TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE 100 Points

REQUIREMENTS

1. Identify a health problem or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the life span of a population

from a specific culture in your area (this might include age and gender population as well). Choose one of the

Leading Health Indicators (LHI) priorities from Healthy People 2020 (see the Healthy People.gov 2020 Leading

Health Indicators website link in the Assignment section for Unit 2 under “Web Links). Students in a cultural

concentration will use that specific cultural focus to complete this assignment.

2. Research a topic related to health and wellness associated with one of the Healthy People 2020 topic areas.

Students in a cultural concentration will use that specific cultural focus to complete this assignment.

3. Submit your topic to the instructor for approval at least 2 weeks prior to the assignment (during Unit 3) but

earlier if desired. All topics must be approved.

4. You will develop an educational health promotion project addressing the population/culture in your area. For

or example, if you are in the Hispanic concentration, your project might be educational interventions to

address how food choices are related to the high rates of diabetes among Latinos; or, a community project

that addresses the statistic that Hispanics experience new HIV infections at more than twice the rate of whites;

or, finding opportunities to intervene with Puerto Ricans, a Hispanic subculture, who suffer asthma at twice

the rate of the general population (2020 LHI Topic Three: Environmental Quality: (see the Healthy People.gov

2020 Leading Health Indicators website link in the Assignment section for Unit 2 under “Web Links).

5. General expectations

 All articles must be from nursing or scholarly journals and should include health promotion and wellness

content. Articles must be published within the last five (5) years. If you are unsure whether the article is

appropriate, ask your instructor. You could lose significant points if the article is not from a scholarly

source and/or appropriate to the topic.

 Please ask questions if you need clarification.

1. Writing the Paper: You will explore the topic and explain the information in writing a 3‐4 page APA formatted

paper.

a. Select a minimum of three (3) scholarly nursing or research article (published within the last 5 years) related

to your topic that include health promotion and wellness content. Students in a cultural concentration will

select at least one article specifically related to the cultural focus for this assignment. You may need to

evaluate several articles before you find appropriate selections. For more information on how to choose a

scholarly article, open the “Course Resources” tab under the “Course Home” Menu to the left of your

Learning Studio (eCollege) course page and open “What Is a Scholarly Source.”

b. Write a 3‐4 page paper (excluding the title and reference pages) using the following guidelines:

 Write brief introduction of the topic and describe why it is important to health promotion in the

specific cultural population in your area.

 Include a description of the topic and the targeted sub culture or population (include statistics).

 Explain how the project relates to the Healthy People 2020 topic area you have chosen.

 Summarize the articles; include key points or findings from the articles.

 Discuss how you used the information from the articles for your Health Promotion Project. Provide

specific examples.

 Describe the approach/approaches you developed to educate the target population about the topic.

Include specific ways to promote lifestyle changes within the specified population relative to your

specific culture. The approach should be appropriate for your cultural concentration.

 Write your conclusion and summary.

c. Your paper must follow APA format. Include a title page and a reference page. Use 12‐point Times New

Roman font and include in‐text citations (use citations whenever paraphrasing, using statistics, or quoting

from the article). Please refer to your APA manual as a guide for in‐text citations and sample reference

pages.

d. Use TurnItIn in time to make any edits that might be necessary based on the Similarity Index prior to

submitting your paper to your instructor. Consult with your instructor about the acceptable Similarity

Index for this paper.

Write an argumentative research paper on a managed care-related topic, assumption or myth; about social media and health education thoroughly explaining what it is, why it’s important, and how it fundamentally impacts the managed care system today. You will gather evidence on present a well-reasoned argument or debatable issue. The goal of an argumentative paper is to show that your perspective is valid. You are to form reasons, draw conclusions and apply them to your findings. The purpose is not to completely prove your point, but to convince readers, with your evidence, that your argument or position has merit.

An original research paper with a body of 6-8 pages. In general, your paper should consist of the following pages:

Title Page – captivating title, your name, title of the course, date

Body – 6-8 pages of introduction, background on your topic, research support, personal evaluation, strong conclusion. Body should be organized with a minimum of the following titles

• Introduction
• Thesis or Position
• Reasons
• Objections
• Support of Responses
• Conclusion

References Cited page – in APA format. 5 sources 

Phase 4 is all about results, this part of the paper will be based on the hypothetical analysis. Meaning since we will not be implementing the process, the results described will be based on whatever the students would like the research results to be. You will need to provide results for all the statistical tools mentioned and provide descriptive data (demographics of the population, different descriptive data points, etc.). Make sure to also include research limitations to improve for future studies. Approximately 6 pages.

