Nursing administrators have a responsibility to remain current with knowledge of emerging trends in healthcare and their potential impact on nursing practice, safe and quality patient care, and the costs, risks, and/or benefits to the organization. How these trends or issues translate into practice is often determined by legal and regulatory actions as well as nursing standards of practice.
The focus of the quarterly regional meeting of your state nurses’ association is on current issues/trends affecting nursing practice. The meeting will be divided into three group forums, each focused on a different trend/issue. You have been asked to provide a short paper on one of the current trends/issues occurring in healthcare delivery that will be the focus of one of the group forums.
Legal/Regulatory Issue Assignment
Guidelines with Scoring Rubric
Purpose
Nursing administrators are often called upon to provide descriptive, factual, and unbiased information on a current nursing topic of interest as a foundation for group discussions. This sometimes happens as part of strategic planning. The purpose of this assignment is two-fold. The first purpose is to investigate a current issue and/or trend in nursing and its relationship to current or pending legislation, regulatory standards, nursing standards of practice, and the impact of the trend on organization and patient care quality and safety. The second purpose is to provide an opportunity to engage in a specific form of scholarly inquiry, expository writing. (CO2, CO3, CO4, CO5)
Total Points Possible: 200
Preparing the paper
Nursing administrators have a responsibility to remain current with knowledge of emerging trends in healthcare and their potential impact on nursing practice, safe and quality patient care, and on the costs, risks and/or benefits to the organization. How these trends or issues translate into practice is often determined by legal and regulatory actions as well nursing standards of practice.
The focus of the quarterly regional meeting of your state nurses’ association is on current issues/trends affecting nursing practice. The meeting will be divided into three group forums, each focused on a different trend/issue. You have been asked to provide a short paper on one of the current trends/issues occurring in healthcare delivery that will be the focus of one of the group forums.
Trends and Issues in Current Nursing Practice
1. Telehealth/Telemedicine
2. Mandatory Overtime
3. Patient Violence to Nursing
For this assignment, you will select one of the three topics above about which you will develop an expository type of essay to be shared among the members of the group forum. ( An expository essay is one that presents factual, unbiased information on a subject.) Each section provides calls for specific and factual information about the topic with one section at the end for your opinion and rationale based on your findings from your exploration. Therefore, following the provided outline/format provided is key to a successfully written paper.
Requirements:
Legal/Regulatory Issue Assignment (Paper title)
Statement of paper’s purpose
Rationale for choosing the trend for exploration
Overview of what will be included in the paper
Trend/Issue
Thorough description of the chosen trend/issue
Prevalence in healthcare, your state, and your organization (choose Virginia State and Sentara Health as organization)
Current Legal and Regulatory Status
Current and/or pending legislative actions described
Current and/or pending regulatory agency actions described
Impact on Nursing Practice
State Board of Nursing Position
Relationship to Standards of Practice
Patient Impact
Impact on patient safety and quality of care
Two examples of positive impact
Two examples of negative impact with strategy for mitigation
Organization Impact
Impact of topic on organization clearly articulated
Costs to organization in human and material resources
Potential liability risks with strategy for mitigation
Potential benefits to the organization
Personal Position
Personal position with rationale on the trend/issue based on exploration
Two strategies to use to advocate for or against the trend/issue
Conclusion
A restatement of the paper’s purpose
A summary of what was covered in the paper
2. A minimum of three (3) scholarly sources, no older than 5 years must be used for the paper. These should be relevant to nursing and should represent most of the evidence provided in the paper. Other sources, such as textbooks, may be used in addition to these; however, they will not be counted as part of the scholarly source requirement.
3. The paper should contain all elements required under the requirements and provided by the outline.
4. The outline provided should be followed for organizing the paper. Remember, the introduction does not have a heading.
5. Paper length is 4-5 pages, excluding title and reference pages.
6. Microsoft (MS) Word is required for completing the assignment. The paper should be written in third person, active voice.
