NR 717 Full Course Discussions & Assignments
NR 717 Full Course Discussions & Assignments
NR 717 Discussion: Reflection on Learning and Practice Readiness
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is to reflect on your own readiness to practice as a DNP-prepared nurse and consider what you learned in this course and how this knowledge will impact your practice.
Instructions
Each week, you have been reminded that reflective inquiry allows for expansion of self-awareness, identification of knowledge gaps, and assessment of learning goals. As you reflect on your own readiness to practice as a DNP-prepared nurse, it is important to consider what you learned in this course.
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As you review the course outcomes and your experience in this course, address the following:
Analyze and evaluate how your thinking was challenged in this course related to (1) advocacy for population health, (2) disaster preparedness, and (3) health policy.
Considering this new knowledge, examine how this learning prepares you to practice as a DNP-prepared nurse.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
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)
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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:
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)
Synthesize ethical and legal principles to advocate for value-based, equitable, and ethical health policies at the micro, meso, and macrosystem levels. (PC 5; PO 9)
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)
Analyze the role of the advanced practice nurse in disaster and emergency management. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
Formulate strategies for providing culturally relevant and high-quality healthcare to vulnerable and high-risk populations to address social injustice and health inequities. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
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)
NR 717 Assignment: Advocacy to Impact Population Health Through Oral Testimony
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate advocacy skills in health policy related to the selected population and practice problem. This week, you discovered that the DNP-prepared nurse needs to develop an advocacy plan to impact healthcare policy with an emphasis on population health. In this assignment, you will create an oral testimony presentation that can be used to advocate for change to improve the health outcomes for your selected population, National Practice Problem, and policy. Formulation of the testimony supports professional formation, communication, and dissemination skills relevant to the DNP-prepared nurse.
Instructions
Review the lesson and readings about advocacy, especially the Jurns (2019) article on ISBAR.
Using the population, National Practice Problem, and policy from previous weeks, prepare testimony advocating for policy change or implementation, using the ISBAR format presented by Jurns (2019).
Use the same testimony that was created for the Week 7 Discussion. Incorporate feedback provided in the discussion post.
You may address any policymaker from the local to national level but please identify your audience.
Create the oral testimony using Kaltura or voice-over PowerPoint. Click on the following link for instructions on how to use Kaltura:
Link (webpage): Kaltura TutorialsLinks to an external site.
Link (webpage): PowerPoint Voice-Over TutorialLinks to an external site.
Testimony Content and Organization
Your assignment will be graded on the content, accuracy, and quality of the testimony. Include each of the following components in your testimony:
(I) Identify
Address the person to whom you are speaking.
Introduce self and provide credentials.
Present expertise/experience and interest in issue.
(S) Situation
Describe the issue.
Identify the policy and provide the bill name and number if applicable.
Using data, present the consequences if the policy is not enacted.
(B) Background
Acknowledge the decisionmaker’s interests.
Restate your expertise and ability to comment on the issue.
Share a personal note of interest or brief story.
(A) Assessment
Give your expert professional assessment of the situation.
Provide evidence supporting how the policy positively affects stakeholders.
Identify support from stakeholders, special interest groups, and/or coalitions.
(R) Recommendation/Request
Offer your recommendation for a course of action.
Thank the policymaker for their time/attention.
Offer your assistance and expertise.
Salutation
Your name and title
Credentials
Contact information
Testimony Accuracy
Provide sufficient information and detail.
Explain content correctly to the policymaker being addressed.
Identify a direct relationship between the policy intervention and the proposal.
Testimony Quality
Demonstrate time management: Presentation is 3 minutes or less.
Follow the ISBAR format.
Adhere to Standard English usage and mechanics.
Provide clear and understandable audio.
Program Competencies
This assignment enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
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)
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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 assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
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)
Synthesize ethical and legal principles to advocate for value-based, equitable, and ethical health policies at the micro, meso, and macrosystem levels. (PC 5; PO 9)
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)
Formulate strategies for providing culturally relevant and high-quality healthcare to vulnerable and high-risk populations to address social injustice and health inequities. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
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)
Rubric
W7 Assignment Grading Rubric
W7 Assignment Grading Rubric
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIdentify
Requirements:
1. Address the person to whom you are speaking.
2. Introduce self and provide credentials. 3. Present expertise/experience and interest in issue.
10 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent identify section.
