Shortage of nurses in the health industry HW
Shortage of nurses in the health industry HW
The culminating project for this course is a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation, due in Workshop Six, on health policy research. For detailed information on how your presentation will be assessed, refer to the Assessment Criteria found in Workshop Six, 6.2 Final Project.
Your presentation will cover a credible healthcare policy research project that has already been conducted, and will illustrate research methodology, compliance with HIPAA and IRB regulations, how one step of the research process was conducted, and the way you would drive the policy into application/implementation,
The purpose of this project is to familiarize you with how healthcare issues (for example, obesity, smoking cessation, nutrition, or other national health needs) are funded, researched, made into healthcare policy, and then driven into implementation through legislation. For the health policy project you chose or were assigned, you will use all of the information presented throughout the course and will document the 10 “Steps in Conducting Health Policy Research,”
10 STEPS IN POLICY RESEARCH
Conceptualization
groudwork
methods
design
sampling
mesuament
data collection
data processing
data analysis
application
There should be a brief summary or bullet point for each step. Next, you will choose one of these elements to describe in detail.
Included in this PowerPoint presentation will be the writing of one aspect of the policy manual you would present to the Institutional Review Board (IRB), concerning your health policy research topic. You will also document:
The health policy research data sources you used
How research data—qualitative and quantitative—was collected
The use of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to collect data
The research conducted and its evaluation
HIPAA and IRB compliance
Research and case studies used
Sampling and measurement
Conclusions of the healthcare policy and how it is to be implemented
For example, healthcare policy research for “obesity in children” would result in policies and supporting research on:
Emphasizing good eating classes in public/private schools and home
Providing only proper nutrition in school food (no fast food or soda)
Improving physical education for the family
Offering classes on healthy living for parents and children
Passing and implementing legislation (consider Exhibit 8.1, page 190, in your textbook, Introduction to Health Policy)
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
