Policy Process: on LONG-TERM CARE Part II
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Health care and nursing is more complex today than ever before. New technologies and ever-growing population demands a much more disciplined and organized health care industry (Abood, 2007). This is possible when there are policies, rules and regulations about medical procedures. The medical industry involves some policies today that a person could never imagine few centuries ago. For example there are policies for sperm donation, use of organs after death for research purposes and saving human genome in labs. In the same way there are many other medical procedures that are in policy making phase for example abortion, long-term care, state sponsored insurance of immigrants etc. (Jones, 2000). This paper discusses the policy making process of long-term care. The stages of policy making discussed here are evaluation, analysis and revision.
Evaluation stage
Some topics are too controversial that they cannot become a favorable policy. While others are too important that societies cannot afford to waste time in not making policy or delaying it. The policy of long-term care includes insurance privileges, services to deal with disability or chronic diseases. The policy is made after due diligence so that no critical portion of the issue is unsolved (Willinsky, 2006). The long-term care is critical since it deals with offering those that cannot help out themselves and are dependent on others. The evaluation of long-term policy should determine if the patient or individual is still dependent on others to look after him or not. The evaluation should judge whether the patient himself or herself feels satisfied with the services or not. The team that evaluates the policy making process of long-term care should find how the policy brings well-being in the lives of those in need.
The evaluation of long-term care policy making should also try to understand if the extra burden is put...
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