N3375 Health Policy & Legal Aspect

Module 1 Assignment #1: Legislator E-mail Exercise

Submit by 2359 (CT) Saturday of Module 1
Name:

Date:

Overview: Legislator E-mail Exercise

To take a proactive role in nursing policy, you will prepare an email to your legislator about an
current nursing issue. You must first identify your legislators. Then you will write a concise,
professionally worded e-mail to one of the state-level legislators about a current nursing issue that
is important to you. You will:
1. Find your top legislator in your county. You will only write your email to the top legislator.
You must only use the legislator in the state you are licensed in.
2. Complete the graphic organizer on this assignment document as well. The boxes will
expand for you. If you click in them the movable box appears and you can expand.
3. Write your final e-mail in the space provided on this assignment document.
4. Submit the email that you have prepared for your legislator into your assignment dropbox
in Blackboard. It is not necessary for you to actually send your email to you legislator
unless you choose to do so.

Performance Objective:
Identify the ways nurses can personally take part in shaping future nursing care.

Rubric
Use this rubric to guide your work on the assignment, Legislator E-mail.
Task

Accomplished

Proficient

Needs Improvement

Writing and Sending the E-mail

Write an e-mail to personal statelevel legislator about a healthcare
or nursing issue discussed in this
modules content, and send the email by the required deadline. Will
deduct 5 points if Graphic Decision
Making Tool provided is not
completed.
(Total 60 points)

E-mail conveys a
concern about current
issue, uses correct a
greeting and closing and
submitted on time.

E-mail conveys a
concern about an issue,
uses a greeting and
closing with no
significant errors, and is
submitted on time.
(40 points)

E-mail does not address

a specific issue OR the
greeting or closing
contains at least one
significant error OR it is
not sent on time.
(0-20 points)

E-mail is concise,
addresses an issue, and
includes an example but

E-mail is unclear OR too

long OR does not
include a specific

No greeting-5pts/No
closing-5/pts deductions
No graphic decision
making tool-5/pts
deduction
(60 points)

Quality of the E-mail

E-mail addresses a
E-mail is clear, concise, and gives
specific issue, includes
an example of how the issue affects at least one personal
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the students practice.

(Total 40 points)

example, is concise,
and is well-organized.
(40 points)

is not connected to the

students practice. Does
not include personal
example
(20 point)

example.
(0 points)

A. Identifying Your Legislators: Find out who your legislators are at the state level. (For students
located in Texas, use the Texas Legislature Online link located in Resource to find your
representives. For students in other states, use a search engine to locate your legislators.) If you
do not live in Texas you can google search your counties legislative system. You only need the top
legislator that you are going to address your issue to. If email information is not available then you
would only place their physical address.
Record their names, titles, and contact information here: Type information into text box.

B. Using a Graphic Organizer to Selecting an Issue: Identify a current nursing issue from
lecture material important to you and your practice. To help you begin organizing your thoughts,
complete the following graphic organizer.Type right into the boxes.

Issue

Reason or
Example

Reason or
Example

Reason or
Example

Requested
Action

Reason or
Example

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Reason or
Example

Reason or
Example

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C. Writing the E-mail: Write an e-mail explaining the importance of this issue to your practice.
Limit the e-mail to one page. You may not use all of the details you developed in the graphic
organizer above; use the ones that you think create the strongest and most persuasive e-mail.
Follow the format of the sample e-mail located in the Resource section of the course. (The format
must be strictly followed, especially for how to address the legislator and inclusion of your home
address to classify you as a constituent.)
Be sure to edit your e-mail for spelling, grammar, and word usage. Read it aloud, and/or get a
friend or relative to read it and provide feedback. You will not be sending this to your legislator
as part of this assignment but you may choose to send it to them on your own to make them
aware of the issue you have addressed.
Write your final e-mail in the space provided below.
Space for you to write your final e-mail to your legislator: type directly into the text box
below. Your Coach will grade your email from this assignment document. Box will expand.

Submit this entire Assignment Document into Blackboard using the directions below.

Submitting Your Assignment:

Click Module 1: Assignment in the Module 1 folder.

Scroll down to Assignment Submission. Click Browse My Computer and

navigate to your Desktop where you saved your paper. Select the final version of
your paper to upload from your computer.

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Click Submit at the bottom of the Assignment Submission screen and your saved
document assignment will appear in the gradebook with a green exclamation point
that alerts your Academic Coach that your assignment is ready for grading.

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