Develop a 5–7 page paper that critiques the extent to which the policies, legislation, and regulatory environment effectively address the health care or nursing problem that has been your focus during this course. The paper will:
Identify and summarize the health care and nursing problem that has been the focus of analysis for this course project. Identify why this issue was important to you.
Summarize the policies, legislative, and legal considerations related to the focus topic
Distinguish the social, historical, and/or political context for the focus topic
Critique the policies that define and direct care related to the focus topic
To what extent does the policy support the provision of comprehensive care? To what extent does it fragment care?
What are the power relations between those in need of care and those providing care (both the institutions and their individual members)? How empowering is the policy for patients, for nursing care providers, and for institutions in the health care system?
What challenges to care or gaps in care does this policy present?
How well does the policy reflect the ANA Code of Ethics?
What ethical issues does this policy raise in the delivery of care, and in the maintenance or creation of health disparities?
Draw some conclusions about the current state of affairs regarding the policy and health care issue based upon your policy analysis and evaluation and reference materials.
Make recommendations for policy changes that would ameliorate the gaps in health care and nursing policy, from an ethics of care perspective, based on your conclusions. Provide rationale and empirical and theoretical supports for your
recommendations.
Suggest some methods for creating change within the legislative, judicial, or regulatory processes.
The assignment will:
Cite a minimum of 7 creditable references published within the last five years.
Use APA style and formatting for your paper and citing your references. You may want to consider using section headings to organize the paper.
Summarizes fully the social, historical, and political context of the research theories and methods found in the literature and includes supporting evidence.
Explains how the system of care responds to health care consumers as a result of health care policy with a focus on responsibility, competence, and responsiveness with at least one illustrative example, supported by evidence, related to a specific topic of interest.
Draws rational conclusions from an analysis of current policies directing care around a selected nursing or health care issue. Includes the ethical, political, social, and theoretical perspectives that inform the policy.
Analyzes and evaluates the efficacy of health and nursing policies to ameliorate a nursing problem and ethical concerns of care.
Recommendations for policy change and suggestions of strategies for achieving change are novel and fully supported by the theoretical and empirical literature.
Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, with no errors, and formats citations correctly using APA style, and all information is accurate and up-to-date.
