Assignment Task: Community Health Nursing Practicum Presentation Ideas:
The following is a list from which a topic may be selected for your presentation(s). These are only suggestions; you may have another area that you may want to explore:
- Global society
- Cultural competence
- Health promotion-exercise, nutrition, disease prevention, immunizations, wellness, fitness, Breast & cervical cancer screening; mental health
- Environmental safety
- Community empowerment
- Care of families
- Care of populations-health disparities
- Child and adolescent needs
- Health needs of men or women-sexual and reproductive health
- Health needs of older adults
- Meeting the needs of the homeless
- Home care
- School client care
- Work setting client care
- Correctional client care
- Communicable diseases-TB, STD's, HIV/AIDS
- Substance Abuse-Alcohol, tobacco, drugs, etc.
- Mental Health client needs
- Societal violence
- Physical health problems
- Urban and rural care
- Disaster care
- Community resources
Community Health Teaching Project Outline
(This could be a written paper or PowerPoint presentation- all questions are to be answered)
After you have done the goal and objectives for the teaching project. The next step is to outline a Community Health Plan and Health Education Lesson Plan for his/her community and implement this in his/her community.
Students will use the following steps below to complete your teaching project:
1. Assessment: Assess a targeted population in your community to see what needs to exist. This is done by researching health data for your population. Make sure you select and define your community by noting the history of your community.
2. Capture a picture of your selected community. What are the vital statistics of your community? Think about socioeconomic statistics. What illnesses or diseases are present in your community? Do citizens in your community have easy access to primary care? What are the most prevalent health problems in your community?
3. Formulate a community health nursing diagnosis related to this health need, based on this data, what are the strengths and needs of your community?
4. Plan community intervention. Ask yourself if this will have a positive health impact in the designated population? How do you know?
5. Implementation. Create an educational presentation that will address the most important needs of your population. The presentation must be arranged with your instructor. The instructor will attend your presentation virtually or in person.
6. Evaluation: How would you evaluate your intervention?
Examples for the project: Health screening, health education, getting a sidewalk or gym or rec. center built, provide car seats for children in poverty areas, design and after-school-program for at risk students, provide training to inmates or correctional facility staff on infection control, organize a home visitation for at-risk teen moms, teaching nutritional cooking to moms receiving WIC, intervene in a communicable disease outbreak situation, develop a disaster plan, STD/HIV reduction rate program in a specific population, increase immunization rates in school-age children, Safety (texting while driving)(car seats)(firearm)(summer), depression screening of college students, assessing client satisfaction with public health services, obesity prevention, nutrition programs, physical fitness programs, marketing prenatal care, CHIP (community health improvement plan), teaching parents alternative discipline methods, tobacco cessation, etc.