ESSENTIALS OF ADVANCED NURSING ROLES AND INTER-PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE — D025
COMPETENCIES 7063.1.1 : Professional Development Path
The graduate recommends strategies for practicing lifelong learning skills to encourage continuous improvement essential for practicing as an advanced nursing professional. ESSENTIALS OF ADVANCED NURSING ROLES AND INTER-PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE — D025
7063.1.2 : The Advanced Nursing Professional as Policy Advocate
The graduate recommends legal and regulatory policies that advocate for improved health outcomes in patients and populations.
7063.1.3 : The Master\’s Prepared Nurse as a Member of the Interprofessional Care Team
The graduate analyzes the roles and interaction of interprofessional team members to assess the resulting impact on healthcare outcomes.
7063.1.4 : Utilizing Data for Quality Improvement
The graduate analyzes organizational performance data to guide recommendations for improving healthcare outcomes and disseminating results to a professional community.
INTRODUCTION
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Professional nursing has the potential to influence health policy by using a collective voice for patient and healthcare advocacy. For this task, you will create a policy brief, a summary report that educates policy makers on relevant information or research for policy decisions.
Your goal for the policy brief is to present a problem from a nursing perspective clearly and concisely, using convincing evidence to bring about your desired result.
Before starting this task, you must have completed CAM1 Task 1 and the “CPE Record” associated with that task.
ESSENTIALS OF ADVANCED NURSING ROLES AND INTER-PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE — D025 REQUIREMENTS
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Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Note: The italicized subheadings reference the section titles of the template.
A. Analyze the context and scope of a SDOH in your community by doing the following:
1. Describe one SDOH that necessitates a policy change to optimize health in your community.
a. Provide data from state or local resources to support your description.
2. Describe three characteristics of the target population affected by the SDOH.
3. Identify the policy makers who will receive the policy brief (e.g., community group or individuals, including name and title).
4. Explain why the SDOH requires the policy makers’ attention.
a. Discuss the current policy for the SDOH in your community if one exists. Or discuss the effect that not having an existing policy for the SDOH has on your community.
b. Discuss the ethical implications of the current policy or the absence of an existing policy.
5. Complete the demographics table in the template and provide a scholarly resource for each of the following aspects:
• demographics associated with the SDOH
• risk factors associated with the SDOH
• trending facts associated with the SDOH
ESSENTIALS OF ADVANCED NURSING ROLES AND INTER-PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE — D025 Policy Proposal and Implementation Plan
B. Create a policy proposal and implementation plan by doing the following:
1. Develop two policy alternatives to address the SDOH described in part A1.
Note: Include supporting evidence.
2. Explain why one of the policy alternatives from part B1 is preferable over the other alternative.
Note: Include Supporting evidence.
3. Analyze the potential impact of your proposed policy by doing the following:
a. Explain how the desired results will optimize health in the community.
b. Discuss the financial costs and benefits of the proposed policy.
c. Discuss two ethical implications of the proposed policy on the population.
4. Describe actual or potential barriers to the implementation of your policy.
5. Explain what methods of communication you will use to introduce the policy to the policy maker(s) and educate them on the anticipated effectiveness of the proposed policy change on the SDOH in the community.
6. Describe the potential results of inaction.
Executive Summary
C. Write an executive summary to begin your policy brief by doing the following:
1. Summarize the context and scope of the chosen SDOH in your community.
2. Summarize how your proposed policy will address the SDOH in your community.
3. Propose a persuasive course of action for the policy makers to address the policy change.
ESSENTIALS OF ADVANCED NURSING ROLES AND INTER-PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE — D025 Reflection
D. Write a reflection statement that includes the following:
1. Describe how you were a change agent in creating this policy brief.
2. Discuss the knowledge and skills you need to develop to continue influencing policy development decision-making.
References
E. Create a References section for your policy brief using APA style.
F. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
G. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
NOTE: The Performance Assessment should be uploaded as a separate attachment(s) and should not be included in the E-portfolio or submitted as a link.
File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * \’ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
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