Planning Your Visit Assignment: NR 506 Week 5 Assignment 1

Planning Your Visit Assignment: NR 506 Week 5 Assignment 1
In Week 5 there is two parts to the Planning Your Visit Assignment. Planning Your Visit (Part A) and Planning Your Visit-Public Talk Video (Part B) assignments are due by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5. You will find the guidelines listed below. The guidelines and grading rubric are also in the course resource section.
Purpose OF Planning Your Visit Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to: (a) identify communication strategies that support an effective policy making-presentation/visit; (b) deliver a message and make recommendations, and (c) communicate ideas in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner.
Course Outcomes FOR Planning Your Visit Assignment
CO 1: Employ strategies to impact the development, implementation, and consequences of holistic-focused healthcare policies using evidence-based practice principles. (PO 1)
CO 2: Communicate with decision-makers to advocate for effective policies that impact nurses and nursing, consumers, or the healthcare system to foster population health including quality and safety. (PO 2)
CO 3: Demonstrate professional and personal growth concerning the advocacy role of the advanced practice nurse in fostering policy within diverse healthcare settings. (PO 3)
CO 4: Analyze social, historical, ethical, and political contexts of healthcare policies while integrating professional values to impact population health. (PO 4)
CO 5: Advocate for institutional, local, national, and international policies that fosters person-centered healthcare and nursing practice. (PO 5)
Due Date: Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5
Total Points: 100 points
Planning Your Visit Assignment SAMPLE APPROACH
Key Communication Strategies for Policy Advocacy
In Georgia, undocumented immigrants can only receive emergency healthcare services at a hospital ER or limited healthcare services from state approved community health centers. Undocumented immigrants in Georgia rarely access these health services because Georgia law enforcement agencies have begun to enforce the “show me your papers” clause under Georgia’s central immigration law. Under this law, the deportation of sick undocumented immigrants is also allowed. My public policy proposes a standard delivery of equitable health care services for all undocumented immigrants. The policy will also include a provision that blocks medical deportation. The policy maker I contacted is State Representative Sharon Cooper, chairperson Health and Human Services Committee. I am waiting for the secretary to get back to me about my request to meet with Representative Cooper. My plan for the visit is to inform Representative Cooper about my policy suggestion in a succinct manner and use a PowerPoint as a visual aid. I must look and sound professional, as well as use listening skills. At the end of the presentation, I will leave Rep. Cooper with a one-page fact sheet that sums up my main points. After a few days, I will follow up and send her a thank you email.
Communication strategies and analysis of empirical evidence
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “Be sincere; be brief, be seated.” My main communication strategy is to keep my verbal presentation “short and simple” (Schraufnagel, 2013). My aim is to evoke empathy for undocumented immigrants without using mind-numbing fancy words and big data. I will have a limited time frame to present my ideas and must fight the compulsion to
Planning Your Visit Assignment NR 506 Week 5 Assignment 1
overwhelm my audience with too much information. I will make sure to leave five minutes to address Representative Cooper’s reaction and questions. I do not want to exceed my time unless Representative Cooper chooses to extend our meeting. The use visual aids, such as charts and graphs, validate the details of my proposal and boosts my professional image (Dahiya and Nitu, 2017). My PowerPoint will serve as a guide not as the presentation itself (Dahiya and Nitu, 2017). Using PowerPoint is common and can be effective if I do not crowd the slides with statistics and clip art. A short handout and pamphlet are also effective. They will be used to illustrate my key points, and my policymaker can refer to them later when she reflects on our meeting.
Speaking the right language is important when conveying my message, I must have a firm understanding of political jargon and define any nursing terms that may confuse my audience. A communication skill that is often overlooked is listening, which I will skillfully use by posing rhetorical questions I intend my audience to answer. By listening, nurses can assess the legislator’s non-verbal cues and gain a clearer understanding of the policymaker’s agenda. It is the communication skill that shows policy makers their opinions are valued and respected (Kourkouta and Papathanasiou, 2014). Successful nursing presenters will find ways to involve policymakers in the presentation. Getting Rep. Cooper engaged depends on my ability to regulate my non-verbal cues by maintaining eye contact, steadying my tone of voice, and controlling my facial expressions. If I appear inviting and sincere, she will feel comfortable presenting her points, which opens the floor to meaningful discourse and hopefully some resolution….CONT’D
Planning Your Visit Assignment Requirements
Assignment Criteria for Presentation
Introduce your chosen policy issue, the current status, and an overview of your plan for a legislative visit.
