Assessment 2 PRINT Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal Develop a 2–4-page proposal for a policy that should help to improve health care and outcomes for your target population. Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented. Cost and access to care continue to be main concerns for patients and providers. As technology improves our ability to care for and improve outcomes in patients with chronic and complex illnesses, questions of cost and access become increasingly important. As a master’s-prepared nurse, you must be able to develop policies that will ensure the delivery of care that is effective and can be provided in an ethical and equitable manner. SHOW LESS 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.  Propose a policy and guidelines that will lead to improved outcomes and quality 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.  Analyze the potential for an interprofessional approach to implementing a proposed policy to increase the efficiency or effectiveness of the care setting to achieve high quality outcomes. Competency 3: Analyze population health outcomes in terms of their implications for health policy advocacy.  Advocate the need for a proposed policy in the context of current outcomes and quality of care 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 proposal in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Competency Map CHECK YOUR PROGRESS Use this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course. Toggle Drawer ContextAs a master's-prepared nurse, you have a valuable viewpoint and voice with which to advocate for policy developments. As a nurse leader and health care practitioner, often on the front lines of helping individuals and populations, you are able to articulate and advocate for the patient more than any other professional group in health care. This is especially true of populations that may be underserved, underrepresented, or are otherwise lacking a voice. By advocating for and developing policies, you are able to help drive improvements in outcomes for .

1. Assessment 2
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Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal
Develop a 2–4-page proposal for a policy that should help to
improve health care and outcomes for your target population.
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you
completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must
complete the assessments in this course in the order in which
they are presented.
Cost and access to care continue to be main concerns for
patients and providers. As technology improves our ability to
care for and improve outcomes in patients with chronic and
complex illnesses, questions of cost and access become
increasingly important. As a master’s-prepared nurse, you must
be able to develop policies that will ensure the delivery of care
that is effective and can be provided in an ethical and equitable
manner.
SHOW LESS
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.
Propose a policy and guidelines that will lead to improved

2. outcomes and quality 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.
Analyze the potential for an interprofessional approach to
implementing a proposed policy to increase the efficiency or
effectiveness of the care setting to achieve high quality
outcomes.
Competency 3: Analyze population health outcomes in terms of
their implications for health policy advocacy.
Advocate the need for a proposed policy in the context of
current outcomes and quality of care 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 proposal in a professional and persuasive manner,
writing content clearly and logically with correct use of
grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

3. Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly
formatting citations and references using APA style.
Competency Map
CHECK YOUR PROGRESS
Use this online tool to track your performance and progress
through your course.
Toggle Drawer
ContextAs a master's-prepared nurse, you have a valuable
viewpoint and voice with which to advocate for policy
developments. As a nurse leader and health care practitioner,
often on the front lines of helping individuals and populations,
you are able to articulate and advocate for the patient more than
any other professional group in health care. This is especially
true of populations that may be underserved, underrepresented,
or are otherwise lacking a voice. By advocating for and
developing policies, you are able to help drive improvements in
outcomes for specific populations. The policies you advocate
for could be internal ones (just within a specific department or
health care setting) that ensure quality care and compliance. Or
they could be external policies (local, state, or federal) that may
have more wide-ranging effects on best practices and
regulations.
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Questions to ConsiderAs 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 and discuss them
with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or

4. a member of your professional community. 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.
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Assessment 2 will build on the health issue, vulnerable
population, and position that you started to develop in the first
assessment. For Assessment 2, you will develop a proposal for a
policy and a set of guidelines that could be implemented to
ensure improvements in care and outcomes.
What are the relevant best practices from a population health
standpoint (cultural competence, disease prevention, and
interventions) for your chosen health issue and vulnerable
population?
How are these best practices relevant to your chosen health
issue and vulnerable population?
Do the best practices make any reference to standards of care or
benchmarks that should be achieved?
How could these best practices be leveraged to help inform or
develop a policy and guidelines to improve care and outcomes
for the vulnerable population you are working with?
How could technology be used to identify health concerns or
collect data that could help health care practitioners determine

5. which health care issues to focus on in a population?
What are the relevant laws, regulations, or policies for
employing any of the technology you might find useful?
What type of policy and guidelines would be most likely to
ensure improvements in care and outcomes related to your
chosen health issue and vulnerable population?
Are there any policies in existence that could help inform your
own policy development?
How might your proposed policy and guidelines influence the
way in which care is accessed?
How might your proposed policy and guidelines influence the
amount of access that is available?
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ResourcesAssessment Example
Assessment 2 Example [PDF]
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Suggested Resources
The resources provided here are optional. You may use other

6. resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment
however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate,
credible, and valid. The
MSN Program Library Research Guide
can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources
and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation
menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help
support you.
Access to Care
Brooks, E., Dailey, N. K., Bair, B. D., & Shore, J. H. (2016)
Listening to the patient: Women veterans' insights about health
care needs, access, and quality in rural areas
. Military Medicine, 181(9), 976–981.
Caldwell, J. T., Ford, C. L., Wallace, S. P., Wang, M. C., &
Takahashi, L. M. (2016).
Intersection of living in a rural versus urban area and
race/ethnicity in explaining access to health care in the United
States
.
American Journal of Public Health
,
106
(8), 1463–1469.
Linder, J. A. & Levine, D. M. (2016).
Health care communication technology and improved access,
continuity, and relationships: The revolution will be Uberized
.
JAMA Internal Medicine
,
176
(5), 643–644.

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Assessment InstructionsScenario
The analysis of position papers that your interprofessional team
presented to the committee has convinced them that it would be
worth the time and effort to develop a new policy to address
your specific issue in the target population. To that end, your
interprofessional team has been asked to submit a policy
proposal that outlines a specific approach to improving the
outcomes for your target population. This proposal should be
supported by evidence and best practices that illustrate why the
specific approaches are likely to be successful. Additionally,
you have been asked to address the ways in which applying your
policy to interprofessional teams could lead to efficiency or
effectiveness gains.
Instructions
For this assessment you will develop a policy proposal that
seeks to improve the outcomes for the health care issue and
target population you addressed in Assessment 1. If for some
reason you wish to change your specific issue and/or target
population, contact your FlexPath faculty.
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 Biopsychosocial
Population Health Policy Proposal Scoring Guide and Guiding
Questions: Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal
to better understand how each grading criterion will be
assessed.

8. Propose a policy and guidelines that will lead to improved
outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target
population.
Advocate the need for a proposed policy in the context of
current outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a
target population.
Analyze the potential for an interprofessional approach to
implementing a proposed policy to increase the efficiency or
effectiveness of the care setting to achieve high-quality
outcomes.
Communicate proposal in a professional and persuasive manner,
writing content clearly and logically with correct use of
grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly
formatting citations and references using APA style.
Example Assessment:You may use the assessment example,
linked in the Assessment Example section of the Resources, to
give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the
scoring guide would look like.
Additional Requirements
Length of proposal: 2–4 double-spaced, typed pages, not
including title page or reference list. Your proposal should be
succinct yet substantive.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of
scholarly or professional evidence that supports the relevance of
or need for your policy, as well as interprofessional

9. considerations. Resources should be no more than five years
old.
APA formatting: Use the APA Style Paper Template linked in
the Resources. An APA Style Paper Tutorial is also provided to
help you in writing and formatting your analysis.