WORKBOOK for Evidence-Informed Health Policy: Using EBP to Transform Policy in Nursing and Healthcare - Softcover
Synopsis
As a student of nursing or another healthcare profession, you have likely been introduced to evidence-based practice (EBP) as a means for addressing clinical problems. The accompanying book will introduce you to EBP's parallel in health policy-evidence-informed health policymaking as a process for addressing health policy problems. It is exciting to think that we, as healthcare providers, can have an impact on the making of good health policy and have the means to influence our policymakers. To do that, we also need to be grounded in the structure and function of government, familiarize ourselves with who represents us in government, and have a beginning understanding of how political systems work. This student workbook is designed as a companion to the primary book, Evidence-Informed Health Policy: Using EBP to Transform Policy in Nursing and Healthcare, which will provide you with the necessary grounding in policy and policymaking, persuade you that evidence can be used to influence policymaking, and which describes an evidence-informed health policymaking model.
PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE
The purpose of the Evidence-Informed Health Policy Student Workbook is to provide learning activities and case studies that relate to each book chapter that will help deepen the student's understanding of government structure, function, and evidence-informed health policymaking. Three chapters provide one accompanying learning activity; each of the remaining chapters provides multiple learning activities. In addition, three case studies are included; each of these focuses on the application of chapter material in the policymaking environment. Every exercise reflects the content of its accompanying chapter; therefore, students should read the chapter, and if specified, focus on certain sections within the chapter prior to completing an exercise or case study. Students may complete all these learning activities, but some instructors may choose only one or two from each chapter that meet the objectives of a particular course. Each learning activity begins with objectives, and many suggest accompanying resource material or additional external resources, and specific instructions.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals are increasingly called upon to engage in the process of policy development and advocate for health policy that will serve the public good. Our hope is that the student workbook will help prepare you for this role by facilitating both your own development of a
beginning policy skill set and a deeper understanding of the health policy environment.
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About the Authors
Jacqueline M. Loversidge, PhD, RNC-AWHC, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. Loversidge earned a diploma from Muhlenberg Hospital School of Nursing in Plainfield, New Jersey; a BSN from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio; a master's degree with a major in nursing from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; and a PhD in higher education policy and leadership from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She holds national certification as an ambulatory women's health care nurse through the National Certification Corporation. Loversidge has been educating undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of health policy and regulation, evidence-based practice, and leadership in nursing and healthcare for more than 15 years. She has extensive experience in the regulatory setting, having held two positions at the Ohio Board of Nursing (OBN). The first was Associate Executive Director, which included the role of government liaison. Later, after a decade in practice and administrative settings, she served as the OBN Education Consultant, with the responsibility for oversight of all Ohio prelicensure nursing education programs. While at OBN, Loversidge served on various National Council of State Boards of Nursing committees, including the Committee on Special Projects, responsible for
Joyce Zurmehly, PhD, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, ANEF, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. Zurmehly has been educating undergraduate and graduate students for more than 25 years. She is recognized for academic leadership in advancing nursing education through her work as a faculty scholar and nurse regulator. She has been influential in shaping undergraduate and graduate nursing education. Zurmehly's primary area of contribution in nursing education has been in collaborating with state and national experts to set enduring nursing education policy by promulgating administrative rules. Because of her expertise in the regulation of nursing programs, she has been appointed to national committees, where she actively participates in developing policy in the regulation of
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