LOBBYING FOR CHANGE

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SCORING GUIDE

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Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.

. Summarize the health care economic issue that you are addressing.

· Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.

. Explain the positive outcomes that will occur if the issue is addressed and negative outcomes that will occur if the issue is not addressed.

· Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.

. Summarize key information from scholarly sources to support the importance of addressing the issue, the issue’s overall impact on health care at the institutional, local, state, and national levels, and proposed changes or actions to address the issue.

· Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization's resources and its ability to provide quality care.

. Explain how personal, professional, and organizational experiences have informed the resource planning and risk analysis for working towards addressing the economic issue.

· Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella's writing standards.

. Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.