Vulnerable Population Assessment: NR 443 Week 4 Milestone 2

NR 443 Week 4 Milestone 2 Assessment and Diagnosis

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide an opportunity to utilize community assessment strategies, uncover a community health problem, and identify the components of the problem related to the community dynamics.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following Course Outcomes.

CO 1. Evaluate the planning of delivery of care to individuals, families, aggregates, and communities in a variety of healthcare settings based on theories and principles of nursing and related disciplines. (PO 1)

CO2. Integrate clinical judgment in professional decision-making and implementation of the nursing process through analysis of community health nursing practice. (PO 4)

CO7. Accept accountability for personal and professional development as part of the life-long learning process. (PO 5)

This paper is expected to be no more than four pages in length (not including the title page and reference list). Typical papers are usually three pages. Below are the requirements for successful completion of this paper.

Directions

Watch the Milestone 2 tutorial (click this link or copy and paste it into your browser):

This APA 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 following categories 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:

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 textfor examples of vulnerable populations and aggregates. Your community must be the area where you live or work.

Vulnerable Population Assessment: NR 443 Week 4 Milestone 2

Introduction: This should catch the reader’s attention with interesting facts and supporting sources and include the purpose statement of the paper. This should be no more than one or two paragraphs.

Community: Identify the community by name that you will be using for this paper and provide a brief, general description of the community. Your community should be the area where you live or work. This should be one or two paragraphs.

Demographic and epidemiological data: Compile a range of demographic (population description) and epidemiological (causes of health problems and death) data for your community by examining census reports, vital statistic reports, city records, morbidity and mortality reports, and other agency sources. Using these data, describe the community and the problem. Compare your community data to state or national data. This comparison will help to identify a community health problem specific to your community. A summary of these data should beno more than one page.

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Windshield survey: Provide a brief summary of the findings from your first assignment. Make sure to discuss elements that link your observations to your identified problem. This should be no more than one or two paragraphs.

Problem: Using the assessment data, identify the problem that you consider to be a priority concern. Provide a rationale for your choice and relate your choice to one of the Healthy People 2020 specific numbered objectives. Healthy People objectives are located within a topic area under the Objectives page. Your rationale should also include why this is specifically a problem in your community. This should be no more than three paragraphs. Include support of your rationale with at least two scholarly sources such as professional journal articles related to your problem.

Summary: The summary paragraph of your paper should include a statement about the problem, the population at risk for this problem, and the major direct or indirect factors that contribute to this problem. This information should be no more than one or two paragraphs.

Reference page: All references cited within the paper should be included on a separate References page.

Guidelines

Application: Use Microsoft Word 2010™ to create this assignment.
Scholarly Writing: APA format is required. Review APA documents in the Doc Sharing and use the free resources of Smart Thinking 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.

Vulnerable Population Assessment: NR 443 Week 4 Milestone 2

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 one nursing 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
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.

Vulnerable Population Assessment: NR 443 Week 4 Milestone 2