Write a letter to an official in your state or local government. (Choose the individual in the level of government that will best address your issue). The purpose of this letter is to advocate for action with regards to your chosen health care environment issue.

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Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.

As health care leaders, it is important to understand strategies for advocating and lobbying elected officials. This can lead to the development of policies or laws that can help drive improved equity and outcomes for all participants in the health care environment as well as a more sustainable financial future.

Background and Context

As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may be expected to implement plans to ensure that initiatives designed to take advantage of economic opportunities for the organization are rolled out successfully and can be sustained over multiple years. Additionally, it is important to be able to envision how an initiative could be implemented in different contexts and for different purposes to ensure the investment remains a viable and positive asset to your organization or care setting.

As a master’s-level practitioner, you will often be challenged to influence the health care environment in a variety of ways. This influence can occur on a micro-level (implementing change on your unit, institution, community, or local organizations) or at a macro level (implementing change via state or federal regulations and policy). One way you can influence the health care environment is by lobbying an elected official at the local, state, or national level to adopt policies or legislation that would support positive economic and health outcomes for patients, practitioners, and organizations within the health care environment.

Instructions

For this assessment, you will develop a letter to an official in your state or local government (choose the individual in the level of government that will best address your issue). The purpose of this letter is to advocate for action with regards to your chosen health care environment issue. Remember, when writing the letter, you must use your personal address and telephone number unless you are exclusively representing a group or your organization.

Be sure to address each main point. Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide, including performance-level descriptions for each criterion, to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed. In addition, note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.

Overall, your assessment submission will be assessed on the following criteria:

• Summarize the health care economic issue that you are addressing.
• Keep this brief but try to include details about how the issue is currently impacting the elected officials constituents.
• Explain the positive outcomes that will occur if the issue is addressed and the negative outcomes that will occur if the issue is not addressed.
• Tailor this messaging to focus on the impacts in the communities and organizations that are relevant to the elected official you are writing to.
• Summarize key information from scholarly sources to support the importance of addressing the issue; the issues overall impact on health care at the institutional, local, state, or national level; and proposed changes or actions to address the issue.
• Cite at least five current, scholarly sources that support your argument and help provide the elected official (who may not have a detailed knowledge of the health care environment) with an understanding of the issues, changes, or actions that you are proposing to drive improved outcomes.
• Identify the impact your issue has on health care institutions and health care providers at the local community, state, or national level.
• Make sure to include information from both a health care and an economic perspective. An elected official may be more responsive to one perspective than another.
• Incorporate social justice, structural racism, and inequity principles when picking resources and making recommendations for change in your assessment.
• Explain how personal, professional, and organizational experiences have informed the resource planning and risk analysis for working toward addressing the economic issue.
• Think about how your experiences (the experiences can be personal, professional, or from your teams perspective or experience) affect how you have planned for the resources needed to implement your desired changes or actions. How did this impact your approach to conducting a risk analysis on the project?
• Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly communication standards.
• Remember to conclude your letter with a summary of your position on the issue and a compelling reason that the elected official should act in your favor and support your issue or initiative.

Additional Requirements

• Audience: Make sure you are addressing your letter to an actual local or state official.
• For most states, you can use the following resource:
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• For local officials, search your citys government website for officials and their positions.
• Length of Submission: 12 double spaced pages excluding the title and reference page. Your letter needs to be succinct and persuasive.
• Number of References: Cite at least five sources of evidence to support your identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.

Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s page.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.
• Summarize the health care economic issue that you are addressing.
• Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.
• Explain the positive outcomes that will occur if the issue is addressed and negative outcomes that will occur if the issue is not addressed.
• Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.
• Summarize key information from scholarly sources to support the importance of addressing the issue; the issues overall impact on health care at the institutional, local, state, or national level; and proposed changes or actions to address the issue.
• Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.
• Explain how personal, professional, and organizational experiences have informed the resource planning and risk analysis for working toward addressing the economic issue.
• Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
• Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

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Summarize the health care economic issue that you are addressing.

Distinguished

Summarizes the health care economic issue that you are addressing. Notes how the issue is currently impacting the constituents of the elected official that the letter is addressed to.

Proficient

Summarizes the health care economic issue that you are addressing.

Basic

Provides an unclear or incomplete summary of the health care economic issue that you are addressing.

Non Performance

Does not provide any type of summary of the health care economic issue that you are addressing.

Criterion 2

Explain the positive outcomes that will occur if the issue is addressed and negative outcomes that will occur if the issue is not addressed.

Distinguished

Explains the positive outcomes that will occur if the issue is addressed and negative outcomes that will occur if the issue is not addressed. Targets tone and content of the explanation to the elected official the letter is addressed to.

