NR443 Guidelines for Caring for Populations

Milestone 2:Vulnerable Population Assessment

Purpose

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:

2. 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.

A.    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.

 

B.    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.

 

C.    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.

 

D.    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.

 

E.    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).

 

F.    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.

G.    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.

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 vulnerable group of interest.

·         Choose onenursing problem specific to your community that this vulnerable group faces.

·         Find one article about this vulnerable group from the Chamberlain library from a peer reviewed journal.

·         Visit the Chamberlain Care Student Success Strategies resource for help with writing a scholarly paper, APA formatting, and library navigation (http://www.brainshark.com/devry/Student_Success_Strategies/zHszgnQAKzBXqbz0).

·         Make sure all elements of the paper are addressed and headings for each category are included.

·         Review directions thoroughly.

·         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 “A” column of the rubric below to ensure that you have included all the needed elements.

·         Abide by the CCN academic integrity policy – use the Week 1 Turnitin Draft Dropbox to ensure that your similarity index is less than 24%, if not, revise and resubmit prior to the deadline.Please review the documents related to TurnItIn in DocSharing.

 

Grading Rubric:Milestone 2: Assessment and Diagnosis (225 points)

Criteria	A (92–100%) Outstanding or highest level of performance	B (84–91%) Very good or high level of performance	C (76–83%) Competent or satisfactory level of performance	F (0–75%) Poor or failing or unsatisfactory level of performance	Pts
Introduction 30 points	Good introduction which: -catches the reader’s attention, -introduces your community -identifies the vulnerable population and -includes a purpose. (28 - 30 points)	Introduction present but is missing one of the elements listed in “A” column. (25 - 27 points)	Introduction present but is missing two or more elements listed in “A” column. (22 - 24points)	No introduction present. (0 points)	/30
Vulnerable population overview 30 points	Vulnerable populationdescribed withrationalewhich includeswindshield survey observations and discussion of contributing eventsfor choosing this population. (28 - 30 points)	Population described but rationale is incomplete. (25 - 27points)	Populationor rationale not described. (22 - 24points)	Population and rationale notdescribed. (0 points)	/30
Strengths, risk factors, and/or barriers identified 20 points	Good description of strengths, risk factors and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group (18 - 20 points)	Adequate description of strengths, risk factors and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group (16 - 17points)	Minimal description of  strengths, risk factors and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group (15 points)	Lacks description of  strengths, risk factors and barriers faced by vulnerable group (0 points)	/20
Discussion of peer review article 20 points	One peer reviewed journal articlediscussed that clearly relates to factors affecting the health of the vulnerable group. (18 - 20 points)	One peer reviewed articleabout vulnerable group discussed, but slightly off topic. (16 - 17points)	Onearticle discussedbut does not clearly relate to the vulnerable group. (15 points)	No peer reviewed articlediscussed. (0 points)	/20
Community Resources 30 points	Good description of resources available in community and gaps in services. (28 - 30points)	Adequatedescription of resources available in community but gaps in services missing. (25 - 27points)	Poor description of resources and gaps in services. (22 - 24 points)	No discussion of community resourcesor gaps in services. (0 points)	/30
Problem Diagnosis 30 points	One priority community health problem clearly identified andHealthy People 2020 specific objective included. (28 - 30 points)	One priority community health problem identified and Healthy People 2020 information included but a specific HP objective is missing. (25 - 27points)	Problem identified but not related to Healthy People 2020. (22 - 24 points)	Problem discussion missing. (0 points)	/30
Summary 20 points	Good summary ofkey points about vulnerable population andcommunity health problem reiterated. (18 - 20 points)	Adequate summary of key points about vulnerable population and community health problem reiterated. (16 - 17 points)	Summary of key points about vulnerable population or community health problem missing. (15 points)	Summary not completed. (0 points)	/20
Presentation 20 points	Discussion well organized and logical. Structure is clear and compelling to reader; paragraphs are linked together logically, and main ideas stand out. (18 - 20 points)	Discussion missing one of the organizational elements in column one. Some minor organizational concerns. (16 - 17 points)	Discussion missing two of the organizational elements in column one. Overall flow is difficult to follow. (15 points)	Paper appears disorganized and is difficult to understand. (0–14points)	/20
Mechanics 25 points	Excellent mechanics with no more than two errors of the following: - correct grammar, spelling -complete sentences -all sources cited in the text -all references listed on the reference page and in APA format -title page in APA format -correct APA format of headings -12 point font, double spaced, 1 inch margins, paragraphs indented -no more than two short quotations. -length 4 pages or less (23 - 25 points)	Three errors of elements listed in column one. (21 - 22 points)	Four errors of elements listed in column one. (19 - 20 points)	More than four errors of elements listed in column one. (0-18 points)	/25
Total Points:					/225

 

 

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