Health Promotion Plan: Community Resources

Assessment 2 Instructions: Community Resources

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Research a selected local, national, or global nonprofit organization or government agency to determine how it contributes to public health and safety improvements, promotes equal opportunity, and improves the quality of life within the community. Submit your findings in a 3-5 page report.

As you begin to prepare this assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Nonprofit Organizations and Community Health activity. Complete this activity to gain insight into promoting equal opportunity and improving the quality of life in a community. The information gained from completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment.

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Professional Context

Many organizations work to better local and global communities’ quality of life and promote health and safety in times of crisis. As public health and safety advocates, nurses must be cognizant of how such organizations help certain populations. As change agents, nurses must be aware of factors that impact the organization and the services that it offers. Familiarity with these organizations enables the nurse to offer assistance as a volunteer and source of referral.

This assessment provides an opportunity for you gain insight into the mission, vision, and operations of a community services organization.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

- Competency 1: Analyze health risks and health care needs among distinct populations.

- - Explain how an organization’s work impacts the health and/or safety needs of a local community.
- Competency 2: Propose health promotion strategies to improve the health of populations.

- - Explain how an organization’s mission and vision enable it to contribute to public health and safety improvements.
- Competency 3: Evaluate health policies, based on their ability to achieve desired outcomes.

- - Assess the impact of funding sources, policy, and legislation on an organization’s provision of services.
- Competency 4: Integrate principles of social justice in community health interventions.

- - Evaluate an organization’s ability to promote equal opportunity and improve the quality of life within a community.
- Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health.

- - Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
  - Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Preparation

You are interested in expanding your role as a nurse and are considering working in an area where you can help to promote equal opportunity and improve the quality of life within the local or global community. You are aware of several nonprofit organizations and government agencies whose work contributes to this effort in some way. You have particular interest in one of these organizations but would like to know more about its contributions to public health and safety improvements. You would like to report the results of your research in a scholarly paper that you could submit for publication.

Research a selected local, national, or global nonprofit organization or government agency from the list provided. Determine how the organization or agency contributes to public health and safety improvements, promotes equal opportunity, and improves the quality of life within the community. Submit your findings in a 3-5 page report.

Choose the organization or agency you are most interested in researching:

Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft research paper 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.

Instructions

Document Format and Length

Format your paper using APA style.

- Refer to the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] to help you in writing and formatting your paper. Be sure to include:

- - A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.
  - Appropriate section headings.
- Your paper should comprise 3-5 pages of content plus title and references pages.

Supporting Evidence

Cite at least three credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications published within the past 5 years that support your research findings.

Graded Requirements

The research requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the assessment scoring guide, so be sure to address each point.

- Explain how the organization’s mission and vision enable it to contribute to public health and safety improvements.

- - Include examples of ways a local and/or global initiative supports organizational mission and vision and promotes public health and safety.
- Evaluate an organization’s ability to promote equal opportunity and improve the quality of life in the community.

- - Consider the effects of social, cultural, economic, and physical barriers.
- Assess the impact of funding sources, policy, and legislation on the organization’s provision of services.

- - Consider the potential implications of funding decisions, policy, and legislation for individuals, families, and aggregates within the community.
- Explain how an organization’s work impacts the health and/or safety needs of a local community.

- - Consider how nurses might become involved with the organization.
- Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

- - Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
  - Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.

Additional Requirements

Before submitting your paper, proofread it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it difficult for them to focus on your research findings.

