Nursing 4105 Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy

Walden University Nursing 4105 Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Assignment 3 Financial Impacts of Nurse Staffing Ratios: As nurses, we understand that we are required to have many different job responsibilities. Nurses are required to maintain patient care, administer medications, and, in certain circumstances, save lives. In addition to the registered nurses' standard scope of practice, it is required to take on higher than average patient to nurse ratios that make care unsafe and ha...

Walden University NURS 4105 , Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Assignment 2, The Cost of Health Care Describe how the policy is funded and annual costs of continuing the policy for the last year Dying appears to be publicly funded in a considerable amount, as our aging tends to be covered by Medicare and Medicaid. Also included are disabled or underprivileged people who qualify for one or the other, or both. In 1997, Congress passed a law that restricts funding for health care program...

Walden University Nursing 4105 Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Week 1, Discussion Question 1: The policy I chose is Oregon’s SB 0579. The Death with Dignity (DWDA) act was first passed in the State of Oregon in 1994 and put into practice in 1998 (Hedberg & New, 2017). ........

Walden University NURS 4105: Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Assignment 1, Death with Dignity Act The state of Oregon is known for a variety of attractions, such as the weird city of Portland, the famed University of Oregon, beautiful scenery, and, since 1997, the legalization of the Death with Dignity Act (DWDA).......

Walden University Nursing 4105 Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Week 1, Discussion Question 2: It doesn’t matter how long you have been a nurse or where you work; staffing is an issue. I work the night shift as an assistant nurse manager on one of the mother/baby units, and one of my responsibilities is making the assignment for the day shift...........