UKM2 — UKM2 TASK 2: HEALTHCARE POLICY AND
ECONOMICS
HEALTHCARE POLICY AND ECONOMICS — D223
PRFA — UKM2
COMPETENCIES
738.6.4 : Analyze Public Healthcare Policies and Federal and State Laws
The learner analyzes public healthcare policies, federal and state laws, and the resulting impact to patients
and healthcare delivery.
INTRODUCTION
Enacted laws in healthcare have an impact on individuals, whether at the institutional, local, state, or federal
level. As a profession, nursing has the opportunity to influence healthcare legislation on all levels. By
understanding healthcare legislation, nurses can be advocates for patients as a unified group.
Although the majority of healthcare professionals are nurses, nursing has many opportunities to increase
their involvement in healthcare legislation. Healthcare and nursing policies are influenced by legislation.
Policies and enacted laws affect care delivery, patient preferences, and reimbursement. Nurses are in a
unique position to influence policy and legislation due to the holistic care model and patient-centered care.
For this task, you will analyze a federal and state enacted law that relates to a current area of focus in
healthcare. You will discuss how the federal and state legislation influence patient and healthcare delivery.
You will consider the population impact of the enacted laws and if they are equitable at both the federal and
state level.
Your goal in this task is to discuss how a nurse can impact legislation at the federal and state level. You should
consider the role of the nurse in the development of legislation at the federal and state level, and how the
nurse will support or influence improvements to legislation.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no
more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from
sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used
Preparation Task Overview Submissions Evaluation Report
as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that
will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric
aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless
specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted
as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
A. Analyze a public healthcare enacted law at the federal level by doing the following:
1. Describe one federal public healthcare enacted law that affects the provision of patient care and
healthcare delivery.
2. Explain how the legislation works (e.g., Will enforcement be necessary? Who is responsible for
administering the policy?).
3. Discuss the legislation’s impact on the population(s) by answering the following questions:
• What population(s) will benefit?
• How will they benefit?
• What population(s) will be negatively impacted?
• How will they be impacted?
• Does the policy impact health disparities and health equity?
4. Discuss the evidence that supports the enacted law, including one scholarly research article published
within the last five years to support your discussion.
B. Analyze a public healthcare enacted law at the state level by doing the following:
1. Describe one state public healthcare enacted law that affects the provision of patient care and
healthcare delivery.
2. Explain how the legislation works (e.g., Will enforcement be necessary? Who is responsible for
administering the policy?).
3. Discuss the legislation’s impact on the population(s) by answering the following questions:
• What population(s) will benefit?
• How will they benefit?
• What population(s) will be negatively impacted?
• How will they be impacted?
• Does the policy impact health disparities and health equity?
4. Discuss the evidence that supports the enacted law, including one scholarly research article published
within the last five years to support your discussion.
C. Explain the role of the nurse within healthcare policy at the organizational level in each of the following
areas:
• development
• administration
• revision
1. Explain the barriers to the nurse’s engagement in each of the following healthcare policy areas:
• development
• administration
• revision
2. Explain the ways that you will engage with healthcare policy in one of the following areas in your future
nursing practice:
• development
• administration
• revision
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or
summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, csv, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf,
mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z
RUBRIC
A1:FEDERAL PUBLIC HEALTHCARE LAW
A2:PUBLIC HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION PROCESS
A3:LEGISLATION IMPACT ON POPULATION(S)
NOT EVIDENT
A description of 1 federal public
healthcare enacted law is not
provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The description of 1 federal pub-
lic healthcare enacted law does
not accurately address the ef-
fects on patient care and health-
care delivery.
COMPETENT
The description of 1 federal pub-
lic healthcare enacted law accu-
rately addresses the effects on
patient care and healthcare
delivery.
NOT EVIDENT
An explanation of how the se-
lected healthcare legislation
from part A1 works is not
provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The explanation does not thor-
oughly address how the federal
public healthcare legislation
from part A1 works. Or the ex-
planation does not provide rele-
vant details.
COMPETENT
The explanation thoroughly ad-
dresses how the federal public
healthcare legislation from part
A1 works and provides relevant
details.
NOT EVIDENT
A discussion of the impact the
legislation from part A1 has on
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The discussion does not address
the impact the legislation from
COMPETENT
The discussion addresses the
impact the legislation from part
A1 has on the population(s) by
A4:EVIDENCE THAT SUPPORTS ENACTED LAW
B1:STATE PUBLIC HEALTHCARE POLICY
B2:PUBLIC HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION PROCESS
B3:LEGISLATION IMPACT ON POPULATION(S)
the population(s) is not
provided.
part A1 has on the population(s)
by answering each of the 5 given
questions, or 1 or more of the
answers are illogical.
logically answering each of the 5
given questions.
