Capella Uni Assessment 2 Instructions: Policy Proposal

PRINT Assessment 2 Instructions: Policy Proposal and Write a 4-6 page policy proposal and practice guidelines for improving quality and performance associated with the benchmark metric underperformance you advocated for improving in Assessment 1.

Introduction

In advocating for institutional policy changes related to local, state, or federal healthcare laws or policies, health leaders must be able to develop and present clear and well-written policy and practice guideline proposals that will enable a team, a unit, or an organization as a whole to resolve relevant performance issues and bring about improvements in the quality and safety of health care. This assessment allows you to take the lead in proposing such changes.

As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you have a valuable viewpoint and voice on policy development inside and outside your care setting. Developing policy for internal purposes can be a valuable process toward quality and safety improvement and ensuring compliance with various healthcare regulatory pressures. This assessment allows you to take the lead in proposing such changes.

Instructions

Propose an organizational policy and practice guidelines that you believe will improve quality and performance associated with the benchmark underperformance you advocated for improving in Assessment 1. Be precise, professional, and persuasive in demonstrating the merit of your proposed actions.

Requirements

The policy proposal requirements below correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, be sure to note the requirements for document format, length, and supporting evidence.

• • Explain the need for creating policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.

• • • What are the current benchmark for the organization and the numeric score for underperformance?

• • • How is the benchmark underperformance potentially affecting the provision of quality care or the organization’s operations?

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• • • What are the potential repercussions of not making any changes?

• • • • What evidence supports your conclusions?

• • Summarize your proposed organizational policy and practice guidelines.

• • • Identify applicable local, state, or federal health care policy or law that prescribes relevant performance benchmarks your policy proposal addresses.

• • • Keep your audience in mind when creating this summary.

• • Analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on your recommended practice guidelines.

• • • What regulatory considerations could affect your recommended guidelines?

• • • What resources could affect your recommended guidelines (staffing, financial, logistical considerations, or support services)?

• • Explain ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance and the impact the proposed changes will have on the targeted group.

• • • What does the evidence-based literature suggest being potential strategies to improve performance for your targeted benchmark?

• • • How would these strategies ensure performance improvement or compliance with applicable local, state, or federal health care policy or law?

• • • How can you ensure that these strategies are ethical and culturally inclusive in their application?

• • • What is the direct impact of these changes on the stakeholders’ work setting and job requirements?

• • Explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further developing and implementing your proposed policy and practice guidelines.

• • • Why is it important to engage these stakeholders and groups?

• • • How can their participation produce a stronger policy and facilitate its implementation?

• • Present strategies for collaborating with the stakeholder group to implement your proposed policy and practice guidelines.

• • • What role will the stakeholder group play in implementing your proposal?

• • • Why are the stakeholder group and their collaboration important for successful implementation?

• • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.

• • • Proofread your proposal before you submit it, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your proposal.

• • Use paraphrasing and summarization to represent ideas from external sources.

• • • Be sure to apply correct APA formatting to source citations and references.

Policy Proposal Format and Length

It may be helpful to use a template or format for your proposal that is used in your current organization. The risk management or quality department could be a good resource for finding an appropriate template or format. If you are not currently in practice, or your organization does not have these resources, many appropriate templates are freely available on the Internet.

Your Assessment 2 Instructions: Policy Proposal policy should be succinct (about one paragraph). Overall, your proposal should be 4–6 pages in length.

Supporting Evidence

Cite 3–5 references to relevant research, case studies, or best practices to support your analysis and recommendations.

Portfolio Prompt: You may save your policy proposal to your ePortfolio.

Competencies Measured

By completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• • Competency 1: Analyze relevant healthcare laws, policies, and regulations; their application; and their effects on organizations, interprofessional teams, and professional practice.

• • • Explain and interpret for stakeholders the need for creating policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.

• • Competency 2: Lead the development and implementation of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals, organizations, and populations.

• • • Summarize a proposed organizational policy or practice change guideline and analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines.

• • Competency 3: Evaluate relevant performance indicators, such as benchmarks, research, and best practices, to inform healthcare laws and policies for patients, organizations, and populations.

• • • Explain how ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance will impact a stakeholder group needed to implement the policy or practice change successfully.

• • Competency 4: Develop strategies to work collaboratively with policymakers, stakeholders, and colleagues to address environmental (governmental and regulatory) forces.

• • • Explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further developing and implementing a proposed policy or practice change to improve quality and outcomes.

• • • Present strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines.

• • Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.

• • • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.

• • • Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.

Assessment 2 Instructions: Policy Proposal Policy Proposal Scoring Guide

CRITERIA	NON-PERFORMANCE	BASIC	PROFICIENT	DISTINGUISHED
Explain and interpret for stakeholders the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.	Does not explain the rationale for a policy and practice guidelines addressing benchmark underperformance.	Explains the rationale for policy and practice guidelines addressing benchmark underperformance, irrespective of a particular need.	Explains the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws, but does not relate to stakeholders.	Explains the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws. Clearly articulates the effects of benchmark underperformance and draws sound conclusions about the potential repercussions of inaction, based on credible evidence and relates information to stakeholder group.
Summarize a proposed organizational policy or practice change guideline and analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines.	Does not summarize a proposed organizational policy and practice guidelines or identify environmental factors that can affect recommended practice guidelines.	Provides a summary that paints an unclear picture of a proposed organizational policy and practice guidelines or does not expand on environmental factors that can affect recommended practice guidelines.	Summarizes a proposed organizational policy and practice guidelines. Analyzes the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines.	Succinctly summarizes a proposed organizational policy and practice guidelines. Analyzes the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines. Identifies clear cause-and-effect relationships and the influence of those factors on specific recommendations.
Explain how ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance will impact a stakeholder group needed for successful implementation of the policy or practice change.	Does not recommend practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance or identify how it will affect the stakeholder group’s work.	Recommends practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance that will affect the stakeholder group’s work.	Recommends ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance. Explains how a proposed policy and practice guidelines will affect how a stakeholder group does its work.	Recommends ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance. Provides an honest and accurate assessment of practice changes and their precise impact on stakeholders. Provides clear and compelling justification, substantiated by credible evidence.
Explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy or practice change to improve quality and outcomes.	Does not explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy or practice change to improve quality and outcomes.	Identifies stakeholders and groups who are not the most logical choices to be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy and practice guidelines and implementation of a proposed policy or practice change to improve quality and outcomes.	Explains why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy and practice guidelines change to improve quality and outcomes.	Provides a perceptive and succinct explanation of why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy and practice guidelines. Offers clear and convincing rationale for stakeholder and group engagement and how it strengthens policy and facilitates changes in practice to improve quality outcomes.
Present strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines.	Does not present strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines.	Presents stakeholder collaboration strategies for implementing a proposed policy and practice guidelines that lack clear relevance or insight into the positions and perspectives of the stakeholder group.	Presents strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines.	Presents strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines. Makes a compelling case for the importance of stakeholder collaboration and considers stakeholder perspectives by addressing possible objections.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.	Does not organize content for ideas to flow logically with smooth transitions.	Organizes content with some logical flow and smooth transitions.	Organizes content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.	Organizes content so clarity is enhanced and all ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.	Does not support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.	Sources lack relevance or credibility, or the evidence is not persuasive or explicitly supportive of main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations.	Supports main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.	Supports main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Skillfully combines virtually error-free source citations with a perceptive and coherent synthesis of the evidence.