Controversial Treatments and Legislative Change

MN506: Unit 8 Assignment
Controversial Treatments and Legislative Change
Course Outcomes addressed in this assignment

Choose a health care treatment option that is controversial and maybe costly. TOPIC: MEDICAL MARIJUANA FOR TREATMENT
Describe the positive and negative benefits from the treatment, evidence of effectiveness, and the potential harm of a different treatment option. What strategies would you use to advocate for a legislative change in your state to influence insurance coverage for this treatment.
THE BOLD NUMBERS ARE THE ONLY ONES NEEDED COMPLETED THEY ARE TO BE ONE TO TWO PARAGRAPHS MAX. SO #S 2 AND 8 ONLY.
1.Choose a controversial health care treatment option. Describe the treatment.
2.Describe the social and legal controversy associated with your controversial treatment.
3.Describe the evidence that supports the effectiveness of the controversial treatment.
4.Describe the evidence that does not support the effectiveness of the controversial treatment.
5.Compare and contrast the positive and negative benefits or harm of the controversial treatment.
6.Compare and contrast positive and negative aspects of available traditional treatments.
7.Compare and contrast the costs of the controversial treatment with the costs associated with traditional treatments
8.Describe the required process for legislative change to occur in your state.
9.Describe a strategies that you would you use at the local and state level to advocate for a legislative change in your state that would influence insurance coverage for this treatment.
10. Provide an estimated timeline for your legislative change to occur. Use the steps describe in required process for legislative change for your state.
Note:

This is a fact-based Assignment that will not include your opinion.
This will require research and support for what is written.
The Assignment should be in your words after reading the scholarly and fact-based publications and have proper citations. There should be no quotations. The professor wants to hear your voice as a masters trained nurse.
The paper should have a minimum of seven citations and some of these should be case law or applicable statutes.
Your writing Assignment should:

Follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.;
Be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
Display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and
Use APA 6th Edition format as outlined in the APA Progression Ladder.