Checklist for Course Project Peer Review Use the checklist below as you conduct the Week 7 Peer Review. ______________________________/ Your name: __________________________ Name of Element: Does the paper clearly address a course theme? Does the paper contain the appropriate number of pages? Has the correct format been followed (spacing,font, layout)? Does the paper contain detailed, convincing language? Are ideas clear and concise? Is the amount of development appropriate to convince a reader to do or act differently? Are you persuaded by the author’s argument; does it move you to think differently about the topic? Are there citations for researched ideas, and are they correct? Is the References page correctly formatted? Is the paper error-free regarding spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization? Are there any other suggestions for improving this paper? Yes: No: Comments or Suggestions for Improvement: Chamberlain College of Nursing NR443 Community Health Nursing Milestone 2: Caring for Populations Vulnerable Population Assessment Guidelines and Grading Rubric PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess an aggregate or vulnerable population in your community. You will also describe one community health problem that impacts this group. This problem must be one that a community health nurse could positively impact. COURSE OUTCOMES This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: 2. Assess the health needs of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities using demographic and epidemiological data to identify population health risks. (PO 4) 6. Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO 2) DUE DATE Submit to the appropriate basket in the Dropbox by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday of Week 4. POINTS: 225 points DIRECTIONS Watch the Milestone 2 tutorial (click this link or copy and paste it into your browser): http://www.brainshark.com/devry/Milestone2_2016 This APA paper is expected to be no more than four pages in length (not including the title page and reference list). Below are the requirements for successful completion of this paper. Please use the following categories as the first level headings on your paper. APA formatting helps you to format your paper in a professional manner and provides consistent methods for citing your sources within the paper and providing the complete reference on the reference page. See the documents in the APA category in Course Resources for assistance with APA formatting. There is an APA template that you can use to type on and this will help with APA formatting. The Student Success Strategies resource has a great sections on writing scholarly papers and APA formatting (to find resource watch: http://www.brainshark.com/devry/Student_Success_Strategies/zHszgnQAKzBXqbz0) Based on your community assessment, including your windshield survey and the assessment information from your discussions, identify one aggregate or vulnerable population in your community that faces a community health problem. See units five (5) and six (6) in your Nies and McEwen text for examples of vulnerable populations and aggregates. Your community must be the area where you live or work. A. Introduction (one paragraph): The introduction should be interesting and capture the reader’s attention. NR443 Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment 11/1/16 LS 1 Chamberlain College of Nursing    NR443 Community Health Nursing Provide a brief description of your community including the city name and state and key features. Briefly introduce one aggregate or vulnerable population that you identified in your assessment. Discuss the purpose of your paper. The purpose statement of the paper should relate to assessing this vulnerable population in your community. B. Vulnerable Population Overview (one to two paragraphs):  Describe one aggregate or vulnerable group in your community in greater detail.  Include your observations about this group from the windshield survey.  Discuss events or trends that have affected this vulnerable group such as economic conditions, trends in health related behaviors or disease rates, etc. C. Strengths, Risk Factors, and/or Barriers (two to three paragraphs):  Discuss the strengths, risk factors, and/or barriers that impact this vulnerable population’s health.  Include support from at least one scholarly peer-reviewed journal article in this discussion. Go to the Chamberlain library at http:/library.chamberlain.edu. Search peer reviewed journals to find a scholarly article that discuss the strengths, risk factors, and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group. Summarize what you learned from this article and cite the source in the text and reference page (Author, year). For this section, you must choose at least one scholarly article from a peer-reviewed journal. The article must be less than 10 years old (less than 5 years is best). You may include and cite your textbook or other scholarly sources as well, but they do not count as the scholarly journal article.  Please do not include more than two short quotations, at the most. You will need to summarize and analyze the information from the article in your own words. D. Community Resources (one to two paragraphs): Search your local public health department website, the internet, the local newspaper and/or telephone book for health resources available in your community for this vulnerable group.  Briefly describe the resources in your community that are available for this group.  Are these resources adequate? If so, why? If not, discuss gaps in services that you identified. E. Community Health Problem Diagnosis (one to two paragraphs):  Based on your assessment and the Healthy People 2020 objectives, identify and discuss one priority community health problem that a community health nurse could positively impact. Examples include an increase in teen pregnancies, prevalence of cancer, high incidence of tobacco use, above average infant mortality etc. The problem must relate to the aggregate or vulnerable population you identified.  