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2013 Instructors Manual for Policy and Politics in Nursing and Healthcare, 6e

Mason: Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 6th Edition
UNIT 3: POLICY AND POLITICS IN RESEARCH AND NURSING SCIENCE

Alma Dixon

Highly Recommended Chapters:

Chapter 39: Science, Policy, and Politics
Chapter 40: Research as a Political and Policy Tool

Suggested Chapters:
Chapter 42: Politics and Evidence-Based Practice and Policy
Chapter 43: The Society for Women’s Health Research: Using Evidence-Based Policy to
Improve Health
Chapter 44: Using Research to Advance Healthy Social Policies for Children

Optional Chapters:
Chapter 45: Taking Action: Reefer Madness: The Clash of Science, Politics, and Medical
Marijuana
Chapter 46: Taking Action: The Journey into the Hallowed Halls of Politics: How Nurse
Practitioners Changed Pennsylvania Policy

UNIT OVERVIEW

Unit 3 begins with explaining how science and politics interact and influence each other and
how science can influence policy. Several examples illustrate how research can be ignored or
misused for political gain.

Included in the unit are examples of current controversial research areas that have policy
implications. These examples highlight the use of many strategies that are included in Units
1 and 2 that nurses have used to advance evidence-based research to accomplish changes in
policy.

RELEVANCE FOR STUDENTS: This chapter provides the content for students to
understand how research can be used or misused in political decisions. This places the
importance of being a knowledgeable consumer of research in the context of the role of the
nurse as patient advocate and patient educator.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Describe the relationship of politics and the political process to research.
2. Describe how politics and science may clash and the impact on patients and nursing.
3. Cite how science can be used to inform policy and political decisions.
4. Identify research in the policymaking process.
5. Cite the impact of gender inequity in research and the subsequent effect on health
care policy.

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6. Identify major themes pertaining to social policies for children and the impact of
research on those policies.
7. Identify the role of nursing in advancing controversial research projects using
medical marijuana and screening for Chlamydia as paradigms.

TEACHING STRATEGIES
Writing Assignment
Purpose: To provide students with the opportunity to explore the interface of political
influence and a major health issue using tobacco use as a paradigm.
Instructions: Students are to complete the following steps including answering questions:
1. Trace the history of smoking and its effect on health (locate an article from a nursing
journal on the hazards of smoking).
2. Who were the stakeholders in opposition to smoking?
3. Who were the lobbyists in favor of a hands-off approach?
4. What is the current use of tobacco products (e.g., smokeless tobacco)?
5. What is the current research on the use of these products?
6. What are the policy implications?

Evaluation Criteria
After you locate an article from a nursing journal on the hazards of smoking, you will be
evaluated on your ability to thoroughly answer the following questions in a coherent, well-
written paper.
1. Who were the stakeholders in opposition to smoking?.......10 points
2. Who were the lobbyists in favor of a hands-off approach?.....10 points
3. What is the current use of tobacco products (e.g., smokeless tobacco)?….10 points
4. What is the current research on the use of these products?.............10 points
5. What are the policy implications for the future?........................................................30
points
6. Paper: organization, grammar, resources/references
………………………………………………………………………30 points

Writing Assignment
Purpose: To provide the opportunity for students to compare and contrast the roles, scope of
practice and perspectives of nurse practitioners and physicians and suggest a policy
intervention
Instructions: Students are to complete the following steps including answering questions:
1. Select a specialty (e.g., family practice, pediatrics). Define the roles you will be
addressing: physician and nurse practitioner.
2. Determine who regulates the scope of practice for the physician and the NP.
3. Summarize the scope of practice including the level of autonomy for each.
4. What are the barriers to practice?
5. What policy change would you suggest?

Evaluation Criteria
You will be evaluated on your ability to:
1. Select a specialty (e.g., family practice, pediatrics)…………………..10 points

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2. Determine who regulates the scope of practice for the physician and the
NP…………………………………...10 points
3. Summarize the scope of practice including the level of autonomy for each……20
points
4. Identify the barriers to practice…………………………………………….15 points
5. Suggest a policy change……………………………………………………20 points
6. Present a well-written, concise paper……………………………………..25 points

Optional Assignment
Writing Assignment
Purpose: To provide the opportunity for students to select an area of personal interest in
policy and politics in research and nursing science
Instructions: Step 1: Student may select one of the following chapters:
Chapter 45: Taking Action: Reefer Madness: The Clash of Science, Politics, and Medical
Marijuana
Chapter 46: The Journey into the Hallowed Halls of Politics: How Nurse Practitioners
Changed Pennsylvania Policy
Step 2: Answer the following questions:
1. Why did you select the chapter?
2. What did you learn about the role of the nurse as an activist?
3. What problems were encountered?
4. What might you have done differently to address the problem? Why? If you would
not have done anything differently, why not?
5. What did you learn from the chapter about politics in research and nursing science?
6. Would you suggest another policy as an outcome? If yes, what would it be? If not,
why not?

Evaluation Criteria
You will be evaluated on your ability to apply the knowledge from the chapters in Unit 3:
Policy and Politics in Research and Nursing Science, by answering the following questions:
1. Why did you select the chapter?.......................................................10 points
2. What did you learn about the role of the nurse as an activist?.........15 points
3. What problems were encountered?..................................................15 points
4. What might you have done differently? ............................................25 points
5. What did you learn from the chapter about politics in research and nursing science?
….………………………………………………………………20 points
6. Would you suggest another policy as an outcome? If yes, what would it be? If not,
why not?.....................................................................................15 points

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