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Module 3 A1
Comprehensive Community Assessment

The purpose of the Comprehensive Community
Assessment is to provide you with a richer and deeper understanding and
appreciation of a community’s character or make up; the people who live there;
the resources available; the extent of the needs that exist in the community;
and the depth of the assets available to address those needs.

The Comprehensive Community Assessment will
be presented to your Service Learning Practice Experience site upon completion
of the course.

The Comprehensive Community Assessment,
consists of both the Windshield Assessment and the Secondary Data Analysis. It
is submitted as two separate documents to the M3A1 drop-boxes. The first
document is the Power Point Presentation, submit using the drop box labeled
“M3A1: Power Point Presentation Submission Only. The second document
includes the Data Table, Analysis, Summary, and Conclusions submit using the
drop box below. Length for Power Point Presentation: 10- 12 slides. Length for Data
Table, Analysis, Summary and Conclusion: 4-6 pages.

Part I – Community Assessment:

Windshield/Walking Assessment (Links to an
external site.)Links to an external site.: is a Power Point Presentation
incorporating visual representation of the community. Addresses all elements
from Table 18-5 pp 410 of text as well as:

Introduction:name of community and zip
code.

Demographics: race, age, gender, and
ethnicity of neighborhood.

Handicap Accessible: accessible pedestrian
signals

Noise level in various parts of the
community

Services/agencies/organizations that
support physical, psychosocial, socioeconomic, and spiritual/religious needs of
the community.

Education: Schools and other educational
institutions such as libraries and museums.

Physical Determinants of Health (Links to
an external site.)Links to an external site.

Concluding slide: (a visual of the
community)

Secondary Data Table: is presented in the
Secondary Data TablePreview the document [Doc file size 16.5 KB] with a 2– 3
page summary and analysis paper. Multiple sites provide data to understand the
health of communities and neighborhoods.

Sources of data can be found in the health
data link in Library Course Page (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.. Review: Community Tool Box to analyze community problems.

Analysis of Data: Review the Community Tool
Box (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and analysis data
obtained in the Windshield Assessment and Secondary Data Table to determine the
following:

Identification of 3 Social Determinants
(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. of Health in Community.

Identification of 3 health care disparities
(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and the vulnerable
populations affected.

Community Diagnosis to identify 1 to 2
community health problems.

Summary: Summarize the key points of your
analysis and note important or unexpected findings. Discuss the relationship
between the identified health behaviors and the health status in the community.
Describe the leading health issues in the community. Identify what the
community is doing to address these issues.

Concluding Statement: Describe the impact
of your findings. Provide a concluding sentence that explains the significance
of your findings.

Review: Ch. 18 Community as Client:
assessment and analysis

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Module 3 A2
SLEC Request and Approval Form Submission

Complete and submit the Service Learning
Experience Clinical Request & Approval Form to your NUR448 Faculty
Instructor for final approval.

You will submit this form to your
NUR448Faculty Instructor during Module 3/Week 5 through the M3A2: SLEC Form
Submission assignment dropbox.

Please note: final approval is required
prior to contacting and setting up SLEC times with the agency.

All sections MUST be filled out.

Student Name:
_______________________________________________________________________

Name of agency/organization/resource where
SLEC will take place: _____________________________________________________________________________________

Name & title of contact
individual/mentor at agency:
_____________________________________________________________________________________

Contact information for SLEC site:
_____________________________________________________________________________________

Street
address
City/State/Zip Code

_____________________________________________________________________________________

Phone number
email address

Vulnerable Population Served:
__________________________________________________________ _

Health People 2020 Goal and Objective
addressed by agency: _____________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

Give a brief description of the
agency & the services provided by this agency: ____________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

Activities engaged to meet course outcomes:
_______________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Faculty Instructor’s Signature Date
of Approval

If not approved reason:
_______________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

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Module 5 SWOT Analysis and Summary

Conduct a SWOT analysis Preview the document
[Docx, file size 25 KB] of the SLE agency, addressing:

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

Gaps in services

Develop a health promotion plan based on
the SWOT analysis. Be sure to include inter- professional health care providers
and community services that will assist in implementation of the plan.

This assignment accounts for 20% of the
final grade.

Please refer to the instructions in the
Practice Experience folder of Module 5 and the Library Course Guide for more
information.

Use this interactive APA Checklist (Links
to an external site.)Links to an external site. [PDF, File Size 1.74 MB] to
enhance your knowledge of APA formatting guidelines and self-assessment skills.
The checklist is interactive and will show you examples of each component of
APA with a sample paper. You can check off each item in the list and save the
file or just use the checklist as a reminder for yourself. This checklist will
help you ensure that your paper meets the APA requirements.

