Discussion: Clinic or Community Agency
Discussion: Clinic or Community Agency
Question Description
You will choose a clinic or community agency within the community for this Discussion. The organization you choose must cater to the needs of a vulnerable population. Investigate the clinic or agency to learn more about the services it offers and the population it serves. You are not required to make an on-site visit. However, you must cite the source(s) from which you obtained the clinic or community agency information.
Clinical or community health agencies include:
Employee/Occupational Health in Parishes
Hospital Infection Control
Department of Public Health
Refugee Reception Centers
Adult/Child Protective Services
Hospice at the School Health Clinic
The Halfway House: Drug abuse, incarceration, and so on.
Center for the Homeless
Pediatric, Psychiatric, OB, Geriatric, Migrant, and other public clinics
Cardiac rehab, for example.
Homeless, women’s, and other shelters
HIV/AIDS clinics and programs
Veterans’ organizations
Programs for Adolescents
Group homes for MHMR patients, for example.
Cancer, sexual abuse, and other survivors’ support groups
GUIDELINES
Investigate the chosen agency and discuss it using the following *headings:
Name of the agency and why you chose it;
A brief history of the organization and its mission;
The population served by the agency; the services and programs provided;
What criteria (e.g., income, age, etc.) must clients meet in order for the agency to serve them; and
What you found interesting or useful about this agency as a professional nurse.
Cite and refer to the information you report on as needed.
Please post your initial response by Wednesday, 23:59, and comment on the posts of two classmates by Saturday, 23:59.
A rubric is provided to explain the point criteria and how you are graded.
Postings that do not include the above-mentioned headings will receive a 5 point penalty.
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow your essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.