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N3375 Health Policy & Legal Aspects Reflective Journal

Name:

Date:

Overview: Reflective Journal

Each week you will make an entry into your Journal. You are asked to reflect on 3 of the key points for each class. Key points: What did you take away from the module knowledge wise or interesting? Each entry should reflect on your understanding of the topic, your experiences and observations in your work environment or general nursing environment regarding the module topic.

This is a weekly document. You will upload and submit this to Canvas by 2359 the Saturday following each class of this course. It is not necessary that your entries be formatted or written in any particular way because it is for your benefit . Your entries will only be reviewed to ensure that you are making sufficient progress and thinking deeply about the requirements in the course.

Rubrics:

Use this rubric to guide your Journal entries.

There will be total of 3 Journal entries. With each journal you are expected to address 3 key points from the class lecture, discussion, and content, discuss how each point applies to your practice as a nurse, and, finally, how will your practice change in the future because of this information.

Instructions:

Each week, record your experiences, connections to your course goals, and reflections as they relate to the given prompts and/or your course project. You must record one entry each week, but may record more (insert rows as needed).

Save this document to your own computer desktop or storage device after each entry to create a cumulative journal.

Journal Entries A separate Journal entry is required for each class by 2359 Saturday of each indicated class. Provide details of your thinking, including insights, challenges, paradigm shifts, and goals. Identify previous course topics, readings, or research that relate to the prompt.
	Journal Entry
Identify 3 key points from this module. Reflect on how why each point is important, how it impacts on your work experience or nursing practice, and how will you change your practice in the future based on each key area.
Place Key Point in this column:	Reflect on the Key Point (following Journal Rubric) in this column:
Key Point 1:	Why it is important: How does it impact my work/nursing practice: How will I change my practice:
Key Point 2	Why it is important: How does it impact my work/nursing practice: How will I change my practice:
Key Point 3	Why it is important: How does it impact my work/nursing practice: How will I change my practice:

N3375 Health Policy & Legal Aspects

Module 1 – Assignment: Legislative E-mail

Submit by 2359 (CT) Saturday of Module 1

Name:

Date:

Overview: Legislator E-mail Exercise

To take a proactive role in nursing policy, you will prepare an email to your legislator about a current nursing issue. You must first identify your legislator. Then, you will describe a current issue that is important to you with support from scholarly references related to the issue, and create a suggested action plan. Finally, you will write a concise, professionally worded e-mail to one of the state-level legislators. See sample email and resources in Canvas.

Objective:

· Identify the ways nurses can personally take part in shaping future nursing care.

Directions:

1. Find the legislator of the state you are licensed in . You will only write your email to one legislator, even if many are listed. You must only use a legislator in the state you are licensed in.

2. Identify one issue that is important to you and complete a short description of the issue. Locate at least 2 scholarly articles (dated within the past 5 years) to support your thoughts and list in correct APA format. Please see the APA tips page linked in the assignment details and/or APA journal article examples.

3. Complete an action plan section prior to composing the email as to organize your thoughts.

4. Write your final e-mail in the space provided on this assignment document.

· You MUST include one personal example about how the issue personally affects your nursing career.

5. Upload and submit the entire assignment into Canvas.

NOTE: It is not necessary for you to actually send your email to you legislator unless you choose to do so.

Rubric

Please see the rubric in Canvas for how your assignment will be evaluated.

1. Identifying Your Legislators: Find out who your legislators are at the state level. Use a google search to locate your state’s legislative system, or here is a helpful link in which you can identify your officials- https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials

You only need one legislator that you are going to address your issue to. If email information is not available then you would only place their physical address. In rare cases a physical address is not listed, please include webpage address.

Record their name, title, and contact information here:

Name-

Title-

Contact Information-

2. Issue Description with Scholarly Support: Identify a current nursing issue important to you and your practice. Locate at least 2 scholarly articles (dated within the past 5 years) to support your thoughts, include them in the description with appropriate in-text citations, and list in correct APA format. Do not copy and paste directly from the internet. For full credit, include two in-text citations from scholarly articles dated within past 5 years. “Scholarly articles” are only classified as peer-reviewed journal articles are written by scholars or professionals who are experts in their fields. Magazine articles, administration documents, reports from different kinds of organizations, essays, opinion pieces, or Wikipedia resources are not scholarly articles.

Here are examples of how to cite an article in an electronic journal:

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article.  Title of Periodical,  Volume number(Issue number), pages.  https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

Baniya, S., & Weech, S. (2019). Data and experience design: Negotiating community-oriented

          digital research with service-learning.  Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and

           International Engagement,  6(1), 11-16.  https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284316979

Provide a short description of the issue (1-2 paragraphs are sufficient) with scholarly support:

APA References:

3. Action Plan:

List three reasons or examples as to how this nursing issues personally affects your practice.

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What help/assistance are you requesting from your legislator?

Now, list three reasons or examples as to why this assistance would positively impact nurses.

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4. Writing the E-mail: Write an e-mail explaining the importance of this issue to your practice. Limit the e-mail to one page. Choose details you developed above; use the ones that you think create the strongest and most persuasive e-mail. Remember to include a personal example from your practice.

Follow the format of the sample e-mail located in the assignment instructions in Canvas. (The format must be strictly followed, especially for how to address the legislator and inclusion of information that classifies you as a constituent.)

Be sure to edit your e-mail for spelling, grammar, and word usage. Read it aloud, and/or get a friend or relative to read it and provide feedback . You will not be sending this to your legislator as part of this assignment but you may choose to send it to them on your own to make them aware of the issue you have addressed.

Space for you to write your final e-mail to your legislator: Type directly below.

Submit this Assignment Document into Canvas for grading.

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