Leadership and Policy

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Leadership and Policy

• In Introduction to Key Concepts

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Leadership Some initial questions to ponder

• What needs to be led in the health care system
  and beyond?
• Who are some of the leaders in the health care
  system and beyond? What makes them leaders?
• What are some leadership qualities? (note that
  the answer to this question is tied to worldview
  and political compass)

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The health care system

• What other systems are articulated to the health
  care system?
• How do these articulations challenge leadership?
• What are some of the main challenges in health
  care today?

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Pulling it all together The social, economic
and political contexts of health

• Leadership and the social determinants of health

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So if the strongest determinant of health is
poverty

• What are some Nursing Leadership Priorities

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Sowhat are some key areas for Leadership in
Canadian Nursing?

• Nursing EducationThe Aboriginal and Black
  Student Success Program (STFX)
• Professional Nursing Practice(Cultural
  Competency Moral Distress)
• Political Areas (Government policyprivitization)
• National Leadership(Nurses for Medicare)
• Global Leadership (ICN Girl Child Education
  Fund)

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What is the policy cycle and how do these nursing
leadership successes reflect the policy cycle?
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The Policy Cycle Simplified

• 1. Setting the policy agenda and objectives
  Identifying social problems and getting them on
  the policy agenda
• 2. Moving policy to action Policy formulation
  and adoption
• 3. Policy implementation Finding effective,
  ethical, and practical solutions
• . Policy evaluation, reassessment, and revision
  Measuring outcomes and moving forward

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Figure 7. The Policy Cycle

• SETTING THE POLICY AGENDA
• OBJECTIVES Identifying social
• problems getting them
• on the policy agenda

4. POLICY EVALUATION REVISION Measuring
outcomes moving forward
3. POLICY IMPLEMENTATION Finding effective,
ethical practical solutions
Source McGibbon, E. Etowa, J. 2009).
Anti-racist health care practice Toronto
Canadian Scholars Press.
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Trace the Policy Cycle for each of these Nursing
Leadership Initiatives

• Nursing EducationThe Aboriginal and Black
  Student Success Program (STFX)
• Professional Nursing Practice(Cultural
  Competency Models Moral Distress Theory)
• Political Areas (Government policyprivitization)
• National Leadership(Nurses for Medicare)
• Global Leadership (ICN Girl Child Education
  Fund)