Community Crises

Community Crises

• Assessment Instructions

Preparation

Suppose you have been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion meeting on the development of a community response to crises. To prepare for this discussion, you have been asked to research ways that other communities have provided health care services during crisis situations, identify best practices, and develop a nursing response for providing health care services. You would be presenting your research and nursing response to the roundtable panel during the meeting.

Select two communities that have suffered a crisis of some kind within ten years of each other. For example, you might choose to look at New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina in comparison to New Jersey and Hurricane Sandy. You might address the 2011 tornado outbreak and compare the response of Joplin, Missouri with the response of Birmingham, Alabama. Or, you might choose to look at the responses to volcano eruptions in Hawaii as compared to Washington State. You are not limited to natural disasters; feel free to explore environmental disasters and outbreaks of disease. Try to choose the type of crisis situation that could occur within your own community.

Once you have selected your two communities and their comparable crisis situations, look in the Capella library and on the Internet for scholarly journal articles on how health care professionals responded to the crises.

Requirements

For this assessment, create a PowerPoint presentation that examines provision of health care services related to community crises, from a nursing perspective. In your PowerPoint, address the following:

• Compare the different approaches of two communities for responding to a community crisis.
  • Explain how the crisis situation in each community affected the overall health of the community.
  • Describe potential obstacles in your own community to providing health care services related to community crises.
  • Explain current practices in your own community for providing health care services related to community crises.
  • Recommend an evidence-based nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises.
    • Your nursing response does not need to be overly detailed. In real life, a nursing response would be the work of a committee or another group, based on the research and recommendations of others.
    • Your nursing response should provide foundational research and recommendations based on evidence. Consider things such as triage points, communication methods, caring for staff, providing basic necessities such as food and water, use of other organizations for shelter, and so on.

Use the Notes section of each PowerPoint slide to expand your points and provide supporting evidence.

Additional Requirements

Complete your assessment using the following specifications:

• Include a title slide and reference slide.
  • Number of slides: 10–15.
  • At least 3 current scholarly or professional resources.
  • APA format for in-text citations and references.
  • Be creative. Consider your target audience.
• Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

• What would you do in the event of a disaster?
• What information would be critical to have, to ensure appropriate care for your loved ones?
• Context

As in acute nursing, emergencies do arise in the community/public health arena. These emergencies can take the form of manmade or natural disasters. Health care professionals have had to increase their awareness of their duty to care during these situations. The need for planning and preparing for these possible events is being reinforced (Tomczyk, et al., 2008). Public health nurses bring specific skills to disaster response. Their roles can range from first responders to policy developers.

• Overview

Create a 10–15 slide PowerPoint presentation that compares how different communities respond to crises, describes obstacles to providing health care services related to community crises, and explains current practices for providing health care services related to community crises. Recommend an evidence-based nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

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• Competency 1: Explain the factors that affect the health of communities.
  • Explain how a crisis situation affects community health.
  • Competency 3: Develop an evidence-based nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises.
    • Compare different approaches for responding to a community crisis.
    • Describe obstacles to providing health care services related to a community crisis.
    • Recommend an evidence-based nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises.
    • Explain current practices for providing health care services related to community crises.
  • Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of a nursing professional.
    • Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
    • Correctly format citations and references, using current APA style.
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Community Crises Scoring Guide

Community Crises Scoring Guide Grading Rubric
Criteria	Non-performance	Basic	Proficient	Distinguished
Explain how a crisis situation affects community health.	Does not explain how a crisis situation affects community health.	Explains how a crisis situation affects community health, but the explanation is missing critical elements.	Explains how a crisis situation affects community health.	Explains how a crisis situation affects community health, in both the short-term and the long-term.
Compare different approaches for responding to a community crisis.	Does not describe different approaches for responding to a community crisis.	Describes different approaches for responding to a community crisis.	Compares different approaches for responding to a community crisis.	Compares and contrasts different approaches for responding to a community crisis, and identifies key lessons learned that can be applied to similar situations.
Describe obstacles to providing health care services related to a community crisis.	Does not identify obstacles to providing health care services.	Identifies obstacles to providing health care services, but does not show a relation to a community crisis.	Describes obstacles to providing health care services related to a community crisis.	Describes obstacles to providing health care services related to a community crisis, and identifies strategies for overcoming obstacles.
Recommend an evidence-based nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises.	Does not recommend a nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises.	Recommends a nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises, but does not provide supporting evidence.	Recommends an evidence-based nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises.	Recommends an evidence-based nursing response for providing health care services related to community crises, and clearly shows how the response will be effective and efficient.
Explain current practices for providing health care services related to community crises.	Does not identify current practices for providing health care services related to community crises.	Identifies current practices for providing health care services related to community crises.	Explains current practices for providing health care services related to community crises.	Explains current practices for providing health care services related to community crises, and identifies key areas for improvement.
Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Does not write content clearly, logically, or with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes with errors in clarity, logic, grammar, punctuation, and/or mechanics.	Writes content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes clearly and logically with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics; uses relevant evidence to support a central idea.
Correctly format citations and references, using current APA style.	Does not correctly format citations and references, using current APA style.	Uses current APA to format citations and references, but with numerous errors.	Correctly formats citations and references, using current APA style.	Correctly formats citations and references, using current APA style with no errors.