Community Nursing Practice
Semester 1, 2019
Assessment 2 (A2)
Written Essay (Individual):
Inala Community Assessment
1500 words
Weighting 40%
Due Date: Monday 8th April 2019 at 17:00hrs
Please note: I choose Inala for this assessment. Thank
you.
Assessment Task 2
Assessment name:
Written essay: Community Assessment
Learning outcomes
assessed:
1. Plan primary health care, health promotion and disease
prevention activities in community and/or hospital settings.
2. Assess a community and create a community-based health
Program for a specific culturally-diverse community or group.
3. Demonstrate safe, reflective, evidence-based nursing practice
consistent with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA)
Registered Nurse standards relevant to community-based
nursing.
Length:
1500 words
Weighting:
40% of total course marks, total marks 80
Individual/Group:
Individual
Due date:
Monday 8th April, 1700 hours (5pm)
Assignment submitted via the Turnitin as per the instructions on
yourcourse site.
Task context and aim:
Community health nurses are required to have a good
knowledge and understanding of theoretical concepts relevant to
community nursing practice. This includes being able to analyse
elevant data and identify social determinants of health and
engage with vulnerable groups. Detailed needs assessment is
important to inform health promotion planning and practice.
The aim of this assignment is to demonstrate your knowledge and
understanding of important community health nursing concepts and
principles, including: social determinants of health, identifying
and working with vulnerable groups, principles of community
engagement, undertaking detailed needs assessment and
health promotion planning.
Specifically, you will undertake analysis of a real community
data set, identify and discuss relevant social determinants of
health, identify a vulnerable sub-group, explain how to engage
with the community and how to undertake a more detailed needs
assessment. Finally, you will explain how this information from a
needs assessment could be used to inform health promotion
planning in this community.
Task description:
There are two parts to this assessment item, Part A and Part B.
Select one (1) community data set ONLY, either Mt Isa Or Inala
Part A: Using one of the ABS, 2016 data sets provided in Appendix
B, demonstrate your understanding and analysis of the data by
selecting three categories of data relevant to health, and developing
three (3) comparative summary statements and three (3) inference
statements. You will populate this information in Table 1 in your
assignment (maximum of 150 words).
Part B: You are to write a 1,350 word essay in which you will discuss
social determinants of health in relation to identify a vulnerable sub -
group of people and discuss the process of community engagement,
needs assessment and health promotion planning.
What you need to do:
Part A: (150 words)
Create and populate a table (Use the Appendix A: Assignment
Table 1 guide provided below):
a) Choose one of the communities in Appendix B – either Mt
Isa OR Inala.
) Carefully analyse the Appendix B: Community Data for
Analysis table for your chosen community (INALA) and
select three (3) categories of data that are relevant and
linked, social determinants of health
c) In the second column provide a summary statement
that compares the local data to state and national
average data, including percentages where relevant
d) In the third column provide a
ief statement (inference) as
to how these differences may suggest health problems in
the community.
Part B: (1350 words)
Write an essay in which you address the following points:
1. Clearly introduce the task and outline topics covered in the
essay (150 words)
2. Based on the data you selected for Table 1 in Part A,
discuss how each of these three social determinants
impact on health. (350 words)
3. Based on your answer above at 2., make linkages
etween the social determinants/data to identify a
vulnerable sub-group in the community that is likely to
have health issues/unmet health needs XXXXXXXXXXwords)
4. Explain how as a community nurse you would engage with
these vulnerable community members and how you would
undertake a more detailed community needs assessment.
(300 words)
5. Explain how information gathered from a community
needs assessment could be used to inform health
promotion planning to address unmet needs. (300 words)
6. Clearly summarise what was covered in the assignment and
conclude. (150 words)
Important tips:
In Part A, choose 3 social determinants that relate to each other
In Part B, make clear links with the data selected and discussed in
Part A.
Ensure that all of your answers relate specifically to this
community/vulnerable group and the data provided.
Presentation
equirements:
Use the guide provided in Appendix A, including the headings:
Title Page
Include student name, student number, total word count
Part A
Include a section heading Part A Include
appropriate Table title: Table 1. Complete
Table as per instructions above Part B
Include section heading Part B, and number and name each section
of the assignment as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Social determinants
3. Vulnerable group
4. Engagement and needs assessment
5. Health promotion planning
6. Conclusion
References
Other elements:
• Always refer to the Health Writing and Referencing Guide
• Write in the third person and use academic language
throughout your assignment.
• Refer to the marking criteria when writing your assignment. This
will assist you to calculate the weightings of the sections for your
assignment and provide a suggested word count for each
section.
• The assignment is supported by at least ten and a maximum of
20 quality, relevant sources from the scholarly literature, which
are from 2010 onwards.
• Part B word limit is 1350 words. Word limits for assessment
items need to be strictly adhered to. The word limit for an
assessment item includes in text citations and quotations. The
word limit DOES NOT include the reference list. Please note the
marker will cease marking your submitted work once they have
eached the allocated word limit.
• Examine the Turnitin report for your draft assignment. Your table
of data may show a high text-match, but this will not be used as
the basis of reporting an academic integrity concern. If you have
text-matching identified in the written section of the assignment,
this may be used as the basis for reporting an academic integrity
concern.
• Submit your DRAFT assignment via Turnitin as per the
instructions on your course site. [Submit in the
‘Assessment’ tab].
• Submit your FINAL assignment via Turnitin as per the
instructions on your course site. [Submit in the
‘Assessment’ tab]. Keep your Turnitin receipt as evidence of
successful submission. Check you have submitted the co
ect
assignment file.
• Email yourself a copy of your final assignment file so you have a
ecord of your submission.
Academic Integrity: The work of others must be co
ectly acknowledged and referenced
according to the APA Referencing Guidelines
Take care to paraphrase information taken from scholarly
eferences in your own words.
Maintaining academic integrity is your responsibility.
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Appendix A: Assignment/Table Headings and Format Guide
Create a Word document with the following headings. Also create a simple table matching the format of
Table 1 below:
Title Page (page 1)
Community Nursing Practice
Assignment 2: Essay
Essay title:
Student name:
Student number:
Total word count:
Part A (page 2)
Table 1. Summary and inferences generated from 2016 ABS data for Inala
a. Category of data b. Summary and
comparative
statement/measures
c. Inference statement
EXAMPLE:
Age (Australian Census
Data, 2016)
Provide summary statistics for
community (%) or median
Compare to state and
national average statistics
(%) or median
Likely impact of this
difference on health status
of the community
(Include Reference at bottom of table)
Part B (page 3)
1. Introduction
2. Social determinants
3. Vulnerable group
4. Engagement and needs assessment
5. Health promotion planning
6. Summary and conclusion
References (on last page)
Appendix B: Community Data for Analysis (Select only one community/table below)
Important: Please DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THIS TABLE this table into your assignment!
Selected ABS, 2016 Census Data (Mt Isa)
Community
Mt Isa (SUA)
State
Queensland
Country
Australia
Characteristic N % N % N %
People
Males
Females
Aboriginal and
To
es Strait Islander
people
9,488
8,854
3.042
51.7
48.3
16.6
2,321,889
2,381,308
186,482
49.4
50.6
4.0
11,546,638
11,855,248
649,171
49.3
50.7
2.8
Age
Median age
31
37
38
Highest education
Degree
Diploma
Certificate III
Year 12
Year 10
1,760
757
2,792
2,234
1,842
12.7
5.4
20.1
16.1
13.2
693,412
330,619
576,295
625,959
488,554
18.3
8.7
15.2
16.5
12.9
4,181,406
1,687,893
2,442,203
2,994,097
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