Health policy engagement among nurse educators: a descriptive, cross-sectional study into political astuteness and political self-efficacy and the impact of personal and professional factors

Health policy engagement among nurse educators: a descriptive, cross-sectional study into political astuteness and political self-efficacy and the impact of personal and professional factors. (2018). Health policy engagement among nurse educators: a descriptive, cross-sectional study into political astuteness and political self-efficacy and the impact of personal and professional factors.

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Title	Health policy engagement among nurse educators: a descriptive, cross-sectional study into political astuteness and political self-efficacy and the impact of personal and professional factors
Abstract	Nurse educators are expected to teach nursing students health policy advocacy; however, there continues to be an absence of strong nursing presence within health policy creation and engagement. A nurse educator's own political knowledge (political astuteness) and confidence (self-efficacy) in health policy may be a contributing factor to the absence of nurses' lack of health policy engagement in practice. This descriptive, cross sectional study evaluates the political astuteness and political self-efficacy reported by nurse educators and the impact personal and professional factors have on their self-reported political astuteness and political self-efficacy. The study used the Political Astuteness Inventory developed by Philip Clark in 1984 and the Teacher's Political Self-Efficacy tool developed by Dr. Mary Catherine Hammon in 2010. The theoretical framework for this study was Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). This study used a random sample of 112 nurse educators from CCNE accredited BSN nursing programs in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The results indicate that there is a strong correlation (r = .809, p = .000) between political astuteness and political self-efficacy. Additionally, results of the study supported Bandura's SCT, indicating that nurse educators with role models in their professional nursing organizations reported higher scores in both political astuteness and political self-efficacy. Age was also a significant finding impacting nursing educators' political astuteness and political self-efficacy. Older nurse educators reported higher political astuteness and political self-efficacy. Implications of this study suggest more external motivation should be placed on nurse educators by deans, nursing department chairs and professional nursing organizations to increase political astuteness and political self-efficacy. Nurse educators who are more politically astute and have political self-efficacy could be more effective health policy role models for nursing students, which could lead to an increase in a student nurse's political astuteness and political self-efficacy. A nurse who is more knowledgeable and confident about a health policy topic could be better equipped to participate in health policy creation and engagement, thereby improving overall health through policies derived from front-line health care workers.
Date	2018

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Title: Health policy engagement among nurse educators: a descriptive, cross-sectional study into political astuteness and political self-efficacy and the impact of personal and professional factors
Personal Name(s): Modene, Rebecca Catherine
Hoffman, Riah L.
Corporate Name(s): Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Nursing and Allied Health Professions.
Note: Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hoffman, Riah L. Committee members: Diana Rupert; Teresa Shellenbarger.
Topical Subject(s): Nursing