NR441/442/444 Community Health Nursing

Required Uniform Assignment: Care of Populations Guidelines

NR441/442/444 RUA: Care of Populations Revised: 11/2020 11

Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to provide an opportunity for students to work collaboratively while applying community health concepts and the nursing process to the care of a population.

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

1. Provide comprehensive care with increasing autonomy to individuals, families, aggregates, and communities in a variety of health care settings based on theories and principles of nursing and related disciplines. (PO 1)

2. Integrate clinical judgment in professional decision making and implement the nursing process in the community health setting. (PO 4)

4. Communicate effectively with client populations and with other healthcare providers in managing the healthcare of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities. (PO 3)

5. Practice in established professional roles to provide cost?effective, quality healthcare to consumers in structured and unstructured settings. (PO 7)

6. Demonstrate leadership skills and collaborate with consumers and other health care providers in direct care or delegation of responsibilities within all levels of healthcare. (PO 2)

7. Accept accountability for personal and professional development as part of the life?long learning process. (PO 5) 8. Incorporate evidence?based practice in the provision of professional nursing care to individuals, families,

aggregates, and communities. (PO 8)

Due date: Your faculty member will inform you when this assignment is due. The Late Assignment Policy applies to this assignment.

Total points possible: 100 points

Preparing the assignment

Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions. 1) Student teams of three to four persons will form either by faculty assignment or self?selection. 2) The team will conduct a community assessment that includes a windshield survey. 3) The presentation will be no longer than 15 minutes in length, with an additional 5 minutes for answering

questions from the audience. 4) Review the Healthy People Leading Health Indicators at:

https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/leading-health-indicators 5) Ideas for obtaining additional demographic data include but are not limited to the following:

a. County health rankings at http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ b. Census reports at https://www.census.gov/ c. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vital signs at:

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/topics.html

6) Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the Grading Rubric). a. Community Assessment ? 25 points/25%

• Provides a description of the community based on the findings from the team’s windshield survey.