HEALTHCARE POLICY MAKER

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HEALTHCARE POLICY MAKER

Please read Rubrics attached Overview The purpose of the three ungraded worksheets for this course is to assist the student in identifying the key pieces of information necessary for completing the assignments and meeting the course outcomes. See the corresponding rubric for specific grading criteria and point breakdown. Do not upload the worksheet; the purpose of the worksheet is to support the rubric. For this course, the student must first select a healthcare issue. The issue must be a public-health policy issue. Students may not use issues relevant for private organizations or institutions, such as internal policy issues. It must be an original policy; one not currently in legislation. The goal of this course is to get the student involved in healthcare-policy issues that impact the general public. This will involve a meeting with local policymakers such as city, county, and school-board officials. Students are free to work at the state or federal level as well. Students must carefully consider their particular policy issue, applicable level of government involved, course time constraints, and objectives/outcomes of the assignments. Students are to select a policy issue, research the issue including policy analysis, plan the policy, and plan meeting with a policymaker for the purpose of presenting the issue, proposing recommendations and asking questions about how change can occur. The student will reflect on the experience, develop plans for follow-up with the policymaker as needed, and consider ways in which advocacy efforts can continue. It is important that students understand that they are not responsible for ensuring the implementation of their policy issue during this eight-week course. The actual implementation of policy changes can take extended periods of time. The student’s responsibility in this course is to plan a meeting with a policymaker and, based on the student’s research of the policy issue come up with a proposition or recommendation to address the issue and then have an initial meeting with a policymaker, ideally in person but alternatively via telephone, videoconferencing, or use of other technology. Be sure to examine all three ungraded worksheets and assignments, including the actual scoring rubrics, now. This ungraded worksheet directly relates to and impacts all ungraded worksheets and graded assignments related to this course. Information noted on the worksheets become part of the graded assignment.

Analyze leadership qualities that facilitate collaboration and cooperation at the individual, team, community, and organizational levels within diverse healthcare settings to foster human health

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Professional CoalitionProject: Assignment Guidelines with Scoring Rubric Purpose: Involvement in interdisciplinary coalitions allows the healthcare leader to gain an understanding regarding navigating socio-political environments as well as providing macro leadership within a broader community setting. The purpose of this project is to build and provide leadership to a coalition that addresses a healthcare concern. Leadership skills at the macro-level will be applied. Course Outcomes: CO #1: Analyze leadership qualities that facilitate collaboration and cooperation at the individual, team, community, and organizational levels within diverse healthcare settings to foster human health. (MPH PO #1, MSN PO # 1, 7) CO #5: Incorporate ongoing leadership character development, values and ethical principles into a living leader role that collaborates with and engages individuals, teams, agencies, and organizations locally as well as globally. (MPH PO #8, MSN PO #5) Due Date:Sunday 11:59 PM MT at the end of Week 7 Total Points Possible:125 Points REQUIREMENTS: Description of the Identified Healthcare Concern You are the Vice-President of Nursing Services at a 500 bed facility that provides healthcare to a 6 county region that occurs in two different but adjoining states. Recently you attended a national conference regarding infectious diseases and the potential for their spread with our current global environment. Upon return from the conference, you have a conversation with a local public health official who identifies that there is no regional plan to combat an infectious disease outbreak. In addition, the official noted the presence of several barriers which will make the development of a plan more of a challenge. These include, but are not limited to: · Identification of a plan that would cover a large region and a diverse population of approximately one million people · Identification of a plan that could be coordinated from one facility, but interact successfully with 6 different counties and two different state governments · The presence of a regional airport which increases the opportunity for introducing an infectious disease to the region From the conversation, you realize that a coalition will be needed and that macro leadership skills are required for the coalition to be successful. You now accept the challenge to build a coalition within the region to develop a plan that would resist a sudden outbreak of an infectious illness. Description of the Assignment The purpose of this project will be to address a healthcare concern occurring within a community by providing macro level leadership needed to build a coalition. The identified coalition will seek to resolve the healthcare concern. · This assignment will be presented via PowerPoint and will include 15 – 20 slides (excluding title and references slides). · Introduction provides information regarding: o Introductory slide(s) provided ALL of the following: o Definition of macro-leadership o Definition of coalitions o Explanation why a coalition would be helpful in resolving this identified healthcare concern. · Section One identifies macro-leadership skills and requires information related to each of the following areas: o Explain the difference between micro and macro leadership. o Explain how a macro leader demonstrates: § Mastery of self § Mastery of communication § Mastery of relationships o Explain how a macro-leader can overcome one disadvantage to using coalitions · Section Two discusses the coalitions in general by including the following information: o How will you pool available local and state resources? o How will you foster communication with individuals living in the region as well as local and state governments? o How will you maintain the energy of the coalition members? o How will you convince members to work together and avoid turf issues? · Section Three presents the specific coalition that you will suggest in order to resolve the identified healthcare concern. The following information is required: o What will be your vision statement for the coalition? o How many individuals will you have on the steering committee for the coalition? o What type of individuals would you recruit for steering committee membership? o How will the coalition interact with local and state governments to develop an acceptable plan? o How will you evaluate the effectiveness of the coalition? · Conclusion provides a summary of the key points from the presentation as well as of insights gained (what was learned) regarding macro leadership. Criteria for Format and Special Instructions 1. The PowerPoint Presentation (excluding the Title slide and References slide) should equal 15–20PowerPoint slides. Points will be lost for not meeting these length requirements. 2. Speaker notes are required. These notes should expand the information found on the slide. 3. References are to be cited in the Speaker notes 4. This assignment must be submitted to TurnItIn™, as required by the TurnItIn™ policy. A Similarity Index of “blue” or “green” must be obtained. A score in the blue or green range indicates a similarity of less than 24{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} which is the benchmark for CCN graduate nursing students. Any other level of similarity index level requires the student to revise the assignment before the due date and time. To allow sufficient time for revision, early submission of the assignment to TurnItIn™ is highly encouraged. The final submission will be graded by faculty. If a Turnitin™ report indicates that plagiarism has occurred, the Academic Integrity policy will be followed. 5. The textbooks required and lesson information for this course may not be used as areference for this assignment. 4. A minimum of 5 (five) scholarly references must be used. Scholarly references need to be current, 5years or less (anonymous authors or web pages are not acceptable). 5. Must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. Ideas and information that come from readings must be cited and referenced correctly. 6. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal written work as found in the 6th edition of the APA manual.

