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Policymaker Visit
Worksheet 3 (ungraded)

1.    An actual policymaker visit is required but the student can choose to do this on the phone as opposed to an in-person meeting.
2.    Describe your call/visit, include your presentation, and discuss your presentation as it occurred.
3.    What was the response of the policymaker(s) to your call/visit? What suggestions and feedback did you receive? How would you define success?
4.    Whats the next step in this process? What would beyour follow-up plan? Do you need to take further immediate action? What about a formal ‘thank-you? What ideas for continued and future advocacy do you have? Please review the example provided in the Planning Your Visit Ungraded Worksheet2.
5.    What might you do differently? Why? How? What worked or did not work in your strategy or message? Please support this with evidence.
6.    What new insights do you have about your policy issue? Relate this to your initial policy analysis as discussed in Your Policy Priority Paper. Describe with specifics, including references.
7.    What new insights do you have about the political and policy making processes as a result of this experience? Please include references.
8.    Is there a possibility of future opportunities as a result of this planned visit? If so, describe. How was this experience important to nursing?

Policymaker Electronic Presentation
Graded Assignment 3
PURPOSE
The purpose of this assignment is to: (a) identify and reflect upon key concepts related to your policymaker visit (CO #3); (b) provide empirical evidence to support new insights gained regarding your policy issue and the policymaking process (CO #6); and (c) present ideas in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner (CO #3).
COURSE OUTCOMES
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
(CO#1) Analyze application of theories to the development of policies that affect nursing and health care. (PO 9, 10)

(CO#3) Communicate with policymakers to advocate for effective policies that affect nurses and nursing, consumers, or the health care system. (PO 2,3, 10)

(CO#6) Investigate the interrelationship between policy decisions and evidence-based practice. (PO 4, 7 10)
DUE DATE: Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 7
TOTAL POINTS: 275 points
REQUIREMENTS
Assignment Criteria for Presentation
1.    Describe your visit, including any PowerPoint presentation materials that you utilizedduring your policymaker visit. Limit these slides to five slides in this project (of the 15 total slides).
2.    Discuss the response of the policymaker to your message/ask/recommendation(s).
3.    Reflect on the process, follow-up plans, insights gained about the issue and process, and support with evidence.
4.    Describe possible future opportunities as a result of this meeting and their importance to nursing.
5.    Provide concluding statements summarizingthe content.
6.    Develop a 15-slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes in APA format, not including title and reference slides. Write speaker notes sufficient enough to enable someone to take over or give the presentation other than you.
PREPARING THE PRESENTATION
After completing Policymaker Visit Ungraded Worksheet 3, develop an electronic presentation to describe, analyze, and reflect upon your policymaking visit. Include 5 slides from thePowerPoint presentation that you would have used during an actual policymaker visit. Include a minimum of five (5) classic or current references within the past 5 years that specifically support insights gained regarding your policy issue and the policymaking process.

Category    Points    %    Description
Visit Description    50    18    Clearly describes the policymaking visit (includes no more than 5 slides from actual presentation)
Policymaker Response    50    18    Slides and speaker notes discuss response of policymaker to your message/ask/recommendation(s).
Reflections on Process    50    18    Reflections on process (including supportive evidence), follow-up, and insights gained (issue and process) are clearly described in slide and speaker notes.
Future Opportunities    50    18    Describe possible future opportunities as a result of this meeting and their importance to nursing.
Conclusions    45    16    Concluding statements summarize content.
APA format    15    6    Slides, speaker notes, and references are completely consistent with APA format.
Presentation/Writing    15    6    Slide and speaker notes content are accurate.Presentation slides are professional in appearance and tone.Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work. Balance among space, words/graphics, and color is effective.
Total     275    100
A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

GRADING RUBRIC
Assignment Criteria    A
(100–92%)
Outstanding or highest level of performance    B
(91–84%)
Very good or high level of performance    C
(83–76%)
Competent or satisfactory level of performance    F
(75–0%)
Poor or failing or unsatisfactory level of performance
Content
Possible Points =  245 Points

Visit Description    50–46 Points    45–42 Points    41–38 Points    37–0 Points
Clearly describes the policymaking visit (includes actual presentation)    Description of visit has rare inaccuracy.
Description of visit lacks occasional important element or specificity.    Description of visit has multiple instances of inaccuracies or is not addressed.
Policymaker Response    50–46 Points    45–42 Points    41–38 Points    37–0 Points
Slides and speaker notes discuss response of policymaker to your message/ask/recommendation(s) and isclearly articulated.    Slides and speaker notes discussing   policymaker response has rare inaccuracy.    Slides and speaker notes discussing policymaker response occasionally inaccurate or lacks occasional important elements or specificity.    Slides and speaker notes discussing policymaker response has multiple inaccuracies or lacks sufficient level of detail.
Reflections on Process    50–46 Points    45–42 Points    41–38 Points    37–0 Points
Reflections on process (including supportive evidence), follow-up,and insights gained (issue and process) are clearly described in slide and speaker notes.    Reflection on process, supportive evidence, follow-up, and insights gained has rare inaccuracy within slides and speaker notes.    Occasionally inaccurate within slides and speaker notes or lacks occasional important elements or specificity.    Reflection on process, evidence, follow-up, and insights is inaccurate within slides and speaker notes or lacks sufficient detail.