Resources: Nursing Infographics on Protecting PHI

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These infographics serve as examples of how to succinctly summarize information. In your staff update assessment, you will not have all the images and graphics that infographics might contain; instead, focus your analysis on what makes the messaging effective. Apply these principles to writing your interprofessional staff update.
- Atlantic Training. (2012). HIPAA infographic: Protecting patient privacy, how important is it? https://www.atlantictraining.com/blog/hipaa-infograhic-high-cost-violations/
- HITC Staff. (2017). Infographic: The rise of medical data sharing and privacy concerns. https://hitconsultant.net/2017/08/11/infographic-medical-data-sharing/
- University of Illinois at Chicago. (n.d.). Protecting patient information in the age of breaches. https://healthinformatics.uic.edu/blog/protecting-patient-information/

Resources: The Nurse’s Role in Patient Privacy

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- ANA Center for Ethics and Human Rights. (2015). American Nurses Association position statement on privacy and confidentiality [PDF]. Available from https://www.nursingworld.org/~4ad4a8/globalassets/docs/ana/position-statement-privacy-and-confidentiality.pdf

- - This ANA position statement examines the role of nurses in protecting privacy and confidentiality and provides recommendations to maintain compliance.
- McCartney, P. R. (2016). The electronic health record and nursing practice. The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 41(2), 126.

- - This article comments on the Joint Commission (TJC) alert on the safe use of health information technology (HIT) following an analysis of events that resulted in patient harm.

Resources: Social Media and Privacy

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- Balestra, M. L. (2018). Social media missteps could put your nursing license at risk. Alabama Nurse, 45(3), 18.

- - This article explores how social media can create legal problems for nurses and reviews best practices for managing social media missteps.
- Green, J. (2017). Nurses’ online behaviour: Lessons for the nursing profession. Contemporary Nurse, 53(3), 355–367.

- - Green states that nurses need to carefully navigate the complexities between the personal and the professional on social media. The article includes a look at the legalities and etiquette of the online environment.
- Heath, S. (2018). How does social media impact perceived provider professionalism? https://patientengagementhit.com/news/how-does-social-media-impact-perceived-provider-professionalism

- - This study shows that clinicians can maintain provider professionalism by keeping their own personal social media posts to a minimum.
- Healthcare Compliance Pros. (n.d.). Posting with caution: The do’s and don’ts of social media and HIPAA compliance. http://www.healthcarecompliancepros.com/blog/posting-with-caution-the-dos-and-donts-of-social-media-and-hipaa-compliance-2/

- - This is a list of do’s and dont’s of social media and HIPAA compliance.
- HIPAA Journal. (2018). HIPAA social media rules. https://www.hipaajournal.com/hipaa-social-media

- - This article reviews the HIPAA laws and standards that apply to social media use by health care organizations and their employees.
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. (2018). A nurse’s guide to the use of social media [PDF]. https://www.ncsbn.org/NCSBN_SocialMedia.pdf

- - Inappropriate social media posts by nurses have resulted in licensure and legal repercussions. This guide was developed by NCSBN nurses and nursing students on how to use social media responsibly.
- Ryan, G. (2016). International perspectives on social media guidance for nurses: A content analysis. Nursing Management, 23(8), 28–35.

- - This report analyzes the content of national and international professional guidelines on social media and consolidates good practice examples for the nursing profession.

Resources: HIPAA

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- Borten, K. (2016). The role of nurses in HIPAA compliance, healthcare security. https://healthitsecurity.com/news/the-role-of-nurses-in-hipaa-compliance-healthcare-security

- - Due to nurses’ focus on patient health and contact with patient data, many may become desensitized to the importance of HIPAA compliance.
- Garner, G. (2021). Understanding the 5 main HIPAA rules. HIPAA Exams. https://www.hipaaexams.com/blog/understanding-5-main-hipaa-rules/

- - This is an in-depth look at five HIPAA laws and regulations to ensure training and documentation protocols are error free and are consistent with the current standards.
- Heath, S. (2017). Do health data security concerns influence patient data sharing? https://patientengagementhit.com/news/do-health-data-security-concerns-influence-patient-data-sharing

- - Heath explains why patients need better assurances of PHI and health data security before opting into a health information exchange or other patient data-sharing model.
- Zabel, L. (2016). Ten common HIPAA violations and preventative measures to keep your practice in compliance. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/10-common-hipaa-violations-and-preventative-measures-to-keep-your-practice-in-compliance.html

- - HIPAA violations can result in fines of up to $1.5 million and may include sanctions or loss of license. This article reviews the 10 most common violations.