Assessment 1 Instructions: Problem Identification 

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     Use a provided template to develop a 2-4 page submission in which you research and define a patient, family, or population health problem relevant to personal practice.
  Important: Complete this assessment first and complete all other assessments in the order they are presented.
  In this assessment, you will lay the foundation for the work that will carry through your capstone experience and guide the practice hours to complete the work in this course. The purpose of this assessment is to allow you to define a patient, family, or population health problem that is relevant to your personal practice and to begin building a body of evidence that will inform your approach to your practice hours, the intervention you design, and the professional product you will deliver.
  Demonstration of Proficiency
  By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
   
  • Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.     
    • Define a patient, family, or population health problem that is relevant to personal practice.
  • Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.     
    • Analyze evidence from the literature and professional sources to define and guide nursing actions related to a health problem.
  • Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.     
    • Propose strategies to improve patient or population outcomes related to a health problem.
  • Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.     
    • Reflect on state board nursing practice standards relevant to a selected health problem.
    • Communicate professionally in writing that is clear and logically organized, with correct grammar, spelling, and use of APA style.
  • Important: Complete this assessment first and complete all other assessments in the order they are presented.
    Professional Context
    Nurses are leaders in problem identification and solution, planning and implementing patient care strategies to address problems in the home, hospital, and community. This assessment will help you develop a problem statement for a patient, family, or population health concern.
    Instructions
    Throughout this capstone course, you will be investigating a patient, family, or population health problem relevant to your practice. For this assessment, you will identify the problem that you will address throughout your clinical practicum in this course, as well as begin to establish your evidence and research base to plan, implement, and share findings related to your project. The Problem Identification Template [DOC] will guide you through development of a problem statement, evidence collection and analysis, and best practices to help you create your implementation plan for the second assessment in this course.
    Your submission for this assessment will be the completed template. When working through the template, you may use the resources provided in this course; however, most of your research and search for evidence will be conducted by you. Use the Capella University Library, professional organization and government resources, and relevant organizational best practices as sources of evidence. This is the capstone course for your BSN degree; your goal is to demonstrate your achievement of the program outcomes through your work on this project.
    The following are some health issues that would be appropriate for your project:
     
  • Diabetes self-management.
  • Hypertension management and prevention.
  • Medication reconciliation within a family or group.
  • Parkinson’s disease support group.
  • Patient family education communication improvements.
  • Postoperative home care.
  • This list is by no means exhaustive. You should choose a patient, family, or population health issue that is relevant to your practice and organization; you must be able to study the problem in your practicum effectively.
    You must complete this assessment first. This assessment is your opportunity to plan your practicum and to establish a collaborative oversight process with your course faculty. You must not begin any direct clinical activities or submit any other assessment until Assessment 1 is completed and assessed by faculty. Any other course assessments will be returned with no feedback until Assessment 1 is complete.
    So please remember: Assessment 1 needs to be reviewed and approved by your faculty. Assessments 2, 3, 4, and 5 should not be submitted until you have received feedback on Assessment 1.
    Scoring Guide Criteria
    Your submission will be assessed based on the following criteria:
     
  • Define a patient, family, or population health problem that is relevant to personal practice.
  • Analyze evidence from the literature and professional sources to define and guide nursing actions related to a health problem.
  • Propose strategies to improve patient or population outcomes related to a health problem.
  • Reflect on state board nursing practice standards relevant to a selected health problem.
  • Communicate professionally in writing that is clear and logically organized, with correct grammar, spelling, and use of APA style.
  • Please identify your relationship to the patient (friend and family) and how you made contact with the individual. Remember to only use the individual’s initials in your assessment to protect privacy.
    CORE ELMS
    Completion of this course requires a remote rather than a face-to-face clinical practicum. You are required to log your time in the CORE ELMS system just as you have for past courses with clinical interaction. The CORE ELMS link is located in the left-hand navigation pane.
    Additional Requirements
     
  • Length of submission: Use the provided template. Most submissions will be 2 to 4 pages. You do not need to include a title page. Be sure to complete the reference page at the end of the template.
  • Number of references: Cite a minimum of 5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old.
  • APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.
  • Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the assessment to your ePortfolio. After you complete your program you may want to consider leveraging your Portfolio as part of a job search or other demonstration of your academic competencies.

Assessment 1 Instructions: Problem Identification 

•  
     Use a provided template to develop a 2-4 page submission in which you research and define a patient, family, or population health problem relevant to personal practice.
  Important: Complete this assessment first and complete all other assessments in the order they are presented.
  In this assessment, you will lay the foundation for the work that will carry through your capstone experience and guide the practice hours to complete the work in this course. The purpose of this assessment is to allow you to define a patient, family, or population health problem that is relevant to your personal practice and to begin building a body of evidence that will inform your approach to your practice hours, the intervention you design, and the professional product you will deliver.
  Demonstration of Proficiency
  By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
   
  • Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.     
    • Define a patient, family, or population health problem that is relevant to personal practice.
  • Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.     
    • Analyze evidence from the literature and professional sources to define and guide nursing actions related to a health problem.
  • Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.     
    • Propose strategies to improve patient or population outcomes related to a health problem.
  • Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.     
    • Reflect on state board nursing practice standards relevant to a selected health problem.
    • Communicate professionally in writing that is clear and logically organized, with correct grammar, spelling, and use of APA style.
  • Important: Complete this assessment first and complete all other assessments in the order they are presented.
    Professional Context
    Nurses are leaders in problem identification and solution, planning and implementing patient care strategies to address problems in the home, hospital, and community. This assessment will help you develop a problem statement for a patient, family, or population health concern.
    Instructions
    Throughout this capstone course, you will be investigating a patient, family, or population health problem relevant to your practice. For this assessment, you will identify the problem that you will address throughout your clinical practicum in this course, as well as begin to establish your evidence and research base to plan, implement, and share findings related to your project. The Problem Identification Template [DOC] will guide you through development of a problem statement, evidence collection and analysis, and best practices to help you create your implementation plan for the second assessment in this course.
    Your submission for this assessment will be the completed template. When working through the template, you may use the resources provided in this course; however, most of your research and search for evidence will be conducted by you. Use the Capella University Library, professional organization and government resources, and relevant organizational best practices as sources of evidence. This is the capstone course for your BSN degree; your goal is to demonstrate your achievement of the program outcomes through your work on this project.
    The following are some health issues that would be appropriate for your project:
     
