Discuss the legal and ethical considerations that have influenced policy decision making regarding this issue.
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Policy Boundaries

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Read the Health Care and Nursing Policy Critique Project Description and Scoring Guide for all details related to your final course project.

For this assignment, you will build on the Health Care and Nursing Issue assignment you submitted in Unit 2.

Write a 5–7 page paper (excluding cover sheet and references) that clearly lays out policies that define health care and nursing practice with your selected issue or problem.
Include in your paper:
Legislation.
Executive decisions.
Court decisions.
Regulations that have defined this area of health care delivery and nursing practice, historically and today.
Discuss the legal and ethical considerations that have influenced policy decision making regarding this issue.
Use scholarly sources that address the social, historical, and political context of the research, theories, and methods related to your topic.
Cite a minimum of 10 sources with the majority being peer-reviewed sources. Your reference list should be appropriate to the body of literature available on this topic that has been published in the past five years.
Use APA style and formatting throughout your paper and when citing your sources.
Read the Policy Boundaries Scoring Guide to learn the requirements for this assignment and how you will be evaluated.

Note:Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click on the linked resources for helpful writing information.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.