Overview

This week’s readings and videos offered information related to health policy relation to diversity, economics and ethics. In this discussion board you will present information related to current health care reform and civil rights.

Topics to include: 

What is a health care policy related to access, equity, quality, and cost?

If you do not feel there is a current health care policy related to access, equity, quality and cost, why not?

What does health care reform mean to the uninsured, and underinsured?

What is the implication of limited access to vulnerable populations?

• What can nursing do to help increase awareness of civil rights in health care
• Your initial post must be posted before you can view and respond to colleagues, must contain minimum of two (2) references, in addition to examples from your personal experiences to augment the topic. The goal is to make your post interesting and engaging so others will want to read/respond to it. Synthesize and summarize from your resources in order to avoid the use of direct quotes, which can often be dry and boring. No direct quotes are allowed in the discussion board posts.
• Post a thoughtful response to at least two (2) other colleagues’ initial postings. Responses to colleagues should be supportive and helpful (examples of an acceptable comment are: “This is interesting – in my practice, we treated or resolved (diagnosis or issue) with (x, y, z meds, theory, management principle) and according to the literature…” and add supportive reference. Avoid comments such as “I agree” or “good comment.”
• Points: 30
• Due Dates:

Initial Post: Fri, April 15 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US.

Response Post: Sun, April 17 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US – (the response posts cannot be done on the same day as the initial post).

References:

Initial Post: Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1) from required course materials and one (1) from peer-reviewed references.

Response posts: Minimum of one (1) total reference: one (1) from peer-reviewed or course materials reference per response.

Instructions

To be successful, complete the following steps in order:

STEP 1. Review the instructional materials and finish learning activities for this module.

• STEP 2. Click here to download the rubric. 
• STEP 3. Create a new Word document, type your initial post.

STEP 4. Copy the initial post from the Word document.

STEP 5. Click on “DISCUSSIONS” section located on the left-hand side of your screen in Blackboard.

STEP 6. Post in the discussion forum titled “M4 A7 DB: CIVIL RIGHTS AND HEALTH CARE”

• Got questions? Please post them to the ‘QUESTION & ANSWER FORUM’ in Blackboard.