Week 5 discussion

Locate a news story (Utah, USA) or other resource from the last six months regarding an issue in healthcare and answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.

Include the following sections:

1. Application of Course Knowledge
   • Summarize the issue and provide a link to the news story or resource.
   • Discuss how the issue may impact nursing practice at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of the healthcare system.
   • Analyze how healthcare policy impacts the issue.
   • Propose one potential policy change that could help address or mitigate the issue.
2. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:
   • Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
   • Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
   • Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
   • Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
   • Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.