assignment 3:
Personal Plan for Advocacy Implementation PowerPoint/Kaltura Presentation (13 points)

In this assignment, the student will present an advocacy plan for a specific policy issue. The student will develop a PowerPoint/ Kaltura Presentation introducing an advocacy plan, including a letter, to a government representative to address a national, state, or local policy issue. This assignment will demonstrate student growth toward becoming a political change agent.

Assignment Criteria:

DNP Students: Create a PowerPoint Presentation that addresses the students’ personal plan of advocacy for selected policy issue.
Title Slide
Introduction Slide
Slide to link to Essential V of the AACN’s (2006) DNP Essentials and its outcomes.
1-2 Slide(s) to lists policy challenges & opportumites.
1-2 Slide(s) to explain how each DNP Essential V outcome/competency has been met or will be met/demonstrated.
Slide to summarize personal growth toward becoming a DNP political change agent.
References Slide
PhD students: Create a PowerPoint Presentation that discusses faculty shortage in nursing academia or a major issue in nursing executive leadership.

Title Slide
Introduction Slide
Slide to explain the outcomes on nursing education or nursing leadership.
1-2 Slide(s) to present pioneering and collaborative solutions to expand nursing education or nursing executive leadership and scholarship and explain how these solutions will be met/demonstrated.
1-2 Slide(s) to lists policy challenges & opportunites.
Slide to summarize personal growth toward becoming a Ph.D. political change agent.
References Slide.
Develop a recorded PowerPoint presentation/PPT using Kaltura in the form of a scholarly presentation. Follow the instructions for using Kaltura in Canvas under Modules and APA Documents/Resources.
Once the PPT is created, use Kaltura media to present it with a voice-over (use a computer and microphone).
For presentation clarification, include the presenter’s notes in the click-to-add section to explain the slide.
The PowerPoint presentation should be no more than ten slides (excluding the title and reference slides) and 10-15 minutes long. It should be complete and concise. Use bulleted statements, not complete sentences or paragraphs.
Use APA format for PPT, which always includes a title slide, a reference slide, and APA requirements. Resources found in APA Documents/Resources.
A minimum of five (5) references will be required for this assignment. The references should be from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals (check Ulrich’s Periodical Directory) and less than five (5) years old.
Submit both the PPT and the Kaltura presentation by the posted due date.

Week2 Dr Waters Responce to Kyla 450 words please ??

Background Problem

Inspiring change is a central theme of healthcare and public health policy. Nurses provide direct patient care to individuals across the lifespan, making them excellent candidates for invoking change (Inayat et al., 2023). By witnessing the impact of health policy firsthand, nurses are informed to serve in roles emphasizing policymaking. One problem that requires a need for policy is alcohol consumption. Alcohol is an addictive, intoxicating substance that is commonly used for entertainment around the globe (Ilhan & Yapar, 2020). Despite the potentially negative impact of alcohol, approximately one in three persons is a current drinker worldwide. Alcohol has been linked to more than 200 injuries and diseases, such as neuropsychiatric conditions, cardiovascular conditions, cancer, and death (Ilhan & Yapar, 2020). Additionally, over three million people die from detrimental alcohol use, and deaths related to alcohol account for more than 5% of all deaths worldwide. Current policies for alcohol are inadequately enforced, and as alcohol-related conditions rise, it is apparent that updated alcohol policies are necessary.

Proposed Policy

In the state of Florida, several strategies are in place to prevent excessive alcohol use and abuse. However, further opportunities are available to address this growing crisis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asserts that states can increase alcohol taxes, regulate alcohol outlet density, and maintain limits on sales to control alcohol use and misuse (CDC, 2024). Florida currently operates with state alcohol taxes, alcohol retail licensing, and limits hours of alcohol sales. However, Florida currently allows private retailers to sell alcohol against the recommendations of the CDC (CDC, 2024). Therefore, the implementation of policy could address this problem by limiting alcohol sales to government retailers per CDC recommendations.

Policy Process

To begin the implementation of the policy process, an advanced practice nurse (APN) would benefit from an outlined framework to guide their steps and highlight their skills to elicit change. The Yoder Wise Model is a framework designed for planned policy change for nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic (Anders, 2021). This framework outlines nine steps for success and begins with a precipitating event causing a critical point that demands action, such as increasing alcohol-related problems. The APN would then assess the situation to determine the need for additional action. Extensive planning would occur, including detailing definitions and timing and involving additional stakeholders to address the problem. Given that this policy would be addressed at the state level, this would require collaboration with legislators and representatives. The APN would then monitor the movement of the policy change with stakeholders until the subsequent enactment of the policy (Anders, 2021). The APN would routinely refocus with the team and evaluate the effectiveness of the policy when appropriate.

Implementation Challenges

The APN may encounter several barriers to the implementation of this policy. As previously discussed, many nurses feel they need more preparation for strategic policymaking due to inadequate education and preparation (Inayat et al., 2023). Given that this policy would address state-level concerns, it would be imperative for the APN to have experience with policy internships, training, or policymaking projects to improve readiness. Another problem the APN may encounter is hesitancy to eliminate the privatization of alcohol. Given that alcohol taxes raise revenue, the state of Florida may feel compelled to continue the widespread availability of alcohol to maintain taxation (CDC, 2024). Therefore, the APN must have robust data to support the detriment of privatization to initiate policy change at the state level.

References

Anders R. L. (2021). Engaging nurses in health policy in the era of COVID-19. Nursing Forum, 56(1), 89–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/nuf.12514

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2024). Alcohol and public health: Florida. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/states/excessive-alcohol-use-united-states.html#FL

Ilhan, M. N., & Yapar, D. (2020). Alcohol consumption and alcohol policy. Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences, 50(5), 1197–1202. https://doi.org/10.3906/sag-2002-237

Inayat, S., Younas, A., Andleeb, S., Rasheed, S. P., & Ali, P. (2023). Enhancing nurses’ involvement in policy making: A qualitative study of nurse leaders. International nursing review, 70(3), 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12828

Dr waters week 4
TOPIC B: Unions and Collective Bargaining (3 points): There has been an increased awareness of working environments, staffing, healthcare provider safety, and quality patient care. With this topic, the conversation often revolves around unions and collective bargaining,

Present an argument in favor of or against nurses’
Explore the literature and provide the pros and cons of nursing’s participation in organized collective bargaining groups and
Illustrate the pros and cons related to the need for collective bargaining and unions to advance
Describe how nursing organizational policy can outline collective bargaining and how nurse educators should present this topic to nursing students.

Week 2: Discussion Board Posting Dr Waters
Discussion Board Posting #2 (3 points): Identify a healthcare policy initiative in an area of research interest.

Describe the background problem that created the need for a policy
Explain the proposed policy and why it is needed
Discuss, from an advanced practice nurse’s (APN) perspective, two suggestions an APN would use to begin implementing this policy process.
Identify two or three challenges an APN might encounter with implementation and explain how the APN could address them.

Week 3: Online Activity Dr Brown
Online Activity Lesson Learned Collaboration (3 points):

Post about at least one of your experiences during the last few weeks related to:

Your practicum immersion.
Your DNP Project – success, concern, question, or new resource.
Please describe your impression of a meeting you attended, a new policy (development, implementation, evaluation, etc.), or interprofessional collaboration.
Is there any topic you would like feedback on regarding your practicum site and/or DNP Project?
Important notice. The requirements for discussion posts, both the discussion question and online activity, have changed. The instructions are attached for your review.
The initial post for the online activity is due by Thursday.
Please respond to at least one of your colleagues’ posts with feedback, support, and/or potential solutions. 500 words