NRS 428 Benchmark – Community Teaching Plan Community Teaching Work Plan Proposal

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Community Teaching Work Plan Proposal

Hygiene is an essential part of healthy living. Every individual ought to adhere to the hygienic practices to prevent diseases and complications that arise from dirty environments. Every person need to maintain high level of hygiene right from childhood to adulthood. There are some cases when hygienic conditions are not taken into consideration among the teachers, students, and parents; a scenario that leads to the continuous spread of pathogens or germs. As a result, there is always the need to initiate different practices of handwashing to educate different individuals on the basic approaches to maintaining hygienic conditions to reduce the spread of diseases causing organisms. Community teaching work plan is a critical approach of sensitizing the community or a group of people on ensuring hygienic conditions (McGetrick et al., 2019). The community teaching work plan is also essential in reducing the spread of infectious diseases. The proposal explores and examines the essence of hand washing to prevent the spread of disease causing organisms within Shaman Oaks High School. Various methods of hygiene will be used to manage the spread of pathogens not only for the students or learners, but also for the parents and teachers associated with the institution.

Planning and Topic

Directions: Creating educational series proposal for the community through the application of one of the outlined topics.

1. Environmental concerns/issues
2. Disaster or bioterrorism
3. Health promotion/primary prevention
4. Screening for the vulnerable population or secondary preventions

Planning Before Teaching:

Identification of Focus for Community Teaching:

School children are more prone to diseases or infections due to the activities that they often engage in. They are often involved in risky behaviors that expose them into contact with various forms of diseases. As a result, continuous hand washing activities is one of the effective ways of ensuring the spread of diseases (Sowden et al., 2018). Through hand washing, it becomes easier to prevent infections or diseases such as diarrhea, water-borne diseases, food-borne diseases, common colds, as well as the influenza. Continuous cleaning of hands through the application of sanitizers, safe water, and soap among the school going children, parents and teachers should be mandatory to stop the spread of diseases. According to the Center for Disease Control, there are over 52 million incidences of common cold among the school going children aged below 17 years in the United States. The above case often leads into the over 22 million schools days lost each year. On the other hand, 10% to 20% of Americans often become affected by the influenza; however, children are always the most affected, in other words, they usually remain vulnerable to serious complication resulting from the flu virus. Diarrhea is one of the most common symptoms of the water-borne or food borne diseases that is ranked second most infectious disease after the common cold. The infectious disease often affect children leading to the loss of 25 days of school days every year. The above condition also impact over 100 members of the population each year. Infectious diseases can be easily spread from one individual to the other within the school environment due to the close contacts that people has.

Epidemiological Rationale for Topic

The epidemiological rationale is derived from the idea that hand washing through the application of the detergents greatly reduce the risks associated with the transmission of the infectious diseases that cause diarrhea by close to 50%.  According to the Center for Disease Control, every person is required to wash their hand using soap and clean water for about 15 to 25 minutes before handling food after coughing or sneezing or after visiting a toilet or handling animals (Patwardhan, Amin, & Chewning, 2017). Also, an individual can apply alcohol-based sanitizers or gel in case soap and water are not available. Hand washing also reduces continuous transmission of infectious diseases; the application of soaps or detergents kill pathogens. The application of the alcohol-based sanitizers is always effective whenever there is lack of water. Hand sanitizers often reduce the spread of infectious diseases by close to 20%.

Teaching Plan Criteria

Nursing Diagnosis:

Respiratory and gastrointestinal infections often result from lack of knowledge on effective hand washing among the school going children between the age of 10 and 17 years. Lack of effective approaches to hand hygiene mostly impact children specifically when they are not informed the best procedures of hand washing. As a result, they are not always able to protect themselves against the infectious diseases that may interfere with their immune system.

Readiness for Learning

Emotional readiness

When it comes to the hand washing practices, learners often show curiosity by attending classes willfully within the scheduled time. Emotional readiness is also experienced when learners pay attention to the instructors when it comes to the hygienic practices. Ability to understand and practice hand washing practices to prevent the spread of diseases affirms the student readiness to take part in the learning process.

Experimental Readiness

The experimental readiness will involve assessing the feelings of the participants or learners towards the spread of the infectious diseases. The assessment will involve asking appropriate questions concerning the risk factors associated with poor hand hygiene. The assessment will also involve learner’s engagement in the healthy conversations as well as the application of body language to determine understanding of the concepts. Learner’s readiness can also be observed when learners are able to take part or get engaged in the actual activities of hand washing.

To ensure understanding of concepts among the learners, the application of the social development theory will be utilized. The above theoretical approach ensures that there is the comprehension of the contents. Also, the application of the theory ensures the enhancement of the social interactions through narrowing of the communication gap between the learners and the instructor. As an educator, I have a strong belief that learning processes, especially among the children is often improved when they are involved in the activities that directly impact their lives. In the learning process, I will apply demonstration to encourage the interactions among the learners and to foster positive relationships among them. The above theory also emphasizes on the social behavior and socialization among the learners. On the basis of the above premise, I will mostly apply group presentations to encourage interactions and learning from each other. The application of the presentations will also enable learners/children to develop cognitive skills on various methods of hand washing usually practices within the communities and the schools (Hendricks & Wangerin, 2017). The educational approach that is relevant to the theory include the expression of the eye contact, body language, as well as the repetition to facilitate the effectiveness of the theory.

