Health Policy

The purpose of this assignment is for you to identify an issue of concern for your role
as an advanced practice nurse and to formulate a potential policy change to address
that issue. There are many potential issues which can influence your practice setting or
other issues which may negatively affect the patients with whom you work All of the
course reading will help you to identify a topic for this assignment. You can think about
the issue as related to your health promotion project. The policy you consider may be
in reaction to the health promotion issue or something larger that is still related to that
issue. There are hundreds of possible issues, but here is a list of a few to consider:

0 Child and elder care

0 Civil rights

0 Domestic violence

0 Drug abuse/addiction

o HN/AIDS

o Homelessness

0 Native American and migrant workers’ health

0 Long-term care

0 Immigration/illegal aliens

0 Legislative issues affecting advanced practice nursing

0 Barriers to practice

0 Access to care

As you begin to work on the possible policy change, the following ideas and steps
should be considered:

0 Definition and description of the issue

0 Exploration of the background of the issue

0 Stakeholders
0 Stakeholders

0 Issue statement or statement of clarity

0 Possible methods of addressing the issue

0 Goals and options for changes

0 Risks and benefits of the changes

0 Evaluation methodology

0 Recommendation or solution

Note to the writer: Please, from the list of the topics above, select the topic that you
feel more comfortable to work with- I uploaded a paper from a classmate of Domestic
Violence. You can choose the same topic, but please do not copy a word from it
because it would be plagiarism- This paper must be 10096 original. On the Running
head, write the topic you selected- On the title, write Health Policy- (the topic you
chose)- I am going to upload the grading criteria for you to make sure you answer all
the questions and cover all the key points to get a good gradePlease, make sure the
APA format is correct- My professor is really strict and this assignment represents most
of my grade-Thanks-