Controversial Treatments and Legislative Change (Topic: medical Marijuana)

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: Evaluate the implications of the effects of contemporary health policy on providers and consumers.

: Assess the legislative and policy-making strategies specific to scope of practice and nursing roles that influence health care services and practice.

The group will choose a health care treatment option that is controversial and maybe costly. Describe the positive and negative benefits from the treatment, evidence of effectiveness, and the potential harm of a different treatment option. What strategies would you use to advocate for a legislative change in your state to influence insurance coverage for this treatment.

  • Choose a controversial health care treatment option. Describe the treatment.
  • Describe the social and legal controversy associated with your controversial treatment.
  • Describe the evidence that supports the effectiveness of the controversial treatment.
  • Describe the evidence that does not support the effectiveness of the controversial treatment.
  • Compare and contrast the positive and negative benefits or harm of the controversial treatment.
  • Compare and contrast positive and negative aspects of available traditional treatments.
  • #7 Compare and contrast the costs of the controversial treatment with the costs associated with traditional treatments
  • #8 Describe the required process for legislative change to occur in your state (Ohio).
  • Describe a strategies that you would you use at the local and state level to advocate for a legislative change in your state that would influence insurance coverage for this treatment.
  • Provide an estimated timeline for your legislative change to occur. Use the steps describe in required process for legislative change for your state.

Note:

  • This is a fact-based Assignment that will not include your opinion.
  • This will require research and support for what is written.
  • The Assignment should be in your words after reading the scholarly and fact-based publications and have proper citations. There should be no quotations. The professor wants to hear your voice as a masters trained nurse.
  • The paper should have a minimum of 2-3 citations and some of these should be case law or applicable statutes.
  • My two area’s are 7 and 8
  • No face sheet needed