BELOW IS THE PART 1. (Developing an Advocacy Campaign PART 1)
Mental health illness is a serious issue that affecting millions of Americans, people with mental health disorder deserve excellent care. They need a good health care system or program that will take good care of their health condition with the same urgency as other health condition. Many adults are mentally challenged as well as youth and young adult. Mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression are very common, the issue of substances abuse especially among the youth and young adult also have an effect on these mental issues. This writing will focus on advocacy campaigns for people facing mental illness challenges as well as the effect of the campaign.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance is an organization, organized advocate programs for mental health disorder and offer concrete support for the population living with mental illness. DBSA make room available for people to their program to promote wellness and recovery. The DBSA campaign focus on helping people with depression and mood disorder to receive good treatment and recovery from their health condition, DBSA advocate for people living with mental health and offer some program in the community to encourage and teach people with mentally challenged to live the healthy and better life. Sister Taking on the Prevention of Suicide is another organization advocate for the community on suicide prevention, this organization focus on programs to improve access to mental health care, and campaign against suicide in schools and communities. Also, educate the public on suicide prevention, enlightening people about law and regulation related to mental illness, also support to relieve individual with mental illness from stigma challenges emotional bullying
My health advocacy plan focus on increasing access to health care for the population living with mental illness with quick response care like other health condition. Americans with mental illness deserve our understanding and they deserve excellent care. They deserve a health system that treats their illnesses with the same urgency as physical illness (Iglehart, 2004). Many people living with mental health challenges are facing with lack of quick access to healthcare, early intervention is very important to save this population. According to the National Council for behavioral health(2017) with 77percent of U.S counties experiencing a severe shortage of behavioral health professionals, over 80 million Americans lives in areas that lack sufficient providers. Based on mental health access act, the bill that passed by the representatives in June 2017, and this bill was passed to advocate for people with mentally challenged, to improve their access to health care. the Act (H.R 3032) introduced the idea of allowing licensed mental health counsellors an opportunity to bill Medicare directly for their services and this will extend the access to care in communities, especially in rural areas where mental health workforce are shortage.
I really support the idea of Act of 2017 (H.R 3032) mental health access need to improve in order to increase the access to care. Mental health illness affects large number of older adults in our society, in addition to this improvement Act, my health advocacy campaign will focus on early intervention care, quality treatment, and better recovery of mental health issue within older adults, as well as campaign against the stigma and discrimination. National Council for Behavioral Health (2017) expressed that Individuals age of 65 and older have the highest rates of mental health-related hospitalizations and a suicide rate that exceeds the rest of the population, yet they are the least likely to receive mental health services with only one in five receiving needed therapy. In addition to the improvement Act 2017 (H.R. 3032), there should be an opportunity for licensed mental health counselors and nursing practitioners to practices independently in all states, at least to assess, analyze the tests, evaluate and manage the treatment plans without physician oversight, and able to bill Medicare directly for their services, I understand that some states allow NP to practice independently but this idea needs to extend to all states and allow more providers to be available to reduce or eradicate the lack of access to care especially in rural area, with this plan adult with mental illness will not end it in inpatient care all the time, since appropriate referrals for care will be easily accessed at earlier stage of illness.
Campaign against the stigma and discrimination, my plan is to extend this awareness to the hospital and all healthcare facilities to improve the knowledge of all health care practitioners in other units of care. This is very important because even in the hospital there is discrimination against the patient with a mental health issue. For instance, a patient with serious high blood or other serious health condition but also have a psychiatric diagnosis will transfer to psych unit without medically clear, this is because some nurses and doctors don\’t want to deal with the patient who have psych history at all. Main why this is not right a patient with serious high blood pressure need medical attention and continuous monitoring, psych unit has limited medical equipment to use in case of emergency. One in four Americans had a mental disorder and that two-thirds of those with mental disorders did not receive quality treatment (Safran et al., 2009).
References
Iglehart, J., K. (2004). The Mental health Maze and Call for Transformation
National Council for behavioral health.(2017). Mental Health Access Improvement
Act (H.R.3032). Retrieved from https://www.thenationalcouncil.org
Safran, M., A. Mays, R., A. Huang, L., N. McCuan, R. Pham, P., K.(2009). Mental Health
Disparities: American Journal of Public Health; Washington
Part 2 is the continuation of part 1, below is the assignment.
Application Assignment 2: Part 2 – Developing an Advocacy Campaign
The following application, Part 2, will be due in Week 7.
To prepare:
Review Chapter 3 of Milstead, J. A. (2016). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (5th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
In the first assignment, you reflected on whether the policy you would like to promote could best be achieved through the development of new legislation, or a change in an existing law or regulation. Refine as necessary using any feedback from your first paper.
Contemplate how existing laws or regulations may affect how you proceed in advocating for your proposed policy.
Consider how you could influence legislators or other policymakers to enact the policy you propose.
Think about the obstacles of the legislative process that may prevent your proposed policy from being implemented as intended.
To complete:
Part Two will have approximately 3–4 pages of content plus a title page and references. Part Two will 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 affect your advocacy efforts. Be sure to cite and reference the laws and regulations using primary sources.
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 obstacles that could arise in the legislative process and how to overcome these hurdles.
Paste the rubric at the end of your paper.
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Assignment exceeds expectations. All topics are addressed with a minimum of 75% containing exceptional breadth and depth about each of the assignment topics.
A clear and comprehensive purpose statement is provided which delineates all required criteria.
Demonstrates the ability to critically appraise and intellectually explore key concepts.
Demonstrates and applies exceptional support of major points and integrates 2 or more credible outside sources, in addition to 2-3 course resources to suppport point of view.
Synthesizes and justifies (defends, explains, validates, confirms) information gleaned from sources to support major points presented. Applies meaning to the field of advanced nursing practice.
