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Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice
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Learning From the Best: The Benefits of a Structured Health Policy Fellowship in Developing Nursing Health Policy Leaders

Linda D. Hofler, MSN, RN, FACHE, CHP

Pitt County Memorial Hospital

This article describes the experience of a nurse leader engaged in a state Health Policy Fellowship instituted in North Carolina by the North Carolina Center for Nursing (NCCN). This Health Policy Fellowship is designed to provide a focused practicum in major aspects of state-level health policy with emphasis on the role of the nurse leader. The program design includes exposure to experienced mentors with diverse areas of focus to learn from observation and interaction. This article describes the experience of a state Health Policy Fellow and includes discussion of understandings derived from interacting with key state stakeholders in the health policy arena and pearls of wisdom from the policy fellowship experience.

Key Words: health policy • mentoring • collaboration

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, Vol. 7, No. 2, 110-113 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1527154406290910
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