Signature Assignment: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Healthcare
For your Signature Assignment, create a PowerPoint presentation that discusses any four legal issues or ethical concepts of your choice that you feel are particularly important to the improvement of healthcare. Explain the impact of these four concepts on nursing practice, the healthcare institution, and on the quality of patient care.
For your presentation:
• Select at least four (4) legal issues or ethical concepts that you feel influence or hinder nursing practice, healthcare institutions or quality patient outcomes.
• Explain how the selected legal issues or ethical concepts impact nursing practice, the healthcare institution, and the quality of patient outcomes.
• Develop a policy proposal with measures and recommendations that could positively impact nursing practice, allow healthcare institutions to thrive, and improve the quality of patient outcomes.
• Detail how nursing could act or advocate to incorporate the policy proposal into practice.
Review the Signature Assignment Rubric before starting your presentation.
Total Point Value of Signature Assignment: 400 points
Start by reading and following these instructions:
Study the required chapter(s) of the textbook and any additional recommended resources. Some answers may require you to do additional research on the Internet or in other reference sources. Choose your sources carefully.
Consider the discussion and any insights you gained from it.
Review the Assignment Rubric and the specifications below to ensure that your response aligns with all assignment expectations.
Create your Assignment submission and be sure to cite your sources, use APA style as required, check your spelling, and review the rubric.
The following specifications are required for this assignment:
Length: 16-20 slides minimum; answers must thoroughly address the questions in a clear, concise manner.
Structure:
Title: 1 slide
Objectives: 1 slide
List legal issues or ethical concepts: 1 slide
Explain the issues or concepts: at least 4 – 5 slides
Present a policy proposal incorporating the issues and concepts with measures and recommendations: at least 5 slides
Explain how nursing can act or advocate to incorporate the policy proposal into practice: 1-5 slides
Conclusion: 1 slide
References: 1 slide
Additionally, because a good presentation has few words on the slides include a script with the verbiage you would say when presenting; script should be a minimum of 50 words per slide.
References: Use the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. Include at least four (4) scholarly sources to support your claims, at least one (1) per legal issue or ethical concept in addition to required texts.
Format: Save your assignment as a Microsoft PowerPoint document and a Word document (.pptx) and (.doc or .docx) or Open Office Impress.
File Name: Name your saved file according to your first initial, last name, and the module number (for example, “RHall Module1.pptx”).
APA 7th EDITION
Rubric
Criteria
Does Not Meet Expectations
Approaches Expectations
Meets Expectations
Exceeds Expectations
Criterion Score
Legal and Ethical Considerations Weight: 30%
0 points
(0-83 pts.)
Identifies less than three (3) legal or ethical concepts. Explanation of how the identified concepts impact nursing practice, healthcare institutions, or quality patient outcomes does not demonstrate mastery of the course content.
84 points
(84-95 pts.)
Identifies at least three (3) legal or ethical concepts. Explanation of how the identified concepts impact nursing practice, healthcare institutions, or quality patient outcomes requires refinement.
96 points
(96-107 pts.)
Identifies at least four (4) legal or ethical concepts and fully explains how these concepts impact nursing practice, healthcare institutions, or quality patient outcomes.
120 points
(108-120 pts.)
Identifies more than four (4) legal or ethical concepts and expertly explains how these concepts impact nursing practice, healthcare institutions, or quality patient outcomes.
Score of Legal and Ethical Considerations Weight: 30%, / 120
Policy Proposal Weight: 40%
0 points
(0-111 pts.)
Policy proposal and recommendations are missing. Details of how nursing could act or advocate to incorporate the policy proposal into practice is missing.
112 points
(112-127 pts.)
Policy proposal is included but is lacking details. Recommendations are presented but missing information to execute a policy change. Details of how nursing could act or advocate to incorporate the policy proposal into practice is not clear and missing key elements.
127 points
(127-143 pts.)
