N3375 Health Policy & Legal Aspect

N3375 Health Policy & Legal Aspect
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
2015 College of Nursiing
Module 1 – Assignment #1: Legislator E-mail Exercise
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N3375 Health Policy & Legal Aspect
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
Reduce
healthcare
costs and
increase
acess in
rural areas
Sizeable
proportion of
illness
occurs is
remote
regions
Socioecomo
nic
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
Cantwell, Maria, Class I senator (D- WA)
511 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
[phone]
Reduced healthcare
access in rural regions
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