POPULATION FOCUSED CARE

Using a Healthy People 2020’s leading health indicators (Heart Disease) and a selected vulnerable population (low income population of Brooklyn, NY), you will compile statistical data, explored the role of advocate and nurse leader in promoting a policy initiative to positively impact the community needs and support gaps in service in your community and provide a reflection on the food distribution outreach program.

The paper should include 10 – 12 pages of content (excluding title page and reference list) and address all of the following criteria.

*A minimum of 5 scholarly articles are to be used to substantiate your findings and support your conclusions. Scholarly articles integrated within the Population Focused Care paper should come from the most current nursing or related literature (published no more than 5 years ago) but may be older if a seminal source or where there is a gap in the literature; at least one reference used within the Population Focused Care paper should come from a discipline outside nursing.

Title of Project (Include the Healthy People 2020 Health Indicator, Population Served)
1.Description of Service Learning Experience
Identify Health People 2020, Leading Health Indicator and goal, and vulnerable population
Food program mission/philosophy and population/numbers served
Evaluate effectiveness of services/resources/agency in addressing needs of vulnerable population and the leading health indicator .

2.Description of Statistical Data
Explore data driven outcomes: Research prevalence and/or severity of indicator in community & summarize data from health departments regarding LHI
Identify benchmarks: Comparing and contrasting state and local data and discuss how community compares to U.S. population as a whole
Identify resources/services in community that address health indicator.
Provide information regarding how members of community can access resources .

3.Description of Advocacy and Leadership
Identify activities and strategies that promote advocacy for this population
Address gaps between what individuals and/or families in your community identify as their need for resources, support, and services and what is available to them.
Formulate a policy initiative promoting advocacy or change to address gaps between what you identify as a need and what is available in your community.
Identify a method demonstrating leadership to disseminate your policy initiative in order to positively impact the community needs and support gaps of service in your community. .

4.Reflection and Conclusion
Discuss what you learned about your community (i.e.: families, disability and culture).
Discuss the revelations you had during this project regarding the needs of your community. Identify specific gaps in services available to meet the needs of community members. Describe how this information will or will not influence your own nursing practice and role as a professional nurse?

Summarize the role you believe you can play as an advocate to promote population focused care. Summarize your findings and highlight key discoveries from this experiential activity. .

Scholarly Writing:
•Use clear structure as outlined in the assignment. .
•Language is graceful, clear, concise, error-free, and skillfully communicates meaning to reader(s). .
•Paper is well written organized, and within page limit. .
•Grammar, spelling, and punctuation are correct .
•Conforms to APA standards for citations and references .

References *Scholarly articles integrated within the Population Focused Care paper should come from the most current nursing or related literature (published no more than 5 years ago) but may be older if a seminal source or where there is a gap in the literature; at least one reference used within the Population Focused Care paper should come from a discipline outside nursing.