9 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good identify section.
8 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic identify section.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor identify section.
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSituation
Requirements:
1. Describe the issue.
2. Identify the policy and provide the bill name and number if applicable.
3. Using data, present the consequences if policy is not enacted.
30 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent description of the situation.
27 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good description of the situation.
24 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic description of the situation.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor description of the situation.
30 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeBackground
Requirements:
1. Acknowledge decisionmaker’s interests.
2. Restate your expertise and ability to comment on the issue.
3. Share a personal note of interest or brief story.
20 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent description of the background.
18 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good description of the background.
16 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or and provides a basic description of the background.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor description of the background.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssessment
Requirements:
1. Give your expert professional assessment of the situation.
2. Provide evidence supporting on how the policy positively affects stakeholders.
3, Identify support from stakeholders, special interest groups, and/or coalitions.
20 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent assessment.
18 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good assessment.
16 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic assessment.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor assessment.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeRecommendation/Request
Requirements:
1. Offer your recommendation for a course of action.
2. Thank the policymaker for their time/attention.
3. Offer your assistance and expertise.
20 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent discussion of the recommendation/request.
18 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good discussion of the recommendation/request.
16 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic discussion of the recommendation/request.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor discussion of the recommendation/request.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSalutation Requirements: 1. Your name and title 2. Credentials 3. Contact information
Requirements:
1. Your name and title
2. Credentials
3. Contact information
10 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent salutation.
9 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good salutation.
8 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic salutation.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor salutation.
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeTestimony Accuracy
Requirements:
1. Provide sufficient information and detail.
2. Explain content correctly to the policymaker being addressed.
3. Identify a direct relationship between intervention and the proposal.
20 pts
Includes all requirements and provides excellent testimony accuracy.
18 pts
Includes all requirements and provides very good testimony accuracy.
16 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides basic testimony accuracy.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides poor testimony accuracy.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeTestimony Quality
Requirements:
1. Demonstrate time management: Presentation is 3 minutes or less.
2. Follow the ISBAR format.
3. Adhere to Standard English usage and mechanics .
4. Provide clear and understandable audio.
20 pts
Includes all requirements and provides excellent testimony quality.
18 pts
Includes all requirements and provides very good testimony quality.
16 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides basic testimony quality.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides poor testimony quality.
20 pts
Total Points: 150
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NR 717 Discussion: Advocacy to Impact Population Health Through Written Testimony
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is to demonstrate advocacy skills in health policy related to the selected population and practice problem. This week, you discovered that the DNP-prepared nurse needs to develop an advocacy plan to impact healthcare policy with an emphasis on population health. In this discussion, you will create written testimony that can be used to advocate for change to improve the outcomes for your selected population and practice problem.
Instructions
Review the lesson and readings about advocacy, especially the Jurns (2019) article on ISBAR. Then, using the population, population problem, and policy from previous weeks, prepare written testimony advocating for policy change or implementation. Using the ISBAR format presented by Jurns (2019), provide written testimony about policy change you would like to propose. You may address any policymaker from the local to national level but please identify your audience.
(I) Identify
Address the person to whom you are speaking.
Introduce self and provide credentials.
Present expertise/experience and interest in issue.
(S) Situation
Describe the issue.
Identify the policy and provide the bill name and number if applicable.
Present the consequences if the policy is not enacted using data.
(B) Background
Acknowledge the decisionmaker’s interests.
Restate your expertise and ability to comment on the issue.
Share a personal note of interest or brief story.
(A) Assessment
Give your expert professional assessment of the situation.
Provide evidence supporting how the policy positively affects stakeholders.
Identify support from stakeholders, special interest groups, and/or coalitions.
(R) Recommendation/Request
Offer your recommendation for a course of action.
Thank the policymaker for their time/attention.
Offer your assistance and expertise.
