Healthcare Policy Assignment

Healthcare Policy Assignment

Discussion

Purpose

The purpose of this discussion (Healthcare Policy Assignment) is to reflect on opportunities to impact healthcare policies while further developing your own political competency using Warner’s article (2003) as a guide.

Instructions

Read the Warner (2003) article (located in Student Learning Resources). Reflect upon the development of your political competency and address the following:

1. Consider a time when there was an issue related to healthcare policy in your local, regional, or national community. If you pursued an opportunity to address the issue, describe the results. If you did not pursue the opportunity, describe the reasons.
2. Propose an area of your political competency that needs further development and action you could take to become more politically competent to impact your selected population.

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Program Competencies

This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:

5. Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)

7. Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)

8. Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience, and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (PO 1)

Course Outcomes

This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

1. Critically analyze the history, formation, and implementation of local, state, and national health policies from the perspectives of stakeholders and the profession of nursing. (PC 5; PO 2)

3. Assimilate epidemiology principles and interventions to impact the social determinants of health, Global Burden of Disease, and population health outcomes. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)

6. Demonstrate collaborative interprofessional leadership and political competency to develop and implement healthcare policy to improve healthcare delivery and population health outcomes. (PC 5; PO 2)