NU474 Community Health Nursing

09 Jun NU474 Community Health Nursing

Question
NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 1 Assessment

Defining Your Community

Instructions

During this course, you will develop a community assessment and plan. First, you need to identify/define the community in which you live. Give an overview of the community (large city, small town) and its people (urban workers, farmers, middle class, etc). Give an overview of the kinds of stores and businesses in the town and discuss accessibility to health care. This is to be a high-level overview only. Specifics will be discussed in subsequent papers.

Criteria:

Title page

Introduction (the purpose of paper)

Analyze the importance of a community assessment, according to your readings.

The following are things to include, though you are not limited to these. Give a clear definition of the community being assessed and its location in the surrounding area. Discuss the people, work/play /health care opportunities, and types of entertainment available, giving a general overview of the various parts of the community.

Conclusion

Reference page (minimum of 2 references)

Minimum of 3 pages (not including title and reference page)

APA format

Please review the rubric to ensure that your assignment meets criteria.

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 2 Assessment

Windshield Survey

Instructions

In this assignment, you will complete the windshield survey to assess your chosen community and use the information gathered to address a problem you have identified.

Steps:

Access the Windshield Survey TemplatePreview the document and use it to complete this assignment

Begin assessing your community based on the categories included in the windshield survey

Review the questions listed.

Use the information in Unit 2 Topic 3 to guide your assessment

Complete the form by answering all the questions.

Windshield Survey Assignment

Part I:For this assignment, students will take about an hour to explore a particulardistrict/ or community. Drive around and really look around the community to assess what resources are available.From your observations, complete the following form.

Section I: Windshield Survey

What is the name of the community/ neighborhood?

What are the boundaries of this neighborhood or where is this community located? Is it obvious where the community starts and ends? And you know that how?

What kinds of services for families are available? Could a family find everything they need on a day to day basis within this neighborhood/community? If not, how far would they have to travel to find such services?

Is the neighborhood/community safe to children to play and walk to school? Describe.

Are there any organizations like Boys and Girls Clubs, churches, or Head Start centers that provide activities for children? Describe.

What kinds of jobs would people have in this community? Any special industry or big employers present?

Do the schools appear inviting to students? Are the buildings in good condition or are they run down? Are the playgrounds current or old?

Is there lots of real estate for sale? Are they mostly houses or is there evidence of closed down businesses?

What type of stores/businesses are available (shopping centers, neighborhood stores, convenience stores, grocery stores, pharmacies?)Are they in one area or spread out within the community? Can people walk there?

Any ethnic stores/markets?

Are there churches present? Do those buildings appear to be well maintained or are they run down? What is the predominate type of church building seen?

Are there doctor offices/dental offices within the community/neighborhood? Any alternative medicine services available? Any hospitals? Is medical care available within the community or do the residents have to travel? If they travel, how far away do they have to go for care?

Are there social agencies ( welfare, WIC, social services) available?

Any senior centers or child care centers available? Does it appear that the centers are utilized?

Are there community organizations present (Elks, Masons, etc)?

Are there any restaurants or fast food in the community/neighborhood?

Are there political signs present? What are most of the political signs about? Does the community appear to be Republican or Democrat?

What is the age of the houses? Are they all new or old or a mix of both? Are they made of bricks or painted? Are they mostly single story or multistory homes?

Are there single family homes, mobile homes, apartments or duplexes?

Do the houses appear to be well maintained or are they run down? Are the yards maintained? Is there junk on the porches/yard?

Are there sidewalks and stoplights in the community/neighborhood?

Is there any open public spaces? Recreations centers? Green spaces? Public gardens or parks? Do the parks seem to be in good repair or are they run down? Are there lots of trees?

Are there any baseball fields, soccer fields?

Is the community/neighborhood clean or is there litter? Any abandoned cars or junk visible to the public?

What is the overall air quality appear to be? Any smog, stink? Does the water in lakes or ponds appear reasonably clear?

How to people get around in the neighborhood? Do the cars appear well maintained or are they old? Are there buses, sidewalks, any bicyclists? Is there a train? Are there bicycle lanes or bicycle racks in many places?

Are the roads in good repair or are they in poor condition?

How is the traffic? Is it mostly commercial traffic or local traffic?

Do you see any law enforcement officers?

Are there major highways/roads through the neighborhood/community?

Can you find a fire station? Notice any fire hydrants around the town/neighborhood?

Any ambulance garages present?

Any evidence of a neighborhood watch program? Are homes gated off? Do you see security system signs posted in yards/businesses?

What is the ethnicity of the neighborhood/community?

Where do young people go to gather/hang out in the neighborhood/community? Where do the elderly go?

Are there nursing homes/rehab centers present?

Any evidence of homelessness? Is there a homeless shelter?

Notice any stray animals?

Miscellaneous observations (here is where you describe the situation that led you to choose the community project you will be doing, if the observations do not fall into one of the above categories.

Section II: Data/Observation Analysis:

What is your overall impression of the community?

What are the neighborhood/community’s weaknesses or challenges or problems?

What is the most pressing problem you identified, in your opinion?

Propose a solution to this problem that is realistic and relevant. Discuss who would address this and how.

What is the most striking thing about this community?

What was most unexpected?

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 3 Assessment

Community Assessment

Instructions

Collaborate with community members, community liaisons, and members of the health care team. Use the results of your Windshield Survey to do Community Assessment Data Generation (Using both narrative and tables).

