What are specific actions that health professionals can take regardless of their practice area and site to promote population and community health?
What advocacy actions might you take to improve health care through legislation at the state or federal level?
Analyze the history, structure, and process of health-care-policy and politics in nursing and the health care delivery systems in the United States
Describe how genes interact with environmental factors to affect behavior.
What major neurotransmitters are associated with mood? How are they involved in abnormal behavior?
What role do emotions play in psychopathology?
What examples of advocacy do you see in your own nursing practice? List and discuss 2 examples.
What components of the ACA do you think will have a positive effect on improving health care outcomes and decreasing costs?
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In your readings this week, you explored the basic economic principles of trade, choice, opportunity costs, and scarcity, along with the law of demand. What are the potential positive and negative impacts of applying these principles to the healthcare industry? How do you think a healthcare organization should balance the economic principles described with issues of health, life, and death in terms of its policy decisions and strategic planning? Can you put monetary value on a life?
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