Academic source notes: Health care highlighted in presidential campaigns

 

Title: Health care highlighted in presidential campaigns http://0-web.ebscohost.com.janus.uoregon.edu/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=113&sid=25308593-8450-47f8-9874-1f8730e7f41a%40sessionmgr107&bdata=JmxvZ2lucGFnZT1Mb2dpbi5hc3Amc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#db=aph&AN=34763844  

Summary:
American Nurses Association asserts the need for health care reform in health care reform panel, news article, and in both Republican and Democratic conventions. 

Topic: http://cdeross5150.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/policy-question/ 
Category: academic
What is it?: text, professional journal article
Publication Information: The American Nurse, September/October 2008
Author: Mary McNamara
 Location: http://0-web.ebscohost.com.janus.uoregon.edu/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=113&sid=25308593-8450-47f8-9874-1f8730e7f41a%40sessionmgr107&bdata=JmxvZ2lucGFnZT1Mb2dpbi5hc3Amc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#db=aph&AN=34763844
 Accessed: 3/8/2009
 Support: Modern Healthcare; Rose Gonzalez, MPS, RN, ANA’s director of government

Affairs, ; Cynthia Haney, JD, senior policy fellow at the ANA,

 

Audience and Agenda: The American Nurse is a professional magazine for people in the field of medicine. The American Nurses Association produces it. The American Nurses Association is associated with the Center for American Nurses, 51 constituent member nurses associations, and 23 organizational affiliates. Their mission is to promote nurses’ rights, nursing standards, and health care reform. NursingWorld.Org has around 61.7 thousand visitors monthly most of which are “

highly educated, heavily female, younger, and fairly wealthy”(http://www.quantcast.com/nursingworld.org). 

 

Usefulness: This article was intended to rallty the nurses of the Untied States to become involved in the political reform of Health care, and it states that the Obama plan is the closest to the ANA policies on reform.

 

Works cited: http://www.quantcast.com/nursingworld.org
http://www.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA.aspx 

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