Health policy and legislation: impact on cancer nursing and care.
OBJECTIVE
To review policy and legislative initiatives in which nursing has played roles and to provide insight into trends and issues that characterize the policy and political agendas in which oncology nurses can play advocacy roles in the new millennium.


METHODS
Professional journals, books, newspapers, news magazines, and internet web sites.


CONCLUSIONS
Oncology nurses can offer solutions to the dilemmas posed by fiscal realities, unique American values and expectations, and the complexities of cancer care in the United State's market-based health care system. Oncology nurses must assume roles as health policy specialists.


CONCLUSIONS
For nurses to gain acceptance in health policy arenas, individual nurses and groups of nurses must become expert in assessing the environment, the interpretation of cues, and the development and implementation of realistic strategies targeting priority health policy and legislative issues.
Haylock
P J
PJ
D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control; D009859:Oncology Nursing; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011050:Policy Making; D012106:Research; D014481:United States