Health Advocacy Campaign Part 2

This assignment requires that I develop and thoroughly analyze a public policy in order to advocate for one that improves the health of the public and/or the nursing profession globally (local, state, national or international). To do this, I must reflect on several aspects of being a policy maker within the nursing profession. I was instructed to consider the following:

We live in an era of rapid technological change, and this environment, undoubtfully changes the human health. Diabetes is one of the most widespread diseases, unfortunately. Therefore, there is a pressing need to inform people about healthy ways of living and a caring approach to their health. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is one of the organizations that try, to prevent diabetes and raise awareness on the disease in the US and around the world. Unfortunately, it has a set of weaknesses, which influence not only the work of the organization, but the general public’s opinion of it as well.

To protect the health, safety and wellbeing of everyone I care for. By ensuring that I identify health issues early I am able to inform the relevant people quickly and that will hopefully prevent the health issues getting worse, meaning that their health, safety, wellbeing and quality of life is improved and maintained as much as possible. It is also important to raise awareness to comply with company policies and legislation.

In order to first start a policy process, the problem for which a policy is to be created must be identified and the policy holding a solution to the problem. Researchers and stakeholders will investigate the problem to identify if the policy will reach the policy making agenda. Policies must be to improve society’s health and wellbeing. In the United States (U.S.) public health related issues that require a formulation of a new policy and come from local, state, or federal legislations which ruling govern the provision of health care services and regulations. In this

In addition, the schools that takes part in the project avails a controlled setting in which the manipulation of the environment is possible.

To preface the analysis of this case study, a discussion of the issues associated with defining policy success and policy failure should be outlined. Nevertheless, before that we should consider that, a definition of what policy success would be necessary. McConnell (2010) dictates that “a policy is successful if it achieves the goals that proponents set out to achieve and attracts no criticism of any significance and/or support is virtually universal” (4). Given this definition, we can begin to build a platform as to what the policy success or failure narrative should encompass. A definitive problem faced in the study of analyzing health policy is that it is very difficult, and often not clear how to establish what constitutes a health policy as being successful or unsuccessful.

From the previous paper, the proposed diabetes policy requires guidelines to be developed which will promote adherence to diabetes management recommendations among diabetes people in the United States. The advocacy campaign focuses on encouraging the American Diabetic Association to create guidelines for endorsing adherence to the diabetes management recommendations and develop legislation that will require the guidelines to be adopted by the health facilities dealing with diabetic patients (WHO, 2016). Hence the law should make all the health care providers, patients, health planner and all other employees adhere to those guidelines to improve the care of diabetes patients. Establishing a legislation that needs health care to adopt the

In essence, to receive support one must be willing to offer others support, for this reason, even in the process of influencing policymakers being able to provide support to legislators is imperative. Campaigns happen to be one of the areas where candidates and incumbent legislators require substantial support. The realization that campaigns are unmanageable without a large pool of resources and volunteers makes candidates seek out to their supporters for financial and none- financial assistance. Illustratively, during campaigns it is rewarding to identify candidates who share similar health agendas and ensure that there is full reliability in organizing, planning, and executing the campaign plans. The ability to ensure that such candidates are elected to office offers an assurance for the furtherance of the health agenda. Working with campaigns is, therefore, an important part of influencing policy makers. The following are some of the ways through which a health advocate can work with campaigns.

To affect public health a social policy where social work strategies and self-care management will join forces to prevent and treat CKD risk factors. The European Diabetes Policy Group that was enacted in 1988 has worked on major types of diabetes where multi-disciplinary teams join forces to affect change by creating a desktop guide for professional to improve care for those with non-insulin diabetes . This can be done through increased awareness, early screening and proper treatment. Although there are racial and ethnic disparities that include diabetes and hypertension, to affect policy change on the national level, the adult

The public health advocacy plays an important role in creating conditions and environments which promote health and prevent both diseases and injuries. In achieving this role, there are multiple communications and advocacy strategies that the public health work with to address ongoing health issues depending on what they want to accomplish, their target audiences and who they want to be involved. Advocacy communications focus on influencing specific audiences and messages to promote policy change. It requires a clear vision and objectives, a well thought out program and knowing the audience with monitoring and evaluation indicators. To better understand what the communication and advocacy strategies are, this paper will compare and contrast the difference between using the media advocacy campaign and mass media in promoting public health policies. In addition, the

A person can influence public health policy by gaining supporters for their cause; joining or forming organizations such as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers). By using the media, petitions, pickets, and letters to lawmakers to all branches of government people can influence public policy at all levels of government. By having an objective, strategies, and a plan of action individuals, or groups can exercise enormous pressure on government to make policies in their interest. Such as raising awareness

The agenda setting has ability to influence the decisions or issues on public agenda. Agenda setting is first step to initiate the health policy making process by deciding the decisions about policy formulation. This step includes three activities are- problems, possible solutions to the problems and political circumstances. According to king dons conceptualization, when all these three activities flow equally then for law "window of opportunity" opens. So this helps for development

In the past few weeks, Amanda Bolden, Jessica Guerra, Spencer Kilpatrick, Alyssa Kurtz and I worked together on our group project titled, Policy Analysis and Advocacy. The purpose of the group project was not only to allow students, the instructors as well, to investigate and develop superior awareness of health policies political and societal influences. Additionally, this project strived to provide students with an opportunity to analyze such political and societal influences on the implementation and successfulness of health policies (HP) and then untimely, the impact of HP on America Healthcare System.

Nurses should be well educated and trained to assess the health status of diabetic patients and competent enough to diagnose the alteration in the health status, provide appropriate management and health education to the patients. Educating nurses regarding the management of diabetes will prevent the patients suffering from macrovascular and microvascular complications associated with diabetes. When nurses have knowledge regarding the preventive approach of diabetic complications, they will regularly assess the patient’s health status such as regular foot inspection, skin assessment, neurological assessment and vascular assessment. Also they will educate other health care workers to follow the diabetic care plan . In nursing home, many patients with diabetes have foot ulcers, ulcers in between the toes, cardiovascular complications, urinary tract infection, history of fall injury and others. The complications mentioned above are associated with the lack of knowledge among nurses, which can be prevented by creating an awareness among nurses through in-service education. After providing the in- service education regarding the management and prevention of diabetic complications, nurses will be motivated to follow the right protocol to provide

Various factors are responsible for the limited number/proportion of available school nurses. These factors include the provision of an insufficient level of funding for school nurses by school districts, local acceptance of the current situation, and a lack of understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the school nurse. The National Association of School Nurses notes that caseloads vary widely both between and within states. Many school nurses provide health services to multiple school buildings, limiting the access that students have to a school nurse. When there is no nurse available, the responsibility of administering the necessary medications, treatments, and monitoring of the children may fall on administrators,