Week 5 Project Formatting Instructions – Important Read the following chapters from your course textbook: Taking Action: Nurse, Educator, and Legislator: Journey to the Delaware Senate – Chapter 55 Taking Action: A Nurse in the Board Room Chapter 57 The Nurse as Advocate Whether nurses are advocating for their patients, health care, and/or policies that […]
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Select your issue topic from newspapers, national news magazine articles, professional journals, or professional association literature.
Question 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 Select your issue topic from newspapers, national news magazine articles, professional journals, or professional association literature.
How do you think your selected healthcare issue might get on the presidential agenda?
Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet It may seem to you that healthcare has been a national topic of debate among political leaders for as long as you can remember. Healthcare has been a policy item and a topic of debate not only in recent times but as far back as the administration of the […]
Explain how analyses of the voters views may affect decisions by legislative leaders in recommending or positioning national policies (e.g., Congress’ decisions impacting Medicare or Medicaid).
Topic: Discussion: Politics and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Discussion: Politics and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Regardless of political affiliation, individuals often grow concerned when considering perceived competing interests of government and their impact on topics of interest to them. The realm of healthcare is no different. Some people feel […]
Summarize the implications for the nursing profession and/or patients.
Topic: Policy Organization and Financing Healthcare Week2 Position Paper 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. Your position paper should: Be quickly and easily understood. Be succinct […]
What are your constituents most concerned about regarding health care reform-What are the trade-offs associated with recent health care reform policy?
Identify a state or national politician (state representative or legislator, senator, congressman, governor, etc.), or aide, whom you would like to interview regarding current issues in health care reform. As soon as possible, contact the individual’s office to request a meeting. Keep in mind that it may be difficult to get on their calendar, so […]
Describe what you believe to be the drivers for each of the individual advocates.-What factors led the individuals to become advocates?
The Nurse as Advocate In a Microsoft Word document of 5-6 pages formatted in APA style, you will describe the advocacy process. Whether nurses are advocating for their patients, health care, and/or policies that improve people’s lives, the advocacy processes have commonalities that transcend the subject of their advocacy. There are also differences, although these […]
Compare this practice to at least one other probation practice, which you found in your research.
Unit 2 AS: Juvenile Probation Practices Comprise a minimum 2-page essay, and please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format. Remember, case studies are designed to describe, compare and evaluate various aspects of a research problem, and, here, your research problem is “juvenile probation practices.” You are […]
Discuss the implications of the problem for nursing or nursing practice
Letter to a Legislator about a Current Health Problem/Quality It is vital to understand how to communicate your viewpoint about a current issue. In this assignment, you will develop a letter to your legislator about a current health problem. Once you have completed this assignment, save the letter to use as a template for future […]
Identify who you want to contactNow that you have considered the purpose of your communication, you need to identify the best individual(s) to contact. Should you reach out to your own Representative/Senator, or would another individual have more influence over the issue?
Paper details: The Letter to Legislator assignment is designed to provide students with an opportunity to engage a public official about an issue of importance to them. The topic of the letter will correspond to the issue/policy/action that is addressed in the Fact Sheet, as these two items can be paired for maximum impact. Students […]
