Identify and assess a vulnerable population in your community.

The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess a vulnerable population in your community. You will also describe one community health problem that impacts this vulnerable group. This problem must be one that a community health nurse could positively impact.

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This APA paper is expected to be no more than four pages in length (not including the title page and reference list). Below are the requirements for successful completion of this paper. Please use the following categories as the first level headings on your paper. APA formatting helps you to format your paper in a professional manner and provides consistent methods for citing your sources within the paper and providing the complete reference on the reference page. See the documents in the APA category in Doc Sharing for assistance with APA formatting. There is an APA template that you can use to type on and this will help with APA formatting. The Student Success Strategies resource has a great sections on writing scholarly papers and APA formatting (to find resource watch:

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Based on your community assessment, including your windshield survey and the assessment information from your discussions, identify one aggregate or vulnerable population in your community that faces a community health problem. See units five (5) and six (6) in your Nies and McEwen text for examples of vulnerable populations and aggregates. Your community must be the area where you live or work.

Introduction (one paragraph): The introduction should be interesting and capture the reader’s attention.

Provide a brief description of your community including the city name and state and key features.

Briefly introduce one vulnerable population that you identified in your assessment.

Discuss the purpose of your paper. The purpose statement of the paper should relate to assessing this vulnerable population in your community.

Vulnerable Population Overview (one to two paragraphs):

Describe one vulnerable group in your community in greater detail.

Include your observations about this group from the windshield survey.

Discuss events or trends that have affected this vulnerable group such as economic conditions, trends in health related behaviors or disease rates, etc.

Strengths, Risk Factors, and/or Barriers (two to three paragraphs):

Discuss the strengths, risk factors, and/or barriers that impact this vulnerable population’s health.

 

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