Salutation
Your name and title
Credentials
Contact information
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
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)
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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:
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)
Synthesize ethical and legal principles to advocate for value-based, equitable, and ethical health policies at the micro, meso, and macrosystem levels. (PC 5; PO 9)
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)
Formulate strategies for providing culturally relevant and high-quality healthcare to vulnerable and high-risk populations to address social injustice and health inequities. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
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)
NR 717 Discussion: Policy Analysis to Impact Population Health
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is to analyze a health policy related to the selected population and practice problem.
This week, you discovered that the focus of healthcare policy has a growing emphasis on population health outcomes. As a DNP-prepared nurse, you must be able to critically appraise healthcare policies to influence policy decisions at every level.
Instructions
Review the lesson and readings about Bardach’s eightfold steps to policy analysis, especially in the Chapter 4 Policy Analysis section of the Patton text. Then, select a healthcare policy that impacts, or has the potential to impact, the practice problem and population selected in previous weeks of this course.
The following links will assist in your search for policies and/or bills.
Current Legislative ActivitiesLinks to an external site. (Congress.gov)
NursingLinks to an external site. (Gov info)
NursingLinks to an external site. (Govtrack)
You can select a broad, national health policy (i.e., Accountable Care Act) or one that is specified for a specific health issue (i.e., Minority Diabetes Initiative Act).
Critically appraise the healthcare policy using Bardach’s eightfold steps to policy analysis:
Define the problem
Assemble evidence
Develop alternatives
Select criteria to evaluate the alternatives
Project outcomes
Analyze trade-offs
Make decisions
Communicate results
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
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)
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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:
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)
Synthesize ethical and legal principles to advocate for value-based, equitable, and ethical health policies at the micro, meso, and macrosystem levels. (PC 5; PO 9)
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)
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)
NR 717 Assignment: Population Health Practice Problem
Purpose
This assignment will allow for the exploration of a selected population health practice problem, encompassing social determinant risk factors, epidemiological factors, an evidence-based population health intervention, and relevant measurable goals and objectives.
Instructions
Use the population (at the local, regional, or national level) you have engaged throughout the course thus far and develop a comprehensive analysis of the important population health concepts and propose an evidence-based intervention and evaluation plan.
The assignment should include the following components:
Introduction
Introduce topic of paper.
Develop a focused one-sentence purpose statement.
Present subtopics that will be discussed.
Population
Present the selected population in general terms.
Identify three key social determinant risk factors associated with the population.
Practice Problem
Explain the National Practice Problem and how it affects the population.
Explain the significance of the practice problem at the local, regional, or national level.
Explain the prevalence of the practice problem at the local, regional, or national level.
Epidemiology
Explore the epidemiologic principles and measures used to address your selected practice problem.
Examine the use of descriptive and/or analytic epidemiology to address the practice problem.
Propose how you might use surveillance to influence the determinants of health and improve the health outcomes of your population.
Anticipate any ethical concerns that you might have related to the use of surveillance data in your population.
Goal and Objective
Explore and detail one Healthy People 2030 goal that addresses the selected practice problem.
Link (website):  Healthy People 2030 Links to an external site.   
Develop one measurable objective using the SMART format (review Week 4 Lesson) to help achieve the Healthy People 2030 goal that addresses the selected practice problem.
Evidence-Based Population Intervention
Identify one evidence-based intervention from a research study to achieve the goal and objective. (This research study must be at the population level and should not be one that was used in a previous course.)
Add the study to the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Individual Evidence Summary Tool.
Link (Word doc): Johns Hopkins Individual Evidence Summary ToolLinks to an external site.
Identify where the selected intervention is located on the Minnesota Public Health Wheel.
Provide objective rationale for the evidence-based intervention to address the practice problem.
Evaluation
Describe how you would evaluate if your intervention were efficient, effective, and efficacious, and equitable.
Conclusion
Summarize the impact of the practice problem on the identified population.
Summarize the role of the evidence-based intervention to address the practice problem idea.
References
Identify and list four scholarly sources on the reference pages.
Identify and list other scholarly sources used in the paper on the reference pages.
List sources in alphabetical order.
Use correct hanging-indent format.
Appendix: Summary Table of the Evidence
Attach the completed Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Individual Evidence Summary Tool.
