As an advanced registered nurse, discuss your future role in advocating for equitable population health services and policies
As an advanced registered nurse, discuss your future role in advocating for equitable population health services and policies
As an advanced registered nurse, discuss your future role in advocating for equitable population health services and policies
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As an advanced registered nurse, discuss your future role in advocating for equitable population health services and policies. Do you anticipate any challenges or barriers to “population advocacy”? How would you meet these challenges?
Benchmark – Diverse Population Health Policy Analysis
Select a current or proposed health care policy that is designed to provide equitable health care for a diverse population. Create a 12-15-slide PowerPoint presentation discussing the health care policy and how it improves a specific population’s access to quality, cost-effective health care. Create speaker notes of 100-250 words for each slide. Include additional slides for the title and references.
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Advocacy is a major role of the advanced registered nurse and is a fundamental aspect of nursing care. The APRN’s patient advocacy role is founded on the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics, Provision III, which asserts that a nurse should support, champion for, and endeavor to safeguard patients’ health, safety, and rights (Hanks et al., 2019). My future APRN role in championing equitable population health services and policies will involve advocating 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). Thus, they can significantly gain from policies that seek to ameliorate social circumstances that affect them.
My future APRN role will involve championing the appropriate health and social policies to foster health equity,
justice, and fairness and adequately embark on Social Determinants of Health (SDOHs) that reduce access to high-quality healthcare (Williams et al., 2018). I will champion for improved quality, access, and cost-effective care services that will help improve health outcomes for disadvantaged communities. Besides, I will be involved in championing ethical policies that foster quality, equity, access, and cost in health care (Hanks et al., 2019). In addition, I will have a role in developing effective evidence-based policies that will promote healthier communities. The policies will also seek to solve the inadequate access to social resources that create the basis of health inequities.
Potential barriers in population advocacy include a lack of cooperation by other healthcare professionals, the community, and policy-makers. The barrier can be mitigated by educating the stakeholders involved in the advocacy process on the potential benefits of championing the policies and how they will improve healthcare delivery and access to target populations (Nsiah et al., 2020). Lack of legal support may be a challenge in advocacy since legal backing is needed in case of a lawsuit (Nsiah et al., 2020). The challenge can be addressed by involving legal professionals in the advocacy process and consulting them on the legal consequences of the advocacy.
References
Hanks, R. G., Eloi, H., & Stafford, L. (2019, April). Understanding how advanced practice registered nurses function as patient advocates. In Nursing forum (Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 213-219). https://doi.org/10.1111/nuf.12319
Nsiah, C., Siakwa, M., & Ninnoni, J. P. (2020). Barriers to practicing patient advocacy in healthcare setting. Nursing open, 7(2), 650-659. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.436
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