Go to the Healthy People topic areas at http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives. Find a topic area that relates to your aggregate or vulnerable population. Click on the topic area and then click on the green “Objectives” tab. Find and state the Healthy People 2020 specific numbered objective (not just a goal) that describes your problem (ex. for teen pregnancy, the topic area Family Planning is relevant, click the green objectives tab and you might choose FP-8.1 “Reduce pregnancies among adolescent females aged 15 to 17 years” (US Department of Health and Human Services: Healthy People 2020, 2016, Objectives: Family Planning, para 8). NR443 Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment 11/1/16 LS 2 Chamberlain College of Nursing NR443 Community Health Nursing F. Summary (one paragraph):  Summarize important points from the body of your paper including the aggregate or vulnerable group you identified and key factors that you discussed above that affect the health of this group.  Include a statement about the priority problem you identified.  End with a concluding statement. G. Reference Page: The Reference Page should start on a new page (insert a page break). All references should be cited within the body of the paper as (Author, year) and the full reference should be included in APA format on the reference page. A URL link alone is not an adequate reference. See the APA Guidelines in Course Resources for examples of properly formatted references. GUIDELINES         Application: Use Microsoft Word 2010™ or later to create this assignment. Scholarly Writing: APA format is required. Review APA documents in the Course Resources and use the free resources of SmartThinking for writing tutors Use the categories above as APA headings for the sections of your paper. Length: This paper is expected to be no more than 4 pages in length (not including the title page and reference list). Quotations should be minimal – please paraphrase your sources. A maximum of two short quotations should be used for this paper. Submission: Submit your file via the basket in the Dropbox: Caring for Populations: Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment, by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday of Week 4. Save your paper with your last name in the document title (e.g., “Smith Vulnerable Population Assessment”). Late Submission: See the course policy on late submissions. BEST PRACTICES IN PREPARING THE PAPER The following are best practices in preparing this project.           Use the assessment information that you collected in your windshield survey and weekly discussions to identify the aggregate or vulnerable group of interest. Choose one nursing problem specific to your community that this aggregate or vulnerable group faces. Find one article about this vulnerable group from the Chamberlain library from a peer reviewed journal. Visit the Chamberlain Care Student Success Strategies resource for help with writing a scholarly paper, APA formatting, and library navigation (http://www.brainshark.com/devry/Student_Success_Strategies/zHszgnQAKzBXqbz0). Make sure all elements of the paper are addressed and headings for each category are included. Review directions thoroughly. Cite all sources within the paper as well as on the Reference page. Proofread prior to final submission. Check for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission. Use the “A” column of the rubric below to ensure that you have included all the needed elements. NR443 Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment 11/1/16 LS 3 Chamberlain College of Nursing  NR443 Community Health Nursing Abide by the CCN academic integrity policy – use the Turnitin Draft Dropbox to ensure that your similarity index is less than 24%, if not, revise and resubmit prior to the deadline. Please review the documents related to TurnItIn in Course Resources. GRADING CRITERIA Category Points % Description Introduction 30 13% The introduction captures the reader’s attention while introducing the community, identifying an aggregate or vulnerable population in the community, and includes a purpose. Vulnerable population overview 30 13% The aggregate or vulnerable population is described with rationale which includes windshield survey observations and discussion of contributing events for choosing this population. Strengths, risk factors, and/or barriers identified 20 9% The strengths, risk factors and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group are described. Discussion of peer review article 20 9% A peer reviewed journal article is discussed that clearly relates to factors affecting the health of the vulnerable group. Community Resources 30 14% The resources that are available in the community are discussed and adequacy of resources or gaps in services are reviewed.. Problem Diagnosis 30 14% One priority community health problem is clearly identified and a specific objective from Healthy People 2020 is included. Summary 20 9% The key points about the aggregate or vulnerable population are summarized and the community health problem is reiterated. Presentation 20 9% The discussion is well organized and logical. The structure is clear and compelling to the reader. Paragraphs are linked together logically, and main ideas stand out. Mechanics 25 10% The writing includes error free grammar and spelling and is written in a logical manner with complete sentences. Total 225 points 100% A quality paper will meet or exceed all of the above requirements. NR443 Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment 11/1/16 LS 4 Chamberlain College of Nursing NR443 Community Health Nursing GRADING RUBRIC Assignment Criteria Introduction 30 points Vulnerable population overview 30 points Strengths, risk factors, and/or barriers identified 20 points Discussion of peer review article 20 points A (100%) Exceptional B (88%) Exceeds Outstanding or highest level of performance Very good or high level of performance The introduction -catches the reader’s attention, -introduces your community -identifies the aggregate or vulnerable population and -includes a purpose. 