Nursing Veterans Mental Health Promotion
NR222 Health and Wellness
Required Uniform Assignment: Health Promotion Paper Guidelines
Purpose
This assignment allows the learner to apply knowledge gained about health promotion concepts and strategies, enhance written communication skills, and demonstrate a beginning understanding of cultural competency.
Course outcomes: This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
1. Discuss the professional nurse’s role in health promotion activities. (PO 1 and 2)
3. Discuss health promotion, illness prevention, health maintenance, health restoration, and rehabilitation in
relation to the nurse’s role in working with various populations. (PO 1, 2, and 8) 7. Identify health promotion strategies throughout the lifespan. (PO 1, 2, and 4)
Due date: Your faculty member will inform you when this assignment is due. The Late Assignment Policy applies to this assignment.
Total points possible: 100 points Preparing the assignment
Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions.
- 1) Identify a health problem (The topic I chose is Mental Health) or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the life span of a populationfrom a specific culture in your area.
- 2) Choose one of the Leading Health Indicators (LHI) priorities from Healthy People 2020:https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/Leading-Health-…
- 3) Research a topic related to health and wellness associated with one of the Healthy People 2020 topic areas.
- 4) Submit your topic to the instructor for approval at least 2 weeks prior to the final assignment due date, butearlier if desired. All topics must be approved.
- 5) You will develop an educational health promotion project addressing the population/culture in your area.
- 6) Use TurnItIn in time to make any edits that might be necessary based on the Similarity Index prior to submittingyour paper to your faculty. Consult with your faculty about the acceptable Similarity Index for this paper.
- 7) For APA, formatting, or grammar assistance, visit the APA Citation & Writing page located athttps://library.chamberlain.edu/APA.
- 8) Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the Grading Rubric):