Provide a minimum of one research study describing the selected intervention.
Complete all sections completely for the source of evidence.
Identify both the quality and level of evidence for each scholarly source on the table.
Writing Requirements (APA format)
Length: 7-8 pages (not including title page or references page)
1-inch margins
Double-spaced pages
12-point Times New Roman or 11-point Arial font
Headings & subheadings
In-text citations
Title page
Reference page
Standard English usage and mechanics
Program Competencies
This assignment enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
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)
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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 assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
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)
Synthesize ethical and legal principles to advocate for value-based, equitable, and ethical health policies at the micro, meso, and macrosystem levels. (PC 5; PO 9)
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)
Formulate strategies for providing culturally relevant and high-quality healthcare to vulnerable and high-risk populations to address social injustice and health inequities. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
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)
Rubric
W5 Assignment Grading Rubric
W5 Assignment Grading Rubric
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIntroduction
Requirements:
1. Introduce topic of paper.
2. Develop a focused one-sentence purpose statement.
3. Present subtopics that will be discussed.
20 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent introduction.
18 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good introduction.
16 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic introduction.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor introduction.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomePopulation
Requirements:
1. Present the selected population in general terms.
2. Identify three key social determinant risk factors associated with the population.
30 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent description of the population.
27 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good description of the population.
24 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic description of the population.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor description of the population.
30 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomePractice Problem
Requirements:
1. Explain the National Practice Problem and how it affects the population.
2. Explain the significance of the practice problem at the local, regional, or national level.
3. Explain the prevalence of the practice problem at the local, regional, or national level.
30 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent description of the practice problem.
27 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good description of the practice problem.
24 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or and provides a basic description of the practice problem.
0 pts
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Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor description of the practice problem.
30 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEpidemiology
Requirements:
1. Explore the epidemiologic principles and measures used to address your selected practice problem.
2. Examine the use of descriptive and/or analytic epidemiology to address the practice problem.
3. Propose how you might use surveillance to influence the determinants of health and improve the health outcomes of your population.
4. Anticipate any ethical concerns that you might have related to the use of surveillance data in your population.
40 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent discussion of the epidemiology.
36 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good discussion of the epidemiology.
32 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic discussion of the epidemiology.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor discussion of the epidemiology.
40 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGoal Objective
Requirements:
1. Explore and detail one Healthy People 2030 goal that addresses the selected practice problem.
2. Develop one measurable objective using the SMART format (review Week 4 Lesson) to help achieve the Healthy People 2030 goal that addresses the selected practice problem.
30 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent discussion of the goal and objective.
27 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good discussion of the goal and objective.
24 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic discussion of the goal and objective.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor discussion of the goal and objective.
30 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEvidence-Based Population Initiative
Requirements:
1. Identify one evidence-based intervention from a research study to achieve the goal and objective. (This research study must be at the population level and should not be one that was used in a previous course.)
2. Add the study to the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Individual Evidence Summary Tool.
3. Identify where the selected intervention is located on the Minnesota Public Health Wheel.
4. Provide objective rationale for the evidence-based intervention to address the practice problem.
40 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent discussion of the evidence-based initi36 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good discussion of the evidence-based initiative.
32 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic discussion of the evidence-based initiative.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor discussion of the evidence-based initiative.
40 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEvaluation
Requirements:
1. Describe how you would evaluate if your intervention were efficient, effective, and efficacious, and equitable.
30 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent discussion of evaluation.
27 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good discussion of evaluation.
24 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic discussion of evaluation.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor discussion of evaluation.
30 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConclusion
Requirements:
1. Summarize the impact of the practice problem idea.
2. Summarize the role of the evidence-based intervention to address the practice problem idea.
10 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent conclusion.
9 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good conclusion.
8 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic conclusion.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor conclusion.
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeReferences
Requirements
1. Identify and list four scholarly sources on the reference pages.
2. Identify and list other scholarly sources used in the paper on the reference pages.
3. List scholarly sources in alphabetical order.
4. Use correct hanging-indent format.
10 pts
Includes all requirements and provides excellent references.
