Health policy is a dynamic field of study. Since the first edition of this textbook, much has changed in terms of the political landscape, public health, health care, and data analytics. This book provides an overview of concepts, tools, and resources that will open the door of public health policy analysis to students. Students can adapt the framework and foundational tools to provide a springboard for life-long learning and inquiry. Health policy analysis is not for the faint of heart. It is a challenging task that requires synthesizing knowledge from multiple disciplines and using many different skills. The book focuses primarily on the US federal government with additional general coverage of state and local governments. However, it is important to point out the importance of other countries, especially developing countries, as well as the Indigenous populations within the United States. The authors experience from teaching classes in health policy has been that students generally lack a nuanced understanding of the US political system. As a consequence, the authors added several new chapters on the US political system. The chapters also include Breakout Boxes that provide conceptual details and practical examples. The authors provide an overview of the US political structure, process, and culture with examples drawn from public health. Health policy analysis occurs in multiple types of settings. After graduation, one may be employed by a non-profit health organization, a member of Congress, a governmental agency at the national state or local level, a political think tank, a public or private research center, a lobbying or advocacy organization, etc. The task of conducting a policy analysis may involve developing a policy proposal to assess one or more alternatives a priori or evaluating the success of a policy that has already been implemented.

This comprehensive textbook contains information on a wide array of topics, including the organization of care, population health, the fundamental challenges of health disparities, health care financing and economics, and health information technology’s role in improving care and protecting privacy. New chapters on public health preparedness and its role in mitigating effects on health and the health system and the medical and social challenges of caring for older adults provide insight into important, ongoing challenges and what those challenges reflect about our system of care.

With an increased emphasis on health disparities, population health, and health equity, this textbook includes a timely focus on how social and behavioral determinants influence health outcomes. Students will gain a deeper understanding of public health systems and their societal role and of the economic perspectives that drive health care managers and the system. Thorough coverage of the rapid changes that are reshaping our system, in addition to an evaluation of our nation’s achievement of health care value, will equip students with the critical knowledge they need to enter this dynamic and complex field. The book also includes cutting-edge, evidence-based information on preventive medicine, innovative approaches to control health care costs, initiatives to achieve high-quality and value-based care, and much more from prominent scholars, practitioners, and educators within health care management, public health, population health, health policy, medical care, and nursing.

This book provides a high-quality resource on evaluation for nurses. It addresses the special needs of Doctorate of Nursing Practice nurses to understand the principles of conducting large scale evaluations, and translating those principles into developing smaller projects, such as unit-based projects or projects required in DNP degree programs. Along with the higher expectations for DNP nurses come greater opportunities to lead evaluation teams and influence high-level decision making in all areas of health care. The book recognizes that the reader does not necessarily read a book from first chapter through the last. The intended audiences for this book are students enrolled in master and doctoral level programs, including advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) and DNP programs; DNP graduates and practicing APRNs; nurse administrators; directors of quality improvement; faculty teaching evaluation; and others interested in evaluation of health care from a practice and clinical perspective. The book provides an overview of the state of the science and knowledge of evaluation, and its application to common practice issues in which DNP, APRN, and master's prepared nurses lead and participate. Students, graduates, and colleagues provided information about their particular needs which was greatly appreciated. The intent of this book is to lay a foundation in evaluation for DNPs/APRNs to assume their important role in the process. Evaluation principles (concepts) as applied to health care continue to be underdeveloped and evolving. Evaluation is a nonlinear and messy process. While there is no one right way to conduct an evaluation, it is driven by the intended purpose and use of the evaluation findings.

