Part 1: Serving Vulnerable Populations Imagine you are a community health nurse assigned to care

Part 1: Serving Vulnerable Populations Imagine you are a community health nurse assigned to care

Part 1: Serving Vulnerable Populations Imagine you are a community health nurse assigned to care for a¯family with a newly diagnosed type-2 diabetic member.¯The diabetic family member, JK, is a 66-year-old¯Black woman with hypertension and asthma. JK lives in a food desert and does not drive. JK’s family visits her weekly, but they have complicated lives and are unable to provide daily care for her.  Evaluate the following community health resources and summarize them in a table:  United States Department of Agriculture: Food Access Research Atlas  Food Access Research Atlas Map  Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: A Systematic Review of Food Deserts, 1966-2007  Small Food Stores and Availability of Nutritious Foods: A Comparison of Database and In-Store Measures, Northern California, 2009  Data & Statistics  Create a¯plan detailing opportunities for JK to gain adequate access to appropriate foods for one week and address the following:  Appropriate and realistic estimated budget  Shopping locations  Transportation means, routes, and timing  Support services  Compare JK’s community to your county census data.  Format your assignment as a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes.  Part 2: Disease Prevention Teaching Project Step 1: Choose a community health agency (day care, church, school, clinic, homeless shelter).  Step 2: Review Table 1-1 (p. 49) of Community/Public Health¯Nursing and the results of your windshield survey completed in Week 2. From the results of your windshield survey, you will identify a health issue facing the community. You will prepare an outline for a teaching project surrounding the issue, which you would present to your selected agency about this issue.  Assess the community for:  Healthy food option  Boundaries  Housing and zoning  Open space  Commons  Transportation  Social service centers  Stores, businesses, and industries  Street people and animals  Condition of the area  Race, culture, and ethnicity  Religion  Health indicators and morbidity  Politics  Media  Signs of decay  Crime rate  Employment rate  Schools  Environmental factors  Public services (fire, police)  Step 3: Recommend an appropriate disease prevention teaching project that could be offered by your chosen agency for the local community.  Prepare a 750-word summary of the teaching project with the following:  Summarize the public health issues facing the selected community.  Select 1 issue and prepare an outline of the problem or issue faced.  Explain how your selected agency could address the issue.  Prepare an outline of a disease prevention teaching project that could be offered by your agency.  RUBRIC_031323.docx