NR717 Healthcare Policy Paper

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NR717 Healthcare Policy Paper Week 5

Consider a time when there was an issue related to healthcare policy in your local, regional, or national community. If you pursued an opportunity to address the issue, describe the results. If you did not pursue the opportunity, describe the reasons.

Health policies outline the strategies, decisions, and activities to meet the objectives. Infectious illness prevention and management posed a difficulty in my neighborhood and national community. At the beginning of the world pandemic, COVID-19, the economy was crippled.  Public spaces and other forms of social interaction were closed off. I was presented with an opportunity to help people understand the problem and how to take preventative actions. Individuals were instructed to maintain their distance from one another, cover their faces with masks, and frequently wash their hands with soap and water (Rahman et al., 2021).

People were also required to spend as much time as necessary in their homes and away from public gatherings. Moreover, vaccinations were used to lessen the likelihood of people being infected. These precautions were successful since they slowed the spread of Covid – 19. These efforts helped to minimize the possibility of developing the illness, and there was a corresponding drop in reported cases (Vitiello et al., 2021).

NR717 Healthcare Policy Paper

Propose an area of your political competency that needs further development and an action you could take to become more politically competent to impact your selected population.

I want to enhance my networking abilities to establish connections with additional national political figures. It will make it easy to persuade them and facilitate the adoption of the prevalent health policy efforts to improve the efficacy of healthcare delivery (Myers, 2020). I believe that my ability to network will aid me in pursuing better availability of clinical resources, which are necessary for providing patients with the all-encompassing care they need to achieve positive health outcomes. Facilitating development initiatives within the clinical domains to ensure clients obtain fast and good healthcare will be simple with the help of politicians.

NR717 Healthcare Policy Paper References

Myers, R. (2020). Promoting population health. Nursing Clinics of North America, 55(1), 11–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnur.2019.11.001

Rahman, S., Montero, V., Rowe, K., Kirton, R., & Kunik, F. (2021). Epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentations, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19: A review of current evidence. Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, 14(5). https://doi.org/10.1080/17512433.2021.1902303

Vitiello, A., Ferrara, F., Troiano, V., & La Porta, R. (2021). COVID-19 vaccines and decreased transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Inflammopharmacology, 29(5). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10787-021-00847-2

Healthcare Policy Discussion

Purpose

The purpose of this discussion is to reflect on opportunities to impact healthcare policies while further developing your own political competency using Warner’s article (2003) as a guide.

Instructions

Read the Warner (2003) article (located in Student Learning Resources). Reflect upon the development of your political competency and address the following:

  1. Consider a time when there was an issue related to healthcare policy in your local, regional, or national community. If you pursued an opportunity to address the issue, describe the results. If you did not pursue the opportunity, describe the reasons.
  2. Propose an area of your political competency that needs further development and an action you could take to become more politically competent to impact your selected population.

Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:

Program Competencies

This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:

  1. Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)
  1. Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
  1. Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience, and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (PO 1)

Course Outcomes

This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

  1. Critically analyze the history, formation, and implementation of local, state and national health policies from the perspectives of stakeholders and the profession of nursing. (PC 5; PO 2)
  1. Assimilate epidemiology principles and interventions to impact the social determinants of health, Global Burden of Disease, and population health outcomes. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
  1. Demonstrate collaborative interprofessional leadership and political competency to develop and implement healthcare policy to improve healthcare delivery and population health outcomes. (PC 5; PO 2)

NR 717 Week 5 Population Health Practice Problem Assignment

Purpose

This assignment will allow for the exploration of a selected population health practice problem, encompassing social determinant risk factors, epidemiological factors, an evidence-based population health intervention, and relevant measurable goals and objectives.

Instructions

Use the population (at the local, regional, or national level) you have engaged throughout the course thus far and develop a comprehensive analysis of the important population health concepts and propose an evidence-based intervention and evaluation plan.

The assignment should include the following components:

  1. Introduction
    1. Introduce topic of paper.
    2. Develop a focused one-sentence purpose statement.
    3. Present subtopics that will be discussed.
  2. Population
    1. Present the selected population in general terms.
    2. Identify three key social determinant risk factors associated with the population.
  3. Practice Problem
    1. Explain the National Practice Problem and how it affects the population.
    2. Explain the significance of the practice problem at the local, regional, or national level.
    3. Explain the prevalence of the practice problem at the local, regional, or national level.
  4. Epidemiology
    1. Explore the epidemiologic principles and measures used to address your selected practice problem.
    2. Examine the use of descriptive and/or analytic epidemiology to address the practice problem.
    3. Propose how you might use surveillance to influence the determinants of health and improve the health outcomes of your population.
    4. Anticipate any ethical concerns that you might have related to the use of surveillance data in your population.
  5. Goal and Objective
    1. Explore and detail one Healthy People 2030 goal that addresses the selected practice problem.
    2. Develop one measurable objective using the SMART format (review Week 4 Lesson) to help achieve the Healthy People 2030 goal that addresses the selected practice problem.
  6. Evidence-Based Population Intervention
    1. Identify one evidence-based intervention from a research study to achieve the goal and objective. (This research study must be at the population level and should not be one that was used in a previous course.)
    2. Add the study to the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Individual Evidence Summary Tool.
    3. Identify where the selected intervention is located on the Minnesota Public Health Wheel.
    4. Provide objective rationale for the evidence-based intervention to address the practice problem.
  7. Evaluation
    1. Describe how you would evaluate if your intervention were efficient, effective, and efficacious, and equitable.
  8. Conclusion
    1. Summarize the impact of the practice problem on the identified population.
    2. Summarize the role of the evidence-based intervention to address the practice problem idea.
  9. References
    1. Identify and list four scholarly sources on the reference pages.
    2. Identify and list other scholarly sources used in the paper on the reference pages.
    3. List sources in alphabetical order.
    4. Use correct hanging-indent format.
  10. Appendix: Summary Table of the Evidence
    1. Attach the completed Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Individual Evidence Summary Tool.
    2. Provide a minimum of one research study describing the selected intervention.
    3. Complete all sections completely for the source of evidence.
    4. Identify both the quality and level of evidence for each scholarly source on the table.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

  • Length: 7-8 pages (not including title page or references page)
  • 1-inch margins
  • Double-spaced pages
  • 12-point Times New Roman or 11-point Arial font
  • Headings & subheadings
  • In-text citations
  • Title page
  • Reference page
  • Standard English usage and mechanics

Program Competencies

This assignment enables the student to meet the following program competencies:

  1. Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)
  2. Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
  3. Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience, and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (PO 1)

Course Outcomes

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

  1. Critically analyze the history, formation, and implementation of local, state and national health policies from the perspectives of stakeholders and the profession of nursing. (PC 5; PO 2)
  2. Synthesize ethical and legal principles to advocate for value-based, equitable, and ethical health policies at the micro, meso, and macrosystem levels. (PC 5; PO 9)
  3. Assimilate epidemiology principles and interventions to impact the social determinants of health, Global Burden of Disease, and population health outcomes. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
  4. Formulate strategies for providing culturally relevant and high-quality healthcare to vulnerable and high-risk populations to address social injustice and health inequities. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
  5. Demonstrate collaborative interprofessional leadership and political competency to develop and implement healthcare policy to improve healthcare delivery and population health outcomes. (PC 5; PO 2)