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Visibility of nursing in policy documents related to health care priorities
Visibility of nursing in policy documents related to health care priorities
- Source :
- Journal of Nursing Management
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- Aim - To explore the visibility of nursing in policy documents concerning health care priorities in the Nordic countries. Background - Nurses at all levels in health care organisations set priorities on a daily basis. Such prioritization entails allocation of scarce public resources with implications for patients, nurses and society. Although prioritization in health care has been on the political agenda for many years, prioritization in nursing seems to be obscure in policy documents. Methodology - Each author searched for relevant documents from their own country. Text analyses were conducted of the included documents concerning nursing visibility. Results - All the Nordic countries have published documents articulating values and criteria relating to health care priorities. Nursing is seldom explicitly mentioned but rather is included and implicit in discussions of health care prioritization in general. Conclusion - There is a need to make priorities in nursing visible to prevent missed nursing care and ensure fair allocation of limited resources. Implications for nursing management - To highlight nursing priorities, we suggest that the fundamental need for nursing care and what this implies for patient care in different organisational settings be clarified and that policymakers explicitly include this information in national policy documents.
- Subjects :
- Prioritization
Leadership and Management
media_common.quotation_subject
Prioritizations
03 medical and health sciences
Nursing care
InformationSystems_GENERAL
Nursing
Political agenda
LEFT UNDONE
Political science
Health care
Humans
QUALITY
National Policy
Quality (business)
Missed nursing care
Nursing management
media_common
Healthcare priorities
Nursing visibility
ENVIRONMENT
030504 nursing
Health Priorities
business.industry
Health Policy
030503 health policy & services
Visibility (geometry)
Rationing
Policy documents
FUNDAMENTALS
VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800
Nursing visibilities
Nordic countries
VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800
HOSPITALS
OF-CARE
Nursing Care
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Nursing Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cca9f35d8d360496315105cf34a69d5e