N3375 Health Policy & Legal Aspect Module 1: Legislator E-mail

This assignment, part of the N3375 Health Policy & Legal Aspect Module 1, requires students to engage with healthcare policy by composing an email to a legislator. The exercise prompts students to identify a current nursing issue, using a graphic organizer to structure their thoughts and arguments. The core of the assignment involves crafting a concise, professional email to a state-level legislator, advocating for a specific healthcare concern relevant to the student's practice, such as the unequal access to healthcare facilities in rural areas. Students are instructed to follow a specific email format and include their address to establish their status as a constituent. The assignment emphasizes the importance of clear, concise communication and the ability to provide personal examples to support their arguments. Although students are not required to send the email, the assignment aims to encourage active participation in shaping future nursing care and healthcare policy. The student's email focuses on the need for improved access to healthcare in rural areas, highlighting the disparities in access and the impact on community health.

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Submit by 2359 (CT) Saturday of Module 1
Name: Date:
Overview: Legislator E-mail Exercise
To take a proactive role in nursing policy, you will prepare an email to your legislator about an
current nursing issue. You must first identify your legislators. Then you will write a concise,
professionally worded e-mail to one of the state-level legislators about a current nursing issue that
is important to you. You will:
1. Find your top legislator in your county. You will only write your email to the top legislator.
You must only use the legislator in the state you are licensed in. You only need your
county legislator not state.
2. Complete the graphic organizer on this assignment document as well. The boxes will
expand for you. If you click in them the movable box appears and you can expand.
3. Write your final e-mail in the space provided on this assignment document.
4. Submit the email that you have prepared for your legislator into your assignment dropbox
in Blackboard. It is not necessary for you to actually send your email to you legislator
unless you choose to do so.
Performance Objective: Identify the ways nurses can personally take part in shaping future nursing care.
Rubric
Use this rubric to guide your work on the assignment, “Legislator E-mail.”
Task Accomplished Proficient Needs Improvement
Writing and Sending the E-mail
Write an e-mail to legislator about a
healthcare or nursing issue
discussed in this module’s content,
and send the e-mail by the required
deadline. Will deduct 5 points if
Graphic Decision Making Tool
provided is not completed.
(Total 60 points)
E-mail conveys a
concern about current
issue, uses correct a
greeting and closing and
submitted on time.
No greeting-5pts/No
closing-5/pts deductions
No graphic decision
making tool-5/pts
deduction
(60 points)
E-mail conveys a
concern about an issue,
uses a greeting and
closing with no
significant errors, and is
submitted on time.
(40 points)
E-mail does not address
a specific issue OR the
greeting or closing
contains at least one
significant error OR it is
not sent on time.
(0-20 points)
Quality of the E-mail
E-mail is clear, concise, and gives
E-mail addresses a
specific issue, includes
E-mail is concise,
addresses an issue, and
E-mail is unclear OR too
long OR does not
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Module 1 – Assignment #1: Legislator E-mail Exercise
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an example of how the issue
affects the student’s practice.
(Total 40 points)
at least one personal
example, is concise,
and is well-organized.
(40 points)
includes an example but
is not connected to the
student’s practice. Does
not include personal
example
(20 point)
include a specific
example.
(0 points)
A. Identifying Your Legislators: Find out who your legislators are at the County level. You
may send email to either. (For students located in Texas, use the Texas Legislature Online link
located in “Resource” to find your representives. For students in other states, use a search engine
to locate your legislators.) If you do not live in Texas you can google search your counties
legislative system. You only need the top legislator that you are going to address your issue to. If
email information is not available then you would only place their physical address.
Record their names, titles, and contact information here: Type information into text box.
B. Using a Graphic Organizer to Selecting an Issue: Identify a current nursing issue from
lecture material important to you and your practice. To help you begin organizing your thoughts,
complete the following graphic organizer. Type right into the boxes.
2015 College of Nursiing
Reduced healthcare
access in rural regions
Sizeable proportion
of illness occurs is
remote regions
Socioecomonic
household condition
affects health
Poor and
uneducated people
have less
Invest in family
welfare propgrams
Implement policies for
uniform health expenditure
costs
Eliminate negative
attitude towards
healthcare access
Reduce healthcare
costs and increase
acess in rural areas
Cantwell, Maria, Class I senator (D- WA)
511 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
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C. Writing the E-mail: Write an e-mail explaining the importance of this issue to your practice.
Limit the e-mail to one page. You may not use all of the details you developed in the graphic
organizer above; use the ones that you think create the strongest and most persuasive e-mail.
Follow the format of the sample e-mail located in the Resource section of the course. (The format
must be strictly followed, especially for how to address the legislator and inclusion of your home
address to classify you as a constituent.)
Be sure to edit your e-mail for spelling, grammar, and word usage. Read it aloud, and/or get a
friend or relative to read it and provide feedback. You will not be sending this to your legislator
as part of this assignment but you may choose to send it to them on your own to make them
aware of the issue you have addressed.
Write your final e-mail in the space provided below.
Space for you to write your final e-mail to your legislator: type directly into the text box
below. Your Coach will grade your email from this assignment document. Box will expand.
2015 College of Nursiing
(Address)
November 11, 2018.
The Honorable Maria Cartwell
511 Hart Senate Office Building,
Washington DC 20510.
Dear Senator Cartwell,
My name is (Name) and I am a community nurse, living and working in Washington DC. As a
healthcare professional, I am writing this mail to urge you to take necessary actions for
supporting adequate acess to healthcare facilities in the rural areas, near Washington DC.
Specifically, regardless of the ability to pay for the services, most people in the region try tp
avail public healthcare facilities for all kinds of illnesses like fever, cold, and diarrhea. However,
public health facilities are not present in adequate amounts in the remote regions. There is
also a lack of skilled manpower in these rural health facilities. Proper access to healthcare
facilities is suggestively urban biased. These inhabitants living in the rural regions need special
attention due to the fact that they suffer from lower access and unequal availability, thus
manifesting poor health outcomes in the region. Low educational levels and high poverty
incidence are other disadvantages that act as significant barriers in accessing public health
services.
As a community nurse, I can observe the impact of the shortage of healthcare services on the
rural population. Additionally, having been raised up in a rural household, I have the first-hand
experience of this condition. I am well aware that you are approached by several well-
intentioned causes. I hope that you will take inititatives to address this issue. Sorry for intruding
upon your valuable time.
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Submit this entire Assignment Document into Blackboard using the directions below.
Submitting Your Assignment:
 Click Module 1: Assignment in the Module 1 folder.
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