Articulate key communication strategies involved in your approach to the legislator including plan, message, and recommendations; see Worksheet 2 and again, the focus is on evidence-based communication techniques for effective healthcare policy visit to the legislator.
Provide an analysis of empirical evidence of effective communication strategies and techniques to support an effective visit and follow-up to the legislator.
Provide specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.
Provide concluding statements summarizing the content.
Paper will be 2-3 pages, excluding title and reference pages, and in APA format 6th
Five non-text book references are required as minimum.
Preparing the Planning Your Visit Assignment Paper
Following completion of Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2, target communication strategies that support an effective policymaking visit. Include a minimum of five (5) classic references or current references (published within the past 5 years) that support your policy plan, the message, recommendations, and follow-up.
Rubric
W5: Planning your Visit- Part A
W5: Planning your Visit- Part A
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIntroduction and Conclusion
Introduction and Conclusion
10.0 pts
Introduction briefly identifies your healthcare/policy-priority issue, policy itself, and legislator with a plan for the policymaker visit/presentation. Concluding statements summarizing content have no inaccuracy.
9.0 pts
Introduction of your healthcare/policy-priority issue, policy itself, and legislator with a plan for policymaker visit/presentation has rare inaccuracy. Concluding statements lack occasional important element or specificity
8.0 pts
Introduction of your healthcare/policy-priority issue, policy itself, and legislator with a plan for policymaker visit/presentation lacks occasional important element or specificity. Concluding statements lack occasional important element or specificity.
4.0 pts
Introduction of your healthcare/policy-priority issue, policy itself and legislator with a plan for a policymaker visit/presentation has multiple instances of inaccuracies or is lacking content. Concluding statements have multiple instances of inaccuracies or lacks content.
0.0 pts
No attempt at introduction or conclusion.
10.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEmpirical Evidence
50.0 pts
Empirical evidence of effective communication strategies and techniques with follow-up supporting your healthcare policy-priority visit to the legislator is clearly articulated.
44.0 pts
Empirical evidence of effective communication strategies and techniques with follow-up supporting your healthcare policy-priority visit to the legislator has a few inaccuracies.
40.0 pts
Empirical evidence of effective communication strategies and techniques with follow-up supporting your healthcare policy-priority visit to the legislator has multiple instances of inaccuracies or lacks detail/articulation.
19.0 pts
Empirical evidence of effective communication strategies and techniques with follow-up supporting your healthcare policy-priority visit to the legislator is missing.
0.0 pts
No attempt at providing Empirical evidence.
50.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSpecific Examples
20.0 pts
Provides specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing and has no inaccuracy and is clearly articulated.
18.0 pts
Provides specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing and has multiple instances of inaccuracies and/or lacks clarity.
16.0 pts
Provides specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing and lacks occasional important elements or specificity and/or lacks clarity.
8.0 pts
No specific examples of the impact OR importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.
0.0 pts
No specific examples of the impact AND importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.
20.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAPA Format:
10.0 pts
Text, title page, and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.
9.0 pts
There are 1–2 APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).
8.0 pts
There are 3–4 APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).
4.0 pts
There are 5 APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).
0.0 pts
There are 6 or more APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).
10.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeWriting Quality.
10.0 pts
Paper is appropriate in length. References include the minimum of five (5) scholarly references, excluding the course text. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work.
9.0 pts
Paper is short or long in length and/or contains fewer than 5 but more than 1 scholarly reference, excluding course text, or references utilized are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work with1–2 exceptions
8.0 pts
Paper is short or long in length and contains only 1 scholarly reference. Additional references are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work with 3–4 exceptions.
4.0 pts
Paper is two or more pages short or long in length and does not contain scholarly references. References utilized are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are not followed with 5 errors
0.0 pts
Paper is two or more pages short or long in length and does not contain scholarly references. References utilized are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are not followed with 6 or more errors
10.0 pts
Total Points: 100.0