Please note research can NOT be on organization related to minors, incarcerated individuals or mental health co morbidities. Research a selected local, national, or global nonprofit organization or government agency to determine how it contributes to public health and safety improvements, promotes equal opportunity, and improves the quality of life within the community. Submit your findings in a 3-5 page report.

As you begin to prepare this assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Nonprofit Organizations and Community Health activity. Complete this activity to gain insight into promoting equal opportunity and improving the quality of life in a community. The information gained from completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment.

Professional Context

Many organizations work to better local and global communities’ quality of life and promote health and safety in times of crisis. As public health and safety advocates, nurses must be cognizant of how such organizations help certain populations. As change agents, nurses must be aware of factors that impact the organization and the services that it offers. Familiarity with these organizations enables the nurse to offer assistance as a volunteer and source of referral.

This assessment provides an opportunity for you gain insight into the mission, vision, and operations of a community services organization of interest.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze health risks and health care needs among distinct populations. 
  • Explain how an organization’s work impacts the health and/or safety needs of a local community.
• Competency 2: Propose health promotion strategies to improve the health of populations. 
  • Explain how an organization’s mission and vision enable it to contribute to public health and safety improvements.
• Competency 3: Evaluate health policies, based on their ability to achieve desired outcomes. 
  • Assess the impact of funding sources, policy, and legislation on an organization’s provision of services.
• Competency 4: Integrate principles of social justice in community health interventions. 
  • Evaluate an organization’s ability to promote equal opportunity and improve the quality of life within a community.
• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health. 
  • Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Note: Complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Preparation

Assume you are interested in expanding your role as a nurse and are considering working in an area where you can help to promote equal opportunity and improve the quality of life within the local or global community. You are aware of the work of several nonprofit organizations and government agencies whose work contributes to this effort in some way. You have particular interest in one of these organizations but would like to know more about how it contributes to public health and safety improvements. In addition, you would like to report the results of your research in a scholarly paper that you could submit for publication.

As you begin to prepare this assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Nonprofit Organizations and Community Health activity. Complete this activity to gain insight into promoting equal opportunity and improving the quality of life in a community. The information gained from completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment.

Then, choose the organization or agency you are most interested in researching:

• American Heart Association.
• World Heart Federation.
• Peace Corps.
• American Red Cross.
• Habitat for Humanity.
• United Way.
• Doctors Without Borders.
• The Salvation Army.
• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Instructions

Research your chosen organization and submit a report of your findings.

Document Format and Length

Format your paper using APA style.

• Use the APA Style Paper Template. An APA Style Paper Tutorial is also provided to help you in writing and formatting your paper. Be sure to include: 
  • A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.
  • A running head on all pages.
  • Appropriate section headings.
• Your paper should comprise 3–5 pages of content plus title and references pages.

Supporting Evidence

Cite at least three credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications that support your research findings.

Graded Requirements

The research requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the assessment scoring guide, so be sure to address each point.

• Explain how the organization’s mission and vision enable it to contribute to public health and safety improvements. 
  • Include examples of ways a local and/or global initiative supports organizational mission and vision and promotes public health and safety.
• Evaluate an organization’s ability to promote equal opportunity and improve the quality of life in the community. 
  • Consider the effects of social, cultural, economic, and physical barriers.
• Assess the impact of funding sources, policy, and legislation on the organization’s provision of services. 
  • Consider the potential implications of funding decisions, policy, and legislation for individuals, families, and aggregates within the community.
• Explain how an organization’s work impacts the health and/or safety needs of a local community. 
  • Consider how nurses might become involved with the organization.
• Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style. 
  • Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
  • Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements

 

The topic for the power point is based on a medical case concerning hypertension incident in the hispanic population.  Must include works cited in APA format.

the topics for the power point will include:

Distribution table

Graphs

1. Histogram
2. Bar Graph
3. Circle graph
4. Frequency polygon

Centralization measures

1. Mean or Arithmetic Average.
2. Median
3. Mode

Position measures

1. Quartiles
2. Deciles
3. Percentiles

Measures of dispersion

1. Range
2. Mean deviation
3. Variance
4. Typical Deviation (Standard deviation).

Attached are the directions that were given for formulating the power point. Be sure to follow these instructions exactly. Cannot be any less than 17 slides.

Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations.

For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses work more hours in a shift, they commit more errors. How do effective leaders find a balance between the needs of the organization and the needs of ensuring quality, effective, and safe patient care?

In this Discussion, you will reflect on a national healthcare issue and examine how competing needs may impact the development of polices to address that issue. 

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources and think about the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously selected 
• Reflect on the competing needs in healthcare delivery as they pertain to the national healthcare issue/stressor you previously examined.

Question

Post an explanation of how competing needs, such as the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients, may impact the development of policy. Then, describe any specific competing needs that may impact the national healthcare issue/stressor you selected. What are the impacts, and how might policy address these competing needs? Be specific and provide examples.

 

Read and critically examine the article entitled Population-Level Intervention Strategies and Examples for Obesity Prevention in Childre by Foltz et al (2012).  File is attached 

Answer ALL of the following questions in your post:

-Select and describe (in your own words) at least two of the intervention strategies outlined by the author that you think would work the best in your community. 

-Why did you pick those specific intervention strategies?

-What do you predict would be barriers to the two intervention strategies you selected?  Why?

-How could the use of technology such as novel electronic approaches, social media, etc. be implemented in the intervention strategies you selected? 

-How would you evaluate the success of the intervention strategies you selected? 

*one page essay

*must be in APA 

*use one more journal nursing article as a reference 

 Submit a paper describing a client, family member, or other individual you know who has a degenerative cognitive disorder. Possible conditions include Vascular dementia, Lewy Body disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, AIDS-related dementia and delirium, among others. Include at least two APA citations from sources that provide information for this paper:

• Introduce the person with a brief social and medical history. What were the events leading up to the diagnosis? How did the person find out about the condition?
• Describe the disorder. What are the risk factors for the disorder?
• How is the condition diagnosed? Include any cognitive assessments, lab tests, or other medical exams.
• Describe treatment options. These may include psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, environmental adaptations, nursing interventions, and referrals to support groups.
• Conclude with an update about the person you chose to discuss. Is this a reversible, treatable condition or an irreversible condition? What was the outcome?
• You may choose your material from the textbook or from other sources.
• It is expected that this essay will be 2-3 pages in length (not including the title page), double-spaced. Your paper should include an introduction and conclusion and proper APA citations from any source material you use, including your text.