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Assignment: Nursing Population Health Policy Advocacy Letter

You are going to write a letter to the editor of a peer-reviewed nursing journal. Choose from one of the journals in the Ultimate List of Nursing Journals and go to the journal's Web site to find out the requirements for submitting an editorial, such as format requirements, topics, and word counts. Make sure you select a nursing journal that covers the topic about which you are going to write. If you want to use another journal that is not on this list, please make sure the journal does address health care, because this is the purpose of the assessment.

Instructions

For this assignment, you will write a letter to the editor of a scholarly journal. Your goal is to be informative about the policy that you developed for your previous Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal assessment, while also being persuasive about the need for and benefit of similar policies in other health care settings. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your assessment submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC] to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

Question A. Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.

Question a. Look back to the data or scenario you used in your previous assessment to address this criterion.

Question B. Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.

Question C. Justify why the developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.

Question D. Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.

Question E. Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of the policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.

Question F. Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Question G. Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style (or the journal's preferred style).