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BSN4014 Unit 3 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December

Windshield
Survey

Resources

• For
  community health nurses to be able to plan effective health services for a
  community, it is important for them to understand a community, understand
  any health-related issues in the community and the resources available, as
  well as the gaps in those resources. For this assignment, you will apply
  the skills necessary to understand a community by completing a windshield
  survey of a community of your choice. A windshield survey is so named
  because it is often conducted from a car (though it can also be completed
  on foot, bike, or public transportation) and provides a visual overview of
  the conditions and trends that exist in the community that could affect
  the health of the population. When completing your windshield survey, keep
  in mind that the community you survey will be used as a starting point for
  your other assignments throughout the course.

Use the Windshield Survey Template located in
the Resources area to conduct an assessment of your community. You will
determine what constitutes your community, but you should try to limit your
survey to an area of no more than 1–2 square miles.

Note:Be sure to know the area you are surveying. Your safety is
important to us. We suggest that you bring a friend with you. Scan the area for
potential safety issues. Never put yourself or anyone else in potential danger.
Do not bring anything of value with you if you choose to conduct the survey
outside of a car.

Next, identify one or more key health care
issues in the community. These issues could encompass anything from providing
appropriate services for an aging population to dealing with an increase in
incidence of a specific disease. After your health care issues have been
identified, locate and interview two key informants. Key informants are people
who are knowledgeable about the problems in their community. For example, if your
identified health care issue was an increase in teen pregnancies, a school
nurse could be one of your key informants. If your identified health care issue
is an increase in type 2 diabetes, you could interview a person with consistent
contact with a variety of community members—for example, someone like a
minister or a health care professional in a community center. Keep your
interview questions focused on the identified problem from the informant’s
perspective.

While completing your Windshield Survey keep
in mind the following:

• Use
  the Windshield Survey Template located in the Resources area.
• How
  will you describe the boundaries, environment, and culture of the
  community?
• How
  will you describe the health care services in the community?
• How
  will you describe the health care issues of the community?
• What
  assets does the community possess with regards to providing health care
  services during a crisis?
• What
  are potential obstacles in the community with regards to providing health
  care services during a crisis?
• How
  will you relate the information from your interviews about community
  health issues to your own observations of the community?

When you submit your assignment it should
contain or follow requirements below:

• Title
  page.
• Windshield
  Survey Template.
• Interview
  questions and responses.
• Your
  notes on how the responses of the key informants matches or differs from
  your observations of the community.
• APA
  format.
• Times
  New Roman font, 12 pt.

Capella
BSN4014 Unit 5 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December

Service
Learning Experience

Resources

• For
  this assignment you are to select a service learning experience in your
  community and participate in that experience. Some example of appropriate
  service learning experiences include, but are not limited to:

• Attending
  a meeting of your local health department.
• Attending
  a PTO meeting that focuses on a health issue.
• Attending
  a faith-based meeting that addresses a health issue.
• Volunteering
  four hours at a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen and observing health
  issues related to the populations you are serving.

You may choose the event, but the focus of the
event must be health-based.

In addition, the service learning experience
should also include oneof the
following expectations:

• It
  must take place in, or be focused on, the community/neighborhood that you
  observed for your Windshield Survey in Unit 3.
• It
  must involve the diverse or vulnerable population that you described in
  your Windshield Survey in Unit 3.
• It
  must focus on or address the health concern that you described to complete
  your Windshield Survey in Unit 3.

Once you have completed your service learning
experience, write 2–3 pagesdetailing
your experience. When composing your report you should include the following
components:

• Title
  page.
• A
  brief description of the event you attended, and why you selected this
  event.
• A
  brief description of how the event was connected to your work on the
  Windshield Survey.
• A
  brief explanation of the purpose of the event you attended (for example,
  discussing the spraying pesticides to reduce mosquito population to
  control West Nile Virus, a report on the predicted nutritional effects of
  adopting a new school lunch program, or to answer questions about a
  proposal for community health responses to seasonal flooding, et cetera).
• Brief
  notes on the impact that community stakeholders had on the focus or
  outcomes of the event.
• Brief
  notes on the impact that community diversity had on the focus or outcomes
  of the event.
• An
  explanation of the impact that the event did have, or could potentially
  have, on the health of the community.
• A
  description in which you detail the impact of the event on the community’s
  health and the role nursing might play in the outcome. For example, if you
  attended a PTO meeting where the focus was making sure that elementary
  school children have PE, the impact might be that PE may reduce the
  incidence of childhood obesity, and the role of nursing might be to help
  formulate a healthy lifestyle plan.
• Minimum
  of three resources, including at least one peer-reviewed journal not
  required for this course.
• APA
  Format.
• Times
  New Roman font, 12 pt.

