Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper
Week 4 Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment
Purpose
The purpose of this Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper is to identify and assess an aggregate or vulnerable population in your community. You will also describe one community health problem that impacts this group. This problem must be one that a community health nurse could positively impact.
Course Outcomes
This Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO2: Assess the health needs of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities using demographic and epidemiological data to identify population health risks. (PO 4)
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CO6: Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO 2)
Due Date
Submit the Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper paper by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday by the end of Week 4.
Points: 225 points
Rubric
Click to view and download the NR443 Milestone 2: Caring for Vulnerable Populations Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
Directions
Watch the Milestone 2 tutorial at http://www.brainshark.com/devry/Milestone2_2016 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
This APA Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper is expected to be no more than four pages in length (not including the title page and reference list). Below are the requirements for successful completion of this paper. Please use the categories described below as the first level headings on your paper (note: the introduction does not carry a heading of “introduction,” instead the title of the paper is repeated and centered at the top of the second page in plain text). APA formatting helps you to format your paper in a professional manner and provides consistent methods for citing your sources within the paper and providing the complete reference on the reference page. See the APA resources for assistance with APA formatting. There is an APA template that you can use to type on and this will help with APA formatting. The SSPRNBSN Student Success Strategies resource has a module on writing scholarly papers and APA formatting. You may access SSPRNBSN by finding its tile in your dashboard, or clicking on the link in your course list.
Based on your community assessment, including your windshield survey and the assessment information from your discussions, identify one aggregate or vulnerable population in your community that faces a community health problem. See units five (5) and six (6) in Nies and McEwen (2015) for examples of vulnerable populations and aggregates. Your community must be the area where you live or work. Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper.
Introduction (one paragraph): The introduction should be interesting and capture the reader’s attention.
Provide a brief description of your community including the city name and state and key features.
Briefly introduce one aggregate or vulnerable population that you identified in your assessment.
Discuss the purpose of your paper. The purpose statement of the paper should relate to assessing this vulnerable population in your community.
Note: the introduction does not carry a heading of “introduction,” instead; the title of the Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper is repeated and centered at the top of the second page in plain text.
Vulnerable Population Overview (one to two paragraphs):
Describe one aggregate or vulnerable group in your community in greater detail.
Include your observations about this group from the windshield survey.
Discuss events or trends that have affected this vulnerable group such as economic conditions, trends in health related behaviors or disease rates, etc.
Strengths, Risk Factors, and/or Barriers (two to three paragraphs):
Discuss the strengths, risk factors, and/or barriers that impact this vulnerable population’s health.
Include support from at least one scholarly peer-reviewed journal article in this discussion. Go to the Chamberlain library at http:/library.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Search peer reviewed journals to find a scholarly article that discuss the strengths, risk factors, and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group. Summarize what you learned from this article and cite the source in the text and reference page (Author, year). For this section, you must choose at least one scholarly article from a peer-reviewed journal. The article must be less than 10 years old (less than 5 years is best). You may include and cite your textbook or other scholarly sources as well, but they do not count as the scholarly journal article. Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper.
Please do not include more than two short quotations, at the most. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words.
Community Resources (one to two paragraphs):
Search your local public health department website, the internet, the local newspaper and/or telephone book for health resources available in your community for this vulnerable group.
Briefly describe the resources in your community that are available for this group.
Are these resources adequate? If so, why? If not, discuss gaps in services that you identified.
Community Health Problem Diagnosis (one to two paragraphs):
Based on your assessment and the Healthy People 2020 objectives, identify and discuss one priority community health problem that a community health nurse could positively impact. Examples include an increase in teen pregnancies, prevalence of cancer, high incidence of tobacco use, above average infant mortality etc. The problem must relate to the aggregate or vulnerable population you identified.
Go to the Healthy People topic areas at http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Find a topic area that relates to your aggregate or vulnerable population. Click on the topic area and then click on the green “Objectives” tab. Find and state the Healthy People 2020 specific numbered objective (not just a goal) that describes your problem (ex. for teen pregnancy, the topic area Family Planning is relevant, click the green objectives tab and you might choose FP-8.1 “Reduce pregnancies among adolescent females aged 15 to 17 years” (US Department of Health and Human Services: Healthy People 2020, 2016, Objectives: Family Planning, para 8).
