29 Dec A detailed care

NSG4076 Capstone Synthesis

Week 2 Project

Describing the Aggregate

By the due date assigned, submit a document describing your approved aggregate in detail.

Based on the focus of your practicum and the aggregate you will be working with, complete the windshield survey you began last week. Include information about the name of the aggregate, its geographical location and size, its population, and a brief history. Include information about the basic vital statistics of the aggregate such as the crude birth rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, the leading causes of death, and any other relevant statistical information related to the health of the aggregate from the windshield survey.

Explain, giving at least two reasons, why you selected this particular aggregate for your Capstone project.

Your response should be in the form of a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document. Use relevant charts and graphs to support the information you collected. Identify the sources of your information and describe how you went about collecting the information.

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Week 4 Project

There are two parts to this assignment. Select a few members from the aggregate you have identified at your practicum site. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the aggregate and the community where the aggregate resides. Support your responses with examples.

Risk Assessment:

Complete a risk assessment using the information from chapter 18 “Community as Client: Assessment and Analysis” as a guide. Describe how the environment, home, and risk assessments were conducted, using your course textbook as a reference. Support your responses with examples.

Describe the results of the assessments, drawing conclusions about the strengths/weaknesses and risks to the aggregate as you see them.

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Week 5 Project

Developing a Care Plan

Last week, you conducted a risk assessment to identify the health risks faced by the aggregate you selected. This week, begin working on a comprehensive care plan for the aggregate and submit it to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

The care plan should propose a nursing diagnosis for the aggregate and include strategies to tackle the major health risks identified during the risk assessment.

In addition, it should include a disaster management plan with the following components:

List of disasters that might affect your aggregate (take into consideration the geographical location of the aggregate, past history, etc.)

Strategies for handling at least two disasters from the list

Recommendation for a disaster supplies kit

Note: The grading rubric for this assignment is available in Week 6 as you start this assignment in Week 5 but submit the completed assignment in Week 6.

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Week 6 Project

Developing a Care Plan—Continued

Last week, you began working on a comprehensive care plan for the aggregate. The care plan is due this week.

Propose a nursing diagnosis and suggest interventions that address the major health risks identified from the risk assessment. In your care plan, include a list of disasters that may affect the aggregate and a disaster management plan.

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Week 8 Project

Implementation of the Care Plan

You have developed a comprehensive care plan for the aggregate. Over the next two weeks, you will implement the plan for your aggregate.

The first step to effective implementation is planning. As you go about this task, answer the following questions:

What group have you selected (for example, three families with young children, a group of five AIDS patients, and so on)? What made you select this particular group?

What intervention(s) of the plan will you implement in the group?

What health risk do you expect to tackle by implementing this intervention?

What results do you expect?

How do you plan to implement this intervention? Do you have any specific strategy in mind? What resources will you need?

How long do you think it will take for the results to be seen?

What resources do you need?

Prepare a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with your responses to the questions above and submit it to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Submit your proposed implementation to the Submissions Area simultaneously and discuss it with your classmates and your instructors—you may receive valuable feedback from them that will help in making your implementation more effective.

Mobilize the resources you need, talk to the small group, recruit volunteers, etc.

When your resources are in place, put your plan into action.

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Week 10 Project

Evaluation of Plan Effectiveness Criteria

You spent the last few weeks implementing a portion of the comprehensive care plan you developed for the aggregate. An evaluation of plan effectiveness is now due.

In the evaluation component of the Capstone project, you are expected to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention.

The following are some questions you should seek answers to:

Did I implement the intervention as planned? If not, what were the reasons?

Are there visible signs of success (for example, reduced health issues)? If yes, describe.

Interview at least two members of your group to learn their views about the effectiveness of the intervention.

Finally, compare the projected effectiveness of your plan before implementation with the actual effectiveness after implementation. You may want to use the responses to the above questions 1 and 2 to measure the actual effectiveness of the intervention.

The evaluation component of the final paper should describe your evaluation of the implementation. Include responses to points 1, 2, and 3 above. Also, include transcripts of the interviews with the participants from the group. The evaluation component of the final Microsoft Word submission document should be a minimum of 2 pages.

Over the past nine weeks, you selected an aggregate and conducted a risk assessment of its health, developed a care plan to address those health risks, planned an implement one intervention in a small group from the aggregate, and considered the effectiveness of the intervention on the health of the small group. It’s time now for you to present your final submission of this Capstone project.

Your final submission comprises the documentation of the work accomplished through your Capstone project, a Microsoft Word Document that contains the evaluation and summary, a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation highlighting the main aspects of the project including the key things learned during the 10 weeks of working with this project, and the activities log. The activities log should be submitted to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

The complete documentation of the work accomplished over the course of the project should contain a minimum of 6–7 pages in a Microsoft Word document and should include the following information:

A detailed description of the aggregate

A description of the aggregate’s strengths and weaknesses

A risk assessment of the aggregate

Diagnoses based on the risk assessment

A detailed care plan for the aggregate

A description of how at least one intervention was implemented in the aggregate to address an identified issue

An evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention

The Microsoft PowerPoint presentation should be concise and should include the highlights of the Capstone project and the key things learned over the course of this project, from developing, implementing, and evaluating the care plan. Your presentation should not exceed 15 slides.

Submit your final Microsoft Word document containing the self-evaluation and complete summary to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned. Use bold sub-headings in the paper to differentiate between the evaluation and the summary information.