UKM2 — UKM2 TASK 2: HEALTHCARE POLICY AND ECONOMICS
HEALTHCARE POLICY AND ECONOMICS — D223
PRFA — UKM2
Preparation Task Overview Submissions Evaluation Report
COMPETENCIES
738.6.4 : Analyze Public Healthcare Policies and Federal and State Laws
The learner analyzes public healthcare policies, federal and state laws, and the resulting impact to patients and healthcare delivery.
INTRODUCTION
Enacted laws in healthcare have an impact on individuals, whether at the institutional, local, state, or federal level. As a profession, nursing has the opportunity to influence healthcare legislation on all levels. By understanding healthcare legislation, nurses can be advocates for patients as a unified group.
Although the majority of healthcare professionals are nurses, nursing has many opportunities to increase their involvement in healthcare legislation. Healthcare and nursing policies are influenced by legislation. Policies and enacted laws affect care delivery, patient preferences, and reimbursement. Nurses are in a unique position to influence policy and legislation due to the holistic care model and patient-centered care.
For this task, you will analyze a federal and state enacted law that relates to a current area of focus in healthcare. You will discuss how the federal and state legislation influence patient and healthcare delivery. You will consider the population impact of the enacted laws and if they are equitable at both the federal and state level.
Your goal in this task is to discuss how a nurse can impact legislation at the federal and state level. You should consider the role of the nurse in the development of legislation at the federal and state level, and how the nurse will support or influence improvements to legislation.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
A. Analyze a public healthcare enacted law at the federal level by doing the following:
1. Describe one federal public healthcare enacted law that affects the provision of patient care and healthcare delivery.
2. Explain how the legislation works (e.g., Will enforcement be necessary? Who is responsible for administering the policy?).
3. Discuss the legislation’s impact on the population(s) by answering the following questions:
• What population(s) will benefit?
• How will they benefit?
• What population(s) will be negatively impacted?
• How will they be impacted?
• Does the policy impact health disparities and health equity?
4. Discuss the evidence that supports the enacted law, including one scholarly research article published within the last five years to support your discussion.
B. Analyze a public healthcare enacted law at the state level by doing the following:
1. Describe one state public healthcare enacted law that affects the provision of patient care and healthcare delivery.
2. Explain how the legislation works (e.g., Will enforcement be necessary? Who is responsible for administering the policy?).
3. Discuss the legislation’s impact on the population(s) by answering the following questions:
• What population(s) will benefit?
• How will they benefit?
• What population(s) will be negatively impacted?
• How will they be impacted?
• Does the policy impact health disparities and health equity?
4. Discuss the evidence that supports the enacted law, including one scholarly research article published within the last five years to support your discussion.
C. Explain the role of the nurse within healthcare policy at the organizational level in each of the following areas:
• development
• administration • revision
1. Explain the barriers to the nurse’s engagement in each of the following healthcare policy areas:
• development
• administration
• revision
2. Explain the ways that you will engage with healthcare policy in one of the following areas in your future nursing practice:
• development
• administration
• revision
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, csv, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z
RUBRIC
B3:LEGISLATION IMPACT ON POPULATION(S)
NOT EVIDENT
A discussion of the impact the legislation from part B1 has on COMPETENT
The discussion addresses the impact the legislation from part
C2:NURSING ENGAGEMENT
NOT EVIDENT
An explanation of one way the candidate will engage with COMPETENT
The explanation addresses one way the candidate will engage
D:SOURCES
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not include both in-text citations and a reference list for sources that are quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E:PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
NOT EVIDENT
This submission includes pervasive errors in professional communication related to grammar, sentence fluency, contextual spelling, or punctuation, negatively impacting the professional quality and clarity of the writing. Specific errors have been identified by Grammarly for Education under the Correctness category.
WEB LINKS
Senate.gov
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list; however, the citations or reference list is incomplete or inaccurate.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
This submission includes substantial errors in professional communication related to grammar, sentence fluency, contextual spelling, or punctuation. Specific errors have been identified by Grammarly for Education under the Correctness
category.
COMPETENT
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date, title, and source location as available.
COMPETENT
This submission includes satisfactory use of grammar, sentence fluency, contextual spelling, and punctuation, which promote accurate interpretation and understanding.
