Main description:

Public Policy and Canadian Nursing offers an extensive overview of health policy and the expanding role of nurses in Canada. Focusing specifically on the larger nursing profession, Michael J. Villeneuve examines how health politics, funding, and practices have been reformed in ways that influence nurses and their involvement in policy-making decisions.

The three modules cover: the basics of health care policy, terminology, and governance; the history and evolution of health care in Canada and population health status; and models for establishing new policies, and the systematic challenges that lie ahead.

Unique from other texts published in the discipline, this guide will help students enter the nursing workforce as effective leaders, prepared to manage teams, programs, organizations, and systems, by enlightening their understanding of the way health care services are structured, funded, and evaluated. This valuable resource is suitable for use in senior undergraduate and graduate nursing, psychiatric, and public health policy programs.

Features:

includes chapter highlights, learning outcomes, discussion questions, and brief sketches of notable policy influencers in the nursing professions
cites real-world examples of nursing action in public policy

Contents:

Preface
Module I. Introduction to Canadian Health Policy, Politics, and Governance
Chapter 1. Politics, Policy, and Health Systems: What Are We Talking About and Why Does all this Matter to Nurses?
Chapter 2. Canadian Federal, Provincial, Territorial, Municipal, and Aboriginal Governance: Who Does What?
Chapter 3. Canadian Health Systems Today: Governance and Organization
Chapter 4. Health Human Resources and Nursing: Structures, Regulation, and Professional Organizations
Module II. Population Health and Health Care in Canada
Chapter 5. Health Systems in Canada: Development and Reform
Chapter 6: Canadian Nursing Initiatives in the Era of Reform
Chapter 7. Making Sense of the Dollars: Understanding Basic Economics of Canadian Health Care
Chapter 8. Effects and Outcomes of Health Policy: Population Health Status and the Performance of Canada's Health Systems
Module III. From Ideas to Legislation: How Are Health Policy Decisions Made?
Chapter 9. Models of Policy Development
Chapter 10. Tools and Strategies to Support Policy Development and Analysis
Chapter 11. Forces Influencing Policy Development, Priority Setting, and Allocation of Resources
Chapter 12. On the Horizon: Canada's Health Systems, Public Policy, and the Nursing Profession Going Forward
Notes
Copyright Acknowledgements