Physicians may have started the contributions to hospice but "nurses were central to the inception and development of hospice care in the United States"(Buck, 2010). Even though nurses were involved in direct care of the hospice patient and helped in the debate to frame policy in regards to wholly determine national policy; nurses were not able to extend their influence beyond their own realm of nursing.
What can nurses do to stop this practice? Nurses must have a voice in policy weather institutional or national. What can you do as an individual nurse to help your voice be heard in policy making in nursing?
Please research and post your answers to this blog as class is coming to an end.
Thanks,
Dee
Buck, J. (2010). I am willing to take the risk’: politics, policy and the translation of the hospice idea. Journal of clinical Nursing 18(19). Retrieved from: http://web.ebscohost.com.lib.kaplan.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&hid=125&sid=0df58f9b-e922-4cf7-888f-6397702c327c%40sessionmgr11.
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