Proficient

Explains the positive outcomes that will occur if the issue is addressed and negative outcomes that will occur if the issue is not addressed.

Basic

Describes positive and negative outcomes in general terms. The relevance to the issue and taking action to address the issue of these outcomes is unclear and lacking in detail.

Non Performance

Does not describe positive and negative outcomes in general terms.

Criterion 3

Summarize key information from scholarly sources to support the importance of addressing the issue; the issues overall impact on health care at the institutional, local, state, or national level; and proposed changes or actions to address the issue.

Distinguished

Summarizes key information from at least five scholarly sources to support the importance of addressing the issue, the issues overall impact on health care at the institutional, local, state, or national level, and proposed changes or actions to address the issue. Notes social justice, structural racism, and inequity principles that were used when making the recommendations for the proposed changes.

Proficient

Summarizes key information from scholarly sources to support the importance of addressing the issue; the issues overall impact on health care at the institutional, local, state, or national level; and proposed changes or actions to address the issue.

Basic

Provides an incomplete or unclear summary of key information from scholarly sources to support the importance of addressing the issue; the issues overall impact on health care at the institutional, local, state, or national level; and proposed changes or actions to address the issue.

Non Performance

Does not provide any kind of summary of key information from scholarly sources to support the importance of addressing the issue; the issues overall impact on health care at the institutional, local, state, or national level; and proposed changes or actions to address the issue.

Criterion 4

Explain how personal, professional, and organizational experiences have informed the resource planning and risk analysis for working toward addressing the economic issue.

Distinguished

Explains how personal, professional, and organizational experiences have informed the resource planning and risk analysis for working toward addressing the economic issue. Relates a succinct story from experiences in personal health care practice to illustrate the planning and analysis approach taken.

Proficient

Explains how personal, professional, and organizational experiences have informed the resource planning and risk analysis for working toward addressing the economic issue.

Basic

Lists personal, professional, and organizational experiences that informed the resource planning and risk analysis for working toward addressing the economic issue, but there is a general lack of detail provided.

Non Performance

Does not list personal, professional, and organizational experiences that informed the resource planning and risk analysis for working toward addressing the economic issue.

Criterion 5

Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Distinguished

Conveys clear purpose in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards, including APA style and formatting.

Proficient

Conveys purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards. Applies APA style and formatting.

Basic

Conveys purpose in an appropriate tone or style. Clear, effective communication is inhibited by insufficient supporting evidence or minimal adherence to applicable writing standards.

Non Performance

Does not convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and writing scholarly standards.

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Develop a 10-slide business PowerPoint for the economic issue you have been working with as your topic in the previous assessment. You will then present this PowerPoint using Kaltura and submit the video.

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Introduction

Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.

As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you are expected to consider a number of factors when supporting change by analyzing the feasibility of a new initiative or identifying an issue within your organization. For example, you must take into consideration the various types of risk (such as patient safety, physical plant, financial, or reputation), as well as the present and future value of the service line or economic opportunity you are invested in. Additionally, you must also balance your ethical and moral responsibility to provide quality care to patients and populations while protecting your organization’s assets and economic viability in the near and long terms.

Background and Context

As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you are expected to consider a number of factors when supporting change by analyzing the feasibility of a new initiative or identifying an issue within your organization. For example, you must take into consideration the various types of risk (such as patient safety, physical plant, financial, or reputation), as well as the present and future value of the service line or economic opportunity you are invested in. Additionally, you must also balance your ethical and moral responsibility to provide quality care to patients and populations while protecting your organization’s assets and economic viability in the near and long terms.

Instructions

For this assessment, you will develop a 10-slide business PowerPoint for the economic issue you have been working with as your topic in the previous assessment. You will then present this PowerPoint using Kaltura and submit the video.

This presentation asks you to examine the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of implementing a proposed solution for your chosen issue, as well as analyze ways to mitigate risks.

Be sure to address each main point. Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide, including performance-level descriptions for each criterion, to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed. In addition, note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.

You may also wish to consult the Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX] if you need additional guidance as you are assembling your presentation.

Overall, your assessment submission will be assessed on the following criteria:

Summarize the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.

This is an opportunity to tell your story and what the initiative means to you as a health care practitioner. Remember, this is a presentation. So, you want to be engaging and persuasive in order to build support for what you will be proposing to do later in the presentation.

Explain the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting.

Make sure to present at least an overview of the data and numbers you are basing your cost-benefit analysis on.

Touch upon the ways in which potential risks could pose a threat to the financial security of your organization or care setting while you are addressing the ways to mitigate risk.

