Law to be discussed:
1. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) amends the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 299 et. seq.; P.L. 109-41) by inserting sections 921 through 926, 42 U.S.C. 299b-21 through 299b-26.
a. This law promotes the goal of improving patient safety and reducing medical errors by establishing a system in which health care providers can voluntary collect and report information related to patient safety, health care quality, and health care outcomes.
b. In my opinion, we would change VOLUNTARY to REQUIRED. In the past, I have read that a lot of times health care providers do not report any incidents with patients because they either do not receive the right training or they choose not because of medicine. This means that patients can be on medication that can cause them aggressive side affects. In other words, they use medicine as an excuse. Changing it a requirement would consist in establishing a workplace violence committee to include security/police, patient relations, nursing, physicians, legal and hospital administration.
Group Project: Report on a proposed policy change to an Existing Law
Near the end of the term as noted on Blackboard and in the Course Schedule each Group Spokesperson shall submit on behalf of its group members a final project paper consisting of a report on a proposed policy change to an Existing Law.
1. Each Group is responsible for selecting a narrowly construed healthcare policy issue (meaning an existing law) anywhere globally, federal, state or local which the group would like to change.
2. The final group project paper shall include details on how they intend to formulate, implement, finance and modify the existing law with their proposed health policy change as well as identifying and addressing the likely arguments of opposing concerned interest groups.
3. Peer review journal sources and books, authoritative external sources are required to be used, cited and referenced properly throughout the paper.
5. Thereafter, upon approval of the existing law and proposed change by the Faculty each Group shall be responsible for conducting an extensive literature review/investigation of their proposed policy change (including but not limited to comparable legislation, cost of proposed policy, sources of funding to implement and maintain said policy).
6. A maximum ten (10) page report shall be turned in by each Group Spokesperson as noted on the Course Schedule. Use of charts and tables are strongly encouraged but should be placed in the appendix rather than in the body of the paper.
5.1 The 10 page maximum only includes the sections titled Introduction through Conclusion as defined below (e.g. does not include title page, table of contents, abstract, references or appendix).
5.2 Please keep in mind a source is required on each table/chart used and in every sentence where a number appears!
7. Data and Sources. All data (facts and figures/statistics) shall be referenced appropriately. References and in text citations shall be in APA Style format. All your writing shall be by the students. No cutting and pasting of text from any source is allowed. That constitutes plagiarism. For those students that need help with proper APA in text citation and references, please see the following link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/. Additional APA Style links and documents will be posted on the Class online site. Also, see www.refworks.com this source is available free to FIU students and will assist you in formatting
references properly in APA and other formats. An additional source http://bruteforcestudyguide.com/essaywriting/apastyle.html
8. Required Section Headings/Content in Paper. Each paper shall include the following format. These 5 sections are required to be in the paper submitted or points will be deducted:
7.1 Title page (including Group# & member names);
7.2 Introduction (discussing the global, national, state and local implications of the proposed policy then explaining how and why the group selected to focus on this particular policy and narrowing down to set forth the Groups proposed change in brief);
7.3 Results (this is where you state your findings the details, the specific language of your existing law and proposed change, as well as, operationalization of the proposed policy/definition of terms (i.e., meaning – what it will take to get your proposed change into law such as financing, support from concerned groups etc);
7.4 Discussion (this is where you explain using scientific literature other similar policies and/or if this policy exists elsewhere, as well as, identifying and addressing the expected concerns of suspected opposing interest groups;
7.5 Conclusions & Recommendations (this is where you can explain how the policy accomplishes the groups ideals/intent of the policy).
9. APA Style in-text citations are required in sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 at a minimum!
10. All data (facts and figures/statistics) shall be cited and referenced appropriately. References and in text citations shall be in APA Style format. All your writing shall be your own. No cutting and pasting of text from any source is allowed. That constitutes plagiarism. For those students that need help with proper APA in text citation and references, please see the following link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/. Additional APA Style links and documents will be posted on the Class online site. Also, see www.refworks.com this source is available free to FIU students and will assist you in formatting references properly in APA and other formats. An additional source for APA Style is http://bruteforcestudyguide.com/essaywriting/apastyle.html
11. Grading Rubric: In order to receive full points the group final submission shall:
11.1 be on an existing law
11.2 proposed change was approved by the faculty evidenced by feedback/reply email to the group spokesperson on their top 3 list submission
11.3 the paper shall contain and fully address each of the 5 required sections in the paper format set forth herein above
11.4 the paper shall include proper APA Style in text citations in every paragraph and on every issue as well as in every sentence with a number, year, statistic, percentage or the like. APA Style references are also required.
11.5 the paper shall include each of the 5 named section titles in the paper with the proper content in each section
11.6 the writing shall be the students own words except for limited quotes properly cited and referenced and
11.7 in text citation/sources are present in section 2, 3, 4 and 5.