Note: I currently live in the state of florida in miami beach or miami dade county. We have a mix population that includes all races and people from all around the world. 

  

1-Qualitative data are words, instead of numbers. According to Burns, Gray and Grove (2015) “Qualitative research is a systematic approach used to describe experiences and situations from the perspective of the person in the situation. The researcher analyzes the words of the participant, finds meaning in the words, and provides a description of the experience that promotes deeper understanding of the experience”. Initially you want to state the purpose of the study. In a Qualitative study there are different types of perspectives that can be associated with a qualitative study.  Phenomenological, grounded theory, ethnographic, exploratory-descriptive, qualitative and historical are types of research (Grove, 2015).  To assist with the management of the study, according to White, Oleke, and Friesen (2012) they had eight recommendation as follow

• Have      one person manages and organize the study.
• Provide      a through documentation collection and analysis details
• Strict      timeline for data collection, coding and analysis
• Use      of iterative process for data collection and analysis
• Comprehensive      internal audits
• communications      among all members of the team
• resources      are to be utilized to meet dead line
• re-assess      and determine if any changes need to be made.

According to Burns, Gray and Grove (2015) when collecting research, a way to manage the data is by organizing the information into themes and subthemes to form meaning from the data. Data analysis and interpretation allows the researcher to place the findings into the correct category, finding correlation or the non-correlation of the data being obtained.  They must be consistent with the method and the philosophy of the study, allow the data and meaning to be revealed, thus demonstrating the rigor of the study.

Reference

Grove, S., Gray, J., Burns, N., (2015). Understanding Nursing Research, 6th Edition. Retrieved from https://viewer.gcu.edu/DPBXHG

White, D., Oleke, N., & Friesen, S. (2012, July). “Qualitative Data Has Been Described As Voluminous And Sometimes Overwhelming To The Researcher In What Ways Could A Researcher Manage And Organize The Data” Essays and Research Papers. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/160940691201100305

   

2-Qualitative data can be difficult to process and analyze if not organized properly but the organizing itself is often a difficult task because qualitative data by its very meaning has no numerical data that can be placed in any order or sorted. For this very reason, the data almost always has to be separated and sorted by a human being rather than a computer system that would have to be programed to search for a numerical characteristic that doesn’t exist. In the place of these numerical characteristics, the researcher would need to sort their data into themes based around patterns found in their work. These patterns would differ based on the nature of their research. Once these patterns were decided upon they would be used to create groupings for the data.

References

Grove, Susan, Jennifer Gray, Nancy Burns.(2015). Understanding Nursing Research, 6th Edition. Saunders, VitalBook file.

  

3-“Qualitative research is multimethod in focus, involving an interpretive, naturalistic approach to its subject matter. This means that qualitative researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them” (Mcleod, 2008). What this means is that the point of qualitative research is to understand the reality of the subject matter and participants that are being studied, which is why these test subjects are studied in their natural setting. I agree that qualitative data can be voluminous and overwhelming, so organizing large amounts of data in to smaller groups would be preferable. One way you could start would be to divide up the data into the different environments in which they are being studied. For example, if you are assessing fall risks in the elderly in the healthcare setting, there are three different categories you can divide into in themselves. To further break down the data, you could organize any of these groups into different facilities, such as assisted living facilities, hospital, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and adult foster homes. The division of data is all dependent on what the focus of your study is and what end goal you are attempting to achieve. If you are seeking safe staffing ratios, you  could begin by dividing fall risk patients by facilities with higher staffing ratios than those with lower ones to compare and contrast. There really is no “exact answer” on how to organize the data. The development of technology is very helpful in the organization of data in recent years. I believe that professor Mcdonald made a comment earlier about a study that she was once involved in that did not use computers for the organization of data. It would definitely speed up the process of sifting through the information you have for the information that can be used. When it comes to organization, in any capacity, I find that lists and spreadsheets help me to focus my mind and not leave out any important information. This method may not work for everyone, but if I don’t write something down, chances are, it will get forgotten in the end.

References:

Mcleod, S. (2008, February 5). Qualitative vs Quantitative Research | Simply Psychology. Retrieved from https://www.simplypsychology.org/qualitative-quantitative.html