COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT PAPER (CAP) (25%)
The BSN student will obtain data pertaining to the county in Florida where they reside, Holmes County, Florida.
Demographic information about the county can be obtained by clicking on the “United States Census Bureau” found under the Links in the home page of the Canvas course.
Students can find most of the health data pertaining to their county by clicking on the “Florida Health Statistics,” Link in the home page as well, where county specific profiles, health profiles, and morbidity and mortality rates can be located. Other county health-related data can be found by clicking on the “Florida Department of Health” Link then clicking on the statistics and data, diseases and conditions.
By exploring these and other websites ,students can research and obtain as much demographic and health related data as possible about the county they are evaluating. Once the data has been collected, the student will use the nursing process to analyze the facts and statistics and determine what their county’s health strengths, weaknesses, and needs are and formulate a proposed plan of care for that community.
Discuss how would you as a community health nurse intervene and help empower members of this community to choose healthier lifestyle behaviors? Other examples of community health concerns, you could address for your county are teen pregnancy rates, infant mortality rates, sexually transmitted disease or communicable disease rates, cancer rates, drug use rates, accident rates, etc. Look at the data and see what the potential needs are for the county you are assessing.
The Healthy People 2020 website and Public Health Intervention Wheel/Minnesota Intervention Wheel (found under the links on the home page of the course site) offers further information and assistance in completing the steps of the nursing process for this community assessment exercise. The student will present their community findings and proposed plan of care in a professional paper format.
The community assessment paper should include at least three current evidenced-based, peer-reviewed nursing journal articles and must be typed using APA format. APA format is just as important as the content, if the paper is not in the correct format it will not be accepted.
The paper must be at least 6-8 pages in length not including title page, reference page, tables, graphs, or other illustrations.
Community Assessment Papers will be graded using the following criteria:
Identifies and describes population (10 points)
General characteristics of the community: what are the age groups of the population? What is the rate of males to females? What is the ethnicity of the community? What is the poverty level?
What are supportive agencies and resources in the community?
Describe a Health Promotion Theory used as a model for your assessment and intervention.
Discusses county specific data about the community (20 points)
Leading causes of morbidity, prevalent diseases/conditions, causes of death, compare morbidity and mortality rates and disease rates with state and nation, immunization status, extent of disabilities, identified stressors, adequacy of protective services, rates of crime, homicide and suicide, mental illness rates, food preferences, nutritional level, obesity rates, underweight rates, alcohol, tobacco or other drug use rates, available exercise opportunities and extent they are used, opportunities for leisure activities, contraceptive use rates, prevalence of unsafe sex practices, sexually transmitted and communicable disease rates, safety practices used (i.e. seat belt use)
Where is the community located? how large/dense is the population?, topographical features that influence health of the community, types and conditions of housing, source and safety of water, sewage and waste disposal handling, nuisance factors (animals, noise, mosquitoes), pollution, potential for disasters (hurricanes, tornadoes), disaster plans in place, how are decisions in the community made and who makes them?, cultural/spiritual groups in the community, language(s) spoken, religious affiliations, rate of unemployment, educational level, mode of transportation and accessibility, typical family structure, availability and accessibility of primary, secondary and tertiary preventive services, barriers to these services, how these services are financed, community attitudes toward health care services/providers.
Analyzes data obtained from data collection (10 points)
Identifies health strengths of the community with supportive data
Identifies health weaknesses/problems of the community with supportive
Criteria used to determine priorities discussed
List of community priorities for health status in order of priority
Formulates potential and actual community-focused nursing goals for the community based on Healthy People 2020 goals and objectives and National Patient Safety Goals (5 points)
Proposed plan of care for intervening for identified problems (20 points)
Interventions
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Evaluation
Discusses how interventions could be evaluated
Discusses how goals could be evaluated
Incorporates at least 3 current peer-reviewed, evidenced-based journal articles (20points)
References, APA, grammar (5 points)
Upload to e-portfolio assignment (10 points)-Required to be done before any grade is given on this assignment.(See Instructor First Day Handout for e-portfolio criteria)
The community assessment paper must be submitted to Turn it In and have a similarity score <20%. Papers with scores higher than 20% will not be accepted.
