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Community/Public
Health Project Proposal: Description of the /Project Overview

Include Title page, approximately 3-4 pages of
text, in-text citations, and Reference page. APA format, clarity,
comprehension, sentence structure, and internal logic are all considered when
evaluating your assignment.

A. Overview of the Agency and Community Assessment

€       Include one to two paragraphs summarizing the community assessment of the
city/county you would complete the project.

€       Please include
community/public health site where the lab experience would occur

€       Provide a one to two paragraph of an overview of the
selected agency.

€       Include a description of the organization where you would
implement your Community/Public Health project, including the organization’s
vision, mission, and philosophy. (Use APA format for citation and reference).

B.
Preliminary Overview of the Project

Answer in a
question-answer format.  To earn full credit, each question needs to
be answered and addressed completely.

The
Identified Public Health Issue

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What is the identified Public Health
Issue?

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State
with evidence based sources the importance of this project topic for community
health nursing. Use APA format to include a citation/quote. 

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State
with evidence based sources basic epidemiological measures such as incidence
and prevalence of the project topic. Use APA format to include a
citation/quote.

How Public Health Issue was Identified

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What led you to realize this Public
Health Issue existed?

Title
and Purpose of the Project- Project needs to be completed within the time frame
of the course.

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What is the title of your project?

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Provide a description of your
project including the purpose of your project using the following statement (“The
purpose of the project …”)                                                                         

C.
Planning for your Community Health Project:
Part 1: Answering the following question will help detail the initial plans in
implementing the project

Strategic Project

€       What challenges/problems do you believe your project would
address?

€       How do you believe the functioning of the organization would
be improved if your project was completed?

€       What do you envision as the goal of your project?  (You will be asked this question in more
detail in Assignment 3, after you are more immersed in your project. For this
proposal, answer based on your current knowledge of the project.)

Engagement with the Necessary People

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Who would be the key stakeholders
(persons and/or groups) who may be affected by your project – both positively
and negatively?

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Who would likely to be influential
in the success of your project?

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Would you anticipate any opposition
to your project? If so, would any of those opponents possibly hold a
significant position in the organization?

            Managing
the successfulness of your project

      
Is the project a manageable size? In
other words, would it reasonably and realistically be completed within the
timeframe of this course?

            Policies,
Principles, and Global Health

       What policies would influence the health, fiscal,
administrative, legal and/or social aspects of your community, project, and/or
population?

       How would you apply legal and ethical principles to your
project?

       Can this project be completed on a global scale?

       Examine the impact of the environment on the selected health
issue?

            Personal
Perception of Project

€       What would excite you about this project? Why do you care?

€       What would concern you about this project? Do you identify
any particular obstacles?

            Anticipated
Participation with Community Organization

       Which community leaders would you plan to collaborate with
to promote the health of the selected population?

       How would you utilize team building, leadership, and
conflict management skills to build a caring partnership with a community
agency?

            Keywords

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List 3-4 search topics (keywords)
that you believe would be appropriate for a literature review, based on your
project. A review of literature may be directed toward general
information-gathering on a topic, a search for lab best practices, recent
peer-reviewed research on a topic, or a historical review of a topic.

 For Assignment 2, you will be reviewing literature to determine
best practices and how other organizations have addressed a need for change
similar to what you have identified. In Assignment 3, you will use information
from Assignments 1 and 2 to create a firm plan for your Community/Public Health
Project.