School of Nursing, Thompson Rivers University, Box 3010, 900 McGill Road, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
Nurse Educ Today. 2012 May;32(4):432-7. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2011.03.009. Epub 2011 Apr 9.
Academic nursing leaders play a crucial role in the policy context for nursing education. Effectiveness in this role requires that they work together in presenting nursing education issues from a position of strength, informed by a critical analysis of policy pertaining to the delivery of quality nursing education and scholarship. We describe a collective process of dialog and critical analysis whereby nurse leaders in one Canadian province addressed pressing policy issues facing governments, nursing programs, faculty, and students. Consensus among academic nurse leaders, formalized through the development of a policy action framework, has enabled us to take a stand, at times highly contested, in the politicized arena of the nursing shortage. We present the components of a policy action framework for nursing education and share examples of how we have used a critical approach to analyze and frame policy issues in nursing education for inclusion on policy agendas. We believe our work has influenced provincial and national thinking about policy in nursing education is the foundation of our conclusion that political presence and shared strategy among academic nursing leaders is undeniably critical in the global context of nursing today.
学术护理领导者在护理教育的政策环境中发挥着至关重要的作用。要想在这一角色中取得成效，他们必须共同协作，以批判的眼光分析与提供优质护理教育和学术相关的政策，从而提出护理教育问题。我们描述了一个对话和批判性分析的集体过程，通过这个过程，加拿大一个省的护理领导者解决了政府、护理项目、教师和学生面临的紧迫政策问题。通过制定政策行动计划框架，达成了学术护理领导者之间的共识，使我们能够在护理短缺这一政治化的领域中坚定立场，尽管有时会面临激烈的争议。我们介绍了护理教育政策行动计划框架的组成部分，并分享了我们如何使用批判性方法来分析和构建护理教育政策问题，以将其纳入政策议程的例子。我们相信，我们的工作影响了省级和国家级对护理教育政策的思考，这是我们得出结论的基础，即今天在全球护理背景下，学术护理领导者的政治存在和共同战略是不可或缺的。
