Health Policy in Nursing Practice: A Guide for Students

As part of the Transforming Nursing Practice series, this book is specifically designed to support nursing students on the new degree programme in understanding the complexities of health policy and its impact on daily practice.

Demystifying Health Policy

Health policy can often seem remote and inaccessible to nursing students, but this book aims to change that. By exploring key topics such as patient involvement and dignity, this book helps students understand how policy decisions relate to their daily practice and how they can use policy to improve care.

Real-Life Case Studies

Through the use of patient narratives and case studies, this book shows how policy issues can impact on real-life care, making the subject more relatable and engaging for students.

Developing Your Career

This book also provides guidance on how students can use their understanding of policy to develop their career, meeting the NMC requirements for registration.

Key Features

• Shows how policy impacts on the real world and how students can use it to improve care or change practice
• Regular activities help students engage with policy issues
• Enables students to see how to use policy in practice themselves
• Supports students in meeting the NMC requirements for registration

About the Transforming Nursing Practice Series

This series is the first to be designed specifically to help students meet the requirements of the NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters for the new degree programmes. Each book addresses a core topic, and together they cover the generic knowledge required for all fields of practice.

Accessible and challenging, Transforming Nursing Practice helps nursing students prepare for the demands of future healthcare delivery.

About the Author

Georgina Taylor, a former Principal Lecturer at Middlesex University, has extensive experience teaching research methods and health policy to healthcare professionals and nursing students. Her research interests include the health of refugees and asylum seekers, health inequalities, intercultural care, and patient safety.

Series Editors

Series editor: Professor Shirley Bach, Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Brighton.

Co-series editor for learning skills titles: Dr Mooi Standing, Independent Academic Consultant at national and international level, and an accredited Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) reviewer.

Publication Details:

Publisher: Learning Matters

Publication Date: May 17, 2013

Language: English

Paperback: 176 pages

ISBN-10: 1446256464

ISBN-13: 978-1446256466