NURS 3045 Nursing Context of Practice: Primary Health Care Assessment

Assessment 2: ePortfolio Part two

• Assignment Two (60% of final grade)

Assessment 2 is designed to demonstrate your learning and achievement of the following course objectives: 

CO 1. Explore the application of primary and public health policy, concepts and principles to nursing practice.

CO 2. Explore the role of the registered nurse in health promotion and provision of health education to individuals, groups, communities and populations.

CO 3. Develop a client-centred health promotion/health education strategy that addresses social, political, cultural and environmental determinants of health and the immediate problems facing an individual, group, community or population.

1. 4 Evaluate the outcomes of health education and health promotion strategies for individuals, groups, communities and populations.

CO 5. Critically analyse the challenges of meeting health care needs of rural and remote populations.

1. 6 Evaluate the contribution of the registered nurse to effective inter-disciplinary teamwork in the management of clients in primary health care settings

Assessment description 

Assessment 2 requires you to plan and evaluate a comprehensive primary health care initiative. This assessment requires you to develop  PowerPoint slides that could be used to present your initiative to your team leader.

• An example of a powerpoint presentation template students can use: clickhere
• Marking rubric: clickhere

Assessment Instructions

Assessment 2 involves developing a 15–20-minute video PowerPoint presentation to address your selected LOCAL community and target group's health problem from assessment 1 (ePortfolio Part One: Developing a health problem statement).  

You can design your own comprehensive primary health care initiative OR you can re-design/adapt an existing program or initiative to a comprehensive primary health care initiative into Australian context BUT your initiative MUST address your identified LOCAL community and target group’s health problem. 

1. HOW TO COMPLETE THIS ASSESSMENT 

An oral or voice-over video presentation involves developing and recording a 15–20-minute video presentation (camera on- showing your face) in responses to the following areas:

1. Introduction:Stating the geographical location of a local Australian local community. Briefly introduce the local Australian local community target group's health problem, health problem statement and how this health problem will be addressed by a comprehensive primary health care initiative.

Note: This assessment task is worth 5%   and presentations should include Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Country. These slides are included in the template presentation provided  

2. Aim/Goal:Clearly state the aim/goal of the comprehensive primary health care initiative. Your aim/goal should focus on reducing the health problem for an affected target group of the population using the SMART criteria.

Note: This assessment task  is worth 5% , the SMART is an acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. Therefore, a SMART goal incorporates all of these criteria to help focus your efforts and increase the chances of achieving your goal.

3. Prevention level: Identify the most appropriate prevention level for this comprehensive primary health care initiative and briefly provide a rationale of why this is the most appropriate prevention level for this comprehensive primary health care initiative. 

Note: This assessment task  is worth 5% , please consider what prevention level would best address your health problem from assessment 1.    

4. Health Strategies, Partners and Principles :Outline the health strategies (minimum of three strategies) with actions and partnership to support each health strategy of the comprehensive primary health care initiative. These strategies must relate to your initiative’s aim/goal. Identify the alignment each strategy has with the primary health care principles, WHO (1986) Ottawa Charter action areas and basic prerequisites (i.e. enable, advocate and mediate). Briefly discuss why this is a comprehensive primary health care initiative  and the relevancy to nursing practice. 

Note: This assessment task  is worth 25% and your strategies must relate to your initiative aim or goal.  i.e., a health strategy is a general plan of action to address the health problem and who may you partner or collaborate with in this initiative. Ideas for strategies can be: 1) behavioural/educational (developing personal skills); 2) environmental (supportive environments); 3) community action; 4) re-orientate health service and/or 5) Affiliated to Healthy Public Policy.

5. Evaluation and Outcome :For each health strategy, identify the most appropriate evaluation methods,  aspect actions, tools, timeline with short-term outcome for each of the health strategies, which will assist with evaluating the comprehensive primary health care initiative.

Note:  This assessment task  is worth 10%, so consider how can this initiative be best evaluated? The short-term outcome must align with a initiative’s health strategy and support achieving your initiative aim or goal .

6. Reflection:Using a nursing practice reflection framework, reflect on your learning in this course (NURS 3045). State TWO subtopic areas in NURS 3045 primary health care, and ONE area on designing a comprehensive health care initiative (Assessment 2) that has enhanced your understanding of primary health care. Briefly describe why these THREE areas will enable you to work using a primary health care approach.

Note: This assessment task  is worth 10%.

7. Conclusion:Summarise the specific health problem, relevancy to the target group, nursing practice and how the comprehensive primary health care initiative will address the target group’s health problem.

Note: This assessment task  is worth 5%.

8. References:This assignment must contain a comprehensive list of references at end or your presentation. You need to integrate and use at least 8 quality academic sources. Must adhere to either Harvard Referencing Guidelines UniSA or APA 7

Note: This assessment task  is worth 5%, such as  in-text referencing is required on the power point slides. A reference list is also required at the end of the presentation 

9. Oral Presentation Style: you will need to be clear,  well-paced speech,  have a confident and professional presentation style, be concise presentation of all assessment criteria and video recorded presentation keeps within the time fame (15-20 minutes).  Student camera was on during presentation and student video image is seen in the corner or on the side during the presentation of this assignment.

Note: This assessment task  is worth 20%.

10. Writing and Presentation:  yourMicrosoft PowerPoint slides need to ensure the text used in the slides is of appropriate size and readable by the audience; the text is of appropriate length and the colours of the background enhance the readability of the content; the content is well spaced with emphasis on headings and sub- headings; the use of pictures/graphs/other support material is clear; and  you use academic writing, inclusive language, structure and sequence.

Note: This assessment task  is worth 10%.

1. SUBMISSION FORMATs  

Submit your assignment in TWO files via the learnonline site which are:

1. a media file containing a 15-20 minute oral presentation with a  video and
2.       The PowerPoint presentation file ( no video or audio, just the slides- this is to provide a turnitin score).

The minimum list of slides for your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, should include the following headings and/or subheadings:

• Title
• Acknowledgement of Country or Welcome to Country  slide should be included in your presentation. 
• Introduction
• Aim or Goal
• Prevention Level
• Health Strategies, Partners and Principles