WEEK 7: RN AS HEALTHCARE POLICY LEADER

WEEK 7: RN AS HEALTHCARE POLICY LEADER

As a health policy professional leader, communicating with lay audiences is an important skill in promoting the health of the community for master prepared registered nurses. Develop a concise position statement reflecting the research findings and recommendations by experts as they relate to workplace support for breast feeding mothers, medical marijuana services in the community, genetic testing or applications of stem cell research, transgender care, abortion, end-of-life care, or a community service administered by Family Nurse Practitioners (if you pick this one be specific about the type of community service the FNP would work in or manage).

Solution:

A position statement takes into account an explanation, description, justification or recommendation for a course of action. Binns,  Lee, and Low (2016) stress that a position statement usually enables others to know ones when it comes to a certain topic as well as debate and can be employed in a wide range of areas including policy, literature, legislation, literature, and ethics. In this consideration, I plan to develop a position statement for addressing the concern of breastfeeding in my community. Taking this into consideration, a registered nurse practitioner typically has the responsibility of enlightening community members on the benefits associated with breastfeeding. Firstly, breastfeeding has both short as well as long-term benefits to the infants. The short-term benefits of breastfeeding, as