Influence of Nurse’s Role on legislative Process and Social determinants of Health
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Influence of Nurse’s Role on Legislative Process and Social Determinants of Health
Impact of Nurse’s Role on Legislative Process
Due to the changing and developing health system and nurses playing a pivotal role in the design, nurses must be involved in health policy development and formulation rather than implementation. By acquisition of policymaking, skills enable them to be in control of their practice. Nurses’ Influence on bills going through the legislative process for the laws to be amended protects health care quality by access to opportunities and resources. Nurses using their professional skills, values, experience, and advocacy skills have valuable views which influence the health policies during the legislative process.to avoid complexity in the health system, the nurses should be involved in the legislative process to pass the bills and advocate for the policies which are in line with the nursing field. Additionally, the nursing leaders should advocate for the laws that increase the number of nurses and support the current technology.
Question1: Parts of Law Making process Nurses have Opportunity in Passing the Bill.
The legislative process involves drafting the bill and passage of those bills. During the time of drafting and enactment of those bills, different professionals have certain influence according to their specialization area. In the law-making process, nurses are privileged to have an opportunity to influence in quite several parts. In the introduction stage, nurses’ participate in law-making by requesting the associates to support the bill. During the hearing stage, nurses can submit authentication in a written form expressing their opinions, expressing the background of the matter, and regulating the impacts that constitute the nursing role in the legislative process (Moore, Kabbe, Gibson, & Letvak, 2020). Lastly, nurses influence by proposing changes and amendments to the law during the markup stage before its endorsement.
Question 2: Two Ways in which Influence can take place.
A nurse influences the legislative process in two ways, first, through Advocating for the community. Advocacy will involve addressing the social factors that shape the population health, mostly the disadvantaged individuals and the poor. Also considering policies that aim at improving the social and economic ills of the people. Nurses offer a link between them and lawmakers by advocating for the community and influencing health policies (Moore et al., 2020). Also, attending the direct legislative arena is another way the nurse influences the health policy-making process. The direct legislative arena is whereby the leaders attend the arena and raise the views and policies affecting individuals’ social and economic status in the nursing profession. The two ways play a pivotal role in influencing the legislative process on law-making by nurses.
Advocacy as the Preferred Choice
I will choose advocacy on the nurses’ role in the influence of the legislative process. This is because advocating involves clarification of the key issues and refinement of the opinions by the nursing community hence representing the interest of the majority and eliminating the interest of individuals evident in the legislative arena.
Social Determinants of Health
Social determinants of health as the circumstances in the environment where people live were born, worshiped, played, learn, and influence healthiness. The social determinant comprises public safety, altitudes, and social norms, health care resources access, availing of community-based resources, literacy, and the culture (Thornton & Persaud, 2018). The only determinant which affects and influences the nurses’ role in the legislative process from the above list is the altitude and social norms.
The health policymaking process is affected by the social determinant of health, one being altitude, and social norms. Health policies are regarded as ineffective if the altitudes and the social norms of the community are not reflected. In both societal expectations and formal law, social norms are expressed on nurses’ role in the influence of legislative process composition. They are making health policies to be formulated based on people’s attitudes and social norms. Through advocating, nurses influence the legislative process making legislated laws that fall within social norms, thus social determinants determining how nurses influence a bill that is given.
Question3: Role Nurses Play in Promoting Health Status in Policy Changes
Nurses’ roles in promoting health status may include direct policing; these changes affect social norms as a health determinant factor. Nurses play a pivotal role in increasing control and improving individuals’ health. With the education and the experience they have in the nursing field, they have is useful in the legislative process in passing bills and policies. Social norms are protected through the nurse’s power over health policy. When nurses advocates for an account via congress they solve communities problematic behavior, thus affecting positively social norm as the determinant of health by nurses role on the influence of legislative process (Liske & Osborne, 2017). On proposing a bill against female genital mutilation (FGM), social norms represent the custody behavior, and some communities may feel betrayal. In contrast, other communities think of the law as affecting social norms positively.
Conclusively nurses play a significant role in legislative practice through passing bills and advocating for laws and policies which are in line with their profession. Leaders in the nursing profession should back up the influencing rules and procedures that aim to increase the number of nurses in nursing. Furthermore, technology being essential laws that support technology in nursing should be positively encouraged. Lastly, all the policies relating to the nursing profession’s field should be aware of them.
References
Liske, C. D., & Osborne, K. M. (2017). Professional Nursing Influence: Advocating for Patients, Populations, and Policy.
Moore, C., Kabbe, A., Gibson, T. S.,& Letvak, S. (2020).The Pursuit of Nurse Practitioner Practice Legislation: ACaseStudy.Policy, Politics & NursingPractice, 1527154420957259.
Thornton, M., & Persaud, S. (2018). Preparing today’s Nurses: Social Determinants of Health and Nursing Education. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 23(3).