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Module 8
Assignment 1Final Graded Assignment Population Focused Care Paper

This paper explores the role of advocate
and nurse leader in promoting an initiative that positively impacts the
community needs, addresses a Healthy People 2020 goal/objective, supports gaps
in service in the community and provides a reflection on the practice experience.

The paper should include 10 – 12 pages of
content (excluding title page and reference list) and address all the following
criteria.

*A minimum of 5 scholarly articles are to
be used to substantiate findings and support conclusions. Scholarly articles
integrated within the Population Focused Care paper should come from the most
current nursing or related literature (published no more than 5 years ago) but
may be older if a seminal source or where there is a gap in the literature; at
least one reference used within the Population Focused Care paper should come
from a discipline outside nursing.

Title of Project (Include the Vulnerable
Population Served)

Introduction: provide an overview of your
practice experience, the location of the selected community, and the vulnerable
population addressed.

Summary and analysis of statistical data

Summarize the findings of the statistical
data retrieved for the Comprehensive Community Assessment

Analyze the strengths, weaknesses, health
needs, and conditions that exist in selected community

Describe the aggregate (vulnerable
population) at-need or at-risk and two (2) community health problems they face.

Community Diagnosis & Healthy People
2020 goal and Leading Health Indicator

Briefly describe community health problems

Formulate at least two (2) appropriate
community diagnosis for the selected community and give rationale for the
diagnoses.

Discuss how this diagnosis aligns with a
Healthy People 2020 goal and Leading Health Indicator.

Advocacy and Leadership

Address gaps between what individuals and
or families in the community identify as their need for resources, support, and
services and what is available to them.

Describe the health promotion initiative
implemented to promote advocacy and or change. Address gaps between what is
identified as a need and what is available in the community.

Identify the leadership role utilized to
promote the health promotion initiative to positively impact community needs
and support gaps of service.

Describe the evaluation process used to
determine the effectiveness of your initiative.

Reflection and Conclusion

Identify the C-PHN competency you used to
meet the goals of the practice experience.

Discuss what you learned about the
community

Discuss the revelations you had during the
practice experience regarding the needs of your community.

Describe how this information will or will
not influence your own nursing practice and role as a professional nurse.

Summarize the role you believe you can play
as an advocate to promote population focused care. Summarize your findings and
highlight key discoveries from this experiential activity.

Scholarly Writing:

Use clear structure as outlined in the
assignment.

Language is graceful, clear, concise,
error-free, and skillfully communicates meaning to reader(s).

Paper is well written organized, and within
page limit.

Grammar, spelling, and punctuation are
correct

Conforms to APA standards for citations and
references

References *Scholarly articles integrated
within the Population Focused Care paper should come from the most current
nursing or related literature (published no more than 5 years ago) but may be
older if a seminal source or there is a gap in the literature; at least one
reference used within the Population Focused Care paper should come from a
discipline outside nursing. Students are encouraged to use the Excelsior
College Library for references.

Follow APA Guidelines for Title page,
Headings and subheadings, Citations in text, and Reference List.

Formatting requirements:

Font size: 12

Font type: Times New Roman

Double-spaced

One inch margins

All references cited within the paper and
on the reference page must adhere to APA guidelines

You may use the headings from this outline
when writing your paper

Post completed Population Focused Care Final
Paper by the due date.

This assignment accounts for 25% of the
final course grade. Address all elements found in the scoring rubric since this
will be used to determine the final grade.

All documents must be written and submitted
in Microsoft® Word®. If written in another word processing program the
instructor may not be able to open it, the formatting will be distorted and you
may be asked to resubmit your paper prior to grading.

Please refer to the instructions in the
Practice Experience folder and the Library Course Guide (Links to an external
site.)Links to an external site. for m

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Module 8 Assignment
2 Service Learning Practice Experience Participation Log

Compose your work using a word processor
(or other software as appropriate) and save it frequently to your computer. Be
sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before
you upload it. When you are ready to submit your work, click “Browse My
Computer” and find your file. Once you have located your file, click
“Open” and, if successful, the file name will appear under the
Attached files heading. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click
“Submit.”

Instructions: Fill out the Service Learning
Practice Experience Participation Logfor every 5 hours you spend at the
approved service learning site. Include
on this form the activity or activities completed during your time at the
agency. Reflect on the experience and document what your learned from this
experience, how the population was served, and the role you served.

Remember:
a staff member is to initial the hours.

The completed SLPE Participation Log is due
week 14 and to be submitted as M8A2.

Student Name:
_______________________________________________________________

SLEC Placement Site:
__________________________________________________________

Course Number and Faculty Name:
_______________________________________________

Date

SLE
Activity # Hours Agency Staff’s Initial

SLE
Activity

SLE
Activity

SLE
Activity

Total Number of Hours this page
_______________

Agency Staff’s Signature
_________________________________ Date_____________

Student’s Signature
_________________________________ Date _____________

Add additional pages as needed