Policy imperatives for nursing in an era of health care restructuring

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The nursing profession must retain the unity and commitment to influencing health care policy that it gained during the national health care reform debate and work to face the new health policy challenges to nursing. The health care environment changed with the defeat of comprehensive health care reform. Current issues include restructuring in the health care industry, protection of safety and quality, accountability, consumer education and effective utilization of nurses. Establishing objective standards to evaluate nursing care quality is essential.

Analysis, Political aspects, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Medical policy, Health policy, Health care reform

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Profession building in the new health care system

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Nursing must relinquish its traditional strategies for building the profession and replace them with a contemporary plan of action. Changes in the health care system have altered its sources of power and means for gaining this power. Major themes in a contemporary framework for achieving professional power for nursing include collaboration with other health care professionals, accountability to stakeholders, commitment to continual change and recruitment of more men. Flexibility is vital to making the right strategic changes.

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Nursing entrepreneurship in an era of chaos and complexity

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Nurses and nursing must face widespread change in health care as the 20th century ends, and an entrepreneurial stance is probably the best view to take. The nursing profession and individual nurses must increasingly act as proactive innovators to meet the expectations of the new health care marketplace. Once the profession recognizes the crucial importance of entrepreneurship, it can develop strategies and resources to assist nurse entrepreneurs.

Management, Organizational change, Entrepreneurship

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