Homework: Serving Vulnerable Populations
In this homework, you will explore your community's resources for people who live in a food desert, develop a meal plan that fits the medical conditions, consider the culture of the community members, and explore how to help community members maintain health.
Part A: 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
i. Food Access Research Atlas
ii. Food Access Research Atlas Map
iii. Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
i. A Systematic Review of Food Deserts, 1966-2007
ii. Small Food Stores and Availability of Nutritious Foods
iii. Data & Statistics
Create a?plan detailing opportunities for JK to gain adequate access to appropriate foods.
Your plan must address:
i. Appropriate and realistic estimated budget
ii. Shopping locations
iii. Transportation means, routes, and timing
iv. Support services
Compare JK's community to your county census data. "The county census data is COOK COUNTY" of Illinois.
Format your homework as a 10 to 15 slides Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes.
Part B: Disease Prevention Teaching Project
Step I: Choose a community health agency (day care, church, school, clinic, homeless shelter).
Step II: Review Table 1-1 (p. 49) of Community/Public Health?Nursing and the results of your windshield survey completed.
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: "The community is Skokie, IL.
i. Healthy food option
ii. Boundaries
iii. Housing and zoning
iv. Open space
v. Commons
vi. Transportation
vii. Social service centers
viii. Stores, businesses, and industries
ix. Street people and animals
x. Condition of the area
xi. Race, culture, and ethnicity
xii. Religion
xiii. Health indicators and morbidity
xiv. Politics
xv. Media
xvi. Signs of decay
xvii. Crime rate
xviii. Employment rate
xix. Schools
xx. Environmental factors
xxi. Public services (fire, police)
Step III: Recommend an appropriate disease prevention teaching project that could be offered by your chosen agency for the local community.
Prepare 750 words summary of the teaching project. Include the following:
i. Summarize the public health issues facing the selected community.
ii. Select 1 issue and prepare an outline of the problem or issue faced.
iii. Explain how your selected agency could address the issue.
iv. Prepare an outline of a disease prevention teaching project that could be offered by your agency.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- Windshield-Survey-Template-Data.rar