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Download Public Health Nurses: Creating and Influencing Health Policy | NURSING 715 and more Study Guides, Projects, Research Health sciences in PDF only on Docsity! 1 Public Health Nurses: Creating & Influencing Health Policy April 20, 2009 Presented By: Gina Dennik-Champion, MSN, RN, MSHA WNA Executive Director & Kathy Farnsworth, WPHA President WELEAP Regional Learning Collaborative presents: “PHNS: Creating & Influencing Health Policy” LEAP Project Funded by HRSA, Division of Nursing DHHS/HRSA D11HP07731 Planning Committee Members: Judy Talbott MS, MHA, BSN, RN, Jennifer Rombalski, BSN, RN, Christine Hovell, BS, RN, Stephanie Genz, Ed D, MS, BSN, RN, Karen Morris, BSN, RN, Tim Ringhand, MPH, RN, Pamela Guthman, BSN, RN, BC, Gina Dennik-Champion, MSN ,RN, MSHA, WNA Executive Director, Kathy Farnsworth, WPHA President Public Health Nurses: Creating & Influencing Health Policy Legislative Panel Jennifer Schilling, 95th Wisconsin Assembly District Dan Kapanke, WI State Senator-32nd State Senate District Kathleen Vinehout, WI State Senator-31st Senate District Ron Kind, U.S. Congressman-3rd Congressional District Moderated By: Judy Talbott MHA, BSN, RN, Viterbo University & La Crosse District Nurses Association President WELEAP PHNs: Creating & Influencing Health Policy April 20, 2009 The Planning Committee would like to Thank and Acknowledge: These sponsors: • Viterbo University • La Crosse District Nurses Association • La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium • LEAP Project DHHS/HRSA D11HP07731-02-01 administered by University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing • WI Department of Public Health, Division of Public Health-Western Region These entities with their in kind support with staff time & assistance: • Buffalo County HHS • Jackson County Public Health • Wisconsin Division of Public Health, Department of Health Services, Northern Region-Janet Gardner • UW-La Crosse – facility, IT & food service needs-Michael Slevin, Shirley Paine & Vicky Moutsopoulos • Wisconsin Nurses Association • Wisconsin Public Health Nurses Association Thank you for attending LEAP Project Funded by HRSA, Division of Nursing DHHS/HRSA D11HP07731 “Public Health Nurses : Creating & Influencing Health Policy” LEAP Project- http://www.son.wisc.edu/LEAP Pamela Guthman, BSN, RN, BC Education Practice Liaison-UW-Madison, School of Nursing 715.836.2640, 608.516.2640 (cell), guthman@wisc.edu 1 Public Health Nurses: Creating & Influencing Health Policy Gina Dennik-Champion MSN, RN, MSHA WNA Executive Director 6117 Monona Drive, Suite 1 M di WI 53716a son, gina@wisconsinnurses.org www.wisconsinnurses.org Ethical Obligation Nursing Code of Ethics & Interpretative Statements… Make explicit the primary • Goals • Values • Obligations Of the profession. Code of Ethics for Nurses Fundamental Principles of… Doing no harm Benefiting others Loyalty Truthfulness Social justice Changing context of health care Patient autonomy Professional nurse autonomy Code of Ethics for Nurses So what does this have to do with public policy? Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision # 7 The nurse participates in the advancement of the profession through contributions to practice education , , administration, and knowledge development. Advancing the profession through active involvement in nursing & in health care policy. Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision #9 The profession of nursing, as represented by associations & their members, is responsible for articulating nursing values, for maintaining the integrity of the profession & its practice, and for shaping social policy Assertion of values Carries out collective responsibility (WNA) Social reform 4 For more information Wisconsin Nurses Association info@wisconsinnurses org. www.wisconsinnurses.org 608-221-0383 Resources American Nurses Association, Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements. www.nursingworld.org Mason, D. & Talbott, S., Political Action Handbook for Nurses: Changing the Workplace, Government, Organizations, and Community. Addison-Wesley Publishing. 