REFLECTION #3 :Complete this week’s assigned readings, chapters 86 & 87. After completing the readings, post a short reflection, approximately 1 paragraph in length, discussing your thoughts and opinions about one or several of the specific topics covered in the textbook readings. pertaining to politics in associations and interest groups. Identify which one MSN Essential most relates to your selected topic in your discussion.

 

The benchmark assesses the following competencies:

1.4 Participate in health care policy development to influence nursing practice and health care.

Research public health issues on the “Climate Change” or “Topics and Issues” pages of the American Public Health Association (APHA) website. Investigate a public health issue related to an environmental issue within the U.S. health care delivery system and examine its effect on a specific population.

Write a 750-1,000-word policy brief that summarizes the issue, explains the effect on the population, and proposes a solution to the issue.

Follow this outline when writing the policy brief:

1. Describe the policy health issue. Include the following information: (a) what population is affected, (b) at what level does it occur (local, state, or national), and (c) evidence about the issues supported by resources.
2. Create a problem statement.
3. Provide suggestions for addressing the health issue caused by the current policy. Describe what steps are required to initiate policy change. Include necessary stakeholders (government officials, administrator) and budget or funding considerations, if applicable.
4. Discuss the impact on the health care delivery system.

Include three peer-reviewed sources and two other sources to support the policy brief.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Respond 

 

     As the CNO of my current healthcare organization having to restructure a top heavy nursing department with the intention of reducing financial loss, we must evaluate the best way to restructure the department without inadvertently losing employees in the process, as well as flattening the line to reduce additional cost. As a leader we must evaluate and assess all three decision-making models and integrate the problem at hand in each scenario.

            Overall, the PDSA makes the most sense in a scenario as sensitive to the possibility of resistance to change such as healthcare organizational changes. The PDSA Model also known as the Plan-Do-Study-Act or Plan-Do-Check-Act model is a methodology tool used as a part of the Institute for Healthcare improvements’ Model for Improvement. The PDSA tool is ultimately utilized to improve quality of care, in return improving healthcare safety disparities, patient adverse events, and producing a timely, effective, patient-centered solution to disparities, in this case nursing staffing shortages in healthcare organizations (Polit & Beck, 2017). The cycle consists of four steps, the first step is “plan”, planning a change in this case such as implementing to reduce leadership roles. Second step to the PDSA cycle is “do”, healthcare organization carries out the plan on a small scale or pilot program. In this scenario, the shift in personnel/staff  will be implemented on medical surgical units only where based from previous studies, the med-surg units are often times short staffed and hold lowest job satisfaction scores (Donnelly & Kirk, 2015). The third step is “study”, data and review analysis take priority, in this phase where researchers, administrators and leadership identify outcomes and lessons learned. The final step is “act”, essential step to facilitating effective change by gathering learned information, data and disseminating to associates to implement effective change.

Ask a question as well.

Hi, this is my research method, that was redone but the professor said that it was done incorrectly and this it is still meta-analysis which I’m guessing know she does not want

Here are something that I’ve added this time that can help you formulate the Research Method 

Click http://expertjournals.com/how-to-write-a-research-methodology-for-your-academic-article/ link to open resource.

and I also uploaded something as well 

Here’s an example of a student’s research method, the professor said it well done: 

Re: Using Cannabis As A Therapeutic Tool For Epilepsy

The data was collected using a meta-analysis methodology. The researcher summarized the results of several studies to come up with their report. The information was collected from several scientific studies and journals, synthesized and compiled. Preference was given to studies that used randomized trial method. Different studies were assessed with the main focus being on those that did experiments (lasting a month or more) and recorded results before the study and compared them with the results after the study. For this study, the case study approach was used in which the researcher collected data from past researchers and did an analysis of the secondary data. The researcher was keen to focus only on qualitative and quantitative data that was collected first hand from experiments and observations.

A meta-analysis method was preferred because it was both cost and time effective and provided deep insights on the topic of choice. During the collection of the data, a two-step approach was taken. First, the researcher identified credible sources of information relating to the topic from journals by filtering data using key words. The main key words of choice consisted of a combination of terms; “Epilepsy cure with cannabis” and “therapeutically cure of epilepsy with CBD.” After collecting studies that fitted into the key terms, the researcher then checked the year of publication with only recent studies qualifying (5 years). By reading the abstracts, relevant articles were chosen to be used as data for the study. The second approach entailed deriving data from the chosen sources, synthesizing and analyzing them to create new data. Particular emphasis was on the effects of CBD in the therapeutic cure of epilepsy by comparing the quantities and duration of CBD administration to the symptoms and effects in the patients after approximately two weeks.

 Discussion Forum: Research Methods

1. Formulate the Research Methods of your selected topic. Based on the chosen methods, please ensure that your incorporate all appropriate elements. 

2. Post your Research Methods.

3. Then, read the posts submitted by two other classmates and provide meaningful feedback for improvement.

This is mine :

Case Study: This is a qualitative research method that facilitates a close assessment of the data within a particular context. A researcher selects few individuals to be the study’s subject (Wilson, 2016). Further, this method helps the researcher to study and investigate opioid education for the youth as a contemporary real-life phenomenon. This exploration and investigation are done through an in-depth contextual analysis of a restricted events’ number relating to the subject of the study.

Phenomenology Method: This qualitative research method enables a researcher to emphasize and focus on studying individual youth’s lived experiences within the world of drugs. It will be easier to study the structure of different types of youth’s experiences ranging from emotion, perception, and imagination regarding the use of opioids. The method builds a complex account of semi-permanent awareness, spatial awareness, and awareness of a person’s experience (Qutoshi, 2018). A researcher can also describe the nature of experience just as he finds it in his experience. Thus, the method is based on a description of the lives of youths who abuse opioids as a surviving mechanism. An interpretation of the type of experience that links or closely connect with relevant features of the context in the study plays a crucial role in the research.

Tools 

Under the case study method, a researcher can use documentation review as a tool for increasing validity (Wilson, 2016). Documents and data get analyzed to establish sensitive information regarding the subject of the study.

Within the phenomenology method, depth interviews are used as a tool where the respondents are less, and the research focuses on a particular issue or situation.

References

Qutoshi, S. B. (2018). Phenomenology: A philosophy and method of inquiry. Journal of Education and Educational Development, 5(1), 215-222.

Wilson, V. (2016). Research Methods: Design, Methods, Case Study… oh my!. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 11(1 (S)), 39-40.

What the professor said: You have again incorrectly formulated it. Your method is meta-analysis! Check the in-class practice and replicate that on your study.

Find a gap in care or social determinate that often results in poor health care outcomes.  You will Identify a population at risk in your community. Briefly describe your community and then describe your practice setting.  What are the determinants of health in your community?  What are the most prevalent health problems in your community or in your practice?  Choose a population at risk and describe the health problems specific to that population.  Remember that you will have to define the populations’s age, culture, religious beliefs, foods and traditions eventually as your project progresses.