NOT EVIDENT
A discussion of evidence that
supports the enacted law from
part A1 is not provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The discussion of the evidence
that supports the enacted law
from part A1 is not logical, or
the discussion does not include
1 credible scholarly research ar-
ticle, or the source was not pub-
lished within the last 5 years.
COMPETENT
The discussion of the evidence
that supports the enacted law
from part A1 is logical, and is sup-
ported by 1 credible scholarly re-
search article that was published
within the last 5 years.
NOT EVIDENT
A description of 1 state public
healthcare enacted law is not
provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The description of 1 state public
healthcare enacted law does not
accurately address the effects
on patient care and healthcare
delivery.
COMPETENT
The description of 1 state public
healthcare enacted law accu-
rately addresses the effects on
patient care and healthcare
delivery.
NOT EVIDENT
An explanation of how the se-
lected healthcare legislation
from part B1 works is not
provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The explanation does not thor-
oughly address how the state
public healthcare legislation
from part B1 works. Or the ex-
planation does not provide rele-
vant details.
COMPETENT
The explanation thoroughly ad-
dresses how the state public
healthcare legislation from part
B1 works and provides relevant
details.
NOT EVIDENT
A discussion of the impact the
legislation from part B1 has on
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
COMPETENT
The discussion addresses the
impact the legislation from part
B4:EVIDENCE THAT SUPPORTS ENACTED LAW
C:ROLE OF THE NURSE IN POLICY DEVELOPMENT
C1:NURSING BARRIERS
C2:NURSING ENGAGEMENT
the population(s) is not
provided.
The discussion does not address
the impact the legislation from
part B1 has on the population(s)
by answering each of the 5 given
questions, or 1 or more of the
answers are illogical.
B1 has on the population(s) by
logically answering each of the 5
given questions.
NOT EVIDENT
A discussion of evidence that
supports the enacted law from
part B1 is not provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The discussion of the evidence
that supports the enacted law
from part B1 is not logical, or the
discussion does not include 1
credible scholarly research arti-
cle, or the source was not pub-
lished within the last 5 years.
COMPETENT
The discussion of the evidence
that supports the enacted law
from part B1 is logical and is sup-
ported by 1 credible scholarly re-
search article that was published
within the last 5 years.
NOT EVIDENT
An explanation of the role of the
nurse within healthcare policy is
not provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The explanation of the role of
the nurse within healthcare pol-
icy does not address 1 or more
of the given healthcare policy
areas.
COMPETENT
The explanation of the role of the
nurse within healthcare policy
thoroughly addresses all 3 of the
given healthcare policy areas.
NOT EVIDENT
An explanation of the barriers to
the nurse’s engagement is not
provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The explanation of the barriers
to the nurse’s engagement does
not address 1 or more of the
given healthcare policy areas.
COMPETENT
The explanation of the barriers to
the nurse’s engagement thor-
oughly addresses all 3 of the
given healthcare policy areas.
NOT EVIDENT
An explanation of one way the
candidate will engage with
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
COMPETENT
The explanation addresses one
way the candidate will engage
D:SOURCES
E:PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
WEB LINKS
Senate.gov
healthcare policy in the future is
not provided.
The explanation does not ad-
dress one way the candidate will
engage with healthcare policy, is
irrelevant to future nursing
practice, or is not supported
with relevant, specific examples.
Or the area chosen is not from
the given list.
with healthcare policy in one of
the given areas in future nursing
practice, and supported with rel-
evant, specific examples.
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not include
both in-text citations and a ref-
erence list for sources that are
quoted, paraphrased, or
summarized.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The submission includes in-text
citations for sources that are
quoted, paraphrased, or summa-
rized and a reference list; how-
ever, the citations or reference
list is incomplete or inaccurate.
COMPETENT
The submission includes in-text
citations for sources that are
properly quoted, paraphrased, or
summarized and a reference list
that accurately identifies the au-
thor, date, title, and source loca-
tion as available.
NOT EVIDENT
This submission includes perva-
sive errors in professional com-
munication related to grammar,
sentence fluency, contextual
spelling, or punctuation, nega-
tively impacting the professional
quality and clarity of the writing.
Specific errors have been identi-
fied by Grammarly for Education
under the Correctness
category.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
This submission includes sub-
stantial errors in professional
communication related to gram-
mar, sentence fluency, contex-
tual spelling, or punctuation.
Specific errors have been identi-
fied by Grammarly for Education
under the Correctness
category.
COMPETENT
This submission includes satis-
factory use of grammar, sentence
fluency, contextual spelling, and
punctuation, which promote ac-
curate interpretation and
understanding.
