Assignment Task: Why does culturally competent care for women of color matter?
Learning Outcomes:
1. The student will gain proficiency in accessing appropriate publicly available health databases.
2. The student will gain proficiency in interpreting the data obtained from these databases.
3. The student will demonstrate competence in searching, retrieving, and critiquing literature related to selected topic.
4. The student will develop a well-written significance paper that persuades the reader of the need to affect change.
Assignment Description:
The significance paper offers a student the opportunity to delve into county, state, regional, and national databases/websites seeking credible information to create a persuasive argument about a specific healthcare topic/problem. Students may select topics/problems by reviewing the following sites:
- Review post: National patient safety goals posted on jointcommission dot org.
- Review healthypeople on health dot gov
Based on the purpose of the significance paper, students should consider the most recent sources to illustrate need. The focus of the references should be on statistics and current needs and may consist solely of governmental and organizational websites. The purpose of the significance paper is NOT to present research related to the topic. The significance paper is limited to 3 pages (Page 1-2- text; Page 3- references only).