• Type of paperAssignment
• SubjectNursing
• Number of pages4
• Format of citationAPA
• Number of cited resources4
• Type of serviceWriting

Position Paper Written Assignment A position paper is a document you could present to a legislator to seek support for an issue you endorse. Present your position on a current health-care issue in a one-page paper, following the assignment guidelines below. You can select your issue topic from newspapers, national news magazine articles, professional journals, or professional association literature; and this can be the topic you choose for your ethical issues debate. Your position paper should: Be quickly and easily understood. Be succinct and clear. Appear very professional with the legislator’s name and title on top and your name and your credentials at the bottom. Condense essential information in one, single-spaced page, excluding the title and reference list pages. Be written using correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, and APA format. Clearly describe the issue that you are addressing in the opening paragraph. Include 3–4 bullet points regarding why you are seeking the legislator’s vote, support, or opposition. Bullet points should be clear and concise but not repetitive and should reflect current literature that substantiates your position. Summarize the implications for the nursing profession and/or patients. Conclude with two recommendations that you wish to see happen related to your issue, such as a vote for or against, a change in policy, or the introduction of new legislation. Use APA format (6th ed.), correct grammar, and references as appropriate.

 

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student an opportunity to reflect on selected RN-BSN competencies acquired through the NUR3065C course.  

Course Outcomes

This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes:

• Apply the assessment component of the nursing process
• Demonstrate critical thinking and documentation skills in order to perform his/her nursing duties with appropriate judgment.

Points

This assignment is worth a total of 100 points (10%).

Due Date

Submit your completed assignment under the Assignment tab by Sunday 11:59 p.m. EST of Week 15 as directed.

Requirements

1. The Course Reflection is worth 100 points (10%) and will be graded on quality of self-assessment, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria/rubric.
2. Follow the directions and grading criteria closely. Any questions about your essay may be posted under the Q & A forum under the Discussions tab.
3. The length of the reflection is to be within three to six pages excluding title page and reference pages.
4. APA format is required with both a title page and reference page. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headers (upper and lower case, centered):

Note: Introduction – Write an introduction but do not use “Introduction” as a heading in accordance with the rules put forth in the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (2010, p. 63).

1. Course Reflection
2. Conclusion

 

Competency

Examine and design visual media communication to produce effective business materials.

Scenario

You are a website designer and are currently being considered as the designer for a complete redesign of a medical facility’s website page. They have not updated their website in over 15 years due to the lack of staff. The website needs the redesign to target the specific visual preferences of patients and medical clients. They have several other designers that they are interviewing, and you decide to create a video presentation to impress them to choose you as their website designer.

As you begin your presentation, you decide that your design will include the following visual concepts and elements:

1. Visual Organization
2. Visual Simplicity
3. Visual Interactivity
4. Charts and Graphs
5. Images

In designing these visual elements, you keep the target audience of patients and medical clients as the main focus. You carefully consider what these types of people wish to see at a medical facility. You also consider what visual elements will attract the eye, and yet enhance a specific mood and emotional response for viewers.

After creating the website, you record your explanation of your visual design choices in an audio/video screen share.

Your presentation should be a maximum of 5 minutes.

Analyze your Volunteer experience by writing a 1,000-1,250-word reflection in which you examine how volunteering enabled you to practice the principles of servant leadership. In your paper, reference and address the following:

-Summarize your servant leadership volunteer opportunity by sharing the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the experience.

-Which of Greenleaf’s principles of servant leadership did you implement and learn the most about through completing the servant leadership experience? Provide supporting examples and in-text citations.

Both Greenleaf and biblical passages referenced in the various study materials focus on the idea that power comes from giving it away and that taking the role of a servant can make one a leader. 

Discuss whether your servant leadership volunteer opportunity helped you to find yourself as a leader in this way. Provide supporting examples and in-text citations.

Explain how serving others as a leader might influence change or produce a positive impact for the greater good and contributes to the restoration of communities and society at large. Provide supporting examples and in-text citations.

Discuss what you learned about your personal leadership skills and style through your service experience. Provide supporting examples and in-text citations.

Looking forward, explain how you will use what you have learned about the principles of servant leadership in your workplace, organization with which you are involved, and in your personal life. Provide in-text citations.

