General instruction:

Locate a news story 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.
   • Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.

• Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.

1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
2. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.

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