Planning Your Visit Guidelines

Graded Assignment 2

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to: (a) identify and
articulate a plan for a legislative/policymaking visit (CO #2); (b) deliver a
message and ask/recommendations (CO #2, 3), and (c) communicate ideas in a
clear, succinct, and scholarly manner. (CO #3)

Course Outcomes

This assignment
enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

(CO #2) Employ
strategies to affect the development, implementation, and consequences of
policies at the institutional, local, national, and international levels. (PO
4, 8, 10)

(CO #3) Communicate
with policymakers to advocate for effective policies that affect nurses and
nursing, consumers, or the health care system. (PO 2, 3,10)

(CO #4) Analyze
the historical, ethical, and political contexts of health care policy and the
consequences of policy implementation. (PO 6, 10)

(CO #5) Advocate for
institutional, local, national, and international policies that influence
health care and its consumers and nurses and their nursing practice. (PO 2, 10)

Due Date: Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of
Week 5

Total Points: 175 points

Requirements

Assignment
Criteria for Presentation

1. 
Introduce
your chosen policy issue, the current status, and an overview of your plan for
a legislative visit.

2. 
Articulate
key strategies involved in your plan, message, and recommendations under each
of the Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2 sections using headings in your
paper.

3. 
Provide
an analysis of empirical evidence supporting your approach strategies including
plan, message, and follow-up.

4. 
Provide
specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit and
follow-up to nursing.

5. 
Provide
concluding statements summarizing the content.

6. 
Paper
will be five (5) pages, excluding title and reference pages, and in APA format
6^th edition.

Preparing the Paper

Following
completion of Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2,
develop a plan for visiting your policymaker, including the message/ask, and
the recommendation(s) you will deliver. Include a minimum of five (5) classic references
or current references (published within the past 5 years) that support your
plan, the message, recommendations, and follow-up.