NR506 week 5 Planning Your Visit(Part A)
Planning Your Visit(Part A)
Guidelines and Grading Rubric
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to: (a) identify communication strategies that support an effective policy making-presentation/visit(CO #2);(b) deliver a message andmake recommendations (CO #2,3), and (c) communicate ideas in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner. (CO#3)
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
(CO #2) Employ strategies to affect the development, implementation, and consequences of policies at the institutional, local, national, and international levels. (PO 4, 8, 10)
(CO #3) Communicate with policymakers to advocate for effective policies that affect nurses and nursing, consumers, or the health care system. (PO 2,3,10)
(CO #4) Analyze the historical, ethical, and political contexts of health care policy and the consequences of policy implementation. (PO 6, 10)
(CO #5) Advocate for institutional, local, national, and international policies that influence health care and its consumers and nurses and their nursing practice. (PO2,10)
Due Date: Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5
Total Points: 100points
Requirements
Assignment Criteria for Presentation
1. Introduce your chosen policy issue, the current status, and an overview of your plan for a legislative visit.
2. Articulate key communication strategies involved in your approach to the legislator including plan, message, and recommendations; see Worksheet 2 and again, the focus is on evidence-based communication techniques for effective healthcare policy visit to the legislator.
3. Provide an analysis of empirical evidence of effective communication strategies and techniques to support an effective visit and follow-up to the legislator.
4. Provide specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.
5. Provide concluding statements summarizingthe content.
6. Paper will be 2-3 pages, excluding title and reference pages, and in APA format 6thedition.
7. Five non-text book references are required as minimum.
Preparing the Paper
Following completion of Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2, target communication strategies that support an effective policymaking visit. Include a minimum of five (5) classic references or current references (published within the past 5 years) that support your policy plan, the message, recommendations, and follow-up.
Category Points % Description
Introduction and Conclusion 10 10 Introductionbriefly identifies your healthcare policy-priority issue, the policy itself and legislator with a plan for the policymaker visit/presentation. Concluding statements summarize content.

Empirical Evidence 50 50 Empirical evidence identifies effective communication strategies and techniqueswith follow-up supporting your visit to the legislator.

Specific Examples 20 20 Provide specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.

APA Format 10 10 Text, title page, and references are consistent with APA format 6thedition.

Writing Quality 10 10 Rules of grammar, word usage, sentence and paragraph format, and punctuation are followed. Paper length appropriate.

Total 100 100 A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

Grading Rubric
Assignment Criteria Exceptional
(100%)
Outstanding or highest level of performance Exceeds
(88%)
Very good or high level of performance Meets
(80%)
Competent or satisfactory level of performance Needs Improvement
(38%)
Poor or failing level of performance Developing
(0)
Unsatisfactory level of performance
ContentPossible Points = 100 Points
Introduction and Conclusion 10 Points 9 Points 8 Points 4 Points 0 Points
Introduction briefly identifiesyour healthcare/policy-priority issue, policy itself, and legislator with a plan for the policymaker visit/presentation.Concluding statements summarizing content have no inaccuracy.
Introduction of your healthcare/policy-priority issue, policy itself, and legislatorwith a plan for policymaker visit/presentation has rare inaccuracy.Concluding statements lack occasional important element or specificity.
Introduction of your healthcare/policy-priority issue, policy itself, and legislator with a plan for policymaker visit/presentation lacks occasional important element or specificity.Concluding statements lack occasional important element or specificity.
Introduction of your healthcare/policy-priority issue, policy itself and legislator with a plan for a policymaker visit/presentation has multiple instances of inaccuracies or is lacking content.Concluding statements have multiple instances of inaccuracies or lacks content.
No attempt at introduction or conclusion.

Empirical Evidence 50 Points 44 Points 40 Points 19 Points 0 Points
Empirical evidence ofeffective communication strategies and techniques with follow-up supporting your healthcare policy-priority visit to the legislator is clearly articulated.
Empirical evidence ofeffective communication strategies and techniques with follow-up supporting your healthcare policy-priority visit to the legislator has a few inaccuracies.
Empirical evidence ofeffective communication strategies and techniques with follow-up supporting your healthcare policy-priority visit to the legislator has multiple instances of inaccuracies or lacks detail/articulation.
Empirical evidence of effective communication strategies and techniques with follow-up supporting your healthcare policy-priority visit to the legislator is missing.
No attempt at providing Empirical evidence.

