Overview: Health professionals should be familiar with existing policies related to health, recognize when policy initiatives are necessary, and advocate for or
against policies being proposed or currently in place.
Prompt: Begin this assignment by selecting a state, national, or international healthcare policy and briefly describing it.
When choosing your policy, remember the focus of the assignment is to identify a legal or governmental healthcare policy, which is different from an
organizational (e.g., hospital) policy. To clarify, an organization like a hospital may have developed a “care of a central line policy” specific to that particular
organization, but the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is an example of a legal or governmental policy that all individuals and organizations, regardless
of function, must observe.
After identifying a legal or governmental healthcare policy for analysis, develop a narrative that explains why you chose the selected policy, lists three key
stakeholders you would like to interview about the policy, and explains how each individual is related to or affected by the policy. Your instructor will approve
your policy and interview suggestions for use in your final project.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
 Summarize the policy that is the focus of your evaluation. Include the name, its purpose, and when it was created.
 Explain your rationale for choosing the policy. Does it have personal or professional relevance?
 Identify at least three stakeholders of the policy that you might interview, and discuss how they are affected by or related to the policy.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be a 1- to 2-page (not including title and reference pages) Microsoft Word document with 12-point Times New
Roman font, double spacing, and use of the most recent APA standards for formatting and referencing. Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Policy Summarizes the policy that is the focus of the
evaluation, including the purpose of the policy,
its scope and main points, its stakeholders and
constituents, and its relation to other policies
(if applicable)
Summarizes the policy that is the focus of the
evaluation, including the purpose of the policy,
its scope and main points, its stakeholders and
constituents, and its relation to other policies
(if applicable), but summary is missing key
elements, is cursory, or contains inaccuracies
Does not summarize the policy that is the focus
of the evaluation
20
Rationale Explains rationale for choosing the policy Explains rationale for choosing the policy, but
explanation is cursory or illogical or
unsupported or contains inaccuracies
Does not explain the rationale for choosing the
policy
30
Stakeholders Identifies three stakeholders and explains how
each individual is related to or affected by the
policy
Identifies at least two stakeholders and
explains how each individual is related to or
affected by the policy
Does not identify stakeholders 30
Articulation of
Response
Submission has no major errors related to APA
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization
Submission has major errors related to APA
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that negatively impact readability
and articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors related to APA
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent understanding of
ideas
20
Total 100%