Assignment 4: Health Care Reform
As quoted by the ANA “ANA believes that everyone deserves access to the highest quality care and that meaningful health care reform is essential. For decades, ANA has fought to improve care, with the values of nursing at its core” and is committed to doing so in the future.
To bring this to a personal level, select a policy or procedure at your place of employment that is in need of updating. (if you are not working currently in a related area, you may develop one or find one that is of interest to you).
Problem Identification: Discuss why the policy needs updating. Is this a new or updated policy? Note- this can be any policy or protocol, it does not need to be clinical practice related. Could be staffing or HR-related as well. Be creative.
Update the policy to meet current practice standards. You must use evidence-based resources and then discuss the relevance of the practice changes.
What are the practice implications? Think about the following: Is it appropriate, effective, cost-effective, efficient.
Policy Enactment: Determine and discuss the process at your place of employment to promoting or requesting a review of the new policy. Discuss internal or external procedures for getting policy enacted or passed.
Policy Implementation: Translate policy into operational practice and define implementation standards. Discuss how you go about implementing the new policy
This paper should include:
This is a formal assignment; APA format is a mandatory paper
The format should be no less than 3 pages (no longer than 5) pages (not incl. title page, formatted policy, reference list), APA 7th Ed. formatted
Include at least three scholarly sources from peer-reviewed journals, no older than 3 yrs old.
Prepare a reference list of all resources and websites used in your research using APA 7th ed guidelines (please note: IF you include them in your reference list, you must cite the source in your paper)
No abstract needed
Limit of 1 direct quotation with no more than 18 words
Use headings/subtitles to organize your content
Paragraphs should be a minimum of 3 sentences
APA formatting is required for narrative and references.
This scholarly paper should include:
This is a formal assignment; APA format is a mandatory paper
The format should be no less than 3 pages (no longer than 5) pages (not incl. title page, formatted policy, reference list), APA 7th Ed. formatted
Include at least three scholarly sources from peer-reviewed journals, no older than 3 yrs old.
Prepare a reference list of all resources and websites used in your research using APA 7th ed guidelines (please note: IF you include them in your reference list, you must cite the source in your paper)
No abstract needed
Limit of 1 direct quotation with no more than 18 words
Use headings/subtitles to organize your content
Paragraphs should be a minimum of 3 sentences
