Community Health resources
Research a selected local, national, or global nonprofit organization or government agency to determine how it contributes to public health and safety improvements, promotes equal opportunity, and improves the quality of life within the community. Submit your findings in a 3-5 page report.
Professional Context
Many organizations work to better local and global communities’ quality of life and promote health and safety in times of crisis. As public health and safety advocates, nurses must be cognizant of how such organizations help certain populations. As change agents, nurses must be aware of factors that impact the organization and the services that it offers. Familiarity with these organizations enables the nurse to offer assistance as a volunteer and source of referral.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
- Competency 1: Analyze health risks and health care needs among distinct populations.
- Competency 2: Propose health promotion strategies to improve the health of populations.
- Competency 3: Evaluate health policies, based on their ability to achieve desired outcomes.
- Competency 4: Integrate principles of social justice in community health interventions.
- Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health.
Preparation
You are interested in expanding your role as a nurse and are considering working in an area where you can help to promote equal opportunity and improve the quality of life within the local or global community. You are aware of several nonprofit organizations and government agencies whose work contributes to this effort in some way. You have particular interest in one of these organizations but would like to know more about its contributions to public health and safety improvements. You would like to report the results of your research in a scholarly paper that you could submit for publication.
Research a selected local, national, or global nonprofit organization or government agency from the list provided. Determine how the organization or agency contributes to public health and safety improvements, promotes equal opportunity, and improves the quality of life within the community. Submit your findings in a 3-5 page report.
Choose the organization or agency you are most interested in researching:
- American Red Cross.
- Habitat for Humanity.
- United Way.
- Doctors Without Borders.
- The Salvation Army.
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- National Center for Transgender Equality.
- National Resource Center on LGBT Aging.
- Advocacy & Services for LGBT Elders.
- Equal Justice Initiative.
- National Alliance to End Homelessness.
- Urban Triage.
- World Health Organization.
- The Arc: For People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
- Alliance for Retired Americans.
- Futures Without Violence.
- Blue Campaign: What Is Human Trafficking?
- Covenant House.
- Cultural Survival
Instructions
Research a selected local, national, or global nonprofit organization or government agency from the list provided. Determine how the organization or agency contributes to public health and safety improvements, promotes equal opportunity, and improves the quality of life within the community. Submit your findings in a 3-5 page report.
Document Format and Length
Format your paper using APA style.
- Refer to the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] to help you in writing and formatting your paper. Be sure to include:
- Your paper should comprise 3-5 pages of content plus title and references pages.
Supporting Evidence
Cite at least three credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications published within the past 5 years that support your research findings.
Graded Requirements
The research requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the assessment scoring guide, so be sure to address each point.
- Explain how the organization’s mission and vision enable it to contribute to public health and safety improvements.
- Evaluate an organization
- n’s ability to promote equal opportunity and improve the quality of life in the community.
- Assess the impact of funding sources, policy, and legislation on the organization’s provision of services.
- Explain how an organization’s work impacts the health and/or safety needs of a local community.
- Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
