Planning Your Visit (Part A)

Planning Your Visit (Part A)

Guidelines and Grading Rubric

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to: (a) identify communication strategies that support an effective policy making-presentation/visit (CO #2); (b) deliver a message and make recommendations (CO #2, 3), and (c) communicate ideas in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner. (CO #3)

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

(CO #2) Employ strategies to affect the development, implementation, and consequences of policies at the institutional, local, national, and international levels. (PO 4, 8, 10)

(CO #3) Communicate with policymakers to advocate for effective policies that affect nurses and nursing, consumers, or the health care system. (PO 2, 3, 10)

(CO #4) Analyze the historical, ethical, and political contexts of health care policy and the consequences of policy implementation. (PO 6, 10)

(CO #5) Advocate for institutional, local, national, and international policies that influence health care and its consumers and nurses and their nursing practice. (PO 2, 10)

Due Date: Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5

Total Points: 100 points

Requirements

Assignment Criteria for Presentation

1. Introduce your chosen policy issue, the current status, and an overview of your plan for a legislative visit.
2. Articulate key communication strategies involved in your approach to the legislator including plan, message, and recommendations under each of the Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2 sections using headings in your paper.
3. Provide an analysis of empirical evidence of effective communication strategies in policymaking including plan, message, and follow-up.
4. Provide specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.
5. Provide concluding statements summarizing the content.
6. Paper will be 2-3 pages, excluding title and reference pages, and in APA format 6^th edition.
7. Five non-text book references are required as minimum.

Preparing the Paper

Following completion of Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet 2, target communication strategies that support an effective policymaking visit. Include a minimum of five (5) classic references or current references (published within the past 5 years) that support your policy plan, the message, recommendations, and follow-up.

Category	Points	%	Description
Introduction and Conclusion	10	10	Introduction clearly introduces your healthcare policy-priority issue. Concluding statements summarize content.
Empirical Evidence	50	50	Provide an analysis of empirical evidence of effective communication strategies supporting your approach to the legislator including plan, message, recommendations, and follow-up.
Specific Examples	20	20	Provide specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.
APA Format	10	10	Text, title page, and references are consistent with APA format 6th edition.
Writing Quality	10	10	Rules of grammar, word usage, sentence and paragraph format, and punctuation are followed. Paper length appropriate.
Total	100	100	A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

Grading Rubric

Assignment Criteria	Exceptional (100%) Outstanding or highest level of performance	Exceeds (88%) Very good or high level of performance	Meets (80%) Competent or satisfactory level of performance	Needs Improvement (38%) Poor or failing level of performance	Developing (0) Unsatisfactory level of performance
Content Possible Points = 100 Points
Introduction and Conclusion	10 Points	9 Points	8 Points	4 Points	0 Points
Introduction clearly introduces your healthcare/policy-priority issue, current status, and overview of plan for policymaker visit/presentation. Concluding statements summarizing content have no inaccuracy.	Introduction of your healthcare/policy-priority issue, current status, and overview of plan for policymaker visit/presentation has rare inaccuracy. Concluding statements lack occasional important element or specificity.	Introduction of your healthcare/policy-priority issue, current status, and overview of plan for policymaker visit/presentation lacks occasional important element or specificity. Concluding statements lack occasional important element or specificity.	Introduction of your healthcare/policy-priority issue, current status, and overview of policymaker visit/presentation has multiple instances of inaccuracies or is lacking content. Concluding statements have multiple instances of inaccuracies or lacks content.	No attempt at introduction or conclusion.
Empirical Evidence	50 Points	44 Points	40 Points	19 Points	0 Points
Empirical evidence of effective communication strategies supporting your healthcare policy-priority issue has no inaccuracy and is clearly articulated.	Empirical evidence of effective communication strategies supporting your healthcare policy-priority issue has a few inaccuracies.	Empirical evidence of effective communication strategies supporting your healthcare policy-priority issue has multiple instances of inaccuracies or lacks detail/articulation.	Empirical evidence of effective communication strategies supporting your healthcare policy-priority issue has is missing.	No attempt at providing Empirical evidence.
Specific Examples	20 Points	18 Points	16 Points	8 Points	0 Points
Provides specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing and has no inaccuracy and is clearly articulated.	Provides specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing and lacks occasional important elements or specificity and/or lacks clarity.	Provides specific examples of the impact and/or importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing and has multiple instances of inaccuracies and/or lacks clarity.	No specific examples of the impact OR importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.	No specific examples of the impact AND importance of a successful visit/presentation to nursing.
Content Subtotal_____of 80 points
Format Possible Points =  20 Points
APA Format:	10 Points	9 Points	8 Points	4 Points	0 Points
Text, title page, and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.	There are 1–2 APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).	There are 3–4 APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).	There are 5 APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).	There are 6 or more APA format errors in the text, title page, and/or reference page(s).
Writing Quality.	10 Points	9 Points	8 Points	4 Points	0 Points
Paper is appropriate in length. References include the minimum of five (5) scholarly references, excluding the course text. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work.	Paper is short or long in length and/or contains fewer than 5 but more than 1 scholarly reference, excluding course text, or references utilized are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work with1–2 exceptions.	Paper is short or long in length and contains only 1 scholarly reference. Additional references are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work with 3–4 exceptions.	Paper is two or more pages short or long in length and does not contain scholarly references. References utilized are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are not followed with 5 errors	Paper is two or more pages short or long in length and does not contain scholarly references. References utilized are not scholarly. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are not followed with 6 or more errors.
Format Subtotal_____of  20 points
Total Points_____of  100 points