Policy Analysis Framework

Presentation of Policy Analysis According to King-Jones (2011), work place violence results to undue stress to nurses, decreases moral, and negatively influences patient centered care and safety. However, many healthcare regulatory agencies agreed that the undesirable impact of workplace violence on nurses directly affects nursing care, and if not prevented results to errors and even patients’ death. There have been numerous suggestion and guideline by the regulatory board on how to eradicate workplace violence. Unfortunately, LV has been a product of survival of the fittest where the healthy culture are not required or supported (Staton, 2015). Hence, the type of change that is required in the healthcare arena is the one that necessitates the widespread adoption and initiation of the policy that mandate all healthcare organizations to the new change (zero LV and zero tolerance) at workplace. Therefore, the eightfold paths policy analysis framework will be utilized to evaluate the effect of the current policy and policy change for LV as it applies to the workplace, and two options will be compared (Bardach, 2012). …show more content…
In addition, the eight step is valuable approaches to practitioners and the nurses that want to influence change in the healthcare organizations. The eightfold path framework is developed by Bardach, and in specific the framework progression focuses on: 1) properly problem identifying, 2) evidence gathering, 3) constructing alternatives, 4) choosing comparison measures, 5) the outcomes projection, 6) confront trade-offs, 7) decide, and lastly 8) telling the story (Bardach,