Develop and thoroughly analyze a public policy in order to advocate
for one that improves the health of the public and/or the nursing profession globally (local, state, national, or
international). To do this, you will reflect on several aspects of being a policy maker within the nursing position. A
few things to consider are:
Why did you select the health or nursing profession policy issue?
How does this issue affect nursing practice, healthcare delivery, and health outcomes for individual, families,
and/or communities?
What are the values and the ethical positions that underpin your perspectives?
What are the criteria you will use to evaluate the success (outcomes) of your proposed policy change?
By using both a top-down and a bottom-up approach, you will analyze and bring the nursing perspective to
policy makers and stakeholders. Identifying the values and ethical perspectives that underpin your position, you
will develop criteria to evaluate the success of your work. This will lead to a created a policy brief that can be
sent to decision makers and created a plan to work with an organization/community to promote policy change at
the local level.
To guide you to your conclusion, using nursing research to support your position is vital. This should include
principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR).
A. Prepare your reflection essay (suggested length of no more than of 3 pages) of the values and ethics of a
public policy issue by doing the following:
- Analyze a health or nursing profession public policy issue that impacts a group of people and requires a
policy change.
a. Discuss why you selected this public policy issue.
Note: If you select a local policy, be sure your discussion reflects how the policy will affect more than a single
unit, department, or organization.
b. Discuss the relevance of the public policy issue to the health or the nursing profession, using two pieces of
academically appropriate literature from the last five years.
c. Describe the financial impact of the public policy on an organization or on a community.
- Analyze how your values impact your position on the public policy issue.
a. Discuss the ethical principle (e.g., autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice) or theory that underpins
your perspective.
B. Develop a policy brief (suggested length of no more than 6 pages) for the public policy issue discussed in
part A in which you do the following:
- Identify the decision maker (name and title) who will receive the policy brief.
a. Explain why the public policy issue requires the decision maker’s attention, using relevant nursing research
from the last five years to support your position.
- Discuss the main challenges of addressing the selected public policy issue.
- Discuss the primary options and/or interventions for the decision maker, including why they are tangible.
- Propose a persuasive course of action for the decision maker, including ways to avoid the challenges
identified in part B2. - Discuss how you will evaluate the success of your policy brief (top-down approach).
C. Create a plan (suggested length of no more than 3 pages) for working with an organization or a community to
address the public policy issue analyzed in part A by doing the following:
- Identify an organization or community that has expressed interest in your selected health or nursing
profession public policy issue.
a. Summarize evidence supporting why the organization or community has expressed interest in the selected
public policy issue.
- Identify three CBPR principles you could use to work with the organization or community to address a policy
change for the public policy issue.
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