As a nurse practitioner you note that a current or pending state or federal law

As a nurse practitioner you note that a current or pending state or federal law has a significant impact on a population of patients that you work with frequently. As an advocate and expert in the care of this population you are asked to analyze the law/policy and make recommendations to your political representative whether or not to support the legislation.
You will describe a current or pending state or federal law/policy, and provide pertinent information to help the reader understand the situation and context. Important information will include: why this topic is important, a brief history that resulted in the law, identification of those affected, social and medical facts about those affected, current political environment (groups for and against the law), economic considerations, and ethical considerations. After you have thoroughly researched the above points, you will determine evaluation criteria that will ultimately be used to analyze the law/policy. You are to then adding a discussion of the pros and cons of the law/policy using the evaluation criteria you established
Finally, based on your analysis you must make a recommendation.
APA format is expected (this includes in the 3rd person for scholarly papers). Also, policy implications can be emotional. It is expected the paper be written objectively.
1. Choose a state or federal law that is related to your clinical specialty area or of personal interest to you. Ideas for where to find a law/policy include:
a. Sites for pending legislation at the state level
b. Sites for pending legislation at the federal level
c. Read the newspaper / news feeds and look for articles that discuss pending legislation
d. Listen to the local and national news
e. Listen to your patients and talk to social workers about issues that concern your patient population.
2. Use the Teitelbaum and Wilensky framework as a guide for analysis. Consult the rubric for an explanation of the criteria that will be used for grading this assignment.
I. Background and number of people affected
a. Brief background of why analysis of this law/policy is important. Create a sense of urgency by citing one important fact that will gain the politician’s attention. Cite the law, and the analysis framework you will be using.
b. Brief description of the historical factors led to the law/proposed law
c. Who and how many people are affected by the problem?
II. Describe the landscape of the situation(see chapter 14 of Wilensky and Teitelbaum for the questions to be considered under each of these areas)
a. What are the social implications of the problem?
b. What are the health implications?
c. What are the financial/economic costs?
d. What is the political environment? Are there organizations that have taken a position on the law, and what do they say?
III. What are the most important ethical considerations?
IV. State the goal of the policy/law in one or two sentences.
V. Determine the two policy options you will compare/contrast:
If it is a current law the choices are to: Maintain status quo or Change the policy in some way.
If it is pending legislation the choices are to: Pass or Do not pass.
VI. Determine three criteria to evaluate the policy/law. These should be
determined from the facts you provided in number II above.
VII. Analyze the policy options in comparison the evaluation criteria.
VIII. State your final recommendation: Maintain status quo (keep the current law) / Change or pass/do not pass the legislation. Explain briefly the reasons you chose the alternative, and what factors weighed most heavily in your decision.