Summary (one paragraph):
Summarize important points from the body of your paper including the aggregate or vulnerable group you identified and key factors that you discussed above that affect the health of this group.
Include a statement about the priority problem you identified.
End Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper with a concluding statement.
Reference Page:
The Reference Page should start on a new page (insert a page break). All references should be cited within the body of the paper as (Author, year) and the full reference should be included in APA format on the reference page. A URL link alone is not an adequate reference. See the APA Guidelines in Course Resources for examples of properly formatted references.
Guidelines
Application: Use Microsoft Word 2010™ or later to create this Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper assignment.
Scholarly Writing: APA format is required. Review the APA resources and take advantage of the free tutorial resources.
Use the categories above as APA headings for the sections of your paper.
Length: This Vulnerable Population Assessment paper is expected to be no more than 4 pages in length (not including the title page and reference list).
Quotations should be minimal – please paraphrase your sources. A maximum of two short quotations should be used for this paper.
Submission: Submit your Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday of Week 4.
Save your Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper with your last name in the document title (e.g., Smith Vulnerable Population Assessment).
Late Submission: See the Policies on late submissions.
Best Practices in Preparing the Paper
The following are best practices in preparing this project.
Use the assessment information that you collected in your windshield survey and weekly discussions to identify the aggregate or vulnerable group of interest.
Choose one nursing problem specific to your community that this aggregate or vulnerable group faces.
Find one article about this vulnerable group from the Chamberlain library from a peer reviewed journal.
Visit the SSPRNBSN Student Success Strategies resource for help with writing a scholarly paper, APA formatting, and library navigation. You may access SSPRNBSN by finding its tile in your dashboard, or clicking on the link in your course list.
Make sure all elements of the paper are addressed and headings for each category are included.
Review directions thoroughly. Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper
Cite all sources within the paper as well as on the Reference page.
Proofread prior to final submission.
Check for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.
Use the first column of the rubric below to ensure that you have included all the needed elements.
Week 6 Milestone 3 Intervention and Evaluation
Purpose
The purpose of this PowerPoint presentation is to provide an opportunity to develop a community health nursing intervention and evaluation plan for a community health problem that you identified in your community (described in Milestone 2: Vulnerable Population Assessment). You will apply the components of the nursing process to assist this vulnerable population and develop a proposal that could be presented to community leaders.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO1: Apply principles of nursing theory to the public health system by analyzing determinants of health and the public health intervention wheel. (PO 1)
CO3: Plan prevention and population-focused interventions for vulnerable populations using professional clinical judgment and evidence-based practice. (PO 4, 8). Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper.
CO4: Evaluate the delivery of care for individuals, families, aggregates, and communities based on theories and principles of nursing and related disciplines. (PO 1)
Due Date
Submit your PowerPoint presentation by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday by the end of Week 6.
Points
This Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper assignment is worth a total of 225 points.
Scenario
You are a community public health nurse (C/PHN) working with the vulnerable population you identified in Milestone 2. You will choose a specific community health role that would serve this population. You have analyzed the data collected from your windshield survey and vulnerable population assignments (the first two milestones) and identified one community health problem that a nurse can impact. Now, review the scholarly literature or scholarly websites listed below and identify one specific evidence-based nursing intervention that has the potential to improve the health of this group. Then develop a proposal to implement this intervention and a plan to evaluate the outcomes of this intervention. Create a PowerPoint that you could use to present to an organization in your community to request approval for funding and support for this intervention. (You are not required to implement the intervention or present your PowerPoint, though you may want to consider implementing your project in the future).
Directions
Watch the Milestone 3 tutorial at http://www.brainshark.com/devry/Milestone3_2016 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
Introduction: (average of 2-3 slides)
Describe the identified problem
Include at least two important findings that demonstrate that this is a problem in your community.
Describe your specific community health role: Some examples of roles are school nurse, parish nurse, home health nurse, occupational nurse, health department nurse etc.