Capella
BSN4014 Unit 7 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December

Disaster
Response Plan

Resources

• For
  this assignment you will be developing a disaster plan to address a hypothetical
  disaster that could plausibly strike the community that you observed for
  your Windshield Survey.

A disaster can come in many forms. We might
tend to associate disasters with mass natural disaster, like Hurricane Katrina
or the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan. However, disasters also
include relatively small man-made disasters, such as a fire in an apartment
building or a gas leak in a factory (Maurer & Smith, 2013). You will also
be asked to select one of the articles from the list below that addresses a
response to a disaster, or provides guidelines for creating a disaster response
plan. You will briefly evaluate the article’s disaster response practices and
also explain aspects for the article’s disaster response that would be appropriate
to incorporate into your plan, as well as aspects that would not be feasible to
incorporate. By evaluating responses to disasters in communities outside of
your own, you will be able to bring in global perspectives as well as gain a
deeper understanding of aspects of disaster response plans that are universal,
as well as aspects that are only primarily applicable to specific communities.

Choose one of the following articles (see the
Resources area for links to these articles):

• Almutairi
  and Rondney’s 2013 article, “Critical Cultural Competence for
  Culturally Diverse Workforces: Toward Equitable and Peaceful Health
  Care,” from Advances in Nursing
  Science,
  volume 36, issue 3, pages 200–212.
• Öztek?n,
  et al.’s 2014 article, “Educational Needs Concerning Disaster
  Preparedness and Response: A Comparison of Undergraduate Nursing Students
  From Istanbul, Turkey, and Miyazaki, Japan,” from Japan
  Journal of Nursing Science, volume 11, issue 2, pages
  94–101.
• Yamashita
  & Kudo’s 2014 article, “How Should We Prepare Differently for the
  Next Disaster?” from Nursing and Health
  Sciences,
  volume 16, issue 1, pages 56–59.
• Zaré,
  et al.’s 2012 article, “Crisis Management of Tohoku; Japan Earthquake
  and Tsunami, 11 March 2011,” from Iranian
  Journal of Public Health, volume 41, issue 6, pages 12–20.

Your plan should address and include the
following:

Section
1: Article Evaluation (1–2 pages)

• An
  evaluation of the disaster response presented in the article you selected
  from the provided list.
• An
  explanation of aspects of the article’s disaster response that you plan on
  incorporating into your own Disaster Response Plan. Please include your
  rationale for why you are choosing to incorporate these aspects into your
  plan.
• An
  explanation of aspects of the article’s disaster response that would not
  be appropriate or plausible to include in your disaster response plan.
  Please include your rationale for why these aspects would not be
  appropriate or plausible to incorporate these aspects into your plan.

Section
2: Community Disaster Response Plan (5–7 pages)

• Describe
  the hypothetical disaster for your surveyed community that your plan will
  be addressing. Be sure to include details such as:
  • Scope
    of the disaster.
  • Intensity
    of the disaster.
    • Effects
      on the community environment as a result of the disaster.
    • Immediate
      health impacts on people in the community.
    • Medium
      and long-term health impacts on people in the community.
• Communication
  procedures: When and how should public health department nurses
  communicate with each other in a disaster? When should they communicate
  with other first responders, law enforcement, and other
  resources/responders in a disaster?
• Communication
  procedures for coordinating care with hospitals and other resources.
  • Note:
    During disasters, acute care hospitals become overwhelmed—less critical
    patients may be treated at field hospitals, leaving room for critical
    patients in functioning acute care facilities. Identify who will
    communicate with whom.
• The
  triage system you would use for assessing victims.
• How
  will you address the needs of vulnerable populations (the elderly,
  children, mentally ill, homeless, and so on)?
• How
  will you address cultural groups and non-English speaking persons?
• Housing
  and shelter:
  • How
    will you let the residents of your community know where to go?
  • What
    system will you use to fill shelters?
  • How
    will you communicate shelter capacity to prevent overcrowding the
    shelters? What resources will you use to help staff shelters?
  • How
    many nurses will you allocate for shelters? Will you use nurses to staff
    shelters?
  • Will
    you use other nursing resources to staff shelters, such as Red Cross,
    U.S. Commissioned Corps, military nurses, and so on?
• What
  resources will you use to help provide food, water, and toilet facilities
  for victims?
  • Who
    will you call and when will you call?
• What
  procedures will you implement to prevent disease outbreak?
• How
  will you care for the needs of the public health department nursing staff?

