Assignment: Community Health Promotion Poster
Assignment: Following the completion of the volunteer hours, the student will create a poster presentation that would support health promotion for the population served by the agency where the volunteer hours were completed. Part of this assignment requires you to complete 11 community health volunteer hours in your home communities, that you are serving as a volunteer, not necessarily a nurse role.
The poster will be uploaded into the assignment box in the course and in the D2L Discussion area per the date on the course calendar. The week following, the student will engage in discussion with classmates, commenting on the overall volunteer experience and the proposed health promotion plan. There are points for the poster presentation and the discussion points. Please see directions and rubric below for more information.
Outcomes:
This assignment helps to meet the following student learning outcomes and the end of program student learning outcomes:
SLO: #3 Participate in interprofessional collaboration, and public health interventions, including health promotion, health education, teaching, screening, illness prevention, and follow-up.
SLO: #6 Evaluate lifelong learning, informatics/technology, and research evidence to promote population health and nursing actions to guide health promotion, prevention, maintenance, and restoration activities.
EOPSLO: #6 Value social determinants of health in the nursing process application to provide person-centered care.
Directions:
Following the volunteer hours, the student will create a poster presentation introducing the agency and a public health issue of interest or need related to health promotion or health teaching that affects the health of the community served by the agency. A template has been provided for you.
- Identify the agency, including the purpose of the agency, the location, and the activity the student engaged in.
- Identify the population/community served by the agency. Include demographics and description of the population
- Select a Determinant of Health, health need of the population.
- https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-determinants-health
- Link to a Healthy People 2030 objective
- https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives
- Identify a health promotion need and provide realistic interventions on how the nurse could meet the need.
- Provide collaborative community partners the nurse would work with, including contact information.
- Identify resources (physical and financial) that would be needed to initiate the health promotion program.
- Provide outcome measures that could be used to evaluate effectiveness of program.
- Points will be awarded for creativity and accuracy. Community Health Promotion Poster
- Provide reverences.
A rubric is provided to help you create this poster.
Remember to respond to at least 2 peers poster presentations in the DQ area,
Resources:
- Review Nies & McEwen (2019) 7th ed. – Chapter 6 (Community Assessment)
- Refer to pp. 25-39 in Part I and pp. 45-92 in Part II in Schoon, P. M., Porta, C. M., & Schaffer, M. A. (2019). Population-based public health clinical manual: The henry street model for nurses (3rd ed.). Sigma. https://ssuproxy.mnpals.net/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e680sww&AN=1917387&scope=site opens in new window
- Access Healthy People 2030
- Refer to Minnesota Department of Health. (2019). Public health interventions: Applications for public health nursing practice(2nd ed.).
Grading Rubric
| TOPIC | POINTS | COMMENTS |
| A.Description of volunteer agency/activity, including location and activity student engaged in.
Purpose of the agency/Community Health Promotion Poster
|
/5 | |
| B.Identify the population/community served by the agency. Include relevant demographics and description of the population (think in terms of who will be the audience of the health promotion initiative | /5 | |
| C. Identify Determinants of health with citation to site.
Link to Healthy People 2030 objective and include citation
|
/5 | |
| D.Identify a health promotion need and provide realistic interventions on how the nurse could meet these. Include at least 3 interventions. Link these to the MDH Public Health Wheel Community Health Promotion Poster
|
/10 | |
| E. Provide at least 3 collaborative community partners the nurse would work with, including contact information
|
/10 | |
| F.Identify resources (physical and financial) that would be needed to provide teaching for the community | /5 | |
| G.Evaluation: How would you measure success? | /5 | |
| A. Professional delivery
B. Clear and Complete C. Reference citations per 7th ed. APA formatting/Community Health Promotion Poster D. Proper use of Writing Mechanics |
/5 | |
| A. Creative poster (appeal) | /5 | |
| TOTAL | /55 |
