D029 INFORMATICS FOR TRANSFORMING NURSING CARE ARM 1 TASK 1
ARM1 — ARM1 TASK 1: POPULATION HEALTH DATA BRIEF
INFORMATICS FOR TRANSFORMING NURSING CARE — D029
7067.1.1 : Theoretical Underpinnings of Nursing Informatics
The graduate analyzes the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the nursing informatics scope and standards to improve patient experience and health outcomes.
7067.1.2 : Informatics for Patient Care
The graduate determines how technology and informatics can be optimized to improve the patient experience and lower healthcare costs.
7067.1.3 : Informatics for Health Administration
The graduate analyzes core administrative systems to support the management of safe, cost-effective, and high-quality healthcare.
7067.1.4 : Informatics for Population Health
The graduate analyzes data from population-based systems to mitigate public health threats and decrease incidence of disease.
7067.1.5 : Data Collection and Management
The graduate designs data collection tools and processes to capture, analyze, and report health indicators and outcomes.
7067.1.6 : Data Analysis and Visualization
The graduate refines data to visually represent, forecast, monitor, and report progress in meeting healthcare outcomes.
INTRODUCTION
Population health, in its broadest sense, is defined as an integrated approach by which interdisciplinary collaboration between various groups in a community—such as businesses, academia, healthcare providers, philanthropic organizations, local governments, and civil and religious organizations—work together to achieve the common goal of improving overall human health within a defined geographical area (CDC, 2017).
When examining population health dynamics, it is important to recognize that important research areas include not only aggregated medical diagnoses but also the hazards in the living and working environments, socioeconomic statuses, ethnic backgrounds, educational levels, and health coverage-related aspects of a given population. In particular, underserved populations play an important role in the development of strategies, interventions, and policy for the delivery of improved population health. Improving population health focuses not only on bringing awareness to significant health issues and contributing factors within a given area but also on identifying the resources necessary to influence and deliver positive changes.
For nurses and other members of the healthcare community, population health is just as much a professional responsibility as is the care of a single individual in an acute care setting. It is important for members of the healthcare community to cultivate an awareness of and sense of involvement in population health initiatives. In these initiatives, a nurse’s knowledge—including informatics competencies, clinical practice experience, and leadership skills—can be applied to positively affect health outcomes. It is equally important for nurses to first analyze and understand the geographical area an initiative focuses on. This helps identify modifiable and nonmodifiable health risk factors within a community, which serves as the foundation for setting priorities. This first step is vital in generating the information necessary for the engagement and action of local stakeholders.
In this task, you will gather data about the local geographical distribution of health-related factors, study the significance of the data, and present the data in a manner illustrating the state of the selected county’s population health. You will explore the community’s health profile and trends as well as factors influencing the county’s current health status. The information you submit will consist of graphics such as maps, trending graphs, comparative charts, and statistical lists. You will summarize key findings and highlight at least one health factor or condition requiring focused attention. You may examine the attached “CDC Data Brief Example” in the Supporting Documents section to obtain a general idea of what the result of this task will look like.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
You will perform the following actions by completing the “Population Health Data Brief Template” attachment:
A. Complete the “Sociodemographic Profile” section in the “Population Health Data Brief Template” attachment by doing the following:
Important information for writing discussion questions and participation
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Hello class and welcome to the class and I will be your instructor for this course. This is a -week course and requires a lot of time commitment, organization, and a high level of dedication. Please use the class syllabus to guide you through all the assignments required for the course. I have also attached the classroom policies to this announcement to know your expectations for this course. Please review this document carefully and ask me any questions if you do. You could email me at any time or send me a message via the “message” icon in halo if you need to contact me. I check my email regularly, so you should get a response within 24 hours. If you have not heard from me within 24 hours and need to contact me urgently, please send a follow up text to
I strongly encourage that you do not wait until the very last minute to complete your assignments. Your assignments in weeks 4 and 5 require early planning as you would need to present a teaching plan and interview a community health provider. I advise you look at the requirements for these assignments at the beginning of the course and plan accordingly. I have posted the YouTube link that explains all the class assignments in detail. It is required that you watch this 32-minute video as the assignments from week 3 through 5 require that you follow the instructions to the letter to succeed. Failure to complete these assignments according to instructions might lead to a zero. After watching the video, please schedule a one-on-one with me to discuss your topic for your project by the second week of class. Use this link to schedule a 15-minute session. Please, call me at the time of your appointment on my number. Please note that I will NOT call you.
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If you think you would be needing accommodations due to any reasons, please contact the appropriate department to request accommodations.
Plagiarism is highly prohibited. Please ensure you are citing your sources correctly using APA 7th edition. All assignments including discussion posts should be formatted in APA with the appropriate spacing, font, margin, and indents. Any papers not well formatted would be returned back to you, hence, I advise you review APA formatting style. I have attached a sample paper in APA format and will also post sample discussion responses in subsequent announcements.
Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.
I understand this is a lot of information to cover in 5 weeks, however, the Bible says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. Even in times like this, we are encouraged by God’s word that we have that ability in us to succeed with His strength. I pray that each and every one of you receives strength for this course and life generally as we navigate through this pandemic that is shaking our world today. Relax and enjoy the course!
Hi Class,
Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.
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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question
Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
Include in-text citations in your response
Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
Follow APA-7th edition
Points will be deducted if the above is not followed
Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor
A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
Follow APA 7th edition
Points will be deducted if the above is not followed
Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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D029 INFORMATICS FOR TRANSFORMING NURSING CARE ARM 1 TASK 1
1. Complete the “Key Findings” subsection, including a screenshot of the county you are investigating.
2. Complete the “Introductory Paragraph” subsection (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs), identifying the source of the data and a summary of findings from the table in part A3.
3. Complete the 20 population characteristics in the “Sociodemographic Profile Table” subsection for the selected county and the United States.
B. Complete the “County Health Trends & Rankings” section in the “Population Health Data Brief Template” attachment by doing the following:
1. Complete the “Introductory Paragraph” subsection (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs), including why the data for the health trends in part B2 were collected and identifying the source of the data and the methods used to gather the data.
2. Complete the “Discussion of Health Trends” subsection, including a discussion of the use of trend graphs for the seven major health trends selected in part B3.
3. Complete the “Health Trends (Visual Graphs)” subsection, including one trend graph for each of the selected health trends.
Note: Caption each visual graph in APA format.
4. Complete the “Health Trends Discussion” subsection (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs), including how each of the trend graphs tell a story about the health of the county and how the health aspect is improving, worsening, or remaining stable.
C. Complete the “Health Factors” section in the “Population Health Data Brief Template” attachment by doing the following:
1. Complete the 14 items in the “Health Factors Table” subsection for the selected county, the top U.S. performer, and the state.
2. Complete the “Comparison of Data” subsection (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs), including an analysis of background information on health rankings and the purpose of comparing county data to the top performers.
D. Complete the “Summary” section in the attached “Populatio