9 pts
Includes all requirements and provides very good references.
8 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides basic references.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides poor references.
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAPA Style and Organization for Scholarly Papers
Requirements:
1. Uses Level I headers.
2.References and citations are proper APA (current version).
3.Length of APA formatted paper is 7-8 pages (excluding title page and references).
20 pts
Includes all requirements and provides excellent APA style and organization.
18 pts
Includes all requirements and provides very good APA style and organization.
16 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides basic APA style and organization.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides poor APA style and organization.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeClarity of Writing
Requirements:
1. Use of standard English grammar and sentence structure.
2. No spelling errors or typographical errors.
3. Organized around the required components using appropriate headers.
20 pts
Includes all requirements and demonstrates excellent clarity of writing.
18 pts
Includes all requirements and demonstrates very good clarity of writing.
16 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or demonstrates basic clarity of writing.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or demonstrates poor clarity of writing.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAppendix: Summary Table of the Evidence
Requirements:
1. Attach the completed John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Individual Evidence Summary Tool.
2. Provide a minimum of one research study describing the selected intervention.
3. Complete all sections completely for the source of evidence.
4. Identify both the quality and level of evidence for each scholarly source on the table.
20 pts
Includes all requirements and provides an excellent summary table.
18 pts
Includes all requirements and provides a very good summary table.
16 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a basic summary table.
0 pts
Includes fewer than all requirements and/or provides a poor summary table.
20 pts
Total Points: 300
NR 717 Discussion: Healthcare Policy
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion 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:
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.
Propose an area of your political competency that needs further development and an action you could take to become more politically competent to impact your selected population.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
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)
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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:
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)
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)
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)
NR 717 Assignment: FEMA Emergency Management Course
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) basic incident command system.
Instructions
Complete the following FEMA Emergency Management Institute course which should take about 4 hours to complete:
Link (website): IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial ResponseLinks to an external site.
There are several different courses (i.e.,100, 200, and 700). You are only required to complete the IS200 course.
Download and save the Certificate of Completion with a file name: Last NameFirst Name_ISCOURSENUMBER Certificate Completion (ex. StudentSally_IS200 Certificate Completion).
Submit the certificate of completion in pdf format to the assignment folder.
This assignment is pass/fail. You will receive 150 points after successfully passing the IS-200 course and uploading your certificate of completion in the course assignment folder.
Program Competencies
This assignment enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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 assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Analyze the role of advance nursing practice in disaster and emergency management. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
Late Assignment Policy applies
Rubric
W4 Assignment Grading Rubric
W4 Assignment Grading Rubric
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFederal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA): Emergency Management Institute CIS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response
Requirements:
1. Complete the following Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA): Emergency Management Institute course which should take about 4 hours to complete: IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response
2. Download and save the “Certificate of Completion” with a file name: Last NameFirst Name_ISCOURSENUMBER Certificate Completion (ex. StudentSally_IS100 Certificate Completion).
3. Submit the certificate of completion in pdf format to the assignment folder.
150 pts
Includes all requirements and provides the certificate of completion.
0 pts
Does not include all requirements and/or submit the certificate of completion.
150 pts
Total Points: 150
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NR 717Discussion: Evaluation Processes in Population Health
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is to evaluate strategies to address your selected population health practice problem to reduce health disparities.
Instructions
Compose a brief statement introducing the selected practice problem (to remind readers of your selected topic).
Summarize a related Healthy People 2030 Goal that applies to your selected population and health issue.
Link (website): Healthy People 2030Links to an external site. 
Propose one evidence-based intervention to address the Healthy People 2030 goal. You may use the same study from Week 3 if it aligns with the selected Healthy People 2030 goal, or you may select another evidence-based intervention after reviewing the literature.
Describe how you would determine if your evidence-based intervention was efficient, effective, and efficacious. Each of the 3 E’s must be addressed.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
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)
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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:
Synthesize ethical and legal principles to advocate for value-based, equitable, and ethical health policies at the micro, meso, and macrosystem levels. (PC 5; PO 9)
Formulate strategies for providing culturally relevant and high-quality healthcare to vulnerable and high-risk populations to address social injustice and health inequities. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
NR 717 Discussion: Population Health Interventions
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is to demonstrate your understanding of interventions to address population health problems and reduce health disparities.
