Assignment Details

Health Policy Briefs provide succinct overviews of health policy topics. The intended audience is policymakers, journalists, and others concerned about improving health care in the United States. The briefs explore arguments made on various sides of a policy proposal. They provide guidance on available research behind each perspective. Health policy briefs are created by experts in the field through funding from public and private grants.

Select one policy brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/collections/health-affairs-briefs.html

In your role as an advanced practice nurse, how would you advocate for or against the policy implementation?

In your paper you may take the position either for or against the policy proposal, or both.

Page length: 3-4 pages exclusive of cover page and references.

Support your paper with a minimum of three scholarly references.

To view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Resources.

Assignment Requirements:

Before finalizing your work, you should:

• be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);
• consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary;
• utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors; and
• review APA formatting and citation information found in the Writing Center, online, or elsewhere in the course.

Your writing Assignment should:

• follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
• be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
• display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and
• use APA 6th edition formatting and citation style.

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As the country focuses on the restructuring of the U.S. health care delivery system, nurses will continue to play an important role. It is expected that more and more nursing jobs will become available out in the community, and fewer will be available in acute care hospitals.

1. Write an informal presentation (500-700 words) to educate nurses about how the practice of nursing is expected to grow and change. Include the concepts of continuity or continuum of care, accountable care organizations (ACO), medical homes, and nurse-managed health clinics.
2. Share your presentation with nurse colleagues on your unit or department and ask them to offer their impressions of the anticipated changes to health care delivery and the new role of nurses in hospital settings, communities, clinics, and medical homes.
3. In 800-1,000 words summarize the feedback shared by three nurse colleagues and discuss whether their impressions are consistent with what you have researched about health reform.
4. A minimum of three scholarly references are required for this assignment.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Purpose

To utilize the Patient Teaching Plan (developed in a prior assignment) to create a Visual Teaching Tool to educate the selected patient population about the selected health topic.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.

· CO 2: Recognize the influence that developmental stages have on physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual functioning. (PO #1)

· CO 4: Identify teaching/learning needs from the health history of an individual. (PO #2)

Select an Option to Complete this Assignment

There are 3 options for creating your Visual Teaching Tool. Be sure to choose a format that makes sense for your selected topic, population, and setting. For example, if will be teaching adults at a health fair, then an educational brochure would be an appropriate choice. You must use the Patient Teaching Plan you have developed in this course to create your Visual Teaching Tool.

Option #1 – Power Point

Directions: 

1. Create a 6-8 slide Power Point presentation for your selected population setting.

2. The goal of this Power Point Presentation is to address the three learning outcomes you developed in the Patient Teaching Plan. Once the learner has viewed your Power Point, all three of the learning objectives should have been met.

For Example:

If a learning objective in the teaching plan is: “At the end of this education, the learner will be able to demonstrate the proper way to wear a bike helmet,” then there should be content in your Power Point related to how to properly wear a bike helmet.

3. Tips for a great Power Point presentation:

· Be creative! Choose a design (from the design tab of the PowerPoint presentation) to enhance visual appeal.

· Incorporate graphics, clip art, or photographs to increase interest.

· Use words and phrases suitable for your selected population.

· Avoid writing paragraphs. Use simple sentences and bullet points.

· Cite all sources used to create the educational content with (author, year).

· Proofread for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.

Option #2 – Educational Brochure (Using Microsoft Word)

Directions:

1. Open Microsoft Word, and select create a New document.

Under the Education option, select Education Brochure. This will provide you with a blank tri-fold brochure template. You can change the design, insert graphics, and create text as you wish.

2. The goal of this Educational Brochure is to address the three learning outcomes you developed in the Patient Teaching Plan. Once the learner has viewed your Educational Brochure, all three of the learning objectives should have been met. 

For Example:

If a learning objective in the Patient Teaching Plan is: “At the end of this education, the learner will be able to demonstrate the proper way to wear a bike helmet,” then there should be content in your Educational Brochure related to how to properly wear a bike helmet.

3. Tips for a great educational brochure: 

For Example:

· Be creative! Choose a design (from the design tab of the PowerPoint presentation) to enhance visual appeal.

· Incorporate graphics, clip art, or photographs to increase interest.

· Use words and phrases suitable for your selected population.

· Avoid writing paragraphs. Use simple sentences and bullet points.

· Cite all sources used to create the educational content with (author, year).

· Proofread for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.