Policy proposal includes all identified issues. Recommendations for incorporating policy into practice are clearly presented and defined. Details of how nursing could act or advocate to incorporate the policy proposal into practice is clear.
160 points
(144-160 pts.)
Policy proposal is comprehensive and detailed and includes all identified issues. Recommendations for incorporating policy into practice are expertly presented and clearly defined. Explicit details of how nursing could act or advocate to incorporate the policy proposal into practice is thorough and insightful.
Score of Policy Proposal Weight: 40%, / 160
Quality of Written and Verbal Communication Weight: 10%
0 points
(0-27 pts.)
Style and voice inappropriate or do not address given audience, purpose, etc. Word choice is excessively redundant, clichéd, and unspecific.
28 points
(28-31 pts.)
Style and voice are somewhat appropriate to given audience and purpose. Word choice is often unspecific, generic, redundant, and clichéd. Inconsistencies in language, sentence structure, and/or word choice are present.
32 points
(32-35 pts.)
Style and voice are appropriate to the given audience and purpose. Word choice is specific and purposeful, and somewhat varied throughout. Minimal mechanical or typographical errors are present, but are not overly distracting to the reader. Correct sentence structure and audience-appropriate language are used.
40 points
(36-40 pts.)
Style and voice are not only appropriate to the given audience and purpose, but also show originality and creativity. Word choice is specific, purposeful, dynamic, and varied.
Score of Quality of Written and Verbal Communication Weight: 10%, / 40
Support Weight: 10%
0 points
(0-27 pts.)
Lacks support; Uses poor sources for references; Citations lack credibility, relevance, or academic quality or are not current; Does not meet the minimum number of required citations in assignment description. APA format and style are not evident.
28 points
(28-31 pts.)
Provides weak support or not enough support; Citations are not consistently credible, current, relevant or academic; Meets the minimum number of required citations in assignment description Missing APA elements; in-text citations, where necessary, are used but formatted inaccurately and not referenced.
32 points
(32-35 pts.)
Provides sufficient support with credible, current, relevant academic citations; Meets the minimum number of required citations in assignment description. In-text citations and a reference page are present with few format errors. Mechanics of writing are reflective of APA style.
40 points
(36-40 pts.)
Provides very strong support from credible, current, relevant, academic citations; Meets or exceeds the minimum number of required citations in assignment description. Accurate citations and references are presented. No APA errors are evident.
Score of Support Weight: 10%, / 40
Use of Multimedia, Graphics, Diagrams, and/or Illustrations and APA Format Weight: 10%
0 points
(0-27 pts.)
Presentation not submitted in visual and audio presentation format. Does not include required multimedia, graphics, diagrams, and/or illustrations or they are irrelevant to topic or detract from slide content or presentation as a whole. APA format and style are not evident throughout the presentation.
28 points
(28-31 pts.)
Presentation submitted in visual but no audio or presenter notes presentation format. Required multimedia, graphics, diagrams, and/or illustrations are generally relevant, but some may not appropriately support the slide content. There are missing APA elements, or some are incorrectly formatted throughout the presentation.
32 points
(32-35 pts.)
Presentation submitted in visual but no audio presentation format. Required multimedia, graphics, diagrams, and/or illustrations are highly relevant and acceptably support the slide content; sized and positioned appropriately. Reference slide and other in-text citations are formatted mostly correct using APA elements.
40 points
(36-40 pts.)
Presentation submitted in visual and audio presentation format. Required multimedia, graphics, diagrams, and/or illustrations add clarity and sophistication to the presentation content; they improve the effectiveness of the presentation. Reference slide and other in-text citations are formatted correctly using APA elements.
Score of Use of Multimedia, Graphics, Diagrams, and/or Illustrations and APA Format Weight: 10%, / 40
Rubric Total Score
Total
Score of N520 Signature Assignment Rubric v2, / 400 Criterion score has been overridden
Overall Score
Overall Score
Level 1
0 points minimum
Level 2
280 points minimum
Level 3
320 points minimum
Level 4
400 points minimum
