For our final project, we will examine how priority healthcare issues should be examined by nursing.

We will select a key healthcare priority issue and a population. You will find articles that describe nursing interventions designed to improve patient outcomes for your population and healthcare priority issue.

Write a 5-7 page APA style paper (excluding title page and reference page).

Access the Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Quality and read Chapter 3: Priority Areas for Quality

Improvement, pages 41-45.
https://www.nap.edu/read/10593/chapter/5#56
Select ONE priority area (priority healthcare issue) and identify a population you would like to explore.

Conduct research to locate information to write about the following:
Specifically, the paper should include the following components:

Health Care Priority Issue
Identifies a healthcare priority issue. Describes the healthcare priority issue, the population it involves, and significance of the healthcare issue by using specific facts and details. Ends with a clearly worded purpose statement.
Rationale and Importance to Nursing

Discuss the rationale for choosing the priority healthcare issue and describe why this issue is important to nursing.

Provides details.

Discuss the rationale for choosing the priority healthcare issue and describe why this issue is important to nursing.

Provides details.

Nursing Interventions and Outcomes
From two nursing articles, select a total of two (no more or less than two) key nursing interventions that improved patient outcomes and explain how the nursing interventions improved each of the two patient outcomes.