West E, Scott C
Royal College of Nursing Institute, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England.
J Adv Nurs. 2000 Oct;32(4):817-24.
Nurses and nursing are associated traditionally with activities in a private sphere. This paper argues that, if clinical care is to be improved, nurses need to take a more active public role in making and implementing health policy at both local and national levels. In the current climate, empirical evidence is one of the most important tools for influencing health policy. This paper discusses contemporary models of the policy-making process before outlining a number of strategies that could be used to increase the policy impact of nursing research. Finally, while the current climate in the United Kingdom health-care arena presents opportunities for researchers to have an impact on policy, the growth of health policy research as a distinct field of scholarship also poses a number of challenges and dangers.
传统上，护士及护理工作与私人领域的活动相关联。本文认为，若要改善临床护理，护士需要在地方和国家层面制定和实施卫生政策方面发挥更积极的公共作用。在当前形势下，实证证据是影响卫生政策的最重要工具之一。本文在概述一些可用于增强护理研究政策影响力的策略之前，先讨论了当代政策制定过程的模式。最后，尽管英国医疗保健领域的当前形势为研究人员影响政策提供了机会，但卫生政策研究作为一个独特的学术领域的发展也带来了一些挑战和风险。
