Instructions

For this assessment, you will develop a policy proposal that seeks to improve the outcomes for your chosen health care issue and target population. 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 Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal Scoring Guide and guiding questions to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

• Propose a policy and guidelines that will lead to improved outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target population.
• Advocate the need for a proposed policy in the context of current outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target population.
• Analyze the potential for an interprofessional approach to implementing a proposed policy to increase the efficiency or effectiveness of the care setting to achieve high-quality outcomes.
• Communicate proposal 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 using APA style.

Guiding Questions

Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal        

This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment.

Propose a policy and guidelines that will lead to improved outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target population.

• Does your policy encompass the key components that will lead to improved outcomes and quality of care for your chosen issue and target population?
  • Is your policy succinct (about one paragraph)?
  • Do your proposed guidelines help colleagues, stakeholders, and groups understand how to implement your proposed policy?
  • Are your policy and guidelines realistic in the context of the team, unit, or organization you are considering?
  • Are your policy and guidelines realistic in the context of the environmental factors that exist?
  • What is the current state of relevant outcomes related to your policy?
  • What is the current state of the quality of care related to your policy
  • Why is it important to work toward improvements in outcomes and quality of care?
  • How will your policy help ensure that improvements are achieved?
  • What are the relevant interprofessional best practices for successfully implementing your policy?
    • How will they support an increase in efficiency for achieving high-quality outcomes relevant to your policy, chosen issue, or target population?
    • How will they support an increase in effectiveness for achieving high-quality outcomes relevant to your policy, chosen issue, or target population?
    • Is your writing clear and professional?
    • Is your writing free from errors?
    • Is your writing persuasive?
    • Is your submission 2–4 pages (not including the title page and reference list)?
    • Did you use 5 sources in your assessment?
      • Are the sources you used no more than five years old?
      • Are your sources cited in APA format throughout?
      • Have you included an attached reference list?
      • Did you use the APA Style Paper Template for formatting to include running head and title page?
      • No abstract is needed for this assessment

Advocate the need for a proposed policy in the context of current outcomes and quality of care for a specific issue in a target population.

Analyze the potential for an interprofessional approach to implementing a proposed policy to increase the efficiency or effectiveness of the care setting to achieve high-quality outcomes.

Communicate proposal 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 using current APA style.