NSG 4150 Week 2 Policy Letter Checkpoint
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Galen College
NSG 4150 Week 2 Policy Letter Checkpoint
Paper Instructions
Assignment Overview Nurses can advocate for healthcare policies to promote justice, fairness, and health equity at facility, local, state, national, and global levels. Writing a letter of concern for or support towards a particular policy or legislation is an effective way to hold leaders accountable in their positions.
Assignment Instructions Complete the following steps to begin your Policy Advocacy Letter for this week’s checkpoint assignment. You will submit your responses in an APA-formatted paper (approximately 200 words in length) with in-text citations and references for any cited resources used to support your proposal.
Identify a pending healthcare bill that needs improvement or propose a new bill recommendation relevant to your current practice, community health needs, or personal interests. Submit a link or a PDF of the bill with your paper for this assignment. Note Navigate to Congress.govLinks to an external site. and view the following video on how to search for legislationLinks to an external site..
Explain why that bill or recommendation is important. You must specify the exact piece of legislation in your paper and refer to its appropriate title – e.g., “Title VIII funding, H. R. 952”.
Identify a leader or change agent (local, state, and national leader/legislator) who is appropriate to advocate for this policy change or adoption. Briefly justify why that leader is an appropriate choice for this policy change or adoption. Note To determine your representatives, navigate to orgLinks to an external site..
Identify the official mailing or email address of this leader. Note Your elected officials’ email and physical addresses are available on their websites. You can find out who represents you on the HouseLinks to an external site. and SenateLinks to an external site.
Additional notes
You are advocating for pending legislation. You cannot choose something that has already passed because if that is the case, no advocacy is necessary.
Always refer to your selected piece of legislation by its appropriate title – e.g., “Title VIII funding, H. R. 952”.
The elected official you contact must have the authority to vote for the proposed legislation. The mayor, governor, or assemblyman (woman) of a city would have no legislative authority and therefore would not be appropriate. You are most likely going to contact a state or federal member of Congress (House or Senate).
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Sample Answer
My name is XXX.
I am a Bachelor of Nursing (BSN) student from California. I am requesting your support for the pending bill SB 839, titled Obesity Treatment Parity Act.
The bill proposes a requirement to have an individual or group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, to incorporate comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity in the same way as other illnesses, conditions, or disorders.
This is to determine deductibles, lifetime dollar limits, copayment, and coinsurance factors, and benefit year maximums for deductibles and copayment and coinsurance factors. The bill proposes that a deliberate violation of these provisions by a health care service plan will be a crime, and it will impose a state-mandated local program.
It will be vital to enact the Obesity Treatment Parity Act to lower the prevalence of obesity rates in CA and mitigate the health effects of obesity in the population. The America’s Health Rankings (2024) ranks California fifth in obesity rates, with 28.1% of adults having obesity with a BMI of 30.0 or higher. Obesity is a complex health condition with biological, environmental, economic, individual, and societal causes.
Obese adults are more prone to have reduced quality of life and increased risk of developing adverse health conditions (Kranjac & Kranjac, 2023). Therefore, it will be vital to enact a bill that mandates insurance policies to cover the treatment of obesity.
Respectfully Yours,
Name XXXX
Student Nurse
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References
- America’s Health Rankings. (2024). America’s Health Rankings analysis of CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United Health Foundation, AmericasHealthRankings.org, accessed 2024.
Kranjac, A. W., & Kranjac, D. (2023). Explaining adult obesity, severe obesity, and BMI Five decades of change. Heliyon, 9(5), e16210. https //doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16210
- Bill link- https //trackbill.com/bill/california-senate-bill-839-obesity-treatment-parity-act/2374701/
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