Choosing the journey to pursue a doctoral degree is an exciting time but can also be an arduous experience. The authors believed that it would be extremely helpful to have a practical guidebook that clearly identified the options available to a nurse with a DNP degree. This book provides a current overview of the roles that can be held by DNP-prepared nurses and how to successfully use the degree to enhance an individual’s practice choices. It emphasizes the different role options available to nurses pursuing the DNP degree, including those who remain at the bedside or the clinic and those who assume leadership and faculty positions. This engaging handbook delivers practical guidance on the burgeoning roles and career opportunities afforded by the DNP degree, as well as the knowledge and skills required for career advancement. It provides students and professionals with a fundamental understanding of the value of the DNP degree and how it supports opportunities for nurses to shape the future of health care at academic, policy, organizational, site, and patient-care levels. Following an overview of the DNP degree along with a discussion of key competencies required for success in any DNP arena, the guide examines the various roles a DNP graduate can hold. The chapters highlight potential career paths, education and certification requirements, opportunities and challenges, and the integration of relevant American Association of Colleges of Nursing DNP Essentials. The book delivers practical guidance on the DNP degree, potential roles, and career opportunities, describes how to integrate DNP Essentials into practice, and discusses key competencies required for success in any DNP role. It illustrates potential career paths with education and certification requirements, promotes self-reflection with thought-provoking questions, and includes resources for further exploration.

This book is addressed to nurses, administrators, nursing academics, nursing students, as well as other health care professionals, and to the interested general reader. Nightingale was far ahead of her time in setting out the core principles of the new nursing profession, with demanding ethical standards and continuing education to keep up with best practice. The book is organized into two parts containing twelve chapters. Part I, Nightingale’s Nursing: Then and Now, presents what she wrote and did in key areas of nursing and health care: patient care, health promotion, ethics, infection control, pediatric nursing, long-term and palliative care, administration, and research and policy development. Part II, In Nightingale’s Own Words, takes the reader into Nightingale’s best writing itself. It provides selections of Nightingale’s most important writing from 1858 to 1893, thus facilitating the tracing of her ideas as they evolved. Nightingale’s writings are categorized into Nightingale’s early writing on hospitals and nursing, Nightingale’s writing on nursing for the poorest, and Nightingale’s late writing on nursing, hospitals, and disease prevention. The book shows how Nightingale interacted with leading physicians and other health science experts. The prime purpose of this book is to bring Nightingale’s ideas and work to the attention of nurses today, not as a historical figure but as a source of principles, vision, and sound practice in the here and now.

This book provides both health professional students and experienced practitioners with the cognitive strategies for clinical leadership and opportunities for applying these strategies to the realities of advanced clinical practice. It offers advanced practice providers (APPs) a clear focus on clinical leadership while providing an important differentiation between true leadership skills and behaviors and mere task-oriented management skills. The book reports on various leadership theories/models and uses meaningful leadership research evidence that relates well to real-world clinical settings while cautioning the reader to understand that research findings may not always produce predictable leadership outcomes. It is an excellent resource for the next generation of leaders in health care. The book is organized into four parts. The first part discusses clinical leadership traits and behaviors. Part two presents administrative leadership strategies for physician assistants and nurse practitioners, vis-à-vis the financial principles of clinical leadership and change strategies used by clinical leaders to achieve desired, planned change in complex health care environments. Part three describes the human aspects of clinical leadership such as the importance of clinical leaders being ethical and culturally informed in their advanced practice; the potential for and qualities of being a spiritual leader in a clinical setting; teaching others and leading other leaders in a clinical setting; and resiliency of the clinical leader in preventing burnout. The final part invites readers to look ahead to the future and ponder the possibilities of a desired future for health care.

This book reflects the ongoing efforts and leadership of nurses to provide guidance and inform pediatric and child health nurses with standards of excellence as it pertains to the commonalities of practice that intersect with all areas of pediatric nursing. The guidelines provide a road map along the continuum to address health and the determinants of health for nurses in all roles providing care to children, teens, and their families. The book is organized around the identified guidelines of nursing excellence. It presents these seventeen guidelines as chapter titles. Each chapter concludes with a case study illustrating use of the guideline. The book will be an invaluable resource for nursing colleagues in clinical practice, education, research, and policy making. The following are some of the guidelines of nursing excellence addressed in the book: 1) Children and youth have an identified health care home (medical home). 2) Children, youth, and families receive care that supports growth and development. 3) Children, youth, families, and health care providers are partners in decisions, planning, and delivery of care, including appropriate community services. 4) Cultural values, beliefs, and preferences are integral to family-centered care. 5) Family concerns are recognized as a priority, and family strengths are respected and supported in the care of children and youth. 6) Children, youth, and families have high-quality, affordable, and accessible health care. 7) The child’s, youth’s, and family’s needs are identified, prioritized, and services are offered. 8) Children, youth, and families receive care that optimizes wellness, promotes and maintains physical and mental health, and prevents disease and injury. 9) Pregnant adolescents and women, children, youth, and families have access to genetic and genomic testing and genomic-appropriate counseling. 10) Children and youth receive care that is delivered in a physically and emotionally safe environment.

