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NUR4837 Healthcare Policy, Advocacy, and the Political Process Unit 2 Assignment 1

Influencing
policy at the community level

Sphere of
influence: The Community

Choose one
of the two options to explore how to impact one’s community. Have fun with this ~ Be creative! Explore the literature and support your ideas
with scholarly sources/supporting literature.

This should
be a 1-2 page paper with at least 2 references that support your ideas.

CHOICE
1: You are completing a clinical
rotation in a small community agency that provides services to pregnant women
or women with children under the age of 3 in an urban area of the southern
United States. The racial composition of
the community is 78.1% white, 9.6 % African American, 8.0% Hispanic, 0.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native, 2.0% Asian, and 2.0% other.

In 2009,
110,800 women of child-bearing age resided in the county with 5,300 total
births.

Recently
you and your fellow students learned that current statistics for the county
reveal that from 2016 to 2018, the infant mortality (number of deaths per 1000
live births) rate was 8.2%; an increase from 6.5% in 2005-2007. For African
Americans, the rates were 10.0% in 2015 to 2017 and increased to 14.4% in 2016
to 2018.

The local
Healthy Start agency confirms that these data are accurate for the
community. In fact, based on a review of
deaths by the coroner, in the last year, the major causes of neonatal and
infant demise were low birth weight, babies sleeping in bed with an adult (roll
over/unintentional deaths), and SIDS.

Task: You
and your peers decide to take action.
With the assistance of the staff from the agency and your nursing
faculty, you decide to develop a community awareness campaign.

1. Name
your campaign.

2. Identify
community partners to help with your campaign.

3. Identify
the stakeholders.

4. Name the
resources you will need.

5.
Establish a task list.

6. Assign
responsibilities.

7. Define a
timeline.

8. Describe
an evaluation process ( you may want to review some ways healthcare
organizations evaluate implementing change).

You will be
evaluated on:

1. Your
ability to creatively engage the interest of the community by the name of the
campaign……………………………………………..…..10 pts

2. Your
understanding of the community partners and stakeholders needed to ensure
success of your cause …………………………….30 pts

3. Your
ability to cite the extent of the resources needed and the time frame to
develop the community awareness campaign…..20 pts

4. Your
knowledge of the steps involved in evaluating the success of your campaign or
what is needed to improve in the future..40 pts

CHOICE 2:

Task: You are going to design a health system that
addresses a specific health care problem and implements a significant component
of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). (For this assignment,
you may incorporate Box 13-2, “Six Drivers of High Performance Health Care
Systems” into your responses.)

1. Choose a
health care problem.

2. Choose a
community, or select an age group most impacted by the problem.

3. Design a
Medical Home (Health Home) for patients identified in #2.

4. Who is
the current primary care provider and why?

5. Who is
the primary care provider in your Medical Home (Health Home) and why?

6. What
specialists currently are needed, and what is the accessibility?

7. How will
specialists be handled in your Medical Home (Health Home)?

8. How is
access to medical information currently handled?

9. How will
you ensure that clients have easy access to medical information in your Medical
Home (Health Home)?

10. How
will you inform the community about your Medical Home (Health Home)?

11. Who are
the stakeholders you need to get on board?

12. What
opposition do you project will occur with the opening of the Medical Home
(Health Home)?

You will be
evaluated on:

1. Your
choice/development of a health care
problem…………………………………….………………………………………….20 pts

2. Your
ability to choose a community or select an age group most impacted by the
problem………….…..20 pts

3. Your
creativity to design a Medical Home (Health Home) for pts identified in #2
& to determine the following: …40 pts

• The
current primary care provider and why you identified that person

• The
primary care provider you select for Medical Home (Health Home) and why

• The
specialists currently needed and the accessibility to the specialists

• How the
specialists will be handled in your Medical Home (Health Home)

• How the
access to medical information is currently handled

• How you
will ensure that clients have easy access to medical information in your
Medical Home (Health Home)

4. Your ability to engage the community by
determining the following: ………………………………….. 40 points

• How you
will inform the community about your Medical Home (Health Home)

• The
stakeholders you need to get on board

• The
opposition you project to opening the Medical Home (Health Home)