Health Policy: Nursing Theory as Inspiration for Policy Development

Abstract

The theoretical knowledge base of nurse policy-makers enhances their thoughts with inspiring opportunities with communities and healthcare agencies. Nursing theory and frameworks can serve as a motivating, inspirational force for nurses to be imaginative and view situations in innovative ways. In this paper, the author explores some ways in which health and nursing policy-makers may be inspired by unique nursing knowledge to craft policies that are consistent with nursing’s theories and models.

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humanbecoming community change concepts inspiration nursing theory-guided policy

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