Role Of A Nurse In Shaping Health Care Policy

It is very important for all nurses to be registered national voters in whatever physical region they are located. This is because this gives them an opportunity to determine the future leaders of a state and country, who will thereafter be responsible of making policy including the healthcare policies. To ensure that the right and most relevant policies are passed on healthcare, nurses should consider registering in huge number to influence the group of legislators to be given the responsibility of making policies. This is very possible based on the fact that there are about 10,000 nurses in every congress district. Moreover, there is always one nurse in every forty-four women voters, and a one nurse in every 100 adult’s voters. This demonstrates that nurses have enough power to influence who is to be elected into the congress. Their number helped them to take three of their members to the congress. This has enabled the enactment of very crucial acts regarding countering nursing shortage in the country (Dearholt & Dang, 2012).

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Nurses’ healthcare knowledge and expertise is founded on experience, practice, and training. Thus, they are publically acknowledged for their commitment and knowledge, and they are ranked in the top position based on ethics and honesty in their profession (Dearholt & Dang, 2012). Based on this public earned respect, as well as the number strength, nurses are in a better position to create substantial influence on healthcare policymakers, policy, as well as the entire congress. However, this cannot be possible if nurses do not take an initiative of registering as national voters. It is only through registration that their number will have a great influence on the elected legislators and thus, on the healthcare policies passed in the congress.

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