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Homework: Analysis of Position Papers for Vulnerable Populations

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. Propose a policy and guidelines that will lead to improved outcomes and quality of care 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 potential for an interprofessional approach to implementing a proposed policy to increase the efficiency or effectiveness of the care setting to achieve high-quality outcomes.

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

1. Advocate the need for a proposed policy in the context of current outcomes and quality of care for 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 using current APA style.

Overview

Develop a 2 to 4 page policy proposal that seeks to improve the outcomes for your chosen health care issue and target population.

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.

Cost and access to care continue to be main concerns for patients and providers. As technology improves our ability to care for and improve outcomes in patients with chronic and complex illnesses, questions of cost and access become increasingly important. As a master's-prepared nurse, you must be able to develop policies that will ensure the delivery of care that is effective and can be provided in an ethical and equitable manner.

As a master's-prepared nurse, you have a valuable viewpoint and voice with which to advocate for policy developments. As a nurse leader and health care practitioner, often on the front lines of helping individuals and populations, you are able to articulate and advocate for the patient more than any other professional group in health care. This is especially true of populations that may be underserved, underrepresented, or are otherwise lacking a voice. By advocating for and developing policies, you are able to help drive improvements in outcomes for specific populations. The policies you advocate for could be internal ones (just within a specific department or health care setting) that ensure quality care and compliance. Or they could be external policies (local, state, or federal) that may have more wide-ranging effects on best practices and regulations.

Professional Context

As a master's-prepared nurse, you have a valuable viewpoint and voice with which to advocate for policy developments. As a nurse leader and health ¬care practitioner, often on the front lines of helping individuals and populations, you are able to articulate and advocate for the patient more than any other professional group in health ¬care. This is especially true of populations that may be underserved, underrepresented, or are otherwise lacking a voice. By advocating for and developing policies, you are able to help drive improvements in outcomes for specific populations. The policies you advocate for could be internal ones (just within a specific department or health care setting) that ensure quality care and compliance. Or they could be external policies (local, state, or federal) that may have more wide-ranging effects on best practices and regulations.

Scenario

The analysis of position papers that your interprofessional team presented to the committee has convinced them that it would be worth the time and effort to develop a new policy to address your specific issue in the target population. To that end, your interprofessional team has been asked to submit a policy proposal that outlines a specific approach to improving the outcomes for your target population. This proposal should be supported by evidence and best practices that illustrate why the specific approaches are likely to be successful. Additionally, you have been asked to address the ways in which applying your policy to interprofessional teams could lead to efficiency or effectiveness gains.

This homework will build upon your previous Analysis of Position Papers for Vulnerable Populations homework. If, for some reason, you wish to change your specific issue or target population, contact your faculty for approval.

Instructions

For this homework, you will develop a policy proposal that seeks to improve the outcomes for your chosen health care issue and target population. 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 Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

I. Propose a policy and guidelines that will lead to improved outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target population.

II. Advocate the need for a proposed policy in the context of current outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target population.

III. Analyze the potential for an interprofessional approach to implementing a proposed policy to increase the efficiency or effectiveness of the care setting to achieve high-quality outcomes.

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

V. Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.