Week 4: Milestone 2: Vulnerable Population Assessment (graded)

Milestone 2: Caring for Populations Vulnerable Population Assessment Guidelines

Updated 9/18/2017

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

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Directions

Click to download the customized Milestone 2 Vulnerable Populations APA template (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. to complete your paper. It is already setup with the appropriate running head, page numbers, paragraph formatting, and most of the headings.

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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).
6. 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.
7. 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.

**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.

Assignment 1: Emerging/Current Health-Care Issue

Assignment 1: Emerging/Current Health-Care Issue

Research Paper:3–5 pages

• Review the case study “Death by Measles.”
• Review Trevor Noah’s video on traveling from Africa during the Ebola crisis.

The purpose of this paper is to examine an emerging/current issue in healthcare. Potential topics are but not limited to the following:

• Reemerging outbreaks such as measles or Ebola
• Human trafficking
• Violence in health–care settings
• Medical tourism
• Consumer–directed healthcare
• Assisted suicide
• Medical marijuana
• Mandatory vaccinations
• Eldercare
• Abortion
• Personalized medicine

Research, examine, and analyze your issue with thought, sensitivity, and reflection. Your paper must have the following elements:

1. Identify the resources/protocols that a hospital/health provider would need to consider and have in place to address the issue (e.g., HR policies, staff training, etc.).
2. Explain the leadership and managerial responses and/or responsibilities.
3. Discuss the cultural impact.
4. Describe the legislative actions or government agencies that may be involved (e.g., CDC, AMA, ACA, etc.).
5. End your paper with a summary of your research and a conclusion to what you have found.
6. Go to https://research.strayer.edu to locate and utilize at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
7. This course requires the use of new Student Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are as follows:

• Analyze the U.S. health-care system at local, regional, state, and national levels.
• Examine the influence of political, economic, and social factors on the historical and current structure of the U.S. health-care system. 
• Determine the various roles and responsibilities of interdisciplinary health-care team members and the required credentials.
• Assess the leadership and managerial role of the health-care administrator.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Based on “Case Study: Fetal Abnormality” and other required topic study materials, write a 750-1,000-word reflection that answers the following questions:

1. What is the Christian view of the nature of human persons, and which theory of moral status is it compatible with? How is this related to the intrinsic human value and dignity?
2. Which theory or theories are being used by Jessica, Marco, Maria, and Dr. Wilson to determine the moral status of the fetus? What from the case study specifically leads you to believe that they hold the theory you selected?
3. How does the theory determine or influence each of their recommendations for action?
4. What theory do you agree with? Why? How would that theory determine or influence the recommendation for action?

Remember to support your responses with the topic study materials.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

The purpose of a research proposal is to identify and formulate questions that arise from nursing practice and to design a research project to study the identified problem. The goal of a research proposal is to present and justify a research idea you have and to present the practical ways in which you think this research should be conducted. Research proposals contain extensive literature reviews and must provide persuasive evidence that there is a need for the proposed research study. In addition to providing a rationale for the proposed research, a proposal describes detailed methodology for conducting the research consistent with requirements of the professional or academic field and a statement on anticipated outcomes and/or benefits derived from the study.

Directions

Write a research proposal using your clinical question formulated earlier in the course that was approved by your instructor. This may be either a qualitative or quantitative research proposal. Your proposal must include APA formatting. The proposal should be a 6–10 in length plus appendices cover page, and reference page. The appendices should include your survey instrument created in week 6. You will be presenting your research proposal in a 6–8 minute recorded presentation in week 8.

Introduction

• Clearly stated problem and purpose of the study
• Independent and dependent variables
• Definition of terms
• Assumptions, hypothesis, or questions (depending on research type)

Theoretical Framework

• Description of the theoretical framework to be utilized
• Identification of the concepts to be explored
• Rationale for choosing framework

Review of the literature

• At least four scholarly sources included
• Appropriateness of the review and the proposal focus
• Inclusion of primary or secondary sources

Methodology

• Description of study type (quantitative or qualitative)
• Description of study design
• Rationale for the use of the selected design
• Inclusion of sample size, type, sampling method, inclusion/exclusion criteria, setting, data collection method (instrument), and data collection process
• Method for Protection of Human Subjects (consent)
• Questionnaire and consent forms must be included as appendices

Data Analysis

• Data analysis method is appropriate for study design.
• Method of data analysis is clearly stated.
• Method for displaying findings is stated.

Applicability to Nursing

• Research focuses on a problem significant to nursing.
• Research would contribute to nursing knowledge.
• Proposal is complete so that another researcher could replicate the study.
• Statement about areas of nursing that would benefit from this study.