You can get there from here: guide to problem definition in policy development.
1. Nurses can enhance their abilities to formulate and implement health policy through the use of the assessment part of the nursing process. 2. Problem definition, the first step in policy development, includes identifying the issues, discussing and framing the issues, analyzing data and resources, and deciding on a problem definition. 3. Problem definition develops as an interaction between an instrumental, or cognitive, component and an expressive component, which represents the contextual setting of the problem. 4. Problem definitions change over a course of events. Current solutions may lead to new concerns and issues that then require new problem definitions.
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Division of Nursing, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx 10468.
D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006287:Health Planning Guidelines; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D009736:Nursing Process; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011340:Problem Solving; D012380:Role