1985. Wisconsin Nurses Association, 6117 Monona Drive, Madison, WI. 608-221-0383. Email: info@wisconsinnurses.org website: www.wisconsinnurses.org For more information contact: Gina Dennik-Champion MSN, RN, MSHA WNA Executive Director & Lobbyist 1 Public Health Nurses Creating and Influencing Health Policy Kathy Farnsworth, President Wisconsin Public Health Association 20 April 2009 Creating & Influencing Health Policy Review strategies to effectively advocate and influence health policy Address how public health nurses can contribute to good health policy interventions Creating & Influencing Health Policy What is policy? Informal or formal rules affecting what we do, how we do it Informal: patterns of practice Formal: Law/ordinances Regulations Organizations’ policies and procedures Creating & Influencing Health Policy Spectrum of Prevention Influencing Policy and Legislation Changing Organizational Practices Fostering Coalitions & Networks Educating Key Leaders Promoting Community Education Strengthening Individual Knowledge and Skills Creating & Influencing Health Policy Levels of Policy: (Bold = Sphere) Global National (Regions) State (Regions) Community (county, city, town, village, school) Organizations (Associations, Corporations) Family Individual Creating & Influencing Health Policy Ask yourself as a public health nurse: Where do I have influence? What is my role within places I have influence Control Supportive How do/can I proceed within places I have influence? 2 Creating & Influencing Health Policy Many resources on how to proceed http://www.wpha.org/legtoolkit.pdf http://wch.uhs.wisc.edu/11-Action/11-Action- 01WhatIsIt.html http://www.healthpolicyguide.org/ http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/ http://hwli.org/policy.asp Health policy archive Creating & Influencing Health Policy Strategies Similar regardless of national, state, community or organizational Know process At each level How they inter-relate Know the people Creating & Influencing Health Policy Process Resources: State http://www.legis.state.wi.us/assembly/ACC/P DF/habbl2003.pdf http://ethics state wi us/Forms. . . - Publications/FormsPublications.htm#Guidelin es important Wisconsin definition of lobbying Creating & Influencing Health Policy Process Resources: Federal http://thomas.loc.gov/ http://congress.indiana.edu/learn_about/topic/ legislative process php_ . Creating & Influencing Health Policy Process Where can health policy occur at State level? Biennial Budget Separate Legislation State Agency Administrative Rules Gubernatorial Creating & Influencing Health Policy Process: Biennial Budget Influence points Development for Governor Legislature Joint Finance Committee Legislative Fiscal Bureau Standing Committees Assembly and Senate Governor’s veto 5 Creating & Influencing Health Policy Educating: Can talk to media about bills Can talk to Governor/staff about bills but not on veto or signing Can talk about better enforcement of regulations and law Conduct public education Produce and share research reports and studies Creating & Influencing Health Policy Educating: Can do newsletters to members with information on legislation including who supports and opposes but without call to action. Doing so routinely avoids perception of lobbying. Can coordinate and hold in-district meetings with legislators to explain issues (overview, impacts, local activities) Creating & Influencing Health Policy Educating: Can attend and testify for information only at hearings Creating & Influencing Health Policy Lobbying: Asking for specific action on specific legislation Letters to editor asking for specific action on specific legislation Distributing action alerts on legislation Acting as media spokesperson asking for specific action on legislation Creating & Influencing Health Policy Lobbying: Testifying and making a specific legislative “ask” Preparing those who will testify to make the specific legislative ask Providing talking points/message Paying for transportation Creating & Influencing Health Policy Other comments on lobbying: Resources http://www.ebasedtreatment.org (toolbox, advocacy) Guidelines for Advocacy: Changing Policies and Laws to Create Safer environments for Youth by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, Strategizer #31 6 Creating & Influencing Health Policy Other comments on lobbying: Nonprofits need to keep account of their lobbying activities for IRS reporting and there are allowable limits for nonprofits Human resources offices may have rules on lobbying Federal and State allowable cost procedures prohibit use of federal funds to lobby. Those organizations with such funds must use other funds for lobbying. Creating & Influencing Health Policy Methods/strategies of influence can include education and lobbying Discerning the difference tells us where we can act and what we can do within our various places we have influence If we cannot do them in our job, we can do them as members of organizations or as individual citizens. Action in all our spheres of influence are most effective.