28 Feb Describe one federal public healthcare enacted law that affects the provision of patient care and healthcare delivery

738.6.4 : Analyze Public Healthcare Policies and Federal and State Laws

The learner analyzes public healthcare policies, federal and state laws, and the resulting impact to patients

and healthcare delivery.

INTRODUCTION

Enacted laws in healthcare have an impact on individuals, whether at the institutional, local, state, or federal level. As a profession, nursing has the opportunity to influence healthcare legislation on all levels. By

understanding healthcare legislation, nurses can be advocates for patients as a unified group.

Although the majority of healthcare professionals are nurses, nursing has many opportunities to increase

their involvement in healthcare legislation. Healthcare and nursing policies are influenced by legislation. Policies and enacted laws affect care delivery, patient preferences, and reimbursement. Nurses are in a

unique position to influence policy and legislation due to the holistic care model and patient-centered care.

For this task, you will analyze a federal and state enacted law that relates to a current area of focus in

healthcare. You will discuss how the federal and state legislation influence patient and healthcare delivery. You will consider the population impact of the enacted laws and if they are equitable at both the federal and

state level.

Your goal in this task is to discuss how a nurse can impact legislation at the federal and state level. You should

consider the role of the nurse in the development of legislation at the federal and state level, and how the nurse will support or influence improvements to legislation.

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no

more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used

Preparation Task Overview Submissions Evaluation Report

as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that

will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted

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A. Analyze a public healthcare enacted law at the federal level by doing the following:

1. Describe one federal public healthcare enacted law that affects the provision of patient care and healthcare delivery.

2. Explain how the legislation works (e.g., Will enforcement be necessary? Who is responsible for administering the policy?).

3. Discuss the legislation’s impact on the population(s) by answering the following questions:

• What population(s) will benefit? • How will they benefit?

• What population(s) will be negatively impacted? • How will they be impacted?

• Does the policy impact health disparities and health equity? 4. Discuss the evidence that supports the enacted law, including one scholarly research article published

within the last five years to support your discussion.

B. Analyze a public healthcare enacted law at the state level by doing the following:

1. Describe one state public healthcare enacted law that affects the provision of patient care and healthcare delivery.

2. Explain how the legislation works (e.g., Will enforcement be necessary? Who is responsible for

administering the policy?). 3. Discuss the legislation’s impact on the population(s) by answering the following questions:

• What population(s) will benefit? • How will they benefit?

• What population(s) will be negatively impacted?

• How will they be impacted? • Does the policy impact health disparities and health equity?

4. Discuss the evidence that supports the enacted law, including one scholarly research article published within the last five years to support your discussion.

C. Explain the role of the nurse within healthcare policy at the organizational level in each of the following areas:

• development • administration

• revision

1. Explain the barriers to the nurse’s engagement in each of the following healthcare policy areas: • development

• administration • revision

2. Explain the ways that you will engage with healthcare policy in one of the following areas in your future

nursing practice:

• development

• administration • revision

D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or

summarized.

E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.