Affiliation:
1. Dean and Professor, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Binghamton University
Abstract
Policy development, implementation, and maintenance are central to the “carrying-out” of healthcare within organizations and communities. Nurses play an important role in not only developing meaningful policies with constituents but in also providing explanations that “make sense” to all persons involved. This “sense making” may be facilitated by the use of metaphors. In this paper, the author explores Parse’s (2021) community change concepts as metaphors that may enhance policy development and understanding.
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