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PNR 165 Nursing Care of the Family

Required Uniform Assignment: Health Promotion Paper Guidelines

Purpose This assignment allows the learner to apply knowledge gained about health promotion concepts and strategies, enhance written communication skills, and demonstrate a beginning understanding of cultural competency.

Course outcomes: This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

1. Apply practical nursing skillsand behaviors to meet the needs of the family during childbearing and child rearing.
2. Apply critical thinkingand reasoning skills used for problem solving when providing practical nursing care of the family during childbearing and child rearing.
3. Apply verbal and non-verbal communicationskills when providing practical nursing care of the family during childbearing and child rearing and to interact with members of the health care team.
4. Apply cultural competencewhen providing practical nursing care of the family during childbearing and child rearing with various lifestyles, cultures, and beliefs.
5. Apply appropriate professional behaviorwhen providing practical nursing care of the family during childbearing and child rearing.
6. Apply legal and ethical principles as defined by the scope of practicewhen providing practical nursing care of the family during childbearing and child rearing.

Due date: July 17 by 2359, please post to Dropbox

Preparing the assignment Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions.

1) Identify a health problem or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the life span of a population from a specific culture in your area.

2) Choose one of the Leading Health Indicators (LHI) priorities from Healthy People 2020: https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/Leading-Health-Indicators

3) Research a topic related to health and wellness associated with one of the Healthy People 2020 topic areas.

5) You will develop an educational health promotion project addressing the population/culture in your area.

6)Consult with your faculty about the acceptable Similarity Index for this paper.

7) For writing assistance (APA, formatting, or grammar) visit tutor.com located in the D2L shell.

8) Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the Grading Rubric).

1. Introduction and Conclusion- 15 points/15%

• Introduction establishes the purpose of the paper and describes why topic is important to health promotion in the target population in your area.
• Introduction stimulates the reader’s interest.
• Conclusion includes the main ideas from the body of the paper.
• Conclusion includes the major support points from the body of the paper.

1. Relate Topic to Target Population- 25 points/25%

• Describes the topic and target cultural population.
• Includes statistics to support significance of the topic.
• Explains how the project relates to the selected Healthy People 2020 topic area.
• Applies health promotion concepts.

1. Summary of Articles- 25 points/25%

• A minimum of three (3) scholarly articles, from the last 5 years, are used as sources.
• Articles meet criteria of being from scholarly journals and include health promotion and wellness content.
• At least one article is related to the chosen cultural group.
• Summaries all key points and findings from the articles.
• Includes statistics to support significance of the topic.

1. Health Promotion Discussion – 25 points/25%

• Describes approaches to educate the target population about the topic.
• The approaches are appropriate for the cultural target population.
• Identifies specific ways to promote lifestyle changes within the target population. • Applies health promotion strategies.

1. APA Style and Organization – 10 points/10%

• References are submitted with assignment. • Uses appropriate APA format (6th ed.) and is free of errors. • Grammar and mechanics are free of errors. • Paper is 3-4 pages, excluding title and reference pages. • Information is organized around required components and flows in a logical sequence.

PNR 165 Nursing Care of the Family

Required Uniform Assignment: Health Promotion Paper Guidelines

Grading Rubric Criteria are met when the student’s application of knowledge within the paper demonstrates achievement of the outcomes for this assignment.

Assignment Section and Required Criteria

• (Points possible/% of total points available)
• Highest Level of Performance
• High Level of Performance
• Satisfactory Level of Performance
• Unsatisfactory Level of Performance
• Section not present in paper

Introduction and Conclusion (15 points/15%) 15 points 13 points 12 points 8 points 0 points

Required criteria

• Introduction establishes the purpose of the paper and describes why topic is important to health promotion in the target population in your area.
• Introduction stimulates the reader’s interest.
• Conclusion includes the main ideas from the body of the paper.
• Conclusion includes the major support points from the body of the paper.
• Includes no fewer than 4 requirements for section.
• Includes no fewer than 3 requirements for section.
• Includes no fewer than 2 requirements for section.
• Includes 1 or fewer requirements for section.
• No requirements for this section presented.

Relate Topic to Target Population (25 points/25%) 25 points 20 points 15 points 10 points 0 points

Required criteria

• Describes the topic and target cultural population.
• Includes statistics to support significance of the topic.
• Explains how the project relates to the selected Healthy People 2020 topic area.
• Applies health promotion concepts.
• Includes no fewer than 4 requirements for section.
• Includes no fewer than 3 requirements for section.
• Includes no less than 2 requirements for section.
• Includes 1 or fewer requirements for section.
• No requirements for this section presented.

Summary of Articles (25 points/25%) 25 points 23 points 21 points 10 points 0 points

Required criteria

• A minimum of three (3) scholarly articles, from the
• last 5 years, are used as sources.
• Articles meet criteria of being from scholarly
• journals and include health promotion and wellness content.
• At least one article is related to the chosen cultural
• Includes no fewer than 6 requirements for section.
• Includes no fewer than 5 requirements for section.
• Includes no fewer than 4 requirements for section.
• Includes 1-3 requirements for section.
• No requirements for this section presented.

Health Promotion Discussion (25 points/25%) 25 points 23 points 21 points 10 points 0 points

Required criteria

• Summaries all key points and findings from the articles.
• Includes statistics to support significance of the topic.
• Discusses how information from the articles is used
• Describes approaches to educate the target
• population about the topic.
• The approaches are appropriate for the cultural
• target population.
• Identifies specific ways to promote lifestyle changes
• within the target population.
• Applies health promotion strategies.
• Includes no fewer than 4 requirements for section.
• Includes no fewer than 3 requirements for section.
• Includes no fewer than 2 requirements for section.
• Includes 1 or fewer requirement for section.
• No requirements for this section presented.

APA Style and Organization (10 points/10%)10 points 9 points 8 points 4 points 0 points

Required criteria

• Upload to the course’s dropbox.
• References are submitted with assignment.
• Uses appropriate APA format (6th ed.) and is free of errors.
• Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.
• Paper is 3-4 pages, excluding title and reference pages.
• Information is organized around required components and flows in a logical sequence.
• Includes no fewer than 7 requirements for section.
• Includes no fewer than 6 requirements for section.
• Includes no fewer than 5 requirements for section.
• Includes 1-4 requirements for section.
• No requirements for this section presented.

Total Points Possible = 100 points