless you're dying keeps far too many people away :(

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