Subject/Research Guides: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Core Courses: DNP 7104

This page contains content relevant for the DNP 7104 Politics and Policy in the Healthcare System course.

Web Resources

H-CUPnet
HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). It provides access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.
Health Statistics - University of Chicago
U.S. National LIbrary of Medicine: Finding and Using Health Statistics
Describes the range of available health statistics, identifies their sources and helps you understand how to use information about their structure as you search.
Health Data Tools and Statistics
A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries
WHO Global Health Observatory
Healthcare.gov
National Institute of Health
The Kaiser Family Foundation
The Commonwealth Fund
CDC Data and Statistics
CDC FastStats
Minority Health Resource Center
Disparities Solutions Center Massachusetts General Hospital
UC Berkeley Public Health Resources on the Web
Role of States in Health Poilcy - Kaiser.edu
U.S. Congress and Health Policy
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
AHRQ's mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

Suggested Print and eBooks

The Doctor of Nursing Practice Essentials

The newly revised Second Edition of The Doctor of Nursing Practice Essentials: A New Model for Advanced Practice Nursing is the first text of its kind and is modeled after the eight DNP Essentials as outlined by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Each section discusses the materials relevant to an element of the Essentials document and advises on the steps necessary to fulfill the requirements of the degree. The text is written for current DNP students as well as those considering the degree program.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and healthcare providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics.

Politics of Policy Change

For generations, debating the expansion or contraction of the American welfare state has produced some of the nation's most heated legislative battles. Attempting social policy reform is both risky and complicated, especially when it involves dealing with powerful vested interests, sharp ideological disagreements, and a nervous public. The Politics of Policy Change compares and contrasts recent developments in three major federal policy areas in the United States: welfare, Medicare, and Social Security.

Shaping Health Policy Through Nursing Research

A must-read for health care policy makers, as well as nursing students, faculty, and professionals, this groundbreaking text provides actual strategies for translating nursing research to health policy at all levels of policy-making. The editors, both leaders in nursing research, provide key findings from research programs that have positively influenced health policy decisions and programs at community, state, national, and international levels.

Articles/Resources for Course

Introduction

Legislative Process

Finding Your State and Federal Legislators

Healthcare Reform

Health Reform Implementation Timeline

Affordable Care Act

Writing Policy Briefs

Policy Making

Root Cause Analyses

Fish Bone Diagrams

Nursing Practice Regulation

Scope of Practice/Nurse Practice Act

Find Your Nurse Practice Act

Consensus Model for APRNs

Nurse Licensure Compact

Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Political Action Committees

Special Interest Groups

Recommended Journals

Milbank Quarterly Published for more than eighty years, the Milbank Quarterly features peer-reviewed original research, policy review, and analysis, as well as commentary from academics, clinicians, and policymakers. Its multidisciplinary approach and commitment to applying the best empirical research to practical policy making offers in-depth assessments of the social, economic, historical, legal, and ethical dimensions of health and health care policy.
Health Affairs Committed to the exploration of policy issues in the domestic and international health arenas. Contains papers from industry, labor, government and academe. Also contains book reviews. Publisher URL: http://www.healthaffairs.org
Health Services Research Original, empirical studies of important health services issues and problems, major policy issues, alternatives and implications aimed at health services researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the health sector.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law Contains articles, news items and book reviews on health policy and the legal and political aspects of health care issues.
Health Policy and Planning Health Policy and Planning blends such individual specialities as epidemiology, health and development economics, management and social policy, planning and social anthropology into a lively academic mix that constantly stimulates and keeps readers abreast of issues in global health, with a focus on low and middle income countries. Health Policy and Planning has an optional open-access policy. For a fee, authors can request that their paper be made open-access - reduced charges will apply to authors in low and middle income countries.

Suggested Subject Terms for Searching

Medical policy--United States

Nursing--United States

Health Policy--United States

Health Care Costs--United States

Lobbying--United States

Policy Making--United States

Nursing

Nursing Research

Nursing Care