Description: This assignment will analyze the United States health care system including health policy in a paper format. You will use your textbook, D2L course content, the “links” area of D2L Brightspace, and outside scholarly references to write this paper. This assignment assists in meeting course objectives 1 & 5. You may work in pairs on this paper.
This assignment contributes to meeting Essential V: Healthcare policies, including financial and regulatory, directly and indirectly influence the nature and functioning of the healthcare system and thereby are important considerations in professional nursing practice
Sections:
- Introduction: Define health policy and let the reader know what you will discuss in your paper.
Policy: Choose a local, state, or national health policy and describe how it positively and/or negatively effects the quality of health care in the United States.You do not need to do this. You answered a similar question in the discussions of this course.
- Quality: Analyze the quality of health care in the United States. Does the United States provide quality health care? If so, in what ways? If not, in what ways?
- Measurement: Reflect and describe how health care quality is measured. What kind of tools/measurements are used to measure quality? Include in your analysis indicators of the quality of nursing care (nurse sensitive indicators) in the United States.
- Summary: Summarize your paper. How does taking this course and writing this paper help you to understand the functioning of the healthcare in the United States?
Write paper based on the following criteria:
- The topic selected is developed thoroughly. Make sure to address sections 1-5 (do not need to address #2) above.
- Writing is clear, succinct, and easy to follow
- Critical thinking is evident
- Formal language is used with correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling
- APA format is followed with these aspects:
- One inch margins
- Times New Roman font
- 12 point font size
- Font color is black
- Double spaced
- Title page
- Level I headings bolded for sections 1-5 (do not need to address #2)
- Running head on title page, header on p. 2+
- Use the bolded
- Two to three scholarly references are required. Please cite per apa.
- Length of paper is at least 1.5 pages, but no more than 3 pages.


