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Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
· Competency 1: Analyze relevant healthcare laws, policies, and regulations; their application; and their effects on organizations, interprofessional teams, and professional practice.
· Explain and interpret for stakeholders the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal healthcare policies or laws.
· Competency 2: Lead the development and implementation of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals, organizations, and populations.
· Summarize a proposed organizational policy or practice change guideline and analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines.
· Competency 3: Evaluate relevant indicators of performance, such as benchmarks, research, and best practices, to inform healthcare laws and policies for patients, organizations, and populations.
· Explain how ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance will impact a stakeholder group needed for successful implementation of the policy or practice change.
· Competency 4: Develop strategies to work collaboratively with policy makers, stakeholders, and colleagues to address environmental (governmental and regulatory) forces.
· Explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy or practice change to improve quality and outcomes.
· Present strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines.
· Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
· Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
· Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
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Criterion 1
Explain and interpret for stakeholders the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal healthcare policies or laws.
Distinguished
Explains to stakeholders the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal healthcare policies or laws. Clearly articulates the effects of benchmark underperformance and draws sound conclusions about the potential repercussions of inaction, based on credible evidence and relates information to stakeholder group.
Proficient
Explains to stakeholders the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal healthcare policies or laws.
Basic
Identifies to stakeholders the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal healthcare policies or laws. irrespective of a particular need.
Non Performance
Does not explain to stakeholders the need for creating a policy and practice guidelines to address a shortfall in meeting a benchmark metric prescribed by local, state, or federal healthcare policies or laws.
Criterion 2
Summarize a proposed organizational policy or practice change guideline and analyze the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines.
Distinguished
Succinctly summarizes a proposed organizational policy and practice guidelines; analyzes the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines. Identifies clear cause-and-effect relationships and the influence of those factors on specific recommendations.
Proficient
Summarizes a proposed organizational policy and practice change guidelines and the potential effects of environmental factors on recommended practice guidelines.
Basic
Provides a summary that paints an unclear picture of a proposed organizational policy and practice guidelines and/or does not expand on environmental factors that can affect recommended practice guidelines.
Non Performance
Does not summarize a proposed organizational policy and practice guidelines or identify environmental factors that can affect recommended practice guidelines.
Criterion 3
Explain how ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance will impact a stakeholder group needed for successful implementation of the policy or practice change.
Distinguished
Explains how ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance will impact a stakeholder group needed for successful implementation of the policy or practice change. Provides clear and compelling justification, substantiated by credible evidence.
Proficient
Explains how ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance will impact a stakeholder group needed for successful implementation of the policy or practice change.
Basic
Identifies how ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance will impact a stakeholder group needed for successful implementation of the policy or practice change but does not provide context or rationale to support the content.
Non Performance
Does not explain how ethical, evidence-based practice guidelines to improve targeted benchmark performance will impact a stakeholder group needed for successful implementation of the policy or practice change.
Criterion 4
Explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy or practice change to improve quality and outcomes.
Distinguished
Provides a perceptive and succinct explanation of why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy and practice guidelines. Offers clear and convincing rationale for stakeholder and group engagement and how it strengthens policy and facilitates changes in practice to improve quality outcomes.
Proficient
Explains why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy and practice guidelines change to improve quality and outcomes.
Basic
Identifies stakeholders and groups who are not the most logical choices to be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy and practice guidelines and implementation of a proposed policy or practice change to improve quality and outcomes.
Non Performance
Does not explain why particular stakeholders and groups must be involved in further development and implementation of a proposed policy or practice change to improve quality and outcomes.
Criterion 5
Present strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines.
Distinguished
Presents strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines. Makes a compelling case for the importance of stakeholder collaboration and considers stakeholder perspectives by addressing possible objections.
Proficient
Presents strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines.
Basic
Presents stakeholder collaboration strategies for implementing a proposed policy and practice guidelines that lack clear relevance or insight into the positions and perspectives of the stakeholder group.
Non Performance
Does not present strategies for collaborating with a stakeholder group to implement a proposed policy and practice guidelines.
Criterion 6
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Distinguished
Organizes content so clarity is enhanced and all ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Proficient
Organizes content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions.
Basic
Organizes content with some logical flow and smooth transitions.
Non Performance
Does not organize content for ideas to flow logically with smooth transitions.
Criterion 7
Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.
Distinguished
Supports main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Skillfully combines virtually error-free source citations with a perceptive and coherent synthesis of the evidence.
Proficient
Supports main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.
Basic
Sources lack relevance or credibility, or the evidence is not persuasive or explicitly supportive of main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations.
Non Performance
Does not support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.
