Health Policy Change: IOM Future of Nursing Research

IOM FUTURE OF NURSING
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Introduction
Change is an element considered as inevitable, one of the aspects in life that can be banked. In healthcare, change remains essential since new legislations, policy reforms, technologies, and the changing standards in the process of care. These approaches are directed towards improving and enhancing the process of patient care, an aspect that boils down to the inclusion of nurses as change agents.
Being change agents requires nurses to incorporate leadership roles in initiating policies that address some of the challenges they encounter in care. As agents of change, nurses facilitate effective approaches of brining positive change in care, a role that is vital in incorporating improvements in health care. This paper therefore seeks to establish a health policy change at the state and federal level that needs to be changed.
Health Policy Change
The nursing profession has a grown role in the development of health policies since nurses are perceived as leaders in advocacy for health policy, research process, analysis, policy development, implementation and evaluation (Gabe & Ann, 2013). In the process of care, patient centered care has resulted into a new phase for nursing practitioners. Much focus has significantly been driven towards the welfare of patients, an aspect that has resulted in the neglect of nursing practitioners who have been left exposed to several challenges.
One of the elements that have seen a dismal level of attention that should have been considered is in the level of violence that these nurses are exposed to in the process of care. Nurses have experienced constant attacks either verbally or physically by their patients and families, an aspect that has received minimal attention in changing the situation (Gabe & Ann, 2013). However, the nest approach to ensure that this situation is effectively addressed is through the development of legal frameworks that vehemently provide protection to the rights of nurses such as those granted to patients.
Violence towards health care practitioners including nurses is an element that is currently receiving a thoughtful concern within this industry. The prevalence of workplace violence in the state of New Jersey is considerable growing in as much as government legislations and policies exist (Fyffe, 2012). Addressing and preventing this issue of workplace violence consequently necessitates the need to reinforce and review the existing polices in this state. In order to change the existing policies, it is consequently essential to develop an action through the use of a systematic approach aimed at establishing and implementing specified policies and strategies to prevent work place violence amongst health care providers in the state of New Jersey.
As described in the development of policies, the following steps will be initiated: a description of the problems context, development of policy goals, weighing these policies, providing a strategy for their implementation and lastly an evaluation process.
Exact Wording for the Bill or Change in Wording of the Law
The state of New Jersey developed the Violence Protection in Health Care Facilities Act with t...