Welcome to the Evidence-Informed Health Policy Instructor's Guide. This guide is designed to be a resource for educators in the academic, professional association, government affairs, regulatory, or practice environments. The guide is divided into three units: <ul> <li>Unit 1: Using the Textbook for Teaching and Learning</li> <li>Unit 2: Resources for Teaching Evidence-Informed Health Policy</li> <li>Unit 3: Chapter Learning Activities and Instructor Support</li> </ul> In this instructor's guide, we provide suggestions for faculty, nurse leaders, nurse members or staff of professional associations and organizations, regulatory agency members or staff, or other healthcare professionals who are teaching others to become more familiar with the policymaking milieu and processes using the book Evidence-Informed Health Policy: Using EBP to Transform Policy in Nursing and Healthcare. For faculty in particular, the menu of chapter-by-chapter learning activities and case studies will help facilitate student learning about the public policy process and can be used as part of a health policy course at a variety of academic levels. The student workbook contains the same learning activities and case studies found in the instructor's guide. However, the instructor's guide additionally contains instructor support; this consists of sections on learning activity implementation and student evaluation. Also, some learning activities require fill-in responses or answers; samples are provided for the instructor. Finally, the instructor's guide includes one learning activity found in the student workbook: suggestions for a penultimate learning activity/comprehensive policy brief. We have often used this in our courses instead of a final examination. For master's-level students, we suggest assigning a bill or other form of established policy. Doctoral-level students are guided through the process of identifying an individualized policy problem and, eventually, a viable solution; some have gone on to develop these as DNP projects.

INSTRUCTOR GUIDE for Evidence-Informed Health Policy: Using EBP to Transform Policy in Nursing and Healthcare

Medical Books

Jacqueline M. Loversidge

Joyce Zurmehly

Administration & Medicine Economics

Sigma Theta Tau International

As a student of nursing or another healthcare profession, you have likely been introduced to evidence-based practice (EBP) as a means for addressing clinical problems. The accompanying book will introduce you to EBP's parallel in health policy-evidence-informed health policymaking as a process for addressing health policy problems. It is exciting to think that we, as healthcare providers, can have an impact on the making of good health policy and have the means to influence our policymakers. To do that, we also need to be grounded in the structure and function of government, familiarize ourselves with who represents us in government, and have a beginning understanding of how political systems work. This student workbook is designed as a companion to the primary book, Evidence-Informed Health Policy: Using EBP to Transform Policy in Nursing and Healthcare, which will provide you with the necessary grounding in policy and policymaking, persuade you that evidence can be used to influence policymaking, and which describes an evidence-informed health policymaking model. PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE The purpose of the Evidence-Informed Health Policy Student Workbook is to provide learning activities and case studies that relate to each book chapter that will help deepen the student's understanding of government structure, function, and evidence-informed health policymaking. Three chapters provide one accompanying learning activity; each of the remaining chapters provides multiple learning activities. In addition, three case studies are included; each of these focuses on the application of chapter material in the policymaking environment. Every exercise reflects the content of its accompanying chapter; therefore, students should read the chapter, and if specified, focus on certain sections within the chapter prior to completing an exercise or case study. Students may complete all these learning activities, but some instructors may choose only one or two from each chapter that meet the objectives of a particular course. Each learning activity begins with objectives, and many suggest accompanying resource material or additional external resources, and specific instructions. Nurses and other healthcare professionals are increasingly called upon to engage in the process of policy development and advocate for health policy that will serve the public good. Our hope is that the student workbook will help prepare you for this role by facilitating both your own development of a beginning policy skill set and a deeper understanding of the health policy environment.

WORKBOOK for Evidence-Informed Health Policy: Using EBP to Transform Policy in Nursing and Healthcare

What happens in health policy at local, state, and federal levels directly affects patients, nurses, and nursing practice. Some healthcare professionals, though, are intimidated by the complex and often nonlinear policy process or simply don’t know how to take the first step toward implementing policy change. 
In the second edition of Evidence-Informed Health Policy, authors Jacqueline M. Loversidge and Joyce Zurmehly demystify health policymaking and equip nurses and other healthcare professionals with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to navigate the first of many steps into health policy. This book translates the EBP language of clinical decision-making into an evidence-informed health policy (EIHP) model―a foundation for integrating evidence into health policymaking and leveraging dialogue with stakeholders. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Chapter 1: Extending the Use of Evidence-Based Practice to Health Policymaking 
Chapter 2: The Use of Evidence: The Changing Landscape in Health Policymaking 
Chapter 3: Health Policy and Politics 
Chapter 4: Government Structures and Functions That Drive Process 
Chapter 5: Policymaking Processes and Models 
Chapter 6: An Overview of an Evidence-Informed Health Policy Model for Nursing 
Chapter 7: The Foundation: Steps 0 Through 3 of the EIHP Process 
Chapter 8: Policy Production: Steps 4 and 5 of the EIHP Process 
Chapter 9: Follow-Through: Steps 6 and 7 of the EIHP Process 
Chapter 10: Health Policy on a Global Scale 
Chapter 11: Evidence-Informed Health Policymaking: Challenges and Strategies 
Appendix A: Resources 
Appendix B: Global Examples of Evidence-Informed Policymaking: An Annotated Bibliography

Evidence-Informed Health Policy, Second Edition

Loversidge, Jacqueline M

Nursing Knowledge International

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