NR 532 Week 5 Assignment
NR 532 Week 5 Assignment
Purpose
The purposes of this assignment are to: (a) identify and articulate key concepts of your legal/regulatory issue in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner, (b) discuss strategies to reduce costs and improve
quality of health related to your issue, and (c) provide empirical, scholarly evidence to support your proposed plan.
*Due Date:*Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of *Week 5*
(Note: This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin (TII) through the
Chamberlain Dropbox.)
*Total Points Possible: 200*
NR 532 Week 5 Assignment
Requirements:
1. This paper will be graded on quality of information, use of
citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and
organization based on the required components.
2. Create this assignment using Microsoft (MS) Word, which is the
required format for all Chamberlain documents. You can tell that the
document is saved as a MS Word document because it will end in “.docx.”
3. Submit by 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday of the week due. Any questions
about this paper may be discussed in the weekly Q & A Discussion topic.
4. The length of the paper is to be *no greater than three pages,
excluding title page and reference page*. Extra pages *WILL NOT* be
read by the instructor and *WILL NOT* count toward your grade.
5. APA format (6^th edition) is required in this assignment, including
a title page and reference page. Use APA level 1 headings for the
organizational structure of this assignment. Remember that the
introduction does not carry a heading that labels it as a level
heading in APA format. The first part of your paper is assumed to be
the introduction. See APA manual for details. See Course Resources
for: “Guidelines for Writing Professional Papers.” Use the suggested
format and headings to organize your assignment.
1. Include introduction (do not label as a heading in APA format)
2. Steps related to legal/regulatory issue
3. State-board recovery program
4. Strategies
5. Supporting evidence
6. Conclusion
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NR 532 Week 5 Assignment
Preparing the paper
As the nurse executive of a healthcare organization, it was reported to
you that one of your nurses may be chemically impaired and has allegedly
been taking drugs from the unit. This nurse also had two recent
medication errors in the past week. Discuss the steps you would take to
validate this suspicion and how you would proceed after the allegation
was confirmed to be true.
NR 532 Week 5 Assignment
1. Clearly introduce your legal/regulatory issue in the introduction
paragraph; including a sentence that states the purpose of your paper.
2. Clearly articulate the steps you would take as the nurse leader to
investigate the allegation of your legal/regulatory issue as stated
above and how to proceed when the allegation is confirmed.
3. Investigate and discuss if your state board of nursing offers some
type of recovery program for chemically-impaired nurses (a strategy). If
they do not, discuss a proposed recovery program you would like to have
implemented for your state.
4. Clearly articulate your strategies to improve costs and improve
quality of healthcare related to the legal/regulatory issue stated above.
5. Include of a minimum of three sources of scholarly, empirical
evidence that supports your strategies to improve costs and quality of
healthcare.
NR 532 Week 5 Assignment
6. Provide concluding statements that should summarize your overall
assignment content.
7. The paper will be *three pages maximum,* excluding title and
reference page(s).
Note: If you go over the paper length, the information will not be
graded by the instructor.
8. Title and reference page(s) must be in APA format (6^th edition).
9. Use 12 Times New Roman font and one-inch margins on all sides of the
paper.