Barriers to Nurses participation in the development of health care

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Barriers to Nurses' participation in the development of health care policy in the United States
Lack of enabling structure:
One of the key issues that hinder nurses’ participation in development of healthcare policy is lack of enabling structure. There isn’t a defined structure of law framework which requires a nurse’s representation on the table where the healthcare policies are developed. It most cases it is not mandatory to have nursing experts on the committee developing health policies and therefore they are involved at will and most of the times left out. Lack of a well-defined structure of creating health policies necessitating that nurses must be involved overlooks importance of nurses in the panel. Concisely, nurses are n...