Include the following information:

Introduction

People

Number and density of population

Demographic structure of populations

Community Health Status

Vital statistics

Disease incidence and prevalence for leading causes of mortality and morbidity

Structure

Health facilities

Health Care Providers

Analyze data to search for significant themes or trends

Conclusion

Additional Instructions:

References (minimum of 5 references)

Minimum of 6-8 pages.

APA format

No points will be given unless the assignment is submitted to both this assignment link AND tab #5 of the e-portfolio

Please review the rubric to ensure that your assignment meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete:3 hours

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 4 Assessment

In this assignment, you will be required to use the assessments you have completed on your community and a problem you have identified to create a Nursing Diagnosis.

Steps:

Review the assessments you have completed on your community.

Review Community Nursing DiagnosisPreview the document

Analyze the data you have collected.

Select at least one social or environmental issue you were able to identify based on your analysis of the assessment data. This should be the problem that you will be addressing in your clinical project.

Using the Community Nursing Diagnosis TemplatePreview the document write a Nursing Diagnosis based on that issue.

Describe your project in detail and how it will address this diagnosis.

Community Nursing Diagnosis Template

Risk of:

Here you want to identify the problem or health risk faced by your community.

Among:

Here you want to identify the specific community client with whom you will be working in relation to the identified and stated problem.

Related to:

Here you will describe the characteristics of the community identified during the assessment phase. These may include motivation, knowledge, and skills of the community and its environment. Environmental characteristics include physical, cultural, psychosocial, and political characteristics.

Some of the identified characteristics may be strengths that you will build on to address the problem, while others contribute to the identified problem

Diagnosis:

Here you will combine the information from “risk of”, “among”, and “related to” to form a nursing diagnosis. Make sure that the diagnosis addresses the problem at the aggregate level – this distinguishes it from nursing diagnosis inspired by individual patients.

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 5 Assessment

Community Partners and Resources

Instructions

Collaborate with community members, community liaisons, and/or members of health care team regarding your project. Identify these community partners and collect information regarding the assets and resources of your selected community, and how. Relate how they will be helpful in implementing your project. (These don’t have to be large organizations, but can be people instrumental to your project.)

This assignment will include:

Introduction

List at least 2 Community Partners and 2 community resources

Describe their roles in your project.

Conclusion

Additional Instructions:

References (minimum of 2 references cited in the content)

Minimum of 2 pages (not including title and reference page)

Your assignment should be typed into a word document and formatted in APA style. The assignment must include

Running head

A title page and a reference page

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 6 Assessment

Written Community Plan

Instructions

At the conclusion of Week 6, you will have completed all of the ADPIE steps of program planning. In this assignment, you combine it all into a community plan.

Inclusions:

Introduction

Integrate all previous assignments with revisions if necessary

Definition of Community

Windshield Survey

Community Assessment

Community Partners and Resources Community Health

Diagnosis

Objectives

Identify the intervention activities and resources needed to achieve the objectives and accomplish the goal(s). Describe what you did for your project. Interventions must be specific and indicate:

Who will implement the intervention?

What, how, and when it will be implemented?

How will people be notified of this?

(Consideration should be given to education space needed, educational materials needing to be developed, advertising, and activity promotion through TV or radio)

Describe the proposed implementation of a project or activity. Include teaching, development of educational materials, etc.

Include in an appendix any material you developed: pamphlets, pictures of posters, advertising material, etc.

Propose an evaluation you would use to measure how you met the stated goal.

How will the success of your interventions be evaluated?

State what you might change to better accomplish the goal if it were not met. As you may remember from care planning, unmet goals usually need a change in interventions, or a change in the goal to be more realistic.

Conclusion

Post to ePortfolio tab #2. A zero will be given for this assignment if it is not uploaded to your e-portfolio as directed.

Additional Instructions:

Reference page (minimum of 12 references)

Final Paper 10 – 12 pages (not including title and reference page)

APA format

Running head

A title page and a reference page

Please review the rubric to ensure that your assignment meets criteria.

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 7 Assessment

Program Plan Presentation

Instructions

For this assignment, you will put all of the puzzle pieces together to create the Community Health Assessment & Plan PPT. The PPT needs to include your voice. You may do a voice over PPT presentation or use screencast-o -matic for your presentation. Here is the link to the free version: https://screencast-o-matic.com/home (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Provide 10-15 slide Voice enhanced PPT (based on Final Community Assessment & Plan paper). If you have trouble uploading the PPT, you can upload it to YouTube and submit the URL into the assignment link. Access YouTube instructionsPreview the document here.

PPT Presentation:

Your presentations should include slides (10-15 slides) containing the following items:

Introduction

Definition of your chosen Community

Windshield Survey

Community Assessment Data Generation

Community Partners and Resources

Developed Community Health Diagnosis

Devised Community Health Plan

Proposed Interventions for Community Health Plan

Proposed Evaluation Methods for Community Health Plan

Conclusion

References

For format and guidelines for PPT presentations check out the Purdue Online Writing Lab website here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Instructions on how to use speakers notes in PowerPoint can be found here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Submission Instructions:

Please submit your completed PPT to:

Discussion Board by Wednesday at midnight. Two peer reviews/critiques due by Sunday at midnight

Assignment submission link by Sunday at 11:59 PM CST for grading

e-portfolio tab #5. No points will be given if it is not uploaded to your e-portfolio.