Support your explanation with evidence-based research or scholarly sources.

Describe the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue.

Include the potential benefits of implementation to your organization, your colleagues, or the community at large.

Support your initiative with evidence-based research or scholarly sources.

Explain how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.

Make sure that your changes or solution are not unfairly burdening or disadvantaging any specific groups.

Double check that your changes or solution do not pose any ethical issues and are not culturally insensitive.

Ensure that both access and cost are equitable across all groups in the community that the proposed solution will be affecting.

Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Recording Your Presentation

Before starting to record your presentation make sure you have:

Set up and tested your microphone and headset using the installation instructions provided by the manufacturer. You only need to use the headset if your audio is not clear or high quality when captured by the microphone.

Practice using the equipment to ensure the audio quality is sufficient.

Consult Using Kaltura for guidance on how to record your presentation and upload it in the courseroom.

Microsoft PowerPoint also allows you to record your narration with your slides. If you choose this option, simply submit your presentation to the appropriate area of the courseroom. Your narration will be included with your slides.

Remember to practice delivering and recording your presentation multiple times to ensure effective delivery.

Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact Disability Services at DisabilityServices@Capella.edu to request accommodations.

Additional Requirements

Length of Submission: 10 PowerPoint slides, with speaker’s notes, not including title slide and attached reference list. Balance text with visuals. Avoid text-heavy slides. Use speaker’s notes for additional content.

Length of Presentation: The PowerPoint presentation should be 10 slides in length and presented orally using Kaltura to record and share the video. The video itself should not exceed 10 minutes.

Number of Resources: Include at least five scholarly sources to support your work and meet scholarly expectations for supporting evidence. Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references in the PowerPoint.

What to Submit: Your speaker notes must be processed by Turnitin. Along with your recording, submit one of the following:

Save your PowerPoint file as a PDF with the speaker notes visible. Submit the file and recording.

Copy and paste your speaker notes into a separate Word document to submit with the PowerPoint file and recording.

Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Support page.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.

Summarize the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.

Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.

Explain how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.

Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.

Explain the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting.

Describe the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue.

Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.

Create a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

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Criterion 1

Summarize the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.

Distinguished

Summarizes the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large. Tone of summary is engaging and persuasive and provides the audience with a reason to keep listening.

Proficient

Summarizes the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.

Basic

Provides an unclear or incomplete summary of the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.

Non Performance

Does not provide any kind of summary of the problem and the potential impact the health care economic issue has on you, your colleagues, your organization, and the community at large.

Criterion 2

Explain the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting.

Distinguished

Explains the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting. Provides specific data and numbers to support the cost-benefit assertions.

Proficient

Explains the feasibility and cost-benefit considerations of your health care economic issue, as well as three ways to mitigate risks to the financial security of your organization or health care setting.

Basic

Describe the feasibility of the health care economic issue in general terms, but does not provide a full explanation or sufficient cost-benefit details. Likewise, the ways to mitigate risk are overly general and not specific to the issue or health care organization.

Non Performance

Does not describe the feasibility of the health care economic issue in general terms.

Criterion 3

Describe the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue.

Distinguished

Describes the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue. Notes the potential benefits to your organization, colleagues, or the community at large.

Proficient

Describes the changes or solution that you propose be implemented in order to address the economic issue.

Basic

Identifies a solution, but its relevance or alignment to the economic issue is unclear.

Non Performance

Does not identify a solution.

Criterion 4

Explain how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.

Distinguished

Explains how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented. Notes specifically how the proposed solution ensures that that both access and cost are equitable across all groups in the community.

Proficient

Explains how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.

Basic

Provides a partial explanation, but does not address each of how the proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.

Non Performance

Does not explain how your proposed solution is culturally sensitive, ethical, and equitable within the context of the community and health care setting it will be implemented.

Criterion 5

Create a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Distinguished

Creates a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrates relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA formatting, and uses effective visuals and detailed descriptive speaker’s notes.

Proficient

Creates a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrates relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Basic

Creates a somewhat disorganized presentation that poorly communicates content.

Non Performance

Does not record the presentation or speaker notes are not provided.

Complete a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization with which you are familiar, in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue.

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Introduction

Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.

As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may sometimes be tasked with the need to complete a systematic evaluation as a way of improving your organizations outcomes. In this assessment, you will have a chance to practice these skills by completing a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization that you are familiar with in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue that you presented in the previous assessment. This systematic evaluation is often referred to as a needs analysis. Understanding how to do a needs analysis will be key as you advance through your career in the health care environment.