 

Discussion Group B:

Postpartum:
Susan P. had a SVD (spontaneous vaginal delivery) today approximately 2 hours ago. The labor and delivery nurse is calling to give you report. She is new and not sure what you want to know from her.   What questions do you need to ask to provide comprehensive care to this patient once she is transferred into your care?   Group A Response
Note that you discover that Susan is Rh negative, her baby is Rh positive. What now?   Please discuss Rhogam. The drug, the need, the route, the risk.
 When must you give this and under what circumstances will you give this injection?
 Please also recall any other reason Rhogam would be given, and when.

PLEASE SEPARATE EACH UNIT FROM EACH OTHER AND PROVIDE INDIVIDUAL REFERENCES AND VOID PLAGIARISM

                                                        UNIT 1

DQ 1

What is the difference between research- and evidence-based practice projects? Provide an example of each one and the reason for the difference. Why should nurses be interested in learning about EBP? And how can EBP change the way you practice as a professional nurse?

DQ 2

There are many roles in nursing but how would a nurse practitioner and a nurse manager differ about how they use and incorporate EBP in their areas of practice?

What paradigm does the nurse leader have that the nurse practitioner may not have?  Why is the focus of the nurse Practioner so different and is that good or bad?

                                                           UNIT 2

DQ 1

Review the “General Appraisal Overview for All Studies,” available in Appendix B in the textbook. You should save this tool and use it throughout the development of the PICOT question, problem description, and literature review.

Begin the development of your PICOT question, using the following resources:

1. “Appendix A: Template for Asking Clinical Questions,” available in the textbook appendix

2. Text readings

Formulate your PICOT question and post it to the main forum. Respond to at least four other statements, providing feedback. Review the statements to see if the clinical issue is clearly defined and that all aspects are identified. Also refer to the “PICOT: Components of an Answerable, Searchable Question” table, located in chapter 2 of the text. If one PICOT statement has at least three feedback posts, move to another statement.

You will be using the feedback to make revisions to your PICOT question before using it in your “Section B: Problem Description” assignment.

Here is something to think about.  

· Population/ Patient Problem: Who is your patient? (Disease or Health status, age, race, sex)

· Intervention: What do you plan to do for the patient? (Specific tests, therapies, medications)

· Comparison: What is the alternative to your plan? (ie. No treatment, different type of treatment, etc.)

· Outcome: What outcome do you seek? (Less symptoms, no symptoms, full health, etc.)

· Time:  What is the time frame? (This element is not always included.)

Example: 

Prevention:

For________ (P) does the use of ______ (I) reduce the future risk of ________ (O) compared with _________ (C)?

In acute care cancer patients, does the use of scheduled pain medication regimes reduce the risk of uncontrolled pain compared with non-scheduled pain medication regimes.

DQ 2

What strategies will you use in your new practice as an advance practice nurse to review and critique literature pertinent to your practice?

As a Christian nurse will you focus on one particular genre of literature more than others. or will you be looking at specific topics related to your practice. 

                                                      UNIT 3

DQ 1

Discovering the right information to answer a given question often requires using more than one resource. When nurses explore only one resource and find no evidence, they may incorrectly assume that there is no evidence to answer their question. Additionally, when nurses search for randomized control studies to answer a clinical question, and use only web-based search engines they will not find the information they need and miss evidence that is crucial to their research.  Therefore, when searching for answers to clinical questions, all evidence should be considered; however, caution must be used when deciding about practice changes that are based solely on evidence that may have substantial bias.  

What levels of evidence are present in relation to research and practice, and why it is important regardless of the method you use?

DQ 2

In addition to the knowledge gained from clinical practice, nurses are compelled to create and use evidence from research when determining effective strategies for implementing change for improving care practices and patient outcomes.  

What factors must be assessed when critically appraising quantitative studies (e.g., validity, reliability, and applicability)? Which is the most important? Why?

                                                          UNIT 4

DQ 1

What are some of the obstacles or barriers to implementing EBP in nursing? Provide a rationale for your answer. Since there are numerous topics on the issue, it is not appropriate to repeat one that has already been mentioned unless providing new information.

Can you think of possibly a different paradigm (the other side of the story) for the barriers or obstacles you identified?  Or have you found additional barriers or obstacles in your readings that could be pertinent to your organization?

DQ 2

Conducting research projects while ensuring the protection of human subjects is necessary. What are some methods to protect personal rights of someone in one of the groups that is labeled as vulnerable? Justify your rationale.

Do you think that human subjects are needing protection as they did maybe in the 1930-1970’s?  And why would you think this?

UNIT 5

DQ 1

Why is it important to incorporate a theory or model related to change when implementing practice changes? Does the benefit of incorporating a change model outweigh the time and effort it took to include it?

DQ 2

Consider an obstacle or barrier to the implementation of evidence-based practice you identified in last week’s discussion. What are two ways to address this problem?

RESOURCES

Textbook 

1. Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice