NR443 Guidelines for Caring for Populations

NR443 Guidelines for Caring for Populations

 

The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess a vulnerable population in your community. You will also describe one community health problem that impacts this vulnerable group. This problem must be one that a community health nurse could positively impact.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

1. Assess the health needs of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities using demographic and epidemiological data to identify population health risks. (PO 4)

6. 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 to the appropriate basket in the Dropboxby 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday of Week 4.

Points: 225 points

Directions

Watch the Milestone 2 tutorial (click this link or copy and paste it into your browser):http://www.brainshark.com/devry/Milestone2_2016

This APA paper is expected to be no more than fourpages in length (not including the title page and reference list). Below are the requirements for successful completion of this paper.Please use the followingcategories as the first level headings on your paper. 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 documents in the APA category in Doc Sharing 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 Student Success Strategies resource has a great sections on writing scholarly papers and APA formatting (to find resource watch:  http://www.brainshark.com/devry/Student_Success_Strategies/zHszgnQAKzBXqbz0)

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 your Nies and McEwen text for examples of vulnerable populations and aggregates. Your community must be the area where you live or work.

1. Introduction (one paragraph):The introduction should be interesting and capture the reader’s attention.
   • Provide a brief description ofyour community including the city name and state and key features.
   • Briefly introduce one vulnerable population that you identified in your assessment.
   • Discuss the purpose of your paper. The purpose statement of the papershould relate to assessing this vulnerable population in your community.

1. Vulnerable Population Overview (one to two paragraphs):
   • Describe onevulnerable group in your community in greater detail.
   • Include your observations about this group from the windshield survey.
   • Discussevents or trendsthat have affected this vulnerable group such as economic conditions, trends in health related behaviors or disease rates, etc.

 

1. 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 articlein this discussion. Go to the Chamberlain library at http:/library.chamberlain.edu. 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 thisarticle and cite the source in the text and reference page (Author, year).For this section, you must choose at least onescholarly 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.
• 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.

 

1. 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? Discuss gaps in services that you identified.

 

1. 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 vulnerable population you identified.
• Go to the Healthy People topic areas at http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives. Find a topic area that relates to your vulnerable population. Click on the topic area and then click on the green “Objectives” tab. Find and state the Healthy People 2020specific 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 chooseFP-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).

1. Summary (one paragraph):
   • Summarize important points from the body of your paper including the 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 with a concluding statement.
2. 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 paperas (Author, year)and the full referenceshould be includedin APA format on the reference page. A url link alone is not an adequate reference. See the APA Guidelines in Doc Sharing for examples of properly formatted references.

Guidelines

• Application: Use Microsoft Word 2010™ to create this assignment.
• Scholarly Writing: APA format is required. Review APA documents in the Doc Sharingand use the free resources of SmartThinking for writing tutors
• Use the categories above as APA headings for the sections of your paper.
• Length: This 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 one quotation should be used for this paper.
• Submission: Submit your file via the basket in the Dropbox: Caring for Populations: Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment, by 11:59 p.m.MT Sunday of Week 4.
• Save your paper with your last name in the document title (e.g., “Smith Vulnerable Population Assessment”).

Late Submission: See the course policy on late submissions