Health Policy: Applications for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals

Product Description
Health Policy: Application for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals, Third Edition provides an overview of the policy-making process within a variety of settings including academia, clinical practice, communities, and various health care systems. Health Policy takes a comprehensive structural approach to policymaking and provides the necessary tools to engage in health policy formulation. The Third Edition remains an easy-to-read foundational policy book that operationalizes health policy and politics and is one of the few health policy books that takes a civic competence model approach. It also provides the necessary tools to engage in health policy formulation and includes coverage of think tanks and expansion on policy institutes. Revised Appendices with current policy resources New Appendix: Major Federal Laws Executive Summaries Addition of Policy Terminology section at end of each chapter Policy Analysis Templates to help readers put skills into practice Summary Points and Policy Terminology emphasize critical content and terms Case studies and policy analysis templates bring concepts into the real world
About the Author
Dr. Demetrius James Porche is Professor and Dean of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana School of Nursing. He holds an appointment also in the School of Public Health and School of Graduate Studies at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. He received his undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Nicholls State University and his Master of Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Science from Louisiana State University Medical Center. He completed Family Nurse Practitioner post-graduate coursework at Concordia University Wisconsin. Dr. Porche earned a Doctorate of Philosophy from Capella University in Organization and Management with a specialization in Leadership. Dr. Porche is certified as a Clinical Specialist in Community Health Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner, and Professional Certified Coach. He is currently the Chief Editor of American Journal of Men’s Health. Dr. Porche was inducted as a fellow in the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.