Nursing administrators have a responsibility to remain current with knowledge of emerging trends in healthcare and their potential impact on nursing practice, safe and quality patient care, and on the costs, risks and/or benefits to the organization. How these trends or issues translate into practice is often determined by legal and regulatory actions as well nursing standards of practice. The focus of the quarterly regional meeting of your state nurses’ association is on current issues/trends affecting nursing practice. The meeting will be divided into three group forums, each focused on a different trend/issue. You have been asked to provide a short paper on one of the current trends/issues occurring in healthcare delivery that will be the focus of one of the group forums. Trends and Issues in Current Nursing Practice 1. Telehealth/Telemedicine 2. Mandatory Overtime 3. Patient Violence to Nursing For this assignment, you will select one of the three topics above about which you will develop an expository type of essay to be shared among the members of the group forum. (An expository essay is one that presents factual, unbiased information on a subject.) Each section provides calls for specific and factual information about the topic with one section at the end for your opinion and rationale based on your findings from your exploration. Therefore, following the provided outline/format provided is key to a successfully written paper. Requirements Use the following format outline/template for your paper to complete your assignment. Bold-type is used here for emphasis only. Follow the guidelines for use of bold-type and headings using the most current edition of the APA manual. Notice there is NO HEADING for the introductory paragraph and the title of the paper should be at the beginning just before the introductory paragraph. There is also no running head. Legal/Regulatory Issue Assignment (Paper title) Statement of paper’s purpose Rationale for choosing the trend for exploration Overview of what will be included in the paper Trend/Issue Thorough description of chosen trend/issue Prevalence in healthcare, your state, and your organization Current Legal and Regulatory Status Current and/or pending legislative actions described Current and/or pending regulatory agency actions described Impact on Nursing Practice State Board of Nursing Position Relationship to Standards of Practice Patient Impact Impact on patient safety and quality of care Two examples of positive impact Two examples of negative impact with strategy for mitigation Organization Impact Impact of topic on organization clearly articulated Costs to organization in human and material resources Potential liability risks with strategy for mitigation Potential benefits to the organization Personal Position Personal position with rationale on the trend/issue based on exploration Two strategies to use to advocate for or against the trend/issue Conclusion A restatement of the paper’s purpose A summary of what was covered in the paper A minimum of three (3) scholarly sources, no older than 5 years must be used for the paper. These should be relevant to nursing and should represent most of the evidence provided in the paper. Other sources, such as textbooks, may be used in addition to these; however, they will not be counted as part of the scholarly source requirement. The paper should contain all elements required under the requirements and provided by the outline. The outline provided should be followed for organizing the paper. Remember, the introduction does not have a heading. Paper length is 4-5 pages, excluding title and reference pages. Microsoft (MS) Word is required for completing the assignment per Chamberlain policy. The paper should be written in third person, active voice. The assignment is graded on quality of written communication using standard English grammar, sentence structure, use of scholarly evidence, and organization based on the required components. Quality is also measured by completeness of required content elements of the assignment.

Nursing administrators have a responsibility to remain current with knowledge of emerging trends in healthcare and their potential impact on nursing practice, safe and quality patient care, and on the costs, risks and/or benefits to the organization. How these trends or issues translate into practice is often determined by legal and regulatory actions as well nursing standards of practice. The focus of the quarterly regional meeting of your state nurses’ association is on current issues/trends affecting nursing practice. The meeting will be divided into three group forums, each focused on a different trend/issue. You have been asked to provide a short paper on one of the current trends/issues occurring in healthcare delivery that will be the focus of one of the group forums. Trends and Issues in Current Nursing Practice 1. Telehealth/Telemedicine 2. Mandatory Overtime 3. Patient Violence to Nursing For this assignment, you will select one of the three topics above about which you will develop an expository type of essay to be shared among the members of the group forum. (An expository essay is one that presents factual, unbiased information on a subject.) Each section provides calls for specific and factual information about the topic with one section at the end for your opinion and rationale based on your findings from your exploration. Therefore, following the provided outline/format provided is key to a successfully written paper. Requirements Use the following format outline/template for your paper to complete your assignment. Bold-type is used here for emphasis only. Follow the guidelines for use of bold-type and headings using the most current edition of the APA manual. Notice there is NO HEADING for the introductory paragraph and the title of the paper should be at the beginning just before the introductory paragraph. There is also no running head. Legal/Regulatory Issue Assignment (Paper title) Statement of paper’s purpose Rationale for choosing the trend for exploration Overview of what will be included in the paper Trend/Issue Thorough description of chosen trend/issue Prevalence in healthcare, your state, and your organization Current Legal and Regulatory Status Current and/or pending legislative actions described Current and/or pending regulatory agency actions described Impact on Nursing Practice State Board of Nursing Position Relationship to Standards of Practice Patient Impact Impact on patient safety and quality of care Two examples of positive impact Two examples of negative impact with strategy for mitigation Organization Impact Impact of topic on organization clearly articulated Costs to organization in human and material resources Potential liability risks with strategy for mitigation Potential benefits to the organization Personal Position Personal position with rationale on the trend/issue based on exploration Two strategies to use to advocate for or against the trend/issue Conclusion A restatement of the paper’s purpose A summary of what was covered in the paper A minimum of three (3) scholarly sources, no older than 5 years must be used for the paper. These should be relevant to nursing and should represent most of the evidence provided in the paper. Other sources, such as textbooks, may be used in addition to these; however, they will not be counted as part of the scholarly source requirement. The paper should contain all elements required under the requirements and provided by the outline. The outline provided should be followed for organizing the paper. Remember, the introduction does not have a heading. Paper length is 4-5 pages, excluding title and reference pages. Microsoft (MS) Word is required for completing the assignment per Chamberlain policy. The paper should be written in third person, active voice. The assignment is graded on quality of written communication using standard English grammar, sentence structure, use of scholarly evidence, and organization based on the required components. Quality is also measured by completeness of required content elements of the assignment.