7. The assignment is graded on quality of written communication using standard English grammar, sentence structure, use of scholarly evidence, and organization based on the required components. Quality is also measured by completeness of required content elements of the assignment
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Category |
Points |
% |
Description |
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Introduction |
20 |
10% |
· Statement of paper’s purpose · Rationale for choosing trend for exploration · Overview of what will be included in the paper |
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Trend/Issue |
25 |
12.5% |
· Thorough description of chosen trend/issue · Prevalence of trend/issue in healthcare · Prevalence of trend/issue in your state · Prevalence of trend in your organization |
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Current Legal and Regulatory Status |
25 |
12.5% |
· Current and/or pending legislative actions described · Current and/or pending regulatory agency actions described |
|
Impact on Nursing Practice |
25 |
12.5% |
· State Board of Nursing Position · Relationship to Standards of Practice · Impact on nursing administrator’s role and responsibility
|
|
Patient Impact |
25 |
12.5% |
· Impact of trend/issue on patient safety and quality clearly articulated · Two examples of positive impact · Two examples of negative impact with strategy for mitigation |
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Organizational Impact Statement |
25 |
12.5% |
· Impact of trend on organization clearly articulated · Costs to organization in human and material resources · Potential liability risks with strategy for mitigation · Potential benefits to the organization
|
|
Personal Position |
25 |
12.5% |
· Personal position with rationale on the trend/issue based on exploration is substantively and clearly articulated · Two strategies to use to advocate for or against the trend/issue |
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15 |
7.5% |
· A restatement of the paper’s purpose · A summary of what was covered in the paper. |
|
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Scholarly inquiry and communication |
15 |
7.5% |
· Minimum of three scholarly, relevant (within 5 years), empirical sources provide to support content · Ideas and information from other sources are cited correctly. · Text, title page, and references are consistent with APA format · Paper length 4-5 pages excluding title and reference pages |
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Total |
200 |
100 |
A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements. |
Healthcare Operational Planning and Management
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2 |
Grading Rubric
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Assignment Criteria |
Exceptional (100%) Outstanding or highest level of performance |
Exceeds (88%) Very good or high level of performance |
Meets (80%) Competent or satisfactory level of performance |
Needs Improvement (38%) Poor or failing level of performance |
Developing (0) Unsatisfactory level of performance |
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Content Possible Points = 185 Points |
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Introduction |
20 Points |
17 Points |
16 Points |
7 Points |
0 Points |
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All elements are present and accurately and clearly stated · Statement of paper’s purpose · Rationale for choosing trend for exploration · Overview of what will be included in the paper |
All elements are present and clearly stated with few inaccuracies/or only two elements accurately presented · Statement of paper’s purpose · Rationale for choosing trend for exploration · Overview of what will be included in the paper |
One of three elements is present and accurately stated · Statement of paper’s purpose · Rationale for choosing trend for exploration · Overview of what will be included in the paper |
All elements are present and generally stated · Statement of paper’s purpose · Rationale for choosing trend for exploration · Overview of what will be included in the paper |
No elements are present · Statement of paper’s purpose · Rationale for choosing trend for exploration · Overview of what will be included in the paper |
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Trend/Issue |
25 Points |
22 Points |
20 Points |
10 Points |
0 Points |
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All elements are present and accurately and clearly stated · Thorough description of chosen trend/issue · Prevalence of trend/issue in healthcare · Prevalence of trend/issue in your state · Prevalence of trend/issue in your organization |
All elements are present and clearly stated with few inaccuracies/or only three elements accurately presented · Thorough description of chosen trend/issue · Prevalence of trend/issue in healthcare · Prevalence of trend/issue in your state · Prevalence of trend/issue in your organization |
Two of four elements are accurately and clearly stated · Thorough description of chosen trend/issue · Prevalence of trend/issue in healthcare · Prevalence of trend/issue in your state · Prevalence of trend/issue in your organization |
One of four elements are accurately and clearly stated/or all are present and generally stated · Thorough description of chosen trend/issue · Prevalence of trend/issue in healthcare · Prevalence of trend/issue in your state · Prevalence of trend/issue in your organization |
No elements are present · Thorough description of chosen trend/issue · Prevalence of trend/issue in healthcare · Prevalence of trend/issue in your state · Prevalence of trend/issue in your organization |
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Current Legal and Regulatory Status |
25 Points |
22 Points |
20 Points |
10 Points |
0 Points |
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All elements are present and accurately and clearly stated · Current and/or pending legislative actions described · Current and/or pending regulatory agency actions described |
All elements are present and clearly stated with few inaccuracies · Current and/or pending legislative actions described · Current and/or pending regulatory agency actions described |
One of two elements is present and accurately and clearly stated · Current and/or pending legislative actions described · Current and/or pending regulatory agency actions described |
All elements are present are generally stated · Current and/or pending legislative actions described · Current and/or pending regulatory agency actions described |
No elements are present · Current and/or pending legislative actions described · Current and/or pending regulatory agency actions described |
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Impact on Nursing Practice |
25 Points |
22 Points |
20 Points |
10 Points |
0 Points |
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All elements are present and accurately and clearly stated · State Board of Nursing Position · Relationship to Standards of Practice · Impact on nursing administrator’s role and responsibility |
All elements are present and clearly stated with few inaccuracies/or only two elements accurately presented · State Board of Nursing Position · Relationship to Standards of Practice · Impact on nursing administrator’s role and responsibility |
One of three elements is present and accurately and clearly stated · State Board of Nursing Position · Relationship to Standards of Practice · Impact on nursing administrator’s role and responsibility |
All elements are present are generally stated · State Board of Nursing Position · Relationship to Standards of Practice · Impact on nursing administrator’s role and responsibility |
No elements are present · State Board of Nursing Position · Relationship to Standards of Practice · Impact on nursing administrator’s role and responsibility |
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Patient Impact |
25 Points |
22 Points |
20 Points |
10 Points |
0 Points |
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All elements are present and accurately and clearly stated · Impact of trend/issue on patient safety and quality clearly articulated · Two examples of positive impact · Two examples of negative impact with strategy for mitigation |
All elements are present and clearly stated with few inaccuracies/or only two elements accurately presented · Impact of trend/issue on patient safety and quality clearly articulated · Two examples of positive impact · Two examples of negative impact with strategy for mitigation |
One of three elements is present and accurately and clearly stated · Impact of trend/issue on patient safety and quality clearly articulated · Two examples of positive impact · Two examples of negative impact with strategy for mitigation |
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