This book provides innovative ways to incorporate aging content into courses, trainings, and workshops for students or professionals. It presents activities which offer hands-on approaches to engage students of all backgrounds–from social workers to family caregivers, medical students to demographers, nurses to community planners, personal care attendants to students in introduction to gerontology courses. These faculty-tested, peer-reviewed educational activities cover topics ranging from physical aging, media, and demographic portrayals of older adults to disaster planning, public policy, and diversity among older adults. The book includes 32 unique and interesting activities. Each activity comes with detailed instructions, basic back-ground information, a materials list, and an explanation of how the specific content aligns with one or more of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) competencies for undergraduate and graduate education in gerontology. The book is divide into eleven chapters. The first chapter explores teaching courses on aging, and the potential of experiential learning activities to engage students. The second chapter discusses ageism and aging in the media. The next four chapters talk about dementia, demography, health care, and housing for older adults. The seventh chapter describes physical aging. Chapter 8 analyzes public policy and aging. Chapter 9 describes positive interactions with older adults. Chapter 10 explains research projects and papers, and the final chapter discusses spirituality.

Incivility, bullying, and workplace violence in nursing is a significant problem–so much so that the American Nurses Association (ANA) developed a position statement in 2015 addressing the issue (ANA, 2015). ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements notes that nurses are required to “create an ethical environment and culture of civility and kindness, treating colleagues, coworkers, employees, students, and others with dignity and respect”. This book explores the topic and gives the reader practical hands-on skills on how to identify and deal with this phenomenon. It provides detailed information, emphasizing why it is not okay to put new nurses “through the ringer” because we were once in that position. The book is intended to be a “field guide” to bullying and incivility: how to define, recognize, and deal with the behavior. It helps in understanding workplace violence in health care and the cost of nurse bullying on the health care system. The book explores the effects of bullying on the nurse and how to resolve and heal these effects, and the movement for formal workplace bullying legislation. It describes the responsibilities of nursing leadership and the employer and explains how to resist nurse bullying. Finally the book presents four case studies on bullying and the student nurse, bullying and the novice nurse, bullying in nursing education, and bullying in nursing administration.

This book is part of the Critical Topics in an Aging Society series. It serves as a catalyst in the technological transformation of aging services through organized presentation and evaluation of tools for a broad health care audience. Geriatrics interprofessional care is a fundamental part of older adult clinical practice modeled on a team approach inclusive of various fields, among them social work, pharmacy, nursing, rehabilitation, administration, and medicine. All clinicians who treat older adults, from the independent to the frail, are engaged in geriatrics team care which is continually adapting and evolving for individuals based on functional status changes, new treatment paradigms, and different settings of care. The need for advanced technology is clearly evident as one enters a hospital, nursing home, or geriatric care setting, including the patient’s home. Older adults have limited abilities to adapt to changes across these care locations, and thoughtfully implemented technology may eliminate these obstacles while providing safer, more enjoyable, and cost-effective care. The book presents some of the latest medical technological innovations and discusses options to help improve not only transitions of care, but also independence and quality of life for older adults. It is organized into four sections. The first section discusses current major challenges in aging and targets for technology, and promoting technology adoption and engagement in aging. The second section focuses on transitions of care and technology integration, home telehealth, and telemedicine and its effects on elder care in rural areas. Section three explores technology design for frailty, technology and cognitive impairment, advances in medication adherence technology, and technological advancements in pain management in elderly population. The final section describes personalized medicine and wearable devices, social robots and other relational agents to improve patient care, artificial intelligence and its potential to improve health, and advances in health education technology.