  • Diabetes self-management.
  • Hypertension management and prevention.
  • Medication reconciliation within a family or group.
  • Parkinson’s disease support group.
  • Patient family education communication improvements.
  • Postoperative home care.
  • This list is by no means exhaustive. You should choose a patient, family, or population health issue that is relevant to your practice and organization; you must be able to study the problem in your practicum effectively.
    You must complete this assessment first. This assessment is your opportunity to plan your practicum and to establish a collaborative oversight process with your course faculty. You must not begin any direct clinical activities or submit any other assessment until Assessment 1 is completed and assessed by faculty. Any other course assessments will be returned with no feedback until Assessment 1 is complete.
    So please remember: Assessment 1 needs to be reviewed and approved by your faculty. Assessments 2, 3, 4, and 5 should not be submitted until you have received feedback on Assessment 1.
    Scoring Guide Criteria
    Your submission will be assessed based on the following criteria:
     
  • Define a patient, family, or population health problem that is relevant to personal practice.
  • Analyze evidence from the literature and professional sources to define and guide nursing actions related to a health problem.
  • Propose strategies to improve patient or population outcomes related to a health problem.
  • Reflect on state board nursing practice standards relevant to a selected health problem.
  • Communicate professionally in writing that is clear and logically organized, with correct grammar, spelling, and use of APA style.
  • Please identify your relationship to the patient (friend and family) and how you made contact with the individual. Remember to only use the individual’s initials in your assessment to protect privacy.
    CORE ELMS
    Completion of this course requires a remote rather than a face-to-face clinical practicum. You are required to log your time in the CORE ELMS system just as you have for past courses with clinical interaction. The CORE ELMS link is located in the left-hand navigation pane.
    Additional Requirements
     
  • Length of submission: Use the provided template. Most submissions will be 2 to 4 pages. You do not need to include a title page. Be sure to complete the reference page at the end of the template.
  • Number of references: Cite a minimum of 5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old.
  • APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.
  • Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the assessment to your ePortfolio. After you complete your program you may want to consider leveraging your Portfolio as part of a job search or other demonstration of your academic competencies.

Health communication is very important during pandemics e.g. COVID-19. 

1. Discuss how Saudi MOH communicated with the population during COVID-19 and give examples.  
2. What is your opinion? 

Instructions for Completing the Discussion Questions:

• Please post your original response by Wednesday, Your response should be a minimum of 5 sentences but should not exceed 250 words. Appropriately cite any of the references that you use to fully answer the questions

do not copy and use reference

The benchmark assesses the following competency:

4.2 Communicate therapeutically with patients.

The RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, specific care discipline, and local communities.

Note:  The teaching plan proposal developed in this assignment will be used to develop your Community Teaching Plan: Community Presentation due in Topic 5. You are strongly encouraged to begin working on your presentation once you have received and submitted this proposal.

Select one of the following as the focus for the teaching plan:

1. Primary Prevention/Health Promotion
2. Secondary Prevention/Screenings for a Vulnerable Population
3. Bioterrorism/Disaster
4. Environmental Issues

Use the “Community Teaching Work Plan Proposal” resource to complete this assignment. This will help you organize your plan and create an outline for the written assignment.

1. After completing the teaching proposal, review the teaching plan proposal with a community health and public health provider in your local community.
2. Request feedback (strengths and opportunities for improvement) from the provider.
3. Complete the “Community Teaching Experience” form with the provider. You will submit this form in Topic 5.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

Community Strategic Plan: Part B, Strategic Plan 

For this assignment, you will research and prepare a community-level strategic plan that addresses a key public health issue.  

Potential topics may include:

•      Using prenatal and infancy home visits to prevent child abuse and neglect

•      Preventing falls in the elderly

•      Reducing population salt intake

•      Reducing tobacco use among adults

•      Preventing risky sexual behavior among youth and young adults

•      Reducing drug experimentation among young adults

Include the following in your paper:

• Introduction: 
  • Provide an overview of the community health issue as described in Part A with identified causes and influences, including knowledge gaps.  
  • Detail the prevalence of the issue inside and outside the United States. 
  • Describe potential monetary costs associated with the issue in the United States. 
  • You must include data as part of your introduction (images, charts, graphs, etc., may be included as well as written data).
• Describe advance practice roles and management strategies that affect change at the community level.
• Identify key community and social resources that negatively and positivelyaffect the selected issue. 
• Identify changes or enhancements in community-related services for your selected topic. 
• Develop a strategic plan that could decrease the prevalence of your selected topic.The goals for this plan needs to be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound. Include how your plan takes into consideration health literacy, socioeconomic factors, and cultural differences.
• Conclusion:  
  • A summary of the goals and challenges
  • An assessment of the outlook for action/progress 
• Appendix A: Include your community assessment from Week 3 as Appendix A.

Your paper should be 3–5 pages in length (not including the cover or reference pages). Use APA throughout.

Include 2–3 scholarly sources that are carefully selected and appropriate to the topic. References should be current—no more than four years old.