30 points ☐ The aggregate or vulnerable population overview includes: -population description -windshield survey observations and -discussion of contributing events for this population. 30 points ☐ The strengths, risk factors and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group are described in detail. 20 points ☐ The introduction is missing one of the elements listed in the “A” column. 26 points ☐ One peer reviewed journal article is discussed that C (80%) Meets NI (38%) Needs Improvement Poor or failing level of performance F (0%) Developing Competent or satisfactory level of performance The introduction is missing two elements listed in “A” column. 24 points ☐ The introduction is missing three elements listed in “A” column. 11 points ☐ No introduction is present. 0 points ☐ The aggregate or vulnerable population is described and includes rational but the windshield survey observations and discussion of contributing events are general and lack detail. 26 points ☐ An adequate description is provided of the strengths, risk factors and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group. 18 points ☐ The aggregate or vulnerable population description is missing one elements in “A” column. 24 points ☐ The aggregate or vulnerable population description is missing two elements in “A” column. 11 points ☐ The aggregate or vulnerable population is not described. The windshield observations and discussion of contributing events are missing. 0 points ☐ There is a brief description of the strengths, risk factors and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group. 16 points ☐ There is no description of the strengths, risk factors and barriers faced by this vulnerable group. 0 points ☐ One peer reviewed article about vulnerable One article is discussed but it is not necessarily a There is a minimal description of the strengths, risk factors and/or barriers faced by this vulnerable group. 8 points ☐ One article is discussed, but seems to have little to no NR443 Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment 11/1/16 LS Unsatisfactory level of performance No article is discussed. 0 points ☐ 5 Chamberlain College of Nursing clearly relates to factors affecting the health of the vulnerable group. 20 points ☐ group is discussed, but is slightly off topic. 18 points ☐ Community Resources 30 points The resources available in community and adequacy or gaps in services are thoroughly described. 30 points ☐ Problem Diagnosis 30 points One priority community health problem is clearly identified and one relevant Healthy People 2020 specific objective is included. 30 points ☐ Summary 20 points The summary includes all of the key points about the vulnerable population and the community health problem is reiterated. 20 points ☐ The resources available in community are adequately described but adequacy or gaps briefly described 26 points ☐ One priority community health problem is identified and Healthy People 2020 information is included but a specific HP objective is not identified. 26 points ☐ The summary includes the main key points about the vulnerable population and community health problem reiterated. 18 points ☐ Presentation 20 points The paper is well organized and logical. The structure is clear and compelling to the reader; paragraphs are linked together logically, and main ideas stand out. 20 points ☐ The paper is missing one of the organizational elements in column “A”. There are some minor organizational concerns. 18 points ☐ NR443 Community Health Nursing peer-reviewed article, or does not clearly relate to the vulnerable group. 16 points ☐ The resources available in the community are briefly described and adequacy or gaps briefly described. 24 points ☐ relevance to the vulnerable group. 8 points ☐ Only one or two resources in the community are mentioned with no discussion of adequacy or gaps. 11 points ☐ No discussion of community resources and adequacy or gaps in services are not discussed 0 points ☐ A community problem is identified that is a priority but it is not related to Healthy People 2020. 24 points ☐ A problem is identified that is not a priority, nor is it related to Healthy People 2020. 11 points ☐ No discussion of the problem is included. 0 points ☐ The summary includes some key points about the vulnerable population, but the community health problem is not mentioned. 16 points ☐ The summary minimally addresses the key points about the vulnerable population, and the community health problem is not mentioned. 8 points ☐ The paper is missing organizational elements from column “A”, and it is disorganized. 8 points ☐ The summary is missing. 0 points ☐ The paper is missing two of the organizational elements in column “A”. The organization is somewhat disorderly. 16 points ☐ NR443 Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment 11/1/16 LS The paper is disorganized and is difficult to understand. 0 points ☐ 6 Chamberlain College of Nursing Mechanics 25 points The mechanics are excellent with no more than two errors in any of the following: - correct grammar, spelling -complete sentences -all sources cited in the text -all references listed on the reference page and in APA format -title page in APA format -correct APA format of headings -12-point font, double spaced, 1 inch margins, paragraphs indented -no more than two short quotations. -length 4 pages or less 25 points ☐ Total Points Possible = 225 points Three errors among the elements listed in column “A”. 22 points ☐ NR443 Community Health Nursing Four errors among the elements listed in column “A”. 20 points ☐ NR443 Milestone 2 Vulnerable Population Assessment 11/1/16 Five errors among the elements listed in column “A”. 10 points ☐ LS More than 5 errors listed in column “A”. 0 points ☐ 7
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