{"id":741,"date":"2024-04-09T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=741"},"modified":"2024-04-09T05:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T09:29:16","slug":"8-1-4","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/chapter\/8-1-4\/","title":{"raw":"8.1.4 Informing NP Policy Development","rendered":"8.1.4 Informing NP Policy Development"},"content":{"raw":"NPs must continue to advocate and become involved to inform practice and support policy development.\u00a0In advocating, NPs need to:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Understand their scope of practice\/practice authority<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Be aware of community needs<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Determine how NPs can meet community needs &amp; fill necessary gaps<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Remain educated: clinical skills, leadership skills &amp; health policy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Be involved in nursing organizations (local to international)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThere are a number of nursing organizations for NPs to belong to including provincial\/territorial, national &amp; international. All of these organizations will support NP advocacy and membership and involvement is encouraged[footnote]Nelson, 2022[\/footnote].\r\n\r\nNPs play an important and significant role in developing health policies. NPs support policy development including policies involving:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Health care access<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Health care equality<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Quality of care<\/li>\r\n \t<li>NP scope of practice<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Public health crises<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Health care legislation[footnote]Coloff, 2020[\/footnote]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nNPs not only inform health policies but they support with educating the public and applying policies into practice[footnote]Chilton, 2015[\/footnote].","rendered":"<p>NPs must continue to advocate and become involved to inform practice and support policy development.\u00a0In advocating, NPs need to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand their scope of practice\/practice authority<\/li>\n<li>Be aware of community needs<\/li>\n<li>Determine how NPs can meet community needs &amp; fill necessary gaps<\/li>\n<li>Remain educated: clinical skills, leadership skills &amp; health policy<\/li>\n<li>Be involved in nursing organizations (local to international)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a number of nursing organizations for NPs to belong to including provincial\/territorial, national &amp; international. All of these organizations will support NP advocacy and membership and involvement is encouraged<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Nelson, 2022\" id=\"return-footnote-741-1\" href=\"#footnote-741-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NPs play an important and significant role in developing health policies. NPs support policy development including policies involving:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health care access<\/li>\n<li>Health care equality<\/li>\n<li>Quality of care<\/li>\n<li>NP scope of practice<\/li>\n<li>Public health crises<\/li>\n<li>Health care legislation<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Coloff, 2020\" id=\"return-footnote-741-2\" href=\"#footnote-741-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NPs not only inform health policies but they support with educating the public and applying policies into practice<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Chilton, 2015\" id=\"return-footnote-741-3\" href=\"#footnote-741-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-741-1\">Nelson, 2022 <a href=\"#return-footnote-741-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-741-2\">Coloff, 2020 <a href=\"#return-footnote-741-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-741-3\">Chilton, 2015 <a href=\"#return-footnote-741-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":517,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-741","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":65,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/741\/revisions\/744"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/65"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/741\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}