Question

1. Describe a Policy or policy that has a direct impact on your healthcare work.
2. How does it affect professional nursing practice?
3. What role did or should nurses play in assessing and developing that policy?

Answer 1

There are many health policy framed to protect quality care to patients.

One of the healthcare policy is thr implementation of the Healthcare information Technology.It has a direct impact on healthcare professionals to strictly follow it.

It affected the nursing profession by increasing their time to be spent on the technological devices to enter patient data.Though it has a great benefits it is rime consuming for the nurses.

The nurse can play the following role in assessing and developing the policy by

• Identifying the needs of such documentation
• Ensuring its privacy and its threat
• Trying to implement it into daily nursing practice