Health policies usually emerge in the form of laws, rules and regulations, judicial decisions, resource allocations, and broad global health care budgets. Nurse manager participation in the policy process as mentor and facilitator to staff nurses ensures inclusion of nursing's unique perspective into private and governmental heath policy decisions. A framework to streamline health policy analysis in order to enhance nursing's involvement in the hospital health policy agenda has been popularized in the professional setting over the last few years. It goes by the acronym PAM.PAM stands for
