NUR 3894C Rasmussen College Flexible Working Hours for Nurses Research Paper

You are a nursing member of a healthcare organization on a policy subcommittee. The subcommittee has been asked to prepare an advocacy policy brief on a current policy that can be presented for facility adoption. As an active nurse advocate, it is important your voice is heard on a matter important to you as this is your chance to influence policy.

Instructions

Prepare a policy brief. Identify and support your stance by addressing the following:

• Explain your selected healthcare policy.
  • Address the background of the problem requiring the policy.
  • Address how the policy is relevant to your nursing practice or area of interest.
  • Identify if this policy impacts practice at the local, state and/or national level.
• Evaluate how this policy could impact health care and further explain how this policy would influence nursing practice.
• Provide evidence to support your stance on how you can implement the current policy.
  • Explain ways you can assist in implementing this policy as a nurse advocate.

  MUST Have- Identification of a healthcare policy with a comprehensive explanation of the background of the problem, supported by resources. Several examples provided, supporting the policy’s relevance to practice, as well as a thorough discussion on how the policy impacts practice at the local, state and/or national level.MUST Have-Meticulous assessment of the policy’s impact on health care, with thoughtful examples of how the policy would influence nursing practice supported by resources.

• MUST-Provided a multitude of evidence from several credible references, with persuasive support for policy implementation. Thorough discussion on policy implementation by providing a convincing discussion on the role of the nurse as policy advocate.
• References within 5 years.