Required Uniform Assignment: Health Promotion Paper Guidelines
Purpose: Apply knowledge gained about health promotion concepts, strategies, and cultural competency.
Identify a health problem or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the life span of this population.
Problem: Increase the proportion of adults who meet the objectives for aerobic physical activity and for muscle-strengthening activity in families of Two parent with children.
Research a topic related to health and wellness associated with this Healthy People 2020 topic area above.
Develop an educational health promotion project addressing the population/culture in that target population (working families, or families with working schedules since it is hard for them to find the time and energy to engage in this physical activity).
Discuss the professional nurse’s role in promoting this health activity.
Discuss health promotion, illness prevention, health maintenance, health restoration, and rehabilitation in relation to the nurse’s role in working with this population.
Identify health promotion strategies throughout the lifespan.
Introduction and Conclusion.
Describe the topic and target cultural population (focus on working parents).
Include statistics to support significance of the topic.
Explain how the project relates to the selected Healthy People 2020 topic area.
Apply health promotion concepts and strategies.
Summary of Articles
Minimum of three (3) scholarly articles, from the last 5 years, are used as sources.
Articles meet criteria of being from scholarly journals and include health promotion and wellness content.
At least one article is related to the chosen cultural group.
Summarize all key points and findings from the articles.
Discuss how information from the articles is used in the Health Promotion Project, including specific examples.
Describe approaches to educate the target population about the topic.
The approaches are appropriate for the cultural target population.
Identify specific ways to promote lifestyle changes within the target population.