Background and Context

As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may sometimes be tasked with the need to complete a systematic evaluation as a way of improving your organizations outcomes. In this assessment, you will have a chance to practice these skills by completing a systematic evaluation of a unit, facility, or organization that you are familiar with in an attempt to identify the need to address the economic health care issue that you presented in the previous assessment. This systematic evaluation is often referred to as a needs analysis. Understanding how to do a needs analysis will be key as you advance through your career in the health care environment.

Instructions

Be sure to address each main point. Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide, including performance-level descriptions for each criterion, to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed. In addition, note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.

Overall, you will be assessed on the following criteria:

Summarize your chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

Reiterate your rationale for pursuing this issue, as well as the gap contributing to it that you identified in your previous assessment.

Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.

Use at least one piece of evidence to support this disparity (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resources).

Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.

For example, if your implementation plan includes the need for increased staffing, you might want to research errors or patient falls that occurred as a result of high patient and low staff ratio in the literature.

Use at least four evidence-based or scholarly sources that are relevant to your chosen topic to support your explanation.

Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.

Outcomes and opportunities for growth should focus on economic considerations.

Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Additional Requirements

Length of Submission: 35 double-spaced pages.

Number of References: Cite at least four sources of evidence to support your identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.

APA formatting: Titles, headings, resources, and citations are formatted according to the current APA style.

Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Support page.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.

Summarize the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.

Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.

Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.

Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.

Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.

Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.

Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.

Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

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Criterion 1

Summarize the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

Distinguished

Summarizes the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community. Notes the rationale for pursing the issue, as well as a gap contributing to it.

Proficient

Summarizes the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

Basic

Provides an unclear or incomplete summary of the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

Non Performance

Does not provide any type of summary of the chosen economic issue and its impact on your work, organization, colleagues, and community.

Criterion 2

Identify any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.

Distinguished

Identifies any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations. Supports assertion by using at least one piece of evidence (public health data, aggregated data from an organization, or other scholarly resource).

Proficient

Identifies any socioeconomic or diversity disparities that exist with how your chosen economic issue impacts any particular groups or populations.

Basic

Identifies disparities that exist with regards to the chosen economic issue. However, does not relate the disparities to any socioeconomic or diversity considerations.

Non Performance

Does not identify any disparities that exist with regards to the chosen economic issue.

Criterion 3

Explain the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.

Distinguished

Explains the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans. Cites at least four relevant evidence-based or scholarly sources to support explanation.

Proficient

Explains the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources regarding the need to address your chosen issue and pursue potential change or implementation plans.

Basic

Identifies the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources, but the relevance to regarding the need to address the chosen issue is unclear or misaligned.

Non Performance

Does not identify the findings of evidence-based or scholarly sources.

Criterion 4

Explain the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.

Distinguished

Explains the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan. Notes the specific economic benefits for patients and the organization.

Proficient

Explains the predicted outcomes and opportunities for growth as the result of the proposed change or implementation plan.

Basic

Identifies possible outcomes and opportunities of growth, but their relationship to the proposed change or implementation plan is unclear.

Non Performance

Does not identify possible outcomes and opportunities of growth.

Criterion 5

Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Distinguished

Conveys clear purpose in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards, including APA style and formatting.

Proficient

Conveys purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards. Applies APA style and formatting.

Basic

Conveys purpose in an appropriate tone or style. Clear, effective communication is inhibited by insufficient supporting evidence or minimal adherence to applicable writing standards.

Non Performance

Does not convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and writing scholarly standards.

Write a brief 2-3 page report about a health care economic issue that you have identified. Address the reasons why you selected the issue you did; identify how this issue impacts the work of you, your colleagues, and your organization; and describe the gap that you see contributing to this issue.

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Introduction

Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.

Health care economics has the potential to affect each of us either personally or professionally. This impact can be viewed from a health economics point-of-view (where we discuss the value of health care and its efficiency), or it can examine how health care is financed (focus on how health care is funded). Health economics and health care funding have the potential to influence health care outcomes in a variety of ways. As you move through this course, you will work toward developing a potential solution for a health care issue within your current or desired health care system. The goal of this assessment is to identify an economic health care issue that you will address throughout the course.

Context and Background

Health care economics has the potential to affect each of us either personally or professionally. This impact can be viewed from a health economics point-of-view (where we discuss the value of health care and its efficiency) or it can examine how health care is financed (focus on how health care is funded). Health economics and health care funding have the potential to influence health care outcomes in a variety of ways. The bulleted list below outlines topics and health care issues that many institutions encounter. Organizations often have to implement strategies or initiatives to resolve or improve these issues and create positive patient and institution outcomes.