Epidemiology in Public and Global Health

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Assignment: Epidemiology in Public and Global Health

Note: This Assignment is not due until Day 7 of Week 3. Epidemiologic surveillance is used in public and global health. For this Assignment, begin by locating a recent article about an outbreak of an infectious or communicable disease. The article can come from a newspaper or other source but must be supported with scholarly literature. For this Assignment, review the following: AWE Checklist (Level 4000) Walden paper template (no abstract or running head required) The Week 3 Assignment Rubric for additional instruction and guidance By Day 7 of Week 3 Write a 3- to 4-page paper that includes the following: A summary of the article, including the title and author The relationship among causal agents, susceptible persons, and environmental factors (epidemiological triangle) The role of the nurse in addressing the outbreak Possible health promotion/health protection strategies that could have been implemented by nurses to mitigate the outbreak.A summary of the article, including the title and author The relationship among causal agents, susceptible persons, and environmental factors (epidemiological triangle) The role of the nurse in addressing the outbreak Possible health promotion/health protection strategies that could have been implemented by nurses to mitigate the outbreak

Identify a health behavior (PROCRASTINATION) that significantly affects health status in a particular group of people

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Develop a research paper of eight pages in length, typed, double-spaced, exclusive of references. References are to be cited using the APA format. Identify a health behavior (PROCRASTINATION) that significantly affects health status in a particular group of people. Review the professional literature (Introduction to Health Behavior Theory 2nd Edition by Joana Hayden) to determine how researchers have applied health behavior models to explain this health behavior. References must be from professional/academic sources. Compare and contrast how AT LEAST two of the following health behavior models are applied to the health behavior; The Health Belief Model, The Transtheoretical Model, The Theory of Planned Behavior, Social Cognitive Theory, The Transactional Theory of Stress and Coping. Include:  Thesis: Original thoughts regarding the utility and application of the models to the health behavior  Introduction to the Health Behavior and its significance ( one paragraph)  Description of the models being compared including constructs and application to the Health Behavior ( at least one reference for each application)  At least five original comparisons that support your thesis  Conclusion: recapitulation of the thesis  Reference page RUBRIC Present evidence of high prevalence. Clear explanation of the distribution of the behavior by gender, age, ethnicity, income and other important variables. Include behavioral, occupational and environmental risk factors. Correctly identify risk factors. Include multiple credible sources. Use analytical epidemiology to describe significant differences in risk as a result of the health behavior. Clearly describe knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and values that impact the health behavior. Clearly describe environmental factors beyond risk factors, include public policy implications. Clearly apply an appropriate health behavior model and supports the application with professional literature Prioritize preventive measures by impact and strength of evidence