Assignment:
Letter to the Editor - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JAACAP invites reader comments on published articles, case reports, brief summaries of original research and quality improvement projects as well as issues of concern and interest to child and adolescent psychiatry. The editor reserves the right to solicit and publish responses from the authors of articles and from others, in response to letters; the author(s) of the original letter waive(s) the right to review or respond to those responses. JAACAP will acknowledge receipt of letters but reserves the right to decide not to publish the letter. Letters should be blinded, no longer than 750 words with ≤ 5 references.
Instructions
Develop a letter to the editor of a peer-reviewed academic or professional nursing journal based on the policy proposal that you created for Assessment 2. Choose from one of the journals on the Ultimate List of Nursing Journals (in the Resources) and go to that journal's Web site to find out the requirements for submitting a letter to the editor, such as format requirements, topics, and word counts. Make sure you select a nursing journal that covers the topic about which you are going to write. If you want to use another journal that is not on this list, please make sure the journal does address health care, because this is the purpose of the assessment. (This is the information highlighted in Yellow above)
The goal of your letter is to be informative about the policy that you developed for Assessment 2, while also being persuasive about the need for and benefit of similar policies in other health care settings. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your submission addresses all of them.
Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
• Based on the data that you used to identify your chosen issue in Assessment 1, what is the current state of the quality of care and outcomes?
• To what degree does the current state of the quality of care and outcomes need to be improved?
• How does the current performance compare to any relevant benchmarks?
• How does the current performance adversely impact the health of the target population?
Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
• How does the current state of the quality of care and outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population illustrate the need for improvements?
o Why do you consider policy development and advocacy necessary?
o How will developing a health policy help to improve the quality of care and outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population?
o Why is advocating for health policy development necessary to drive improvements?
Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
• Why will your proposed policy (from Assessment 2) be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population?
o How will your proposed policy help drive improvements?
What evidence or best-practices supports this? How does the evidence provide support?
Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
• Why is it important that policy development focused on your chosen issue and target population take place in care environments and settings beyond that for which you proposed the policy?
o How will wider development of policies help to drive improvements related to your chosen issue and target population?
o Ideally, what is the end result of wider policy development and implementation?
Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
• What are the relevant interprofessional aspects of your policy?
o How will these interprofessional aspects support efficient achievement of your desired outcomes for your target population?
o How will these interprofessional aspects support effective achievement of your desired outcomes for your target population?
Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
• Is your writing clear and professional?
• Is your writing free from errors?
• Is your writing persuasive?
• Does your submission conform to the format and length requirements of your chosen journal?
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references.
• Did you use 3 to 5 sources (or the number required by your chosen journal) in your assessment?
o Are the sources you used no more than five years old?
• Are your sources cited in APA format (or the journal's preferred style) throughout your letter?
• Have you included an attached reference list?
• Did you follow the formatting guidelines of your chosen journal?
o Did you attach the submission and formatting guidelines for your chosen journal at the end of your assessment submission?
Attachment:- Vulnerable Populations.rar