To complete this Assessment, do the following:Be sure to adhere to the indicated assignment length.Access the following resources:American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2017). Federal policy agenda. http://www.aacnnursing.org/Policy-Advocacy/About-Government-Affairs/Federal-Policy-AgendaAmerican Nurses Association (n.d.). State. http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/Policy-Advocacy/State/Legislative-Agenda-ReportsFowler, M. D. M. (2015a). Guide to the code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements: Development, interpretation, and application (2nd ed.). American Nurses Association.Fowler, M. D. M. (2015b). Guide to nursing’s social policy statement: Understanding the profession from social contract to social covenant. American Nurses Association.Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). Walden templates: General templates. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates/general#s-lg-box-20293636Under the “PowerPoint Presentation” section, you may choose to use the PowerPoint presentation template provided.Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the SME will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.RubricAll submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring.Your response to this performance task should reflect the criteria provided in the rubric and adhere to the required length. This assessment requires submission of one file: a 13-slide PowerPoint presentation.Informational PresentationYou have been asked to create an informational presentation for a group of nurses that focuses specifically with policy development, policy evaluation, and ethics in policy decisions. Your presentation should include 13 slides and should adhere to the following requirements:Slide 1: Title SlideSlide 2: Nurses have a tremendous advantage in the political process, given the public’s overall respect for the profession and nurses’ expertise in healthcare. Year after year, nursing is voted as the most “ethical” profession by Gallup polls, and the average person perceives nurses as altruistic, caring, and intelligent. Describe two key reasons that nurses are uniquely positioned to take the lead in challenging policy situations.Slides 3–4: Nurses understand that healthcare policy has important implications for patient quality and safety. Analyze how having a policy-making skill set, such as being able to write, review, and debate policies, leads to improvements in patient quality and safety.Slides 5–6: Involvement in healthcare policy is a natural extension of the nurse’s role as an advocate. Many opportunities exist for nurses to become involved in the policy process. Analyze the role of the nurse and how they might become an active participant in policy development/modification in at least two different aspects. For example, examine how a nurse can affect positive change in policy within their facility, and also think about a way that a nurse can be part of the policy-making process at the state or national level.Slides 7–8: Nurses make up the largest group of healthcare providers in the U.S. and are in key positions to engage in health policy, political participation, and/or political activism. Select one current healthcare policy at the local, state, or national level. For help identifying a policy idea, consider visiting the American Nurses Association’s Nursing Legislative Issues and Trends website or the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Federal Policy Agenda for Academic Nursing website (both links are found in the ancillary documents). Describe the selected policy, identify its purpose, and evaluate its ideal outcomes, and drawbacks. For example, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented a pay-for-performance (P4P) policy in 2016 which has 55% of fee-for-service Medicare shifting to quality-based payments. Naturally, this is a strategy to promote quality and value of healthcare services. However, a drawback of this policy is that it has had hospitals, nurses, and other healthcare providers scurrying to implement it, due to its complexity.Slides 9–10: Every day, nurses apply ethical principles in each step of the policy process as they follow the best evidence-based practice guidelines available. Nurses’ policy practices are driven by caring, respect, openness, and honesty. Analyze one key concept in the Nurses Code of Ethics that nurses can utilize while involved in healthcare policy activities.Slides 11–12: The essence of the nursing profession is both valued within a society and uniquely accountable to that society. This is considered to be the profession’s social contract. Using the American Nurses Association website, first identify a current healthcare policy that nurses are involved in at the local, state, or national level. Second, using Fowler’s Guide to Nursing’s Social Policy Statement: Understanding the Profession from Social Contract to Social Covenant, pp. 19–20, analyze how the nurses’ social contract is being upheld within that policy.Slide 13: References

Reflect on your coursework in your program of study. Choose one experience from this program that aligns to CEC Advanced Preparations Standard 5.Complete the Portfolio Experience Submission Template and rationale.Reference at least three practice-based research articles specific to developmental disorders/autism spectrum disorders in support of each rationale.While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.I uploaded a assignment, rubric and the blank template.