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1. Homework: Relevant health care laws and regulation
Homework: Relevant health care laws and regulationHomework: Relevant health care laws
and regulationDraft a written proposal and implementation guidelines for an organizational
policy that you believe would help lead to an improvement in quality and performance
associated with the benchmark metric for which you advocated action in Assessment
1.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.In advocating for institutional policy changes related to local,
state, or federal health care laws or policies, health leaders must be able to develop and
present clear and well-written policy and practice guidelines change proposals that will
enable a team, unit, or the organization as a whole to resolve relevant performance issues
and bring about improvements in the quality and safety of health care. This assessment
offers you an opportunity to take the lead in proposing such changes.By successfully
completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course
competencies and assessment criteria:Competency 2: Analyze relevant health care laws and
regulations and their applications and effects on processes within a health care team or
organization.Propose a succinct policy and guidelines to enable a team, unit, or the
organization as a whole to implement recommended strategies to resolve the performance
issue related to the relevant local, state, or federal health care policy or law.ORDER NOW
FOR CUSTOMIZED, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERSCompetency 3: Lead the development and
implementation of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for
individuals, organizations, and populations.Recommend ethical, evidence-based strategies
to resolve a performance issue related to health care policy or law.Competency 4: Evaluate
relevant indicators of performance, such as benchmarks, research, and best practices, for
health care policies and law for patients, organizations, and populations.Explain the need
for creating an organizational policy or practice to address a shortfall in meeting a
prescribed metric benchmark.Competency 5: Develop strategies to work collaboratively
with policy makers, stakeholders, and colleagues to address environmental (governmental
and regulatory) forces.Analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on
recommended strategies.Identify colleagues, individual stakeholders, or stakeholder groups
who should be involved in further development and implementation of proposed policy and
guidelines and recommended strategies.Competency 6: Apply various methods of
communicating with policy makers, stakeholders, colleagues, and patients to ensure that
communication in a given situation is professional, clear, efficient, and

2. effective.Communicate a proposed policy and guidelines and recommended strategies in a
professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically, with correct use
of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.Effectively arguments with relevant sources,
correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.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 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.Consider the underperforming metric
you evaluated in your Dashboard Benchmark Evaluation in Assessment 1 as having the
potential to greatly improve the overall quality or performance of a team or the whole
organization.What ethical, evidence-based strategies would you recommend to resolve the
performance issue related to the underperforming metric you evaluated?What does the
literature suggest are potential strategies to improve performance for your targeted
benchmark?How would these strategies ensure improvement or compliance with the
relevant local, state, or federal health care policy or law?How would you propose to apply
these strategies in the context of Eagle Creek Hospital or your own practice setting?How
would you ensure that these strategies are ethical and culturally inclusive in their
application? Homework: Relevant health care laws and regulationSuggested
ResourcesOrganizational Ethics Decision-Making Process in Health Care | TranscriptThis
interactive media piece applies an ethical decision-making process to a workplace health
care issue in a hypothetical scenario. The scenario may give you some ideas about how to
incorporate ethical considerations into your policy change, as well as some stakeholder
engagement and policy implementation ideas for Assessments 3 and 4.Library
ResourcesThese resources explore research protocols across health care delivery
systems:Brown, L. J., & McIntyre, E. L. (2014). The contribution of primary health care
research, evaluation and development- ed research to primary health care policy and
practice. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 20(1), 47–55.Gordon, L., Modayil, M. V.,
Pavlik, J., & Morris, C. D. (2015). Collaboration with behavioral health care facilities to
implement systemwide tobacco control policies — California, 2012. Preventing Chronic
Disease, 12, E13.Stetler, C. B. (2001). Updating the Stetler model of research utilization to
facilitate evidence-based practice. Nursing Outlook, 49(6) , 272–279.These resources
examine health-care policies in the U.S. and abroad:Rawlins, M. D. (2014). Engaging with
health-care policy. The Lancet, 383, S7–8.Strehlenert, H., Richter-Sundberg, L., Nyström, M.
E., & Hasson, H. (2015). Evidence-informed policy formulation and implementation: A
comparative case study of two national policies for improving health and social care in
Sweden. Implementation Science, 10, 1–11.Whitlock, R. (2016, April 15). United States:
Talking about the challenge of quality in health care policy development. Mondaq Business
Briefing.