Instructions
Using your selected population, continue your search and appraisal of evidence by analyzing one research study that offers a potential intervention to address your selected population health issue. This intervention must be at the population level. This research study must be new, one that was not used in a previous course.
Appraise a quantitative research study that utilizes an intervention to address the selected health issue identified in Week 2 using the Johns Hopkins Research Appraisal Tool.
Link (Word doc): Johns Hopkins Research Appraisal ToolLinks to an external site.
Transfer your findings to the Johns Hopkins Individual Evidence Summary Tool.
Link (Word doc): Johns Hopkins Individual Evidence Summary ToolLinks to an external site.
Analyze the evidence summary tool of the research study to address the following in the discussion:
Determine whether the intervention has the potential to impact the issue. Explain your rationale.  
Attach the completed Johns Hopkins Individual Evidence Summary Tool.
Present the translation science model that would best aid the success of this intervention and discuss how the stakeholders are integrated into the design of the theory or model.
Identify where your selected intervention is located on the Minnesota Public Health Wheel.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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:
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)
Formulate strategies for providing culturally relevant and high-quality healthcare to vulnerable and high-risk populations to address social injustice and health inequities. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)
NR 717 Discussion: Epidemiology and Health Surveillance
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is to apply concepts in epidemiology and health surveillance to a selected population.
Instructions
Explore the determinants of health and the National Practice Problems that most affect the population you selected in Week 1. Review the following index to locate an epidemiological report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Link (website): CDC A-Z IndexLinks to an external site.
This report contains data on specific diseases as reported by state and regional health departments, as well as recommendations that have been issued by the CDC.
Use the index to review the most significant issue pertaining to your selected population and one of the eight National Practice Problems to address the following:
Explore the epidemiologic principles and measures used to address your selected practice problem at the national and specific geographic (city or county level) location for the population you have selected.
Examine the use of descriptive and/or analytic epidemiology to address the practice problem.
Propose how you might use surveillance to influence the determinants of health and improve the health outcomes of your population.
Anticipate any ethical concerns that you might have related to the use of surveillance data in your population.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
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)
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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:
Synthesize ethical and legal principles to advocate for value-based, equitable, and ethical health policies at the micro, meso, and macrosystem levels. (PC 5; PO 9)
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)
NR 717 Discussion: Leading Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Healthcare
Purpose
This week you discovered that the focus of healthcare has a growing emphasis on population health. This includes an emphasis on quality improvement and tracking outcomes. The purpose of this discussion is to apply the key concepts in population health to a selected population.
Instructions
Select a population you would like to engage throughout the course to explore important population health and health policy concepts. Potential populations to consider are listed below. You may want to refer to the Global Burden of Disease or one of the eight National Practice Problems to identify the population you will be examining in this course. You may examine the same health issue you have been researching in the previous courses, or you may select another topic of interest to complete the assignments unique to this course.
Address the following as they relate to the population you have selected:
Create a culturagram for your selected population. Refer to the lesson for guidance in creating a culturagram. You may use the attached template if you desire.
Link: (Word doc): Culturagram TemplateLinks to an external site.
Identify three key social determinant risk factors associated with the population.
Conduct a search of the literature. Identify one evidence-based intervention to reduce health disparities in your selected population.
Examine how the selected intervention addresses at least one of the standards from the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards (CLAS).
Potential Populations
Asian population in Torrance, California
Somali-Americans in Minneapolis, Minnesota
African American population in Jackson, Mississippi
Hopi Indians in Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona
Caucasian population in Martin County, Kentucky
Hispanic/Latino population in Hialeah, Florida
Note: You may consider a different population as long as there is an abundance of literature related to social determinant risk factors and statistical data (prevalence, incidence, and economic ramifications) available for the selected health issue so that you can complete the required assignments each week.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
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:
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)
Formulate strategies for providing culturally relevant and high-quality healthcare to vulnerable and high-risk populations to address social injustice and health inequities. (PCs 7, 8; PO 1)