Population Health Issue and Population Affected

For this section of your paper (approximately 3–4 pages in length) address the following:
• Explain whether your proposed policy could be enacted through a modification of existing law or regulation or the creation of new legislation/regulation.
• Explain how existing laws or regulations could impact your advocacy efforts.
• Provide an analysis of the methods you could use to influence legislators or other policymakers to support your policy. In particular, explain how you would use the “three legs” of lobbying in your advocacy efforts.
• Summarize the obstacles you anticipate arising in the legislative process and how you could overcome these hurdles.
Final Paper Instructions
1. This paper is your PORTFOLIO paper. You will save in a Portfolio File (back up your work on a flash drive etc. ..you don’t want to lose the paper)…you will save for retrieval in the future.
2. Save your paper as Wk10PortfolioLastNameFirstInitial
3. Make sure your program is not too unwieldy…I would suggest making it a program that you could actually do in your community…don’t try to save the nation…your circle of influence…
4. Title Page – Title: Health Advocacy Campaign Be sure to have correct identifying information – See Annotated Paper
5. Page 2 – Same Title: Health Advocacy Campaign – NOT in bold …Write a couple of sentences generally introducing the topic. The section needs a purpose statement – the purpose of this paper is to…review the major concepts.
6. Then the body of your work. You will only have the four Level I headings as shown below through the Summary.
Name Your Specific Health Advocacy Campaign Here
Each Level I heading comes from the week covered. Level II Headings follow – remember these are in bold, first letter of each major word in caps, flush to the left margin and then begin next paragraph.
Population Health Issue and Population Affected
Advocacy Programs Researched in this Area
Effective Attributes of the Programs
Health Advocacy Plan
Objectives for the Policy Implemented – Here are some example of policy objectives – see how specific they are…
• By the end of the 6 month program, participant BMI will be reduced by 10%.
• The BMI will be maintained for one year following the completion of the program.
• Upon completion of the health advocacy program the participant’s urine cotinine levels will be negative.
How Information will be Conveyed to Various Stakeholders – be sure to tell me who your stakeholders are. How are you going to let them know what is going on in order to get buy-in.
Data and Evidence to Substantiate Proposed Need
How Attributes of Effective Advocacy Programs Researched Can Be Applied to this Proposed Campaign
Legal Considerations
Enactment of Policy through Modification of Existing Policy OR Creation of New Legislation
How Existing Laws or Regulations could Impact My Advocacy
Analysis of Methods used to Influence Legislators or Other Policy Makers to Support the Policy
Including the “Three Legs” of Lobbying
Summary of Anticipated Obstacles and How I will Overcome these Hurdles
Ethical Issues
Ethical Dilemmas that Could Arise and How They Would be Resolved
Ethic Laws and Reporting Requirements for this Campaign
Ethical Challenges Unique to the Population
Summary
Summarize the main points of your work.
References
Check ALL your references with the Common Reference List Examples EXCEPT Streaming Video and Chapters in an edited book. These are in DocSharing.
Grading Rubric
Be sure to cut and paste the grading rubric here…I use the icon with the brush…be sure it looks the same as what you copied.

i. Summary – Summarize the main points of your work
ii. References – Check ALL your references with Common Reference List Examples
2. Double check your work by checking off all components on the Application Audit Checklist
3. Use Ctrl f to make sure you have NO “it” words in your paper AND to make sure all the “this” are followed by a noun
4. Remember no “I believe”, “I Feel”, “I think” type of “I” use. … see Writing Suggestions
5. THEN GO TO THE WRITING CENTER SITE –
a. PUT YOUR WORK THROUGH GRAMMARLY AND MAKE CORRECTIONS.
b. THEN IN THE SAME WRITING CENTER SITE PUT YOUR WORK THROUGH TURNITIN (NOT THE ONE IN THE ASSIGNMENT SECTION – THE ONE IN THE WRITING CENTER)…
i. Take off title page and references. If your work reads 15% or less, then you are ready to submit it to me.
ii. If the percentage is more rework and place through the Writing Center TII until it is 15% or less.
6. Remember…the resources from the course have to be used – look at the rubric – “Excellent” and “Good” requires such…that means go to the Resource page and engage.
Required Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Readings
Milstead, J. A. (2013). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Chapter 4, “Government Regulation: Parallel and Powerful” (pp. 73–109)

This chapter explains the major concepts of the regulation of health professionals, with emphasis on advanced practice nurses (APN) and the process of licensure and credentialing.
ANA’s Foundation of Nursing Package – (Access this resource from the Walden Library databases through your NURS 6050 Course Readings List)
Guide to the Code of Ethics: Interpretation and Application

This guide details the history, purpose and theory, application, and case studies of this must-have Code of Ethics.
Nursing Social Policy Statement

The Nursing Social Policy Statement provides an understanding of the social framework and obligations of the nursing profession.
Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice

This book contains several national standards of practice that can be used to inform the decision-making process, development, implementation, and evaluation of several functions and aspects of advanced practice nursing.
Gallagher, T. H. (2009). A 62-year-old woman with skin cancer who experienced wrong-site surgery: Review of medical error. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(6), 669–677.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

The article showcases the different sides of medical error, from a 62-year-old patient who suffered and the components of the medical error’s impact and aftermath.
Reinhardt, U. E. (2010, Jan 30). Repercussions of simplicity. New York Times, p. A14.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

This article determines that the government should take low-income families into account when determining mandatory health insurance because many Americans choose to go without insurance despite preexisting conditions presumably no longer being an issue.
Board on Health Care Services. (2007). Preventing medication errors: Quality Chasm Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Retrieved from http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11623&page=43
Part 1, "Understanding the Causes and Costs of Medication Errors" (pp. 43–49)
This article discusses the multilayered nature of medication error as a system of failures due to individual behaviors and conditions.
Media
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012f). Legal and ethical aspects of healthcare delivery. Baltimore, MD: Author.
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