GN2041: Healthcare Policy Analysis for APRN - Spring 2020 Assignment

This assignment solution addresses healthcare policy issues, specifically focusing on the role of an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN). It begins by outlining the purpose of the paper, which is to analyze health policy issues, particularly the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and its impact on small businesses and their employees. The solution identifies social determinants of health, such as financial imbalances and lack of employee knowledge, and explores relevant economic, political, and historical factors. The organizational factor considered is the employer's investment in health insurance. The political factor involves the availability of the ACA under state governments. The historical factor is the eligibility of employees and employers to avail of the health policy of the Affordable Care Act. The solution references sources from HealthCare.gov, the IRS, and academic publications to support its analysis and includes a brief analysis of the impact of social media on public health perceptions. The assignment highlights the importance of effective health care policy analysis, particularly concerning the economic, political, and historical aspects of healthcare and the ACA.

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Issues and Trends- GN2041
Spring 2020
Update on Final Paper
Due March 30, 2019 at 11:00pm
Your name_______________________________________
Your role Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Answer questions A-H below.
A) 2 pts-Write the “purpose “paragraph” for your paper using the purple text below as a guide.
The purpose of this paper is to explain health policy issues, and the analysis of the issues by the
advanced practice registered nurse. The role of the advanced practice registered nurse is focused on
knowledge development and also analysis of different issues related to the health care process (Hoyt
& Proehl, 2012). The advanced practice registered nurse should be able to focus on the health care
delivery to the patients along with the health policy-related or any other supplementing factors of
health care as well. Thus, the advanced practice registered nurse is to focus on the effective health
care policy analysis regarding the economic and political as well as the historical aspects of health
care and the health care policy. Moreover, the organizational factors in terms of the small business
coverage are also should be analyzed by the advanced practice registered nurse. The role of the
advanced practice registered nurse is to develop the health care procedure and plan depending on the
factors related to the health care for the patient and in this case the employees of the small business
group. The social determinants of health are the factors that also should be focused on the advanced
practice registered nurse. In this context, the health policy priority is to analyze as well. The
Affordable Care Act is the health policy which is focused in this context and the small business
coverage for the employee, and the employers are being prioritized by the health policy
(HealthCare.gov., 2020). Thus, the advocacy partners of the health policy effectiveness and the
implementation are the factors that should be considered as well in the paper. The twitter effects also
should be analyzed by the advanced practice registered nurse as the social media comments and posts
of people shows the thought process of them (Paul & Dredze, 2011). Thus, the factor of the analysis
should focus on overall factors related to health care. On the other hand, it can be stated that the
advanced practice registered nurse is the responsible person to analyze all these factors in a detailed
manner. Thus, it can be concluded that the Affordable Care Act is focused on the small business
insurance providence that is providing financial support to the employees of the small business that
can be reimbursement insurance as well. The social media-based opinions and also the health policy
priorities are also the factor s included in the analysis process for the advanced practice registered
nurse. The factor of the below 50 employees a small business can easily buy the health insurance for
the employees (IRS., 2020)
(B) 2pts. -Identify two social determinants of health that could be relevant to your role.
(1) Financial imbalance among the employees of the small business is one of the social
determinants of health.

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(2) Employers views and the lack of knowledge among the employees about the social
determinants of health can be marked as one of the social determinants of health.
(C) 6 pts.- Identify economic, political and historical OR organizational factors relevant to your role.
(If your role is as a leader or government affairs staff person for a professional or non-profit
organization, then select organizational factors. If you have a different role, then you will probably do
best with “historical” factors.) For each factor, provide a one sentence rationale.
1) The organizational factor can be found as the employer though process and the investment
regarding the health insurance providence to the employees (Rhett Buttle & Simaan, 2019).
However, the factor of the health policy that is the Affordable Care Act can be analyzed by
the advance practice registered nurse.
2) The historical factor which should be analyzed by the advance practise registered nurse is the
proper eligibility of the employees and the employers to avail the health policy of the
Affordable Care Act.
3) The political factor is the availability of the Affordable Care Act under the state government
of the small organization as there are several states which did not expand the Medicaid
process that is the enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. Thus, the advance practise
registered nurse should focus on the effective analysis of the political factor of the availability
of the Affordable Care Act for the employees and the employers effectively.

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References
HealthCare.gov. (2020). Health coverage for small businesses, their owners, and employees.
Retrieved from HealthCare.gov: https://www.healthcare.gov/small-businesses/other-coverage/
Hoyt, K. S., & Proehl, J. A. (2012). Affordable Care Act: Implications for APRNs. Advanced
emergency nursing journal, 34(4), 287-289.
IRS. (2020, February). Employers: Have fewer than 50 Employees? Here’s how ACA Affects You.
Retrieved from Internal Revenue Service:
https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/employers/employers-have-fewer-than-50-
employees-heres-how-aca-affects-you
Paul, M. J., & Dredze, M. (2011, July). You are what you tweet: Analyzing Twitter for public health.
In Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.
Rhett Buttle, K. V., & Simaan, A. (2019). Small-Business Owners’ Views on Health Coverage and
Costs. Retrieved from The Commonwealth Fund:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2019/sep/small-business-
owners-views-health-coverage-costs