MSNFP6026 Assessment 3 Letter to The Editor: Population Health Advocacy

MSNFP6026 Assessment 3 Letter to The Editor: Population Health Advocacy

MSNFP6026 Assessment 3 Letter to The Editor: Population Health Advocacy

 Letter to The Editor: Population Health Advocacy

Current State of the Quality of Care and Outcomes for The LBTQ Community

This letter addresses the publication of a policy proposed to address healthcare access limitations the LGBTQ community faces to promote quality health outcomes. The LGBTQ community is prone to poor health outcomes due to limited healthcare access. The population faces discrimination by society, hence decreased access to vital resources such as insurance and healthcare services, which affects their health outcomes (Casey et al., 2019). Numerous reports show that the population has poor health outcomes due to fear of seeking healthcare services.

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The necessity for Health Policy Development

There are government policies and position papers that support non-discriminatory health environments. However, they are hardly followed, and numerous reports show the population suffers a more significant burden of violence, injuries, sexually transmitted infections, and mental health illnesses (Knoepp & Mirabella, 2022). In addition, a significant majority report discrimination in healthcare and thus, fear of recurrence makes them fail to seek healthcare services. There is a need to implement a policy that eliminates discrimination and increases access to services.

Justification of the Health Policy

The policy developed will address eliminating patient discrimination in healthcare, hence increasing the confidence of individuals in seeking care. It will also deal with stereotypes, ensuring that care providers’ differences will not interfere with the quality of care delivered, hence quality patient outcomes (Mateo & Williams, 2020). Thus, this policy will promote access to healthcare services hence better population outcomes.

Policy Development Advocacy

This policy will also help eliminate discrimination in this community outside hospital settings and promote acceptance in the community and families hence better outcomes (Mateo & Williams, 2020). The policy will also help other professionals implement strategies to prevent workplace discrimination, hence increasing access to vital resources. The policy also utilizes interprofessional teams in its development and advocacy, hence its fitness for implementation in the facility and achieving desired outcomes. Implementing this policy is thus significant in enhancing care access and eliminating discrimination among the LGBTQ community.

References

Casey, L. S., Reisner, S. L., Findling, M. G., Blendon, R. J., Benson, J. M., Sayde, J. M., & Miller, C. (2019). Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans. Health Services Research, 54, 1454-1466. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13229

Knoepp, L., & Mirabella, O. (2022). LGBTQ Healthcare Issues. In Clinical Approaches to Hospital Medicine: Advances, Updates, and Controversies (pp. 255-264). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95164-1_17

Mateo, C. M., & Williams, D. R. (2020). Addressing bias and reducing discrimination: The professional responsibility of health care providers. Academic Medicine, 95(12S), S5-S10. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003683 

 Appendix

Letter to the Editor Guidelines

Journal title: The American Journal of Nursing

Submission Guidelines for Letters to the Editor: The AJN requires authors to send letters to the chief editor within six months of the material’s original appearance for publication letters. References for theories, statistics or facts above three are discouraged. The allowed number of words is three hundred, and the word count does not include the purpose (publication) of the letter at the beginning of the letter. Anonymity is not encouraged, and the author’s details are thus essential. However, authors can request their names to e withheld for readers if they believe publicizing their names will jeopardize their well-being. These letters should also include the state of residence or work. No affiliations are required unless the authors are writing on behalf of an organization, accompanied by a letter from the organization confirming the same. These letters should also be edited for clarity and length. Lastly, authors can produce a reply when needed to.

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Assessment 3 Instructions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy
Write a letter to the editor of a scholarly journal. The length and format of the letter is dictated by your choice of journal.

Introduction
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.

Advocating for new policies is an important aspect of the master’s-prepared nurse. For new policies to be compelling they need to be supported by evidence. Supporting data can be used to illustrate why new policies and interventions are needed to help address a specific health issue. Compelling data can help sway the stakeholders and gain support for your policy.

Another aspect of advocacy is disseminating new policies and interventions outside of the immediate care environment. This can be done by reaching out to professional organizations as well as academic and professional journals. A letter to the editor is one strategy for disseminating information to a wider audience and to potentially enlist support throughout the wider professional community.

Professional Context
Nurses have the opportunity to use their skills and develop programs to keep individuals and communities healthy. Health is complex, however, and the nurse needs to possess strong advocacy skills to successfully support a cause or interest. The American Nurses Association’s (2015) code of ethics describes the responsibility of a nurse to include working through and with appropriate stakeholders to advocate for the health of people in and out of the work environment. To be an effective advocate, there are several important abilities a nurse must possess, including problem-solving, communication, and influencing others. One way a nurse can advocate to a broader population is through effective letter writing, both to legislators and through the media, such as with editorials and research articles.

Reference
American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards/CodeofEthicsforNurses/Code-of-Ethics-For-Nurses.html

Scenario
Throughout this course, you have focused on a specific health issue occurring within a specific population. You researched position papers regarding this health concern, and you developed a health policy proposal to positively impact the health of the affected individuals. It is now time to reach a greater audience regarding your policy proposal.

You are going to write a letter to the editor of a peer-reviewed nursing journal. Choose from one of the journals in the Ultimate List of Nursing Journals and go to the journal’s Web site to find out the requirements for submitting an editorial, such as format requirements, topics, and word counts. Make sure you select a nursing journal that covers the topic about which you are going to write. If you want to use another journal that is not on this list, please make sure the journal does address health care, because this is the purpose of the assessment.

Instructions
For this assessment, you will write a letter to the editor of a scholarly journal. Your goal is to be informative about the policy that you developed for your previous Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal assessment, while also being persuasive about the need for and benefit of similar policies in other health care settings. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your assessment submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC] to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

1:Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
2:Look back to the data or scenario you used in your previous assessment to address this criterion.
3:Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
4:Justify why the developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
5:Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
6:Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of the policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
7:Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
8:Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style (or the journal’s preferred style).
Example assessment: You may use the Assessment 3 Example [PDF] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.(EXAMPLE ATACHED SEPARATELY)

Submission Requirements
The submission requirements for your editorial will depend on the journal you choose. To find out the requirements, go to the journal’s Web site. There should be a section regarding submissions that will address how to format letters to the editor, and whether there is a word count limit (there usually is a limit).

If the journal does not have submission guidelines for the number of resources required, use 3–5 sources.
To be sure that your faculty knows the submission and formatting requirements for your letter, include the journal’s guidelines on a separate page at the end of the document you submit for this assessment.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Design evidence-based advanced nursing care for achieving high-quality population outcomes.
Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
Competency 2: Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of interprofessional interventions in achieving desired population health outcomes.
Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
Competency 3: Analyze population health outcomes in terms of their implications for health policy advocacy.
Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references.

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Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy Scoring Guide