Caring for Populations Milestone Community Windshield Survey Guidelines
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to complete a direct
observational assessment of a community in your area. This windshield survey
will be the initial step in uncovering a community health problem in your area
and identifying community dynamics. This problem will be further assessed in
the following two assignments.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following
course outcome.
CO2: Assess the health needs of individuals, families,
aggregates, and communities using demographic and epidemiological data to
identify population health risks. (PO 4)
Points: 150 points
Directions
Download the Community Windshield Survey form (Links to an
external site.)Links to an external site.. Type your name and answers directly
onto this Word document. Your form does not need to follow APA formatting;
however, you are expected to use a professional writing style with complete
sentences, accurate grammar, and correct spelling. If references are used, they
must be cited in the text and the complete reference should be included in the
reference box in APA format. References are optional.
Watch Caring for Populations project overview and Milestone
1 tutorial (click this link or copy and paste it into your browser):
http://www.brainshark.com/devry/CourseProjectandMS1_2016. (Links to an external
site.)Links to an external site. (transcript (Links to an external site.)Links
to an external site.)
Save the form by clicking Save as and adding your last name
to the file name; for example, NR443 Windshield Survey Form_Smith.
Submit the completed form by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT at the
end of Week 2.
Length: The completed form should be three to four pages in
length (not including any optional references).
Guidelines
Below are the requirements needed for successful completion
of the Windshield Survey Form.
Introduction to the Community: Identify the community you
will be using for this assignment with the city and state and provide a brief,
one paragraph description of the community. Your community should be the area
where you live or the area surrounding your work setting. The community must
include a residential area and be broad enough to answer the survey questions.
You do not need to include demographic data.
Windshield Survey: Assess your community by doing a
windshield survey. Information about the components of a windshield survey is
located in your textbook, Nies & McEwen (2015) on page 98 (Box 6-2). Drive
through the area and report your observations by describing each of the
following six areas using a majority of the questions from each category of Box
6-2 as your guide (one to two in depth paragraphs for each category). Be sure
to include what you observed related to each of these categories, and also
include any significant items that are missing in your community because this
may be equally important in identifying a community health problem.
Community vitality
Indicators of social and economic conditions
Health resources
Environmental conditions related to health
Social functioning
Attitude toward healthcare
Note: It is helpful to conduct this assessment at least two
different times: during the day or evening, on a weekday and/or on the weekend.
If possible, plan on asking someone to drive during your survey so that you can
take notes.
Vulnerable population: Identify an aggregate or vulnerable
population in your community based on your observations. What did you observe
about this population? See Units five (5) and six (6) in Nies and McEwen (2015)
for examples of vulnerable populations and aggregates.
Conclusion: Provide a summary of your findings. Describe
several potential community health problems for the vulnerable population that
you identified.
References: The purpose of this assignment is to document
your observations of your community. Outside sources are not required. However,
if sources are used, these sources must be cited within the form (Author, year)
and listed in the reference section in APA format (see APA resources for help
with formatting).
Best Practices in Completing the Form
The following are best practices in preparing this project.
Make sure all elements of the form are included.
Review directions and grading rubric below thoroughly.
Cite any outside references as above (these are optional).
Use a professional writing style with complete sentences.
Proofread prior to final submission.
Check for spelling and grammar errors prior to final
submission.
Abide by the Chamberlain academic integrity policy.
**Academic Integrity Reminder**
Chamberlain College of Nursing values honesty and integrity.
All students should be aware of the Academic Integrity policy and follow it in
all discussions and assignments.
By submitting this assignment, I pledge on my honor that all
content contained is my own original work except as quoted and cited
appropriately. I have not received any unauthorized assistance on this
assignment.
Please see the grading criteria and rubrics on this page.
Milestone 2: Caring for Populations Vulnerable Population
Assessment Guidelines
Purpose
The purpose of this 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 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)
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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 paper 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 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.
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.
Caring for Populations Milestone 3: Intervention and
Evaluation PowerPoint Guidelines
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)
CO4: Evaluate the delivery of care for individuals,
families, aggregates, and communities based on theories and principles of
nursing and related disciplines. (PO 1)
Points
This 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?
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.
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