Develop a 4 page position about a specific health care issue as it relates to a target vulnerable population. Include an analysis of existing evidence and position papers to help support your position. Your analysis should also present and respond to one or more opposing viewpoints.
Needs to also have a title and reference page.
Scenario
Pretend you are a member of an interprofessional team that is attempting to improve the quality of health care and the outcomes in a vulnerable population. For the first step in your team’s work, you have decided to conduct an analysis of current position papers that address the issue and population you are considering.
In your analysis you will note the team’s initial views on the issue in the population as well as the views across a variety of relevant position papers. You have been tasked with finding the most current standard of care or evidenced-based practice and evaluating both the pros and cons of the issue. For the opposing viewpoints, it is important to discuss how the team could respond to encourage support. This paper will be presented to a committee of relevant stakeholders from your care setting and the community. If it receives enough support, you will be asked to create a new policy that could be enacted to improve the outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population.
The care setting, population, and health care issue that you use for this assessment will be used in the other assessments in this course. Consider your choice carefully. There are two main approaches for you to take in selecting the scenario for this assessment:
1. You may use one of the issues and populations presented in the Vila Health: Health Challenges in Different Populations and Vila Health: Resources for Topical Research media pieces. For this approach, you may consider the population in the context of the Vila Health care setting, or translate it into the context in which you currently practice or have had recent experience.
This assessment will focus on analyzing position papers about an issue related to addiction, chronicity, emotional and mental health, genetics and genomics, or immunity. Many of these topics are quickly evolving as technology advances, or as we attempt to push past stigmas.
For this assessment you will develop a position summary and an analysis of relevant position papers on a health care issue in a chosen population. 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 Analysis of Position Papers for Vulnerable Populations Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Analysis of Position Papers for Vulnerable Populations to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.
Explain a position with regard to health outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
Explain the role of the interprofessional team in facilitating improvements for a specific issue in a target population.
Evaluate the evidence and positions of others that could support a team’s approach to improving the quality and outcomes of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Evaluate the evidence and positions of others that are contrary to a team’s approach to improving the quality and outcomes of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Communicate an initial viewpoint regarding a specific issue in a target population and a synthesis of existing positions in a logically structured and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Design evidence-based advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality population outcomes.
Evaluate the evidence and positions of others that could support a team’s approach to improving the quality and outcomes of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Evaluate the evidence and positions of others that are contrary to a team’s approach to improving the quality and outcomes of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Competency 2: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional interventions in achieving desired population health outcomes.
Explain the role of the interprofessional team in facilitating improvements for a specific issue in a target population.
Competency 3: Analyze population health outcomes in terms of their implications for health policy advocacy.
Explain a position with regard to health outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Communicate an initial viewpoint regarding a specific issue in a target population and a synthesis of existing positions in a logically structured and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Questions to Consider
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Questions to Consider:
Assessment 1 will be based on an analysis of position papers that are relevant to a health care issue related to a vulnerable population. Think about your experience working with vulnerable populations, and the issues related to health care you have observed for those populations, or reflect on the two Vila Health simulations in the Resources.
What is the vulnerable population that most interests you?
What is the health issue that is most prevalent or severe in the population?
How does the health issue impact the daily lives of members of the population?
How does the care environment in your chosen context impact both the population and the level of care related to the health issue?
What are the biggest challenges that you would need to overcome to improve the outcomes for the population related to the health issue?
What is your position on how to best work to improve the care and outcomes that the population is receiving?
What previously published position papers support your position, or the need to work to improve care and outcomes in general for the population?
How do these position papers support your assertions?
How could one or more of the position papers help you to form a treatment plan?
o What previously published position papers contradict your position?
What, if any, of these differences would make your position stronger if you incorporated them?
How could you respond to any irreconcilable differences in such a way as to encourage buy-in for your position from those opposed?
Suggested Resources:
Assessment
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2013). Community health assessment for population health improvement [PDF]. Retrieved from https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/20707
Vila Health: Resources for Topical Research | Transcript.
This interactive simulation will make the most sense if you view it after Vila Health: Health Challenges in Different Populations (listed under Pathophysiology, below).
Genetics and Genomics
Haeusermann, T., Greshake, B., Blasimme, A., Irdam, D., Richards, M., & Vayena, E. (2017). Open sharing of genomic data: Who does it and why? Plos ONE, 12(5), 115.
Wolf, S. M. (2017). The continuing evolution of ethical standards for genomic sequencing in clinical care: Restoring patient choice. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 45(3), 333340.
Cheek, D. J., & Howington, L. (2017). Patient care in the dawn of the genomic age. American Nurse Today, 12(3) 1622.
Lea, D. H. (2009). Basic genetics and genomics: A primer for nurses. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 14(2). Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol142009/No2May09/Articles-Previous-Topics/Basic-Genetics-and-Genomics.html
Pathophysiology
Vila Health: Health Challenges in Different Populations | Transcript.
This media piece should be viewed before Vila Health: Resources for Topical Research (listed under Assessment, above).
Population and Public Health
Edmonds, J. K., Campbell, L. A., & Gilder, R. E. (2016). Public health nursing practice in the Affordable Care Act era: A national survey. Public Health Nursing, 34(1), 5058. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phn.12286/full
Thew, J. (2016). What a nurse knows about population health. Retrieved from http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nurse-leaders/what-nurse-knows-about-population-health
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