NURS 8100 – Healthcare Policy and Analysis
In the first two Discussions, you identified a vulnerable or marginalized population for whom you can determine an issue that could be addressed through engaging in policy advocacy. Now it is time to present this advocacy area with evidence to support and defend your selection. Such an understanding helps explain how healthy cell activity contributes to good health. Just as importantly, it helps explain how breakdowns in cellular behavior cells lead to health issues.
For this Assignment, you will explain and defend your selected advocacy issue. Using evidence and experience, you will determine the advocacy issue most important to your practice and organization. Why are you selecting this issue? Why is this an area of high need? How might this area be improved with policy? What can you do to advocate for this area of need?
To prepare,
Review resources associated with vulnerable or marginalized populations to determine an advocacy issue.Dawes, Daniel E. (2020). The political determinants of health. Johns Hopkins University Press. Chapter 3, “The Political Determinants of Health Model” (pp. 41-77)Consider which advocacy issue you find most important, and why.Consider how policy might help to mitigate this need.The Assignment Question – I page
NURS 8100 week 3 assignment policy Introduction
Since the establishment of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), there has been a shift from acute and specialty patient care to more of a focus on primary care that coordinates the healthcare of the patient with a focus on prevention and wellness and the prevention of adverse events[ CITATION Ins11 \l 1033 ]. Meeting the shift in patient care is essential that Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are given the ability in their state of practice to provide patient care to the fullextent of their education and scope of practice[ CITATION Hud191 \l 1033 ]. This paper will briefly explain the background of the scope of practice (SOP) for NPs and the recommendations for policy changes from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) that allow NPs to practice to their full
NURS 8100 week 4
Select an issue you find most important, and then defend your position in a persuasive paper.
Submit a persuasive argument defending why you selected the advocacy issue to move forward with as your priority in this course. Support—with evidence—why this advocacy issue is most important, and how it might be mitigated or eliminated through policy. Consider how this issue might set your policy agenda.
Identify the policy you have selected. Describe the framework that you would use for this particular issue, and provide your rationale. At what other stages in the policy process might an analysis framework provide guidance?
