How does the current state of the quality of care and outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population illustrate the need for improvements?What academic or professional journal would be the best forum to advocate for your policy?

Population Health Policy Advocacy

What would be the benefits and challenges of applying a specific level of prevention to your chosen issue and population?

How might one or more approaches to prevention improve the care and outcomes?

How could your policy be leveraged, or revised, to support the relevant levels of prevention?

What are relevant strategies that you could use to help advocate for the policy you are proposing?

How could these strategies help you advocate for your policy proposal?

How does evidence from the literature support the benefits of your proposed policy?

How does citing evidence help lend credibility to your advocacy?

What academic or professional journal would be the best forum to advocate for your policy?

Why is your chosen journal an appropriate forum?

Which advocacy strategies would be most effective in this forum?

How will you craft your message to best appeal to the likely audience of your chosen journal?

How does the current state of the quality of care and outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population illustrate the need for improvements?

Why do you consider policy development and advocacy necessary?

How will developing a health policy help to improve the quality of care and outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population?

Why is advocating for health policy development necessary to drive improvements?

Why is it important that policy development focused on your chosen issue and target population take place in care environments and settings beyond that for which you proposed the policy?

How will wider development of policies help to drive improvements related to your chosen issue and target population?

What is the end result of wider policy development and implementation?

Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.

What are the relevant interprofessional aspects of your policy?

How will these interprofessional aspects support efficient achievement of your desired outcomes for your target population?

How will these interprofessional aspects support effective achievement of your desired outcomes for your target population?

Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.

Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy

Develop a letter to the editor of a peer-reviewed academic or professional nursing journal based on the policy proposal that you created for Assessment 2.

Choose from one of the journals on the Ultimate List of Nursing Journals and go to that journal’s Web site to find out the requirements for submitting a letter to the editor, such as format requirements, topics, and word counts. Make sure you select a nursing journal that covers the topic about which you are going to write.

If you want to use another journal that is not on this list, please make sure the journal does address health care, because this is the purpose of the assessment.

The goal of your letter is to be informative about the policy that you developed for Assessment 2, while also being persuasive about the need for and benefit of similar policies in other health care settings.

The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your submission addresses all of them.

You may also want to read the Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC] document to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.

Look back to the data or scenario you used in Assessment 1 to address this criterion.

Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.

Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.

Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.

Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.

Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style (or the journal’s preferred style).

Attached is Assessment 2 paper as well