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.

Heuristics, Community Change Concepts, and Health Policy: Coming to Know

“…Since nursing is a unique discipline, nurses have theoretical views that form the basis of health policies about the health and quality of life of persons, groups, families, and communities (Ortiz, 2023). McLeod and Spée (2003) stated that: policy development in healthcare has not typically been informed by nursing knowledge, but rather by legal knowledge.…”