Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects

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Homework: Preliminary Care Coordination Plan

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:

I. Competency I: Design evidence-based advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality population outcomes.

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

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

II. Competency II: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional interventions in achieving desired population health outcomes.

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

III. Competency III: Analyze population health outcomes in terms of their implications for health policy advocacy.

1. 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.

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

IV. Competency IV: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

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

2. Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references.

Overview

Write a letter to the editor of a scholarly journal. The length and format of the letter is dictated by your choice of journal.

Introduction

Note: Each homework in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous homework. Therefore, you must complete the homeworks in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Advocating for new policies is an important aspect of the master's-prepared nurse. For new policies to be compelling they need to be supported by evidence. Supporting data can be used to illustrate why new policies and interventions are needed to help address a specific health issue. Compelling data can help sway the stakeholders and gain support for your policy.

Another aspect of advocacy is disseminating new policies and interventions outside of the immediate care environment. This can be done by reaching out to professional organizations as well as academic and professional journals. A letter to the editor is one strategy for disseminating information to a wider audience and to potentially enlist support throughout the wider professional community.

Professional Context

Nurses have the opportunity to use their skills and develop programs to keep individuals and communities healthy. Health is complex, however, and the nurse needs to possess strong advocacy skills to successfully support a cause or interest. The American Nurses Association's (2015) code of ethics describes the responsibility of a nurse to include working through and with appropriate stakeholders to advocate for the health of people in and out of the work environment. To be an effective advocate, there are several important abilities a nurse must possess, including problem-solving, communication, and influencing others. One way a nurse can advocate to a broader population is through effective letter writing, both to legislators and through the media, such as with editorials and research articles.

Reference

American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements.

Scenario

Throughout this course, you have focused on a specific health issue occurring within a specific population. You researched position papers regarding this health concern, and you developed a health policy proposal to positively impact the health of the affected individuals. It is now time to reach a greater audience regarding your policy proposal.

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 homework.

Instructions

For this homework, 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 homework, 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 homework 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] Download Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC]to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

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

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

2) 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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