Exploring the influence of the nursing and medical professions on policy and politics

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BACKGROUND: The Nursing Now global campaign is aimed at raising the profile of nursing and its influence on policy and politics. Calls for the profession to have an increased role in policymaking are not new, but recent developments offer significant opportunities to advance this message.

AIM: To compare and contrast the published scholarly evidence, indexed in Web of Science (WoS), relating to how medicine and nursing influence policy and politics.

METHOD: A bibliometric analysis of scholarship was undertaken to determine how medicine and nursing influence policy and politics. Indexed articles in Web of Science were compared to examine the evolution of scholarly contributions by both professions.

RESULTS: Since 1990, nursing and medicine have been consistent contributors to scholarship on policy and politics. At the same time, there has been an exponential growth in scholarly output, but nursing is now starting to fall behind. Nursing has focused on the necessary knowledge and skills, whereas medicine has focused on acting on specific issues.

CONCLUSION: There are multiple opportunities for nursing scholars to accelerate their indexed output to inform evidence-based advocacy, and influence policy and politics. These endeavours will increase their potential to inform future healthcare.

Errataetall:

ErratumFor: Nurs Manag (Harrow). 2020 Jan 29;:. - PMID 31995330

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Nursing management (Harrow, London, England : 1994) - 27(2020), 1 vom: 30. Jan., Seite 33-41

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Benton, David [VerfasserIn]
Ferguson, Stephanie [VerfasserIn]
Gómez Del Pulgar, Mercedes [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Advocacy
Journal Article
Leadership
Leadership skills
Management
Professional
Professional issues
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Date Revised 10.02.2020

published: Print-Electronic

ErratumFor: Nurs Manag (Harrow). 2020 Jan 29;:. - PMID 31995330

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.7748/nm.2020.e1896

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM305912216