Planning Your Visit Guidelines

Graded Assignment 2

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to: (a) identify and articulate a plan for a legislative/policymaking visit (CO #2); (b) deliver a message and ask/recommendations (CO #2, 3), and (c) communicate ideas in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner. (CO #3)

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

(CO #2) Employ strategies to affect the development, implementation, and consequences of policies at the institutional, local, national, and international levels. (PO 4, 8, 10)

(CO #3) Communicate with policymakers to advocate for effective policies that affect nurses and nursing, consumers, or the health care system. (PO 2, 3,10)

(CO #4) Analyze the historical, ethical, and political contexts of health care policy and the consequences of policy implementation. (PO 6, 10)

(CO #5) Advocate for institutional, local, national, and international policies that influence health care and its consumers and nurses and their nursing practice. (PO 2, 10)

Due Date: Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5

Total Points: 175 points

Requirements

Assignment Criteria for Presentation

1.  Introduce your chosen policy issue, the current status, and an overview of your plan for a legislative visit.

2.  Articulate key strategies involved in your plan, message, and recommendations under each of the Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2 sections using headings in your paper.

3.  Provide an analysis of empirical evidence supporting your approach strategies including plan, message, and follow-up.

4.  Provide specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit and follow-up to nursing.

5.  Provide concluding statements summarizing the content.

6.  Paper will be five (5) pages, excluding title and reference pages, and in APA format 6^th edition.

Preparing the Paper

Following completion of Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2, develop a plan for visiting your policymaker, including the message/ask, and the recommendation(s) you will deliver. Include a minimum of five (5) classic references or current references (published within the past 5 years) that support your plan, the message, recommendations, and follow-up.

Category	Points	%	Description
Introduction and Conclusion	35	20	Introduction clearly introduces your policy-priority issue. Concluding statements summarize content.
Key Strategies	40	22	Articulate key strategies involved in your plan, message, and recommendations under each of the Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2 sections using headings in your paper.
Empirical Evidence	35	20	Provide an analysis of empirical evidence supporting your approach strategies including plan, message, and follow-up.
Specific Examples	35	20	Provide specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit and follow-up to nursing.
APA Format	15	9	Text, title page, and references are consistent with APA format 6th edition.
Writing Quality	15	9	Rules of grammar, word usage, sentence and paragraph format, and punctuation are followed. Paper length appropriate.