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XA3004: Health Equity Advocacy and Political Engagement: Analyze the impact of civic engagement on health equity.

Assessment Rubric

Rubric Criteria Masters Expectations Achieves Expectations Does Not Meet

Expectations

Module 1: Health Equity and Political Engagement

Using the Walden College of Nursing Writing Template, construct a 2- to 3-page paper in which you do the following:

• Identify political and civic engagement in a professional nursing organization.

Learning Objective 1.3: Assess opportunities to advocate for and advance health equity within practice or community settings Learning Objective 1.5: Analyze professional nursing organizations and their efforts to promote health equity

The response comprehensively and clearly identifies political and civic engagement in a professional nursing organization. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that fully support the identification.

The response identifies political and civic engagement in a professional nursing organization. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that support the identification.

The response inaccurately and vaguely identifies political and/or civic engagement in a professional nursing organization, or it is missing. The response includes inaccurate and vague examples that do not support identification, or it is missing.

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Rubric Criteria Masters Expectations Achieves Expectations Does Not Meet

Expectations

• Describe the connection to health equity and the impact of the organization.

Learning Objective 1.3: Assess opportunities to advocate for and advance health equity within practice or community settings Learning Objective 1.5: Analyze professional nursing organizations and their efforts to promote health equity

The response comprehensively and clearly describes the connection between health equity and the impact of the organization. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that fully support the description.

The response describes the connection between health equity and the impact of the organization. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that support the description.

The response inaccurately and vaguely describes the connection between health equity and the impact of the organization, or it is missing. The response includes inaccurate and vague examples that do not support the description, or it is missing.

Professional Writing Skills Assessment

Professional Writing Masters Expectations Achieves Expectations Does not Meet Expectations

Context, Organization, Audience, Purpose, Tone, Style, Clarity, Flow

Demonstrates full awareness of writing context, audience, and purpose. Content is consistently clear, logical, and well organized with appropriate sentence and paragraph structure. Tone is highly professional, scholarly, and free of bias.

Demonstrates some awareness of writing context, audience, and purpose. Content is mostly clear, logical, and well organized with adequate sentence and paragraph structure. Tone is adequately professional, scholarly, and/or free of bias.

Demonstrates minimal awareness of writing context, audience, and purpose. Content lacks clarity, logic, and/or discernible organization and does not use proper sentence and paragraph structure.

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Style is consistently appropriate for a professional setting/workplace context. Free of spelling, punctuation, and grammar/syntax errors.

Style is mostly appropriate for a professional setting/workplace context. Contains few spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors.

Tone is not professional/scholarly and/or contains bias. Style is inconsistent with a professional setting/workplace context. Contains significant spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors.

Originality, Source Credibility, and Attribution of Ideas

Writing fully reflects original thought and paraphrasing and adheres to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim while incorporating appropriate citations and references in APA format.

Writing adequately reflects original thought and paraphrasing and adheres to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim while incorporating appropriate citations and references in APA format.

Writing does not reflect original thought and paraphrasing and does not adhere to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim while incorporating appropriate citations and references in APA format.