Specific Examples 20 Points 18 Points 16 Points 8 Points 0 Points
Provides specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentationto nursing and has no inaccuracy and is clearly articulated.
Provides specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing and lacks occasional important elements or specificity and/or lacks clarity.
Provides specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing and has multiple instances of inaccuracies and/or lacks clarity.
No specific examples of the impact OR importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.
No specific examples of the impact AND importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.

Content Subtotal_____of80 points
Format Possible Points = 20 Points
APA Format: 10 Points 9 Points 8 Points 4 Points 0 Points
Text, title page, and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.
There are 1–2 APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).
There are 3–4 APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).
There are 5 APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).
There are 6 or more APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).

Writing Quality.
10 Points 9 Points 8 Points 4 Points 0 Points
Paper is appropriate in length. References include the minimum of five (5) scholarly references,excluding the course text.Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work.
Paper is short or long in length and/or contains fewer than 5 but more than 1 scholarly reference, excluding course text, or references utilized are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work with1–2 exceptions.
Paper is short or long in length and contains only 1 scholarly reference. Additional references are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work with 3–4 exceptions.
Paper is two or more pages short or long in length and does not contain scholarly references. References utilized are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are not followed with 5 errors Paper is two or more pages short or long in length and does not contain scholarly references. References utilized are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are not followed with 6 or more errors.

Format Subtotal_____of20 points
Total Points_____of100 points

Under the Final Paper tab in this classroom, determine which case you will be researching for your Final Paper. Provide a description of the case you will be researching. Then, find at least six scholarly sources that are connected with the ethical dilemma and/or case-related content that you will be using to complete your Final Paper. Provide an annotated bibliography of these six (or more) sources.

Your annotated bibliography must contain the following elements (and possibly more):

·         APA-formatted citations

·         A description of the article:

·         What does it address?

·         What were the outcomes or conclusions?

·         How does this apply to your case study analysis?

·         Does it provide insights into an ethical concept?

·         Is it a similar case to the one you are analyzing?

·         Does it offer suggestions from best practices in ethical decision making?

Your paper should be at least two pages in length, excluding title and reference pages, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 

THIS IS THE CASE I BE WORKING ON:

Scenario No. 1: HIPAA Privacy RuleCase Study: Imagine that you are the privacy officer for a small town hospital. You receive a report that there is a breach of privacy. You are informed that a 15-year-old girl is received at the emergency with an emergency labor. The baby is delivered in the emergency room as there is no time to move the patient to the obstetrics (OB) department. In addition to the emergency delivery, the baby is born with multiple medical problems. Once the mother and baby are moved to obstetrics and neonate, care is given to both.

The OB nurse who took care of the mother and baby completes her shift, and she goes home to her own daughter to have a talk with her. She sits her daughter down and pleads with the girl to tell her if she ever has any problems, especially when it comes to pregnancy. The nurse tells her daughter the story about the young patient who delivered that evening, and she accidentally mentions the patient’s name. The patient’s name is one of those odd names that immediately triggers the nurse’s daughter to relay that she knows the patient. The mother/nurse, realizing that she made a big mistake by mentioning the patient’s name, pleads with her daughter not to say anything. Needless to say, word shoots through the four high schools in the town the next day.

The nurse returns to work the following evening, and she contacts you to hand in her badge and keys, stating that she knows she made a mistake by breaching the young patient’s privacy and she knows she is going to be fired. In addition to the breach of the obstetrics nurse, you learn that the patient hid her pregnancy from her family, and to make matters worse, her aunt and mother are both nurses at the hospital. You know both of these nurses on a professional and personal level.

Scenario No. 1 HIPAA Privacy Rule Project Assignment:Research the HIPAA Privacy Rule here:

·        U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2013). Health Information Privacy. Retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/introduction/index.html

Then, perform additional research regarding the HIPAA Privacy Rule and prepare your Final Paper by analyzing the issues through these questions in regards to the above scenario:

·         Analyze the specific requirements needed to perform this investigation.

·         Identify whether this incident was an actual breach of privacy according to the HIPAA law.

·         Examine the differences and similarities between the hospital’s stance and HIPAA as to whether the nurse should be fired from her job.

·         Explain why you would fire or not fire the nurse immediately or whether you would put her on administrative leave awaiting the details of the investigation.