Discussion: Population Health Problem
Discussion: Population Health Problem
Question Description
Create a 2-4 page submission using the provided template in which you research and define a patient, family, or population health problem relevant to personal practice. Important: Complete this assessment first, followed by all others in the order they are presented. You will lay the groundwork for the work that will carry through your capstone experience and guide the practice hours to complete the work in this course in this assessment. The goal of this assessment is to help you define a patient, family, or population health problem relevant to your personal practice and start building a body of evidence that will inform your approach to your practice hours, the intervention you design, and the professional product you will deliver. PROFICIENCY DEMONSTRATION
You will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria by successfully completing this assessment:
Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve the outcomes of patients, systems, and populations.
Define a patient, family, or population health issue relevant to your personal practice.
Competency 2: Based on the best available evidence, make clinical and operational decisions.
Analyze evidence from the literature and professional sources to support decisions about defining and directing nursing actions in the context of a health problem.
Competency 7: Use patient-centered care to improve care quality and the patient experience.
Make recommendations for strategies to improve patient or population outcomes related to a health issue.
Integrate professional standards and values into practice (competency 8).
Consider state board nursing practice standards that are relevant to a specific health problem.
Use clear, logically organized writing, correct grammar, spelling, and APA style to communicate professionally.
Important: Complete this assessment first, followed by all others in the order they are presented.
Select a family to complete a family health assessment. (The family cannot be your own.)
Before interviewing the family, develop three open-ended, family-focused questions for each of the following health patterns:
- Values, Health Perception
- Nutrition
- Sleep/Rest
- Elimination
- Activity/Exercise
- Cognitive
- Sensory-Perception
- Self-Perception
- Role Relationship
- Sexuality
- Coping
CONTEXT PROFESSIONAL
Nurses are problem solvers, planning and implementing patient care strategies to address issues in the home, hospital, and community. This evaluation will assist you in developing a problem statement for a patient, family, or population health issue.
INSTRUCTIONS
You will investigate a patient, family, or population health problem relevant to your practice throughout this capstone course. You will identify the problem that you will address throughout your clinical practicum in this course for this assessment, as well as begin to establish your evidence and research base to plan, implement, and share findings related to your project. The Problem Identification Template [DOC] will help you create your implementation plan for the second assessment in this course by guiding you through the development of a problem statement, evidence collection and analysis, and best practices. The completed template will be your submission for this assessment. While working through the template, you may use the resources provided in this course; however, you will conduct the majority of your research and search for evidence. As evidence, consult the Capella University Library, professional organization and government resources, and relevant organizational best practices. This is your BSN degree’s capstone course; your goal is to demonstrate your achievement of program outcomes through your work on this project. Some health issues that would be appropriate for your project are as follows: Self-management of diabetes
Management and prevention of hypertension
Reconciliation of medications within a family or group.
Support group for Parkinson’s disease.
Communication between patients and their families improves as a result of patient education.
Home care following surgery.
This is by no means an exhaustive list. You should select a patient, family, or population health issue that is relevant to your practice and organization; you must be able to effectively research the issue in your clinical practicum. Your submission will be evaluated using the following criteria: Define a patient, family, or population health issue, as well as realistic goals for personal practice.
Analyze evidence from the literature and professional sources in order to define and guide nursing actions in response to a health problem.
Make recommendations for strategies to improve patient or population outcomes related to a health issue.
Consider state board nursing practice standards that are relevant to a health problem.
Professional writing that is clear, logically organized, and uses correct grammar, spelling, and APA style is required.
ESSENTIAL ELMS
This course requires a face-to-face clinical practicum to be completed. You must log your time in the CORE ELMS system, just as you did for previous courses with direct interaction. The CORE ELMS link is on the left side of the navigation pane. REQUIREMENTS ADDITIONAL
Submission length: Use the template provided. The majority of submissions will be 2 to 4 pages long. There is no need for a title page. Make sure to finish the reference page at the bottom of the template.
Number of references: Cite at least 5 scholarly or professional sources that support your central ideas. The resources should be no older than five years.
APA formatting: Check that your in-text citations and reference list adhere to current APA style.
Prompt for Portfolio: Remember to add the evaluation to your ePortfolio. After completing your program, you may want to consider using your Portfolio in a job search or other demonstration of your academic competencies.
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.