Examples of health care economic issues:

The influence of health care economics on community healthfor example, social determinants of health (such as access to care and health care finance).

Supply and demand: How do we in the health care environment exist when there are more needs from communities and patients than we have the resources to supply? An example of this would be a high number of patients and low resource levels such as staff, supplies, and equipment.

The publics attitude toward health, disease, and the health care systemfor example, how money is distributed has the potential to impact the health care outcomes of certain populations. An example of this would be the lack of access and funding for underserved and rural communities.

Other issues might include access to care, social determinants of health, senior health, food insecurity or food desserts, inadequate staffing, homelessness, rehospitalization environmental issues leading to chronic disease, et cetera.

As you move through this course, you will work toward developing a potential solution for a health care issue within your current or desired health care system. The goal of this assessment is to identify an economic health care issue that you will address throughout the course.

Later in the course, you will (a) conduct a needs analysis to justify your focus on this topic area using the literature of the field, (b) present an argument for change in your organization bolstered by a cost-benefit analysis, and (c) advocate for this change at the state level. Keep these future assessments in mind as you select your topic.

Instructions

For this assessment, you will write a brief 23 page report about the health care economic issue that you have identified. In addition, you will also be asked to:

Address the reasons you selected the issue.

Identify how the issue impacts the work of you, your colleagues, and your organization.

Describe the gap that you see contributing to this issue.

Be sure to address each main point. Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide, including performance-level descriptions for each criterion, to ensure you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed. In addition, note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.

Overall, you will be assessed on the following criteria:

Describe a health care economic issue and how it impacts a specific community or population.

Note the data, information, or observations used to support your description.

Explain the rationale for choosing your health care economic issue.

Explain how the health care economic issue has affected your work, your organization, your colleagues, and your community.

Identify the gap that is contributing to the need to address the economic issue.

Cite at least one piece of evidence to support your identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.

Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Additional Requirements

Length of Submission: 23 double-spaced pages.

Number of References: Cite at least one piece of evidence to support your identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.

APA formatting: Titles, headings, resources, and citations are formatted according to the APA style.

Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Support page.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.

Explain the rationale for choosing the health care economic issue.

Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.

Describe a health care economic issue and how it impacts a specific community or population.

Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.

Identify the gap that is contributing to the need to address the economic issue.

Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.

Explain how the health care economic issue has affected your work, your organization, colleagues, and community.

Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.

Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Scoring Guide

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

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Criterion 1

Describe a health care economic issue and how it impacts a specific community or population.

Distinguished

Describes a health care economic issue and how it impacts a specific community or population. Notes the data, information, or observations used to support the description.

Proficient

Describes a health care economic issue and how it impacts a specific community or population.

Basic

Describes a health care economic issue. However, does not address, or it is unclear, how it impacts a specific community or population.

Non Performance

Does not describe a health care economic issue.

Criterion 2

Explain the rationale for choosing the health care economic issue.

Distinguished

Explains the rationale for choosing the health care economic issue. Reflects on how personal experiences and values informed the choice of issue.

Proficient

Explains the rationale for choosing the health care economic issue.

Basic

Lists reasons for choosing the health care economic issue, but does not provide a full explanation.

Non Performance

Does not list reasons for choosing the health care economic issue.

Criterion 3

Explain how the health care economic issue has affected your work, your organization, colleagues, and community.

Distinguished

Explains how the health care economic issue has affected your work, your organization, colleagues, and community. Specifically notes ways in which the issue may be having greater impacts on diverse or lower socio-economic groups.

Proficient

Explains how the health care economic issue has affected your work, your organization, colleagues, and community.

Basic

Explains how the health care economic issue has affected some but not all of your work, your organization, colleagues, and community.

Non Performance

Does not explain how the health care economic issue has affected any of your work, your organization, colleagues, and community.

Criterion 4

Identify the gap that is contributing to the need to address the economic issue.

Distinguished

Identifies the gap that is contributing to the need to address the economic issue. Cites at least one piece of evidence to support the identification of the gap. This could be public health data, a peer-reviewed journal article, or another scholarly source.

Proficient

Identifies the gap that is contributing to the need to address the economic issue.

Basic

Identifies a gap, but it is unclear if the gap is contributing to the need to address the economic issue.

Non Performance

Does not identify a gap.

Criterion 5

Convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.

Distinguished

Conveys clear purpose in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards, including APA style and formatting.

Proficient

Conveys purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards. Applies APA style and formatting.

Basic

Conveys purpose in an appropriate tone or style. Clear, effective communication is inhibited by insufficient supporting evidence or minimal adherence to applicable writing standards.

Non Performance

Does not convey purpose in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and writing scholarly standards.