Assessing Community Health Care Needs Discussion
NURS-FPX6218-Assessment 2 Instructions: Assessing Community Health Care Needs • Assess the health care needs of a selected community by completing an environmental analysis and a virtual windshield survey. Summarize the results of your assessment in a 2-3 page executive summary. Introduction Health care must be evidence-based, effective, efficient, and affordable; it must provide resources that meet the needs of the community. Nurse leaders must understand and thoroughly evaluate the environment to enable the efficient and equitable allocation of resources. A useful tool for this type of assessment is commonly called a windshield survey. Windshield surveys are what you might expect from the name. They are a way of gathering information about specific aspects of a community while driving around, such as the condition of roads, buildings, and housing Assessing Community Health Care Needs Discussion.
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This assessment provides an opportunity to examine the prevailing health conditions and social determinants of health in a community by completing an environmental analysis and a virtual windshield survey based on communities within the Vila Health system. Although Vila Health is a virtual lab, the communities represented in this simulation are real, enabling you to conduct an actual community health assessment. Preparation Executive leaders at Vila Health have asked you to provide them with your assessment of the health conditions in one of the communities served by the Vila Health system. Knowing that a windshield survey is needed to validate any underlying assumptions about the needs of the community and inform evidence-based decision making and strategic planning, you have decided to conduct a first-hand exploration of the community, followed up by an environmental analysis. An environmental analysis examines the factors that can influence the performance of a health care organization, which is important in a rapidly changing health care environment. To prepare for the assessment, you are encouraged to begin thinking about how an environmental analysis and windshield survey contribute to assessing community health care needs. In addition, you may wish to: • • Review the assessment requirements and scoring guide to ensure that you understand the work you will be asked to complete. Review Guiding Questions: Assessing Community Health Care Needs [DOCX], which includes questions to consider and additional guidance on how to successfully complete the assessment. Note: Remember that you can submit all or a portion of your draft assessment to Smarthinking Tutoring for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback. The following resource is required to complete the assessment. • Vila Health: Environmental Analysis and Windshield Survey. Vila Health is a virtual environment that simulates a real-world health care system. In the various Vila Health scenarios, you will apply professional strategies, practice skills, and build competencies that you can apply to your coursework and in your career Assessing Community Health Care Needs Discussion.
The information you gather in this scenario will help you to complete the assessment. TEMPLATES Use this template for your community health assessment. • Community Health Assessment Template [DOCX]. Requirements Complete this assessment in two steps: • If you have not already done so, complete the Vila Health: Environmental Analysis and Windshield Survey simulation. • Write an executive summary of your community health assessment, based on your windshield survey and environmental analysis. The community health assessment requirements outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. The Guiding Questions: Assessing Community Health Care Needs document provides additional considerations that may be helpful in completing your assessment. In addition, be sure to note the requirements below for document format and length and for citing supporting evidence. • • • • • • • • • Assess, via a windshield survey, the general condition and needs of a community from a public health perspective. Analyze the environmental factors affecting population health in a community. Identify the social determinants of health in a community. Summarize windshield survey and environmental analysis findings for executive leaders. Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style. Support findings and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence. Document Format and Length Use the Community Health Assessment Template. This APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] can help you in writing and formatting your assessment. If you would like to use a different worksheet for your community health assessment, obtain prior approval from faculty. The executive summary portion of your survey and analysis should be 2–3 pages in length. Be sure to apply correct APA formatting to all source citations and references. Supporting Evidence Cite 3–5 credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your executive summary. Additional Requirements Proofread your executive summary before you submit it, to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your assessment. Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your community health assessment to your ePortfolio. Competencies Measured By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria: • • • • • • • • • Competency 1: Identify the challenges and opportunities facing health care. Assessing Community Health Care Needs Discussion
Assess, via a windshield survey, the general condition and needs of a community from a public health perspective. Analyze the environmental factors affecting population health in a community. Identify the social determinants of health in a community. Competency 4: Develop proactive strategies to change the culture of the organization by incorporating evidence-based practices. Summarize windshield survey and environmental analysis findings for executive leaders. Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards. Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style. Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence. NURS-FPX6218 Guiding Questions for Assessment 2 Assessing Community Health Care Needs This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Assessing Community Health Care Needs assignment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assignment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assignment. Do not turn in this document as your assignment submission. Assess the health care needs of a community and report your findings in an executive summary. Assess Community Health Needs Assess, via a windshield survey, the general condition and needs of a community from a public health perspective. • What areas of the community will you include in your survey? • What aspects of the physical environment are relevant to your survey? Why? • What are the limitations of the survey? • What factors would you consider in assessing risks to your safety while conducting the survey? • What conclusions can you draw from the survey? What evidence leads you to those conclusions? Analyze the environmental factors affecting population health in a community. • What questions are you trying to answer? • What health issues are of concern in the community? Assessing Community Health Care Needs Discussion
For example, technological, social, regulatory, political, or economic issues. • What opportunities and threats are influencing health care providers in the community? • What conclusions can you draw from the analysis? What evidence leads you to those conclusions? Identify the social determinants of health in a community. • What are the social factors that influence community health? • What are the social factors that influence change? • What evidence do you have to support your claims? Summarize windshield survey and environmental analysis findings for executive leaders. • How will you organize the data and information you have collected? • What are the information needs and expectations of your target audience? 1 NURS-FPX6218 • What do the data and information tell you about community health needs, challenges, and opportunities? • What are the key lessons learned from your survey and analysis? Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style. • Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind. • Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements. Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence. • Integrate relevant and credible evidence from 3–5 peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications. • Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?
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• o How or why does particular evidence support a claim? o Will your reader see the connection? Did you summarize, paraphrase, and quote your sources appropriately? Submission Reminders • Have you completed your environmental analysis and windshield survey, with supporting evidence to substantiate your conclusions? • Have you identified the social determinants of health in the community and their effects on change? Have you provided supporting evidence? • Is your summary of the analysis and survey findings complete and accurate? • o Have you documented your conclusions and lessons learned? o Is your information clear and coherent? o Is your summary 2–3 pages in length, not including the title page and references page? o Did you proofread your writing? Are your assertions and conclusions well supported by 3–5 sources of relevant and credible evidence? Assessing Community Health Care Needs Discussion