Other requirements and considerations:

• Your
  plan should be as detailed as possible.
• Use
  a minimum of four peer-reviewed journal articles (the article you select
  from the provided list counts as one of the four) to support the
  effectiveness of your plan. Be sure to use proper APA style and
  formatting.
• Include
  a title page.
• Include
  a reference page. Be sure to use proper APA style and formatting.
• Times
  New Roman font, 12 pt.

Capella
BSN4014 Unit 9 Assignment 1 latest 2016 December

Community
Assessment and Nursing Care Plan

Resources

Your final assignment for this course has two
components. For the first component you will use the information you obtained
in your Windshield Survey and interviews from Unit 3 to develop a Community
Assessment. The second component utilizes the Community Assessment to develop a
Nursing Plan.

Community
Assessment (5–7 pages)

Using the information in your Windshield
Survey, identify threehealth-based
problems within the community you surveyed. Explain why you believe these are
problems within the community. Then develop onenursing
diagnosis for each problem. Use references to support your nursing diagnosis.
This portion of your project will include:

• Your
  Windshield Survey.
• The
  key informant interview questions and responses.
• Description
  of three health-based problems.
• Description
  of one nursing diagnosis for each problem.

Note: The description of the three
health-based problems and their nursing diagnoses should add an additional 1–2 pagesof material to this
section. Your Windshield Survey and interview questions and responses will be
however long they were when you submitted them in Unit 3.

Nursing
Care Plan

Select one of the problems from your Community
Assessment and develop a nursing care plan for that problem. The Nursing Care
Plan will use the nursing diagnosis from the Community Assessment to help
develop nursing interventions. This portion of your project will include:

• A
  description of the problem that addresses the epidemiology of the problem,
  10–15 year trends of the problem, a comparison of the epidemiology to any
  health disparities for local, state, national, and global populations.
• Your
  selection of three primary nursing interventions for the identified
  problem.
• Your
  selection of three secondary nursing interventions for the identified
  problem.
• Your
  selection of three tertiary nursing interventions for the identified
  problem.
• A
  description and explanation of the nursing role in relation to the
  identified problem, and what the nurse will do at eachlevel of
  intervention (for example, client teaching, project management, direct
  delivery of care, surveillance, and so on).

This explanation must be specific and answer
the following questions:

1. What is
the nursing role in the primary interventions?

2. What
specifically does your plan require the nurse to do?

3. Based
on your primary interventions, what will the nurse do in the secondary
interventions?

4. What
specifically will the nurse do in the tertiary interventions?

You will need to support your Nursing Care
Plan with current literature:

• A
  minimum of one peer-reviewed journal article that supports your choice of
  the problem (for example, an article that supports the statement that
  infant mortality is a problem).
• A
  minimum of one peer-reviewed journal article that supports one of your
  nursing interventions (for example, an article supporting a statement that
  prenatal education programs are efficacious and improve birth outcomes).
• A
  minimum of one peer-reviewed nursing research article supporting the role
  of nursing (for example, a research-based article that supports the idea
  that clients prefer prenatal education classes that are delivered by a
  nurse).

You may use your course text and unit readings
as resources, but you must also use at least two resources not required for
this course. Be sure to follow proper APA style and formatting when citing and
referencing these articles.

Your final project submission should be
organized with the following:

• Title
  page.
• Table
  of Contents.
• Community
  Assessment—Windshield Survey, key informant interview, identification of
  three health-based problems.
• Nursing
  Care Plan.
• Reference
  page.
• APA
  Format.
• Times
  New Roman font, 12 pt.

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