NURS 6050/NURS 5050 Module 4: Healthcare Program Design and Implementation (Weeks 7-8)

Learning Objectives

Students will:

Analyze health policies

Analyze opportunities for RNs and APRNs to participate in policy-making

Analyze strategies for overcoming challenges for participating in policy-making

Recommend strategies to improve the advocacy and communication of policy-making opportunities

Analyze healthcare programs

Analyze the role of the nurse in healthcare program design

Analyze the role of the nurse as advocates for target populations of healthcare programs

Analyze the role of the nurse in healthcare program implementation

Analyze healthcare teams necessary for implementing healthcare programs

 

 

Due By

Assignment

Week 7, Days 1–2

Read/Watch/Listen to the Learning Resources.

Compose your initial Discussion 1 post.

Week 7, Day 3

Post your initial Discussion 1 post.

Begin to compose your Assignment.

Week 7, Days 4-5

Review peer Discussion 1 posts.

Compose your peer Discussion 1 responses.

Continue to compose your Assignment.

Week 7, Day 6

Post at least two peer Discussion 1 responses on two different days (and not the same day as the initial post) NURS 6050 Policy and Advocacy for Improving Population Health.

Week 7, Day 7

Wrap up Discussion 1.

Week 8, Days 1–2

Compose your initial Discussion 2 post.

Continue to compose your Assignment.

Week 8, Day 3

Post your initial Discussion 2 post.

Continue to compose your Assignment.

Week 8, Days 4-5

Review peer Discussion 2 post.Compose your peer Discussion 2 post.

Continue to compose your Assignment.

Week 8, Day 6

Post at least two peer Discussion 2 responses on two different days (and not the same day as the initial post).

Week 8, Day 7

Wrap up Discussion 2.

Deadline to submit your Assignment.

Learning Resources

Required Readings

Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (6th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

 

Chapter 5, “Public Policy Design” (pp. 87–95 only)

Chapter 8, “The Impact of EHRs, Big Data, and Evidence-Informed Practice” (pp. 137–146)

Chapter 9, “Interprofessional Practice” (pp. 152–160 only)

Chapter 10, “Overview: The Economics and Finance of Health Care” (pp. 183–191 only)

American Nurses Association (ANA). (n.d.). Advocacy. Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/advocacy/

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (n.d.). Step by step: Evaluating violence and injury prevention policies: Brief 4: Evaluating policy implementation. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/injury/pdfs/policy/Brief%204-a.pdf

 

Congress.gov. (n.d.). Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.congress.gov/

 

Klein, K. J., & Sorra, J. S. (1996). The challenge of innovation implementation. Academy of Management Review, 21(4), 1055–1080.

 

Sacristán, J., & Dilla, T. D. (2015). No big data without small data: Learning health care systems begin and end with the individual patient. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21(6), 1014–1017.

 

Tummers, L., & Bekkers, V. (2014). Policy implementation, street level bureaucracy, and the importance of discretion. Public Management Review, 16(4), 527–547 NURS 6050 Policy and Advocacy for Improving Population Health.

 

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). Getting your Program Designed and Implemented [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

 

Accessible player 

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Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). Health policy and politics [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.