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Assessment 2 Instructions: Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal
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· Develop a 2-4 page proposal for a policy that should help to improve health care and outcomes for your target population.
Introduction
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.
As 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.
Preparation
As 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 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.
· 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?
1. How are these best practices relevant to your chosen health issue and vulnerable population?
1. 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 wor
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Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal
Learner’s Name
Capella University
NURS-FPX6026: Biopsychosocial Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice II
Instructor’s Name
November 1, 2021
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Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal
The health care industry has come to acknowledge the rise of the opioid crisis over the
past two decades. However, this does not take away from the necessity of pain relief for patients
suffering from chronic pain, who are most often prescribed opioid treatment. Opioid treatment
does show promise in short-term trials (Sehgal et al., 2013), but long-term treatments carry with
them significant risk of addiction, adverse side effects, and prescription drug abuse (Franklin,
2014). The issue of opioid abuse and addiction is further complicated by the comorbidity of
mental health problems in patients. In this context, veterans are a particularly vulnerable
population because they often present with chronic noncancer pain while being comorbid with
mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder or substance abuse disorder (Sullivan
& Howe, 2013). Given this vulnerability, it is necessary to take steps to prevent or reduce the
potential for addiction or medication abuse among veterans who are prescribed long-term opioid
treatment.
Substance Abuse among U.S. Veterans: A Brief Retrospective
Opioids came to be used in the treatment of chronic pain in cancer patients as a result of
two WHO guidelines that were issued in 1985 and 1996 (Sullivan & Howe, 2013). Eventually,
the treatment was extended to chronic noncancer pain and suggested as a safe, non-addictive
method of treating pain. However, this claim was extrapolated from short-term opioid treatment
studies. The issue then becomes primarily about the lack of evidence to support the safe long-
term use of opioids. Opioids carry a significant risk of addiction and an array of unpleasant side
effects (Franklin, 2014). Further, opioids also complicate matters of mental health. Opioids can
relieve pain and produce a feeling of euphoria in patients. This physical relief could
inadvertently soothe the psychological or emotional pain that a patient is experiencing. However,
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this leads to the patient doubly associating the opioid drug wi
MSN-FP6026 Assessment 2 Guiding Questions
MSN-FP6026 Assessment 2 Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions
Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in this document as your assessment submission.
Propose a policy and guidelines that will lead to improved outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target population.
· Does your policy encompass the key components that will lead to improved outcomes and quality of care for your chosen issue and target population?
· Is your policy succinct (about one paragraph)?
· Do your proposed guidelines help colleagues, stakeholders, and groups understand how to implement your proposed policy?
· Are your policy and guidelines realistic in the context of the team, unit, or organization you are considering?
· Are your policy and guidelines realistic in the context of the environmental factors that exist?
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.
· What is the current state of relevant outcomes related to your policy?
· What is the current state of the quality of care related to your policy
· Why is it important to work toward improvements in outcomes and quality of care?
· How will your policy help ensure that improvements are achieved?
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.
· What are the relevant interprofessional best practices for successfully implementing your policy?
· How will they support an increase in efficiency for achieving high-quality outcomes relevant to your policy, chosen issue, or target population?
· How will they support an increase in effectiveness for achieving high-quality outcomes relevant to your policy, chosen issue, or target population?
Communicate proposal in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
· Is your writing clear and professional?
· Is your writing free from errors?
· Is your writing persuasive?
· Is your submission 2–4 pages (not including the title page and reference list)?
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