For this assessment, you will implement the preliminary care coordination plan you developed in Assessment 1. Present the plan to the patient in a face-to-face clinical learning session and collaborate with the patient in evaluating session outcomes and addressing possible revisions to the plan.

NOTE: You are required to complete this assessment after Assessment 1 is successfully completed.

Care coordination is the process of providing a smooth and seamless transition of care as part of the health continuum. Nurses must be aware of community resources, ethical considerations, policy issues, cultural norms, safety, and the physiological needs of patients. Nurses play a key role in providing the necessary knowledge and communication to ensure seamless transitions of care. They draw upon evidence-based practices to promote health and disease prevention to create a safe environment conducive to improving and maintaining the health of individuals, families, or aggregates within a community. When provided with a plan and the resources to achieve and maintain optimal health, patients benefit from a safe environment conducive to healing and a better quality of life.

This assessment provides an opportunity for you to apply communication, teaching, and learning best practices to the presentation of a care coordination plan to the patient.

You are encouraged to complete the Vila Health: Cultural Competence activity prior to completing this assessment. Completing course activities before submitting your first attempt has been shown to make the difference between basic and proficient assessment.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Adapt care based on patient-centered and person-focused factors. 
  • Design patient-centered health interventions and timelines for care delivered through direct clinical interaction that is logged in the CORE ELMS system.
• Competency 2: Collaborate with patients and family to achieve desired outcomes. 
  • Evaluate learning session outcomes and the attainment of mutually agreed-upon health goals, in collaboration with a patient.
• Competency 3: Create a satisfying patient experience. 
  • Evaluate patient satisfaction with the care coordination plan and progress made toward Healthy People 2020 goals and leading health indicators.
• Competency 4: Defend decisions based on the code of ethics for nursing. 
  • Make ethical decisions in designing patient-centered health interventions.
• Competency 5: Explain how health care policies affect patient-centered care. 
  • Identify relevant health policy implications for the coordination and continuum of care.

Preparation

In this assessment, you will implement the preliminary care coordination plan you developed in Assessment 1 and communicate the plan to the patient in a professional, culturally sensitive, and ethical manner.

To prepare for the assessment, consider the patient experience and how you will present the plan. Make sure you schedule time accordingly.

Instructions

Note: You are required to complete Assessment 1 before this assessment.

For this assessment:

• Complete the preliminary care coordination plan you developed in Assessment 1.
• Present the plan to the patient in a face-to-face clinical learning session. Communicate in a professional, culturally sensitive, and ethical manner.
• Collaborate with the patient in evaluating session outcomes and addressing possible revisions to the plan.

Reminder: The time you spend presenting your final care coordination plan must be logged in the CORE ELMS system. The total time spent in securing individual participation in this activity in Assessment 1 and presenting your plan in this assessment must be at least three hours. The CORE ELMS link is located in the courseroom navigation menu.

Please be advised that the Volunteer Experience form requires that you provide the name and contact information for at least one individual with whom you worked as part of your direct clinical activity. Your faculty may reach out to this individual to verify that you have accurately documented and completed your clinical hours.

Document Format and Length

Build on the preliminary plan document you created in Assessment 1. Your final plan should be 5–7 pages in length.

Supporting Evidence

Support your care coordination plan with peer-reviewed articles, course study resources, and Healthy People 2020 resources. Cite at least three credible sources.

Grading Requirements

The requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Final Care Coordination Plan Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

• Design patient-centered health interventions and timelines for care delivered through direct clinical interaction that is logged in the CORE ELMS system. 
  • Address three patient health issues.
  • Design an intervention for each health issue.
  • Identify three community resources for each health intervention, so the patient may make an informed decision about what resources to use.
• Make ethical decisions in designing patient-centered health interventions. 
  • Consider the practical effects of specific decisions.
  • Include the ethical questions that generate uncertainty about the decisions you have made.
• Identify relevant health policy implications for the coordination and continuum of care. 
  • Cite specific health policy provisions.
• Evaluate learning session outcomes and the attainment of mutually agreed-upon health goals, in collaboration with the patient. 
  • What aspects of the session would you change?
  • How might revisions to the plan improve future outcomes?
• Evaluate patient satisfaction with the care coordination plan and progress made toward Healthy People 2020 goals and leading health indicators. 
  • What changes would you recommend to improve patient satisfaction and better align the session with Healthy People 2020 goals and leading health indicators?