Community Health Settings Assignment
Community Settings
Community Health Settings Assignment
This week’s graded topics relate to the following Course Outcomes (COs).
• CO3: Plan prevention and population-focused interventions for vulnerable populations using professional clinical judgment and evidence-based practice. (POs 4 and 8)
• CO5: Analyze the nursing roles in providing comprehensive care in a variety of community health settings. (PO1)
Community health nurses practice in a variety of settings. Choose one of the following CH settings, and describe what you have learned about the setting and the role(s) of the nurse in that setting (see Nies & McEwen, 2019, Chapters 30-34). Please do not choose home health nursing for this discussion because your paper is on home health nursing.
- School nursing
• Faith-based or parish nursing
• Occupational health nursing
• Forensic Nursing
• Hospice nursing
• Correctional nursing
Next study levels of prevention in this week’s lesson (primary, secondary, and tertiary). Note that the term primary is used differently than in normal conversation.
- Describe one of the levels of prevention, and discuss how a community health nurse (CHN) in the setting you discussed can implement this level of prevention.
Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2019). Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (7th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.
Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2019). Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (7th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.
Community Health Settings Assignment Reading
Required
- Chapter 34: Home Health and Hospice, pp. 674–689
Also choose one of following.
- Chapter 30: School Health, pp. 613–627
- Chapter 31: Occupational Health, pp. 630–645
- Chapter 32: Forensic and Correctional Nursing, pp. 646-658
- Chapter 33: Faith Community Health, pp. 660-671
Or read this article on public health nursing.
Kub, J. E., Kulbok, P. A., Miner, S., & Merrill, J. A. (2017). Increasing the capacity of public health nursing to strengthen the public health infrastructure and to promote and protect the health of communities and populations. Nursing Outlook, 6, 5661–664. doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2017.08.009. Retrieved from https://www-sciencedirect-com.chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0029655417304086 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Lambert, V., & Keogh, D. (2014). Health literacy and its importance for effective communication. Part 2. Nursing Children & Young People, 26(4), 32–36. doi:10.7748/ncyp2014.05.26.4.32.e387 Retrieved from https://chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=95933244&site=eds-live
Please include all reading and additional reading, also use one outside scholarly references all with all the readings
Community Health Settings Assignment 2
Paper details
The role of this paper must be on Home Health Nursing (not including hospice).
Instructions, please follow.
Include this textbook when citing and just one quote. I will provide the pages to read from to help in the paper.
Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2019). Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (7th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.
This APA paper is expected to be no more than four pages in length (not including the title page and reference list).
• maximum of one quotation should be used for this paper.
Introduction (one paragraph):
• The introduction should be interesting and capture the reader’s attention.
• Introduce the assigned community health nurse role and a community setting where this nurse may work.
• Introduce your community and where/how this CHN role is utilized in your community
• Identify population(s) served by this role in your community
• Include a purpose statement
• Community Setting (two to three paragraphs)
• Describe a practice setting for the assigned CHN role.
• Describe the population(s) served in this setting.
• Discuss three health services provided by the assigned CHN role in this setting.
• You may use your textbook or an outside scholarly source to address these sub-points.
• Health Promotion Nursing Intervention (two to three paragraphs)
• Describe in detail health promotion intervention(s) of the assigned CHN role specific to the community setting identified.
• Identify people/organizations/community members this CHN role may collaborate with in health promotion interventions.
• Include one peer-reviewed journal article discussed that clearly relates to nursing health promotion intervention.
• Professional Nursing Organization (two paragraphs)
• Provide a detailed description of a professional nursing organization that supports nurses in this role in your own words. Search the text, your article, or the Internet for one professional organization that supports nurses in this role. If you can’t find an organization specific to this group, search the American Nurses Association (ANA) website for information on this role. Cite the organization in the body of the text with (organization name, year), and include a complete reference on the reference page.
• Discuss one professional issue that this organization is addressing related to this CHN role.
• Summary (one paragraph)
The summary reiterates key points about:
o The CHN role and community setting
o Health promotion intervention
o Professional organization
o Includes 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 or organization, 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 Chamberlain Guidelines for Professional Writing in the APA Folder in Course Resources for examples of properly formatted references.
