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Health policy and politics : a nurse's guide

Examine the process of public policymaking, including agenda setting, government response, program response, implementation, and evaluation in this new edition of Health Policy and Politics: A Nurse's Guide. This book: Integrates the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Future of Nursing paper; Contains an updated chapter on finance and spending; Includes a new chapter focused on the impact of information technology on policymaking; Incorporates case studies that reflect modern-day problems and settings; Contains the most current information on the politics surrounding the ever-changing field of health policy; Describes how nurses in advanced practice can deliver quality health care by appropriate providers in a cost-effective manner; and explains how health policy affects practicing clinicians and administrators and how they can become politically active
Print Book, English, ©2013
Jones & Bartlett Learning, Burlington, MA, ©2013