Healthcare Trend Letter

Imagine you are working in your future role as an MSN nurse executive and you have identified health inequity as a trend in your setting. When considering this trend, you realize you need to analyze how it may impact your role as a nurse executive. This then allows you to determine what could be done to affect health equity from your specific role. Because you want to be proactive in addressing this trend, you realize it will be important to communicate your findings so next steps can be taken. In support of that goal, you decide to draft a detailed letter to stakeholders to advocate for change related to the negative trend of health inequity in your hospital setting.

Directions

Address the following criteria in your letter using appropriate APA 7th edition letter formatting, including a title and reference page.

1. MSN Role: Explain how health equity is related to your role (nurse executive) and support claims with specific evidence from at least one scholarly source. To do this, you will need to answer the question, why is inequity happening in your specific practice? You will also need to discuss who it impacts along with who the stakeholders are to address the problem. As a hint, you may wish to review the spheres of care and determine which is most relevant for the context of how health equity manifests in your setting.
2. Information Sources: Assess the information you will need to effectively address the trend and support claims with specific evidence from at least two scholarly or professional sources. Determine what sources of information will provide you with valuable insight into this trend. Identification of this data might include national data sets, accrediting benchmarks, or organizational data, among other options. You will also need to discuss evidence on why change is needed.
3. System Impacts: Analyze the impact of the trend on a healthcare system and support claims with specific evidence from at least one scholarly source. Consider conducting a force field analysis to support this work. Develop the anticipated counterargument. What objections might stakeholders have to addressing this trend? You may wish to discuss system barriers. Then develop an effective rebuttal that discusses system drivers and potential positive outcomes of addressing the trend.
4. Information and Communication Technologies: Explain how information and communication technologies can be used in addressing the health equity trend. You may wish to review options in telehealth or another technology in your work.