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Thoughts About Health Policies

  • Jacqueline Fawcett

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Abstract

This essay is about health policies. Included are the definition of health policy, the descriptions of the concepts of a conceptual model of nursing and health policy, and examples of various sources of health policies. A central thesis of this essay is that practice guidelines are largely unrecognized as health policies. This thesis provides the connection between the abstract idea of a health policy and what is done in nursing practice. The essay concludes with examples of research questions about nursing and health policies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)378-382
Number of pages5
JournalNursing Science Quarterly
Volume35
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2022

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Nursing

Keywords

  • conceptual model
  • health policy
  • nursing
  • practice guidelines

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