Objectives: This learning experience will enable the student to:

1. Delineate a problem relevant to the care of a client/group/community with emphasis on the community as a client. (Careful not to focus on the individual members of the community but focus on the community as a system

2. Conduct a search of the literature pertinent to the specific problem.

3. Inter-relate findings with data gathered (from literature, interviews, and other sources) as a basis for nursing care in a scholarly manner

4. Differentiate the stressors affecting the community’s biological, interpersonal/intra-personal non-human environmental subsystems.

5. Propose relevant implications for health care delivery generally, and for professional nursing care specifically, based on community theory and research integrating community resources.

6. Synthesize information into a coherent, logical and factually accurate written presentation.

Directions:

The community selected should represent one that you come in contact with either personally or professionally. Discuss your rationale for your community with your clinical instructor. (Use your windshield and formal assessments to help determine a community problem).

The emphasis of your research paper should be placed on the community considering the SDS model and the community as a client/system

The community’s biological, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and non-human environmental subsystems must be considered, and the implications for health care identified utilizing appropriate community theory.

References should be from recent professional periodicals and limit the use of text-books.

Requirements:
The paper must conform to college standards for acceptable written work.
1. Done on 8-1/2”x11” white paper, double space throughout with a 1-1/2” margin on the left and 1” margin on all other sides. Proper documentation, reference according to APA format, and correct punctuation must be used.
2. Cover sheet to include: topic, student’s name, course and name, and date of submission.
3. Length: No more than 10 pages between 8 – 10 pages

Required reference format:

American Psychological Associations Guidelines.

Topics: All topics need to be approved by the third week of the semester by your clinical instructor.
The community paper will

1. Identify a specific problem for your selected community Support the selection
of the problem with data and observations from the assessment.
You may also use data collected via the formal survey, articles in local
newspapers, community reports etc 20

2. Provide significance of the problem via scholarly literature review 15
and community theory

3. Analyze the community as a client via the SDS framework with support from the literature (theory/research) and coordinate with data from
the community assessment 25

4. Develop evidence –based interventions that considers this community ‘s
resources 25

5. Adhere to APA format, appropriate grammar, spelling and syntax and
organization 15

I made an outline for how I wanted this paper to be.
Introduction of Perth Amboy (08861)

Assessment –paper is using teen pregnancy as a stressor
Windshield Survey
Based off my observations, teen pregnancy is a major issue in perth amboy
Data to support windshield survey
Data that supports that teen pregnancy is an issue in perth amboy
Data collected from newspapers, articles, interviews
Provide Significance of problem via scholarly articles/literature
Significance based off community theory
-why teen pregnancy is a significant issue
SDS Model with support from literature and correlate to assessment
Biological
-biological issues that can be associated with teen pregnancy in the community of perth amboy. Using perth amboy as the client, not individually using teen pregnant
Interpersonal
-how problems of teen pregnancy can impact other communities with there resoucres/funding
Intrapersonal
-how and influx of teen pregnancy in a community can make a community feel powerless/hopeless. What evidence of perth amboy can demonstrate this based off data
Socio-Cultural
-is perth amboy supplying resources to help with teen pregnancy
Spiritual
-any church involvement?
Nursing Interventions utilizing Perth Amboy’s resources
-please use nursing articles within the last 5 years
-what specific nursing intervetions can be utilized to help with this problem
Conclusion