Goal

The main goal reflected in this proposal involve reduction, prevention, and elimination of the healthcare associated illnesses. Another goal involves the promotion of the respiratory health status through encouragement of early detection, as well as better treatment processes for the vulnerable individuals. In line with the above objectives, HP2020 objectives often support educational processes to the vulnerable populations specifically the children on effective practices on hand hygiene. The prevention processes associated with hand washing often reduce the costs involved in the treatment of illnesses caused by the poor hygienic conditions. The above scenario is supported by the fact that hand washing practices reduce the spread of HAIs as well as other diseases that are readily transmitted through contacts.

How Does This HP2020 Objective Relate to Alma

Ata’s Health for All Global Initiatives

The objectives of HP2020 are the same as the Alma Ata’s Global Initiatives to prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases or endemic diseases and to provide immunization processes to fight infectious diseases. On the other hand, Alma Ata’s Health for All Global Initiative aims at addressing disparities that exist in health status especially when looking at the vulnerable populations. As a result, HP2020 share same goals with the Alma because they both emphasize on the improved health outcomes to all the individuals at all times (Pritchard, 2016). In the above context, the two conventions identify the spread of the infectious diseases as a result of poor hand hygiene and provide guidelines that can be used to control the behaviors of the people to increase the transmission rates.

Develop Behavioral Objectives (Including Domains), Content, and Strategies/Methods:

Creativity

The theory in the spread of the infectious diseases was examined and explained through the application of the visual effects as demonstrated in the screen. The PowerPoint presentation utilized greatly changed the roles of the instructor in cases when the learners were able to perform hand washing practices.

Planned Evaluation of Objectives (Outcome Evaluation)

1. I will engage students through asking questions to examine the knowledge obtained on the importance of hand washing practices
2. I will keenly observe learners games and breaks to evaluate their knowledge on the hand washing practices and address them on the risks or dangers associated with the poor hygiene.
3. I will assigned one teacher and one family member to demonstrate hand washing techniques to the learners/children.
4. I will also assess how each individual take their time on hand washing practices after conducting the demonstration.

Planned Evaluation of Goal

I will encourage learners to attend at least six lessons on hand washing practices. Towards the completion of the first four classes, I will encourage learner to demonstrate the hand washing practices. On the other hand, I will observe the frequency and consistency on how the learners observe or follow the instructions given.

Planned Evaluation of Lesson and Teacher (Process Evaluation)

In the process of evaluation, I will require three members of staff (teachers) to get engaged in the assessment processes. In the process I will formulate the entire emerging issues involving my proposal. Additionally, I will involve family members and children who are present by proving them with a blank piece of paper to secretly allow them record their observations about the demonstration as well as the learning techniques. The above practices will be done towards the end of demonstrations and learning processes so as to make a clear conclusion about the approaches used.

Barriers

Embarrassment is one of the challenge that may be encountered in the process of demonstrating how to conduct hand washing processes. Some learners may become shy while demonstrating hand washing processes. Some may also become overexcited and fail to effectively demonstrate hand washing processes. Another barrier that may be encountered is the Disruptive learners. Due to excitement, some learners may disrupt the learning of other students particularly during the demonstration processes.

Therapeutic Communication

To start off the topic, I will engage in the demonstration processes to show learners how to perform the hand washing processes. Further, in cases there are learners who fail to understand the demonstration processes, I will apply the relatable narration to ensure that the concepts are well understood. Finally, I will apply PowerPoint presentation as well as the handouts to give instructions to the learners on different approaches to hand washing. Also, I will recap the practices of handwashing to ensure that all learners get the message.

References

McGetrick, J. A., Kongats, K., Raine, K. D., Voyer, C., & Nykiforuk, C. I. (2019). Healthy public policy options to promote physical activity for chronic disease prevention: understanding Canadian policy influencer and general public preferences. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 16(7), 565-574.

Sowden, S., Koletsi, S., Lymberopoulos, E., Militaru, E., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). Quantifying compliance and acceptance through public and private social conformity. Consciousness and cognition, 65, 359-367.

Hendricks, S. M., & Wangerin, V. (2017). Concept-based curriculum: changing attitudes and overcoming barriers. Nurse educator, 42(3), 138-142.

Patwardhan, P. D., Amin, M. E., & Chewning, B. A. (2017). Intervention research to enhance community pharmacists’ cognitive services: a systematic review. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 10(3), 475-493.

Pritchard, A. (2016). Engagement with ideas and understanding: An essential for effective learning in the electronic age. In Engaged learning with emerging technologies (pp. 177-201). Springer, Dordrecht.