(Answered) NR506NP Week 7: APNs as Healthcare Policy Leaders -nr506np

COURSE  

NR506NP Healthcare Policy and Leadership

Preparing the Discussion

Criteria for Content

  • Explanation of how healthcare policy can impact the advanced practice nurse profession
  • Explanation of why advocacy is considered an essential component of the advance practice nurse’s role
  • Discuss the four pillars of Transformational leadership and the effect they may have on influencing policy change
  • A scholarly resource must be used for EACH discussion question each week.
Category Points % Description
DISCUSSION CONTENT
Explanation of how healthcare policy can impact the advanced practice nurse profession 25 25% Research healthcare policy for APNs on a state and national level and the impact on the APN profession
Explanation of why advocacy is considered an essential component of the advance practice nurse’s role 25 25% Describe advocacy in healthcare terminology.

Discuss how advocacy is an essential role of the APN and its impact on patient care.
Discuss the four pillars of Transformational leadership and the effect it may have on influencing policy change 25 25% Define Transformational leadership.

Discuss how Transformational Leadership may affect influencing policy change
75 75%  Total CONTENT Points= 75 pts 
DISCUSSION FORMAT
Interactive Dialogue 20 20% 4 Required Elements:

  • Responds a minimum of two other posts to peers and/or faculty in the threaded discussion;
  • Responses to peer/faculty are substantive (adds importance, depth, and meaningfulness to the discussion)
  • Responds to all direct questions from faculty (if no question asked directly, student responded to questions posed to the entire class)
  • Summarizes what was learned from the lesson, readings, and other student posts for the week. The summary could be included in one of the three minimum posts.
Grammar, Syntax, Spelling, & Punctuation 5 5% Grammar, syntax, spelling, and punctuation are accurate.
25 25%  Total FORMAT Points = 25 pts 
100 100%  DISCUSSION TOTAL= 100 pts

ANSWER  

  • Explanation of how healthcare policy can impact the advanced practice nurse profession

The increasing demand for healthcare services places a tremendous strain on the American health care system, during the COVID 19 pandemic we learned that there was a lack of preparedness and exposed the strain on the healthcare system (Argulian, 2020). These demands along with already large shortage of Primary Care Physicians have forced lawmakers to reevaluate scope of practice and include more policy on Advanced Practice Nurse(APN) roles (Gerstenlauer et al., 2021).…….

  • Explanation of why advocacy is considered an essential component of the advance practice nurse’s role

Advocacy is the foundation of nursing and is essential to APN roles for a lot of reasons. One being that order for these policies to go forward it requires political organizational and support, continuous evaluation and collaboration of colleagues, like PA and APN groups (Buppert, 2017).…….please click the icon below to purchase full answer at $10