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Importance of Policy Making Skills in Nursing

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Your response to this performance task should reflect the criteria provided in the rubric and adhere to the required length. This assessment requires submission of one file: a 13-slide PowerPoint presentation.

Informational Presentation

You have been asked to create an informational presentation for a group of nurses that focuses specifically with policy development, policy evaluation, and ethics in policy decisions. Your presentation should include 13 slides and should adhere to the following requirements:

  • Slide 1: Title Slide
  • Slide 2: Nurses have a tremendous advantage in the political process, given the public’s overall respect for the profession and nurses’ expertise in healthcare. Year after year, nursing is voted as the most “ethical” profession by Gallup polls, and the average person perceives nurses as altruistic, caring, and intelligent. Describe two key reasons that nurses are uniquely positioned to take the lead in challenging policy situations.
  • Slides 3–4: Nurses understand that healthcare policy has important implications for patient quality and safety. Analyze how having a policy-making skill set, such as being able to write, review, and debate policies, leads to improvements in patient quality and safety.
  • Slides 5–6: Involvement in healthcare policy is a natural extension of the nurse’s role as an advocate. Many opportunities exist for nurses to become involved in the policy process. Analyze the role of the nurse and how they might become an active participant in policy development/modification in at least two different aspects. For example, examine how a nurse can affect positive change in policy within their facility, and also think about a way that a nurse can be part of the policy-making process at the state or national level. Importance of Policy Making Skills in Nursing
  • Slides 7–8: Nurses make up the largest group of healthcare providers in the U.S. and are in key positions to engage in health policy, political participation, and/or political activism. Select one current healthcare policy at the local, state, or national level. For help identifying a policy idea, consider visiting the American Nurses Association’s Nursing Legislative Issues and Trends website or the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Federal Policy Agenda for Academic Nursing website (both links are found in the ancillary documents). Describe the selected policy, identify its purpose, and evaluate its ideal outcomes, and drawbacks. For example, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented a pay-for-performance (P4P) policy in 2016 which has 55% of fee-for-service Medicare shifting to quality-based payments. Naturally, this is a strategy to promote quality and value of healthcare services. However, a drawback of this policy is that it has had hospitals, nurses, and other healthcare providers scurrying to implement it, due to its complexity.
  • Slides 9–10: Every day, nurses apply ethical principles in each step of the policy process as they follow the best evidence-based practice guidelines available. Nurses’ policy practices are driven by caring, respect, openness, and honesty. Analyze one key concept in the Nurses Code of Ethics that nurses can utilize while involved in healthcare policy activities.
  • Slides 11–12: The essence of the nursing profession is both valued within a society and uniquely accountable to that society. This is considered to be the profession’s social contract. Using the American Nurses Association website, first identify a current healthcare policy that nurses are involved in at the local, state, or national level. Second, using Fowler’s Guide to Nursing’s Social Policy Statement: Understanding the Profession from Social Contract to Social Covenant, pp. 19–20, analyze how the nurses’ social contract is being upheld within that policy.
  • Slide 13: References

