Community Nursing Assignment
This assignment has been designed to assist you to explore community health principles and approaches and understand how these can be applied in nursing practice within a community setting.
Essay topic
Discuss how the community nurse, using an empowerment approach, could promote health literacy in relation to the health goal identified for the chosen client group.
Task
• With the given scenario below, it provides a context, nursing role, client group and health goal.
• Write a 2,000 word essay which discusses how the community nurse, using an empowerment approach, could promote health literacy in relation to the health goal for the chosen client group.
• Ensure that you base your analysis and discussion on community health principles and approaches; including primary health care model (rather than the medical model); a group, community or population focus (rather than an individual or disease focus) and health promotion strategies.
• Ensure that you use scholarly literature relevant to the essay task and the scenario you have chosen and support the points you make in your essay.
• Use APA 6th edition
Scenario: You are working as a registered nurse in a high school.
Goal: You want to promote health literacy in relation to sexual health and decision-making.
This essays focus should be more about how to provide education and address these problems than the specific disease process.
Explain how school based nurse would deliver the health literacy what approaches and techniques will be used opposed to details of sexual health.
Explain the best approaches the school based nurse can use to raise health literacy levels in the target community group (the teenage student body), and analyze and justify why those approaches would work best using literature to support the argument.
Break it down as following:
Introduction: 150 words
Body: 1,700 words
• What issues exist for teens sexual health and specific issue with the group E.g. unintentional teen pregnancy
• What is health literacy and empowerment and how to promote it? Sexual health issues: what issues araise that effect their health literacy
• Primary health care model
• Group/ community focus
• Health promotion strategies/ health education techniques
• Analyze the primary health care.
Conclusion: 150 words
Useful reference :
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/educators/implementing-sex-education
http://www.public.health.wa.gov.au/cproot/815/2/Talking%20Sexual%20Health.pdf
MARKING CRITERIA
1. INTRODUCTION
Describes the purpose of the essay, and gives a indication of the main thrust of the argument
2. KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH LITERACY AND EMPOWERMENT
Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the concepts of health literacy and empowerment (in general, and more specifically in relation to the identified health goal)
3. ANALYSIS: APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH APPOACHES AND PRINCIPLES RELEVANT TO CLIENT GROUP, HEALTH GOAL AND CONTEXT
Bases analysis and discussion on community health principles and approaches; including primary health care model (rather than the medical model); a group, community or population focus (rather than an individual or disease focus) and health promotion strategies
5. CONCLUSION
Succinctly summarises the main points, restates central arguments and clearly demonstrates how the points in the essay relate to the overall question
6. ACADEMIC WRITING
Skilful use of language, grammar, sentence and paragraph construction to create a clear, logical, succinct argument focused on the topic
7. RESEARCH AND USE OF EVIDENCE
Identifies, analyses and uses good quality evidence to support the arguments outlined. (Uses at least 10 appropriate scholarly sources published in the last 10 years)
8. PRESENTATION AND REFERENCING
Strictly adheres to APA style (citations and reference list)
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