The purpose of this discussion is to analyze a health policy related to the selected population and practice problem.
This week, you discovered that the focus of healthcare policy has a growing emphasis on population health outcomes. As a DNP-prepared nurse, you must be able to critically appraise healthcare policies to influence policy decisions at every level.
Instructions
Review the lesson and readings about Bardach’s eightfold steps to policy analysis, especially in the Chapter 4 Policy Analysis section of the Patton text. Then, select a healthcare policy that impacts, or has the potential to impact, the practice problem and population selected in previous weeks of this course.
The following links will assist in your search for policies and/or bills.
- Current Legislative ActivitiesLinks to an external site.(Congress.gov)
- NursingLinks to an external site.(Gov info)
- NursingLinks to an external site.(Govtrack)
You can select a broad, national health policy (i.e., Accountable Care Act) or one that is specified for a specific health issue (i.e., Minority Diabetes Initiative Act).
Critically appraise the healthcare policy using Bardach’s eightfold steps to policy analysis:
- Define the problem
- Assemble evidence
- Develop alternatives
- Select criteria to evaluate the alternatives
- Project outcomes
- Analyze trade-offs
- Make decisions
- Communicate results
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
- Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
SOLUTION:
Congressional bill: S.2644 American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources Act” or the “American Law Enforcement SAVER Act
Define the problem: Injuries are one of the leading causes of death especially traumatic injuries which can cause hemorrhage. “Uncontrolled hemorrhage represents the single biggest cause of preventable death in trauma, responsible for up to 40% of trauma mortality; 33%–56% of these deaths occur in the prehospital period” (Levy, et al., 2022). “Reducing death from severe bleeding requires training in the recognition and treatment of life‐threatening bleeding, as well as programs to ensure immediate access to bleeding control resources” (Levy, et al., 2022).
Assemble evidence: “The Hartford Consensus brought together subject matter experts across multiple disciplines in health care and public safety to create guidelines and publications intended to improve survivability” related to trauma related hemorrhage (Nichols & Horstman, 2022). These efforts created the Stop the Bleed Campaign which aim to educate laypersons in administering “aid in a life-threatening bleeding emergency” (Nichols & Horstman, 2022).
“In 2016, the Stop the Bleed Education Consortium (SBEC), based out of the Uniformed Services University, convened experts from government, academia, and non-profit organizations to help develop STB educational programming, innovation, and scaling…………………………………..Kindly click on the link below to access the entire document for $10