Conceptualizing Policy as Environment: Raising Awareness of Practice Implications

• Autores: Barbara A. Harris
• Localización: Nursing Science Quarterly: Theory, research and practice, ISSN 0894-3184, Vol. 25, Nº. 3, 2012, págs. 273-278
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Environment has long been a primary concern in nursing, beginning with Nightingale�s attention to the power of the environment to heal. Policy is a dimension of the practice environment with great potential to influence patients� health. In this column, a practice vignette illustrates some of the barriers to nurses� awareness of policy-as-environment. Characteristics of conceptualizations of environment, arising from nursing science, that have potential to surmount barriers and increase awareness are identified. Creative attention to conceptualizing policy-as-environment is urged as a way to encourage nurses to consider policy activity as a satisfying aspect of practice.