Identify the purpose of the presentation which is related to proposing a community health intervention and evaluation plan.
Identify an evidence based intervention: (average of 2-3 slides).
Find an evidence-based nursing intervention from a peer-reviewed journal article OR one of the following databases. These databases evaluate research evidence about community health interventions. Be sure that your intervention is one that is recommended. Cite your source on the slide with the author or organization and year.
Use at least one of the following to identify an evidence based intervention:
A peer reviewed journal article demonstrating that your intervention has been successful
The Community Guide (http://www.thecommunityguide.org/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.) Choose one of the topics in the topic tab to find interventions.
The CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator Database of Interventions (http://wwwn.cdc.gov/chidatabase (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.)
Healthy People 2020 evidence-based interventions. Find a relevant topic area at (http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.), click on that topic area, and then click on the “Interventions and Resources” tab to see the evidence-based interventions list for that topic area
Provide a brief overview of your intervention.
Discuss why this intervention is a good fit for your community (why you expect it to be effective in your community).
Intervention Implementation: (average of 3-4 slides).
Describe how you would implement your community health nursing intervention in your community
Discuss the actions will you take as the community health nurse to accomplish this intervention.
Relate your actions to the Public Health Intervention Wheel (Nies & McEwen, 2015, p. 14, Figure 1-3)
Identify your target population.
Describe how you will reach out to your target population.
Include strategies to engage your target population.
Describe where the intervention will take place.
Identify when your intervention will take place
Will it take place once or multiple times? Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper.
Identify those in the community that you will collaborate with (e.g., physician’s office, church, local resources, etc.).
Explain what level(s) of prevention is your intervention addressing (primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention)?
Proposed Evaluation Methods: (average of 2-3 slides)
Your presentation must include at least one proposed quantitative or qualitative evaluation method that you would use to determine whether your intervention is effective. Outcome measurement is a crucial piece when implementing interventions.
Describe the method you would use to evaluate whether your intervention was effective. (The Qualitative and Quantitative Education Methods (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. handout can help with understanding qualitative and quantitative methods of evaluation).
Identify the outcomes you would track to show whether your intervention works (eg. BMI would be one outcome you could track for a weight loss intervention).
When would you measure these outcomes?
Describe the short-term and long-term impact on your community if the intervention is successful.
Summary: (average 1 slide)
The summary should reiterate the main points of the presentation and conclude with what you are asking to be accomplished; for example, “Based on ABC, it is imperative our community has XYZ. Can we count on your support? Thank you for your consideration.” Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper.
In addition to the slides described above, your presentation should include a title slide with your name and role and a reference slide. Cite all sources used with (Author, year) on the PowerPoint slide.
The slides should include the most important points in short bullet pointed phrases. Do not include full sentences or paragraphs on the PowerPoint slides. You may add additional comments in the notes section to clarify information for your instructor.
The slides should be visually appealing and not overcrowded. Use an interesting template and include some clipart or graphics for interest. Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper.
Guidelines
Application: Use Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 or later.
Length: The PowerPoint slide show is expected to be no more than 20 slides in length (not including the title slide and reference list slide).
Save the assignment with your last name in the file title: example: “Smith Intervention and Evaluation.”
Submission: Submit your PowerPoint file by 11:59 p.m. Sunday by the end of Week 6.
Late Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper Submission: See Policies on late submissions.
Tutorial: For those not familiar with the development of a PowerPoint slideshow, the following link to the Microsoft website may be helpful. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702.aspx (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. The SSP Chamberlain Student Success Strategies offers a module on Computer Literacy that contains a section on PowerPoint. The link to SSP CCSSS may be found on your course list in the student portal. Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper.
Best Practices in Preparing PowerPoint
The following are best practices in preparing this presentation.
Be creative.
Incorporate graphics, clip art, or photographs to increase interest.
Make easy to read with short bullet points and large font.
Review directions thoroughly.
Cite all sources within the slides with (author, year) as well as on the Reference slide.
Proofread prior to final submission.
Spell check the Vulnerable Population Assessment Paper for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.