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HP4001: Policy and the Role of the Nurse: Analyze the role of the nurse as a force that shapes policy. Assessment Rubric Does Not Meet Meets Expectations Expectations Module 1: Introduction to Policy in Nursing and Healthcare Describe two key reasons Response does not Response adequately adequately describe two describes two reasons that that nurses are uniquely reasons that nurses are nurses are uniquely positioned to work in uniquely positioned to work positioned to work in challenging policy in challenging policy challenging policy situations. situations. situations. Response clearly and completely describes two reasons that nurses are uniquely positioned to work in challenging policy situations. Learning Objective 1.1: Describe the unique position of nurses in challenging policy situations. Analyze how having a policy-making skill set, such as being able to write, review, and debate policies, can facilitate more informed decision-making, boost overall healthcare performance, or improve patient outcomes. Response clearly and completely analyzes how having a policy-making skill set, such as being able to write, review, and debate policies, can facilitate more informed decision-making, boost overall healthcare performance, or improve patient outcomes. Rubric Criteria Response does not adequately analyze how having a policy-making skill set, such as being able to write, review, and debate policies, can facilitate more informed decision-making, boost overall healthcare performance, or improve patient outcomes. Response adequately analyzes how having a policy-making skill set, such as being able to write, review, and debate policies, can facilitate more informed decision-making, boost overall healthcare performance, or improve patient outcomes. Exceeds Expectations Learning Objective 1.2: Analyze benefits of policy-making skills. © 2020 Walden University 1 Rubric Criteria Analyze the role of the nurse and how they might become an active participant in policy development and/or modification. Does Not Meet Expectations Response does not adequately analyze the role of the nurse and how they might become an active participant in policy development and/or modification. Learning Objective 1.3: Analyze the role of the nurse in the policy process. Module 2: Nurses and Healthcare Policy in Action Describe the selected Response does not adequately describe the policy and identify its selected policy and identify purpose, ideal outcomes, its purpose, ideal and drawbacks. outcomes, and drawbacks. Learning Objective 2.1: Evaluate healthcare policies. Module 3: Ethics and Social Justice in Policy-Making Analyze one key concept Response does not adequately analyze one relating to policymaking key concept relating to within the Nurses Code of policymaking within the Ethics that nurses can Nurses Code of Ethics that utilize while involved in nurses can utilize while healthcare policy activities. involved in healthcare policy activities. Learning Objective 3.1: Analyze Nurses Code of Ethics concepts. © 2020 Walden University Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations Response adequately analyzes the role of the nurse and how they might become an active participant in policy development and/or modification. Response clearly and completely analyzes the role of the nurse and how they might become an active participant in policy development and/or modification. Response adequately describes the selected policy and identify its purpose, ideal outcomes, and drawbacks. Response clearly and completely describes the selected policy and identify its purpose, ideal outcomes, and drawbacks. Response adequately analyzes one key concept relating to policymaking within the Nurses Code of Ethics that nurses can utilize while involved in healthcare policy activities. Importance of Policy Making Skills in Nursing
Response clearly and completely analyzes one key concept relating to policymaking within the Nurses Code of Ethics that nurses can utilize while involved in healthcare policy activities. 2 Rubric Criteria Identify a current healthcare policy that nurses are involved with at the local, state, or national level, and analyze how the nurses’ social contract is being upheld within that policy. Learning Objective 3.2: Analyze how the nurse’ social contract is being upheld within healthcare policies. Does Not Meet Expectations Response does not adequately identify a current healthcare policy that nurses are involved with at the local, state, or national level, nor does it adequately analyze how the nurses’ social contract is being upheld within the policy. Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations Response adequately identifies a current healthcare policy that nurses are involved with at the local, state, or national level, and adequately analyzes how the nurses’ social contract is being upheld within the policy. Response clearly identifies a current healthcare policy that nurses are involved with at the local, state, or national level, and clearly and completely analyzes how the nurses’ social contract is being upheld within the policy. Content contains few spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors. Writing demonstrates adequate sentence and paragraph structure and may require some editing. Content presented is satisfactorily clear, logical, and/or organized, but could benefit from additional editing/revision. Content is free from spelling, punctuation, and grammar/syntax errors. Writing demonstrates appropriate sentence and paragraph structure. Content presented is clear, logical, and well-organized. Professional Skills Assessment Professional Writing Professional Writing: Clarity, Flow, and Organization © 2020 Walden University Content contains significant spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors. Writing does not demonstrate adequate sentence and paragraph structure and requires additional editing/proofreading. Key sections of presented content lack clarity, logical flow, and/or organization. 3 Professional Writing: Context, Audience, Purpose, and Tone Professional Writing: Originality, Source Credibility, and Attribution of Ideas © 2020 Walden University Content minimally or does not demonstrate awareness of context, audience, and/or purpose. Writing is not reflective of professional/scholarly tone and/or is not free of bias. Style is inconsistent with the professional setting/workplace context and reflects the need for additional editing. Content does not adequately reflect original writing and/or paraphrasing. Writing demonstrates inconsistent adherence to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim, with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and reference. Importance of Policy Making Skills in Nursing
There are numerous and/or significant errors. Content demonstrates satisfactory awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is adequately professional, scholarly, and/or free from bias, and style is mostly consistent with the professional setting/workplace context. Content clearly demonstrates awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is highly professional, scholarly, and free from bias, and style is appropriate for the professional setting/workplace context. Content adequately reflects original writing and paraphrasing. Writing demonstrates adequate adherence to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim, with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and references. There are one or two minor errors. Content reflects original thought and writing and proper paraphrasing. Writing demonstrates full adherence to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim, with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and references. 4 … Importance of Policy Making Skills in Nursing