Discussion: Caldwell County Community Assessment Project
Discussion: Caldwell County Community Assessment Project
Question Description
I’m studying for my Nursing class and don’t understand how to answer this. Can you help me study?
Purpose:
The purpose of this assignment is to encourage nurses to become aware of local environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural resources in their community to meet the specific population of their chosen clinical project. Using a systematic method of assessing the community, nurses become aware of not only the resource they can use to promote health, but also the gaps that may exist in resource availability, especially for those vulnerable populations. Directed toward the student’s chosen clinical project, the Community Assessment assignment, Health Promotion assignment, and Community Intervention Plan assignment follow the same community and dovetail into each other.
This first assignment uses the Windshield Survey technique which was completed during Week 2 in the discussion forum.
Paper length is between three (3) to five (5) double spaced pages (excluding title, reference, and Appendix pages) using APA (7th ed.) style and formatting. Paper must include at least three (3) scholarly journal references outside of the assigned course readings. While the student will use websites to gather epidemiological information, these resources will not be considered scholarly articles. Scholarly articles are peer reviewed, usually include an abstract, consist of several references, contain several pages, and are usually research oriented or discuss a topic comprehensively. All references must be current (published within the past five (5) years).
Requirements:
1. Incorporate the clinical project topic (childhood chronic disease prevention, chronic disease and food security, emergency preparedness, or mental illness prevention) into the title of the paper, as well as, in the Introduction section.
2. Using the county where you reside, use Box 11.4 as found in the DeMarco & Healey-Walsh (2020,pp.240-241) textbook to perform a community assessment. This assessment is done partly by using information gathered from local, state, and federal statistics. Remember that the information obtained should relate to your chosen project and discussion of the information should include impact to the project population. The windshield portion of the community assessment was completed in Week 2. You can use the Appendix created in that assignment for this paper.
Your paper should include:
• Breakdown of population demographics(including age, gender, race/ethnicity, income, housing,
and education levels)
• Boundaries
• Availability of housing for different income levels
• Open spaces (parks, recreation)
NUR 406E Community Assessment Paper 2
• Accessibility to transportation
• Social services
• Stores (grocery, pharmacy, clothing)
• Social activities
• Environmental conditions
• Accessibility of health services
• Religion/spirituality
• Health indicators (substance abuse, mental illness)
• Political/social justice indicators
• Media resources
• Business and industry
3. On the Brightspace site, please see the various links to federal and state agencies for health
information. You can use a variety of sources to gather your information: phonebooks, local county health department reports, Chamber of Commerce resources, non-profit agency information, and faith/spiritual sites.
4. A paper template has been provided for you on Brightspace. You are able to use this template if you so choose.
5. Data collected in the Windshield Survey can be presented in a tabular format in an Appendix. If you wish to see an example of how the Appendix should be formatted, please see the paper template on Brightspace.
6. When presenting your findings in the Appendix, use a narrative (not bullets) to describe your findings.
7. In the body of the assignment, provide an overview of the county you have chosen. Use demographic information and physical location information (boundaries) in this section.
8. Using epidemiological statistics and scholarly articles as supportive citations and references identify two (2) negative health indicators that impact your chosen clinical project. Discuss why these two negative health indicators are a public health concern.
9. Using the information you gathered for the Appendix, discuss two (2) socioeconomic barriers that contribute to the negative health indicators of the chosen population in your clinical project..
10. Using the information you gathered for the Appendix and social determinants of health, examine how political and social justice – or lack of – contribute to the negative health indicators.
11. The paper must follow APA format: include title page, reference page, use 12-point Times New Roman font, and include in-text citations (use citations whenever paraphrasing, using statistics, or quoting from an article). Please refer to your APA manual as a guide for in-text citations and sample reference papers.
12. Students are permitted a maximum of two (2) direct quotes. More than two direct quotes will result in a loss of points.
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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.