title: Thoughts About Health Policy Content in Baccalaureate Nursing Programs.
abstract: We describe a framework used to analyze health policy content in baccalaureate nursing program courses that combines the conceptual model for nursing and health policy and the Adams influence model to account for knowledge and skills needed for health policy work. Our analysis of health policy content in courses in one baccalaureate nursing program focused on what policies were emphasized and how educational content supported the development of personal influence. The analysis revealed course content focused on public sources of health policies and lack of overt course content about policies from organizational and professional sources. Additionally, we identified little course content about the development of personal influence skills except for communication and message articulation components. As the nursing profession continues to build influence in the policy arena, educators must continue to prepare future nurses for such work.
authors.affiliation: PhD Student, University of Massachusetts Boston.
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Waddell
authors.affiliation: Executive Director, Workforce Outcomes Research and Leadership Development Institute (WORLD-Institute), Belmont, MA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.affiliation: Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Boston.
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fawcett
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D013850:Thinking
keywords: Adams influence model; conceptual model for nursing and health policy; curriculum; health policy; nursing