Health promotion plan paper

Health Promotion Project: Presentation Plan

Jane Doe

NUR4895: Health Education in the Community

November 6, 2020

Health Promotion Project: Presentation Plan

Public health nurses promote health among citizens within their community by championing programs that prevent local rates of morbidity and mortality. Community health initiatives enhance patient access to screening programs and educational presentations, promoting an active alliance between community populations and healthcare providers (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016). Healthy People 2020 is a government initiative that identifies the nation’s leading causes of preventable disabilities and health disparities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) analyzes health statistics to declare improvable objectives for the upcoming decade. This paper will identify a Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) initiative and describe an educational plan for a target audience, a community goal, teaching and learning objectives, and a marketing scheme.

Topic

This health promotion presentation will focus on the HP2020 MHMH-11 topic: increase depression screening by primary care providers. It will address MHMD-11.1: increase the proportion of primary care physician office visits where adults 19 years and older are screened for depression (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2020). Mental health and depression have dynamic effects within a community. Depression has hereditary links, and it commonly exists in tandem with chronic illness. Its costs to the community include loss of life, squandered productivity, and increased healthcare expenditures (Miller et al., 2020). “Screening has been shown to improve the identification of depression in adults in primary care, particularly in those at greater risk of depression” (Miller et al., 2020, p. 428).

Target Audience

The target audience for this health presentation includes adults aged 19 years and older. The audience will encompass adults of any gender and ethnicity. The presentation will target adults because research proves that major depression typically presents in an individual’s second and fifth decades of life (Park & Zarate, 2019, p. 2). The American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 manual lists forms of depression related to pregnancy, trauma and traumatic brain injury, violence, drug use, poverty, cognitive and functional limitations, grief, comorbidities, and senescence/senility (2013). Maurer et al. (2018) add additional risk factors, such as female gender, divorce, social seclusion, uncontrolled chronic pain, and insomnia (p. 509). Alarmingly, primary care settings fail to screen more than 95% of their patients for depression (Maurer et al., 2018, p. 509).

Goal

Bastable et al. describe a goal as a broad, realistic outcome that results from teaching and learning exercises (2020, p. 70). Achieving a goal requires commitment from the educator and pupil, incorporating skills and objectives into the dynamic learning process (Bastable et al., 2020, p. 470). HP2020’s target strives for a ten percent national improvement in primary care depression screenings (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2020). The project detailed in this paper aims to increase the local rate of depression screenings. Over the next five years, Leon County’s primary care physicians will routinely screen adults over 19 years of age for depression, increasing county screening rates by at least seven percent. The local percentage will increase after this project enhances public health education and patients request regular depression screenings from their primary care providers.

Learning Domains and Objectives

Learning domains affect how pupils absorb and assimilate new knowledge. The cognitive domain focuses on memory, reasoning, and application (Bastable et al., 2020, p. 477). The affective domain incorporates one’s attitudes, beliefs, and values (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016, p. 358). The teacher must identify and dispel any misperceptions or misgivings that precede the learning exercise. The psychomotor domain includes skills and is where a person learns by doing or performing an action (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016, p. 358).

Objectives are short-term, tangible missions that collectively help realize a goal (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016, p. 359). Objectives are the precise outcomes of a teaching exercise that result in changes in problem-solving and deductive reasoning (cognitive domain), perceptions (affective domain), and behavioral actions (psychomotor domain). This project will assess learner comprehension and knowledge integration via learning domain-based objectives.

Before the 20-minute presentation, learners will admit to some preconceived notions about depression (affective domain) and list three things they understand as depression-related truths. The educator will consider these beliefs to corroborate facts and dismiss myths that may influence or impede learning. After the 20-minute presentation on depression, the learner will be able to recall three legitimate signs of depression (cognitive domain), list two valid methods of treating depression (cognitive domain), and discuss three new details they learned from the demonstration (affective domain).

Location and Marketing Strategy

The project presenter will construct colorful flyers to garner public interest and post flyers on Facebook and the community boards of local libraries, college campuses, and senior centers. The presentation will take place on Zoom, and interested parties can access the demonstration without establishing a Zoom account. The marketing strategy will emphasize the presentation’s safety in its adherence to social isolation recommendations. It will not impose upon the attendee’s daily schedule because the presentation will take less than 30 minutes. The presenter guarantees that attendees will learn valuable and potentially life-saving information about depression and mental health.

Date & Time, Peer RN Information

The presentation will commence via the Zoom meeting Monday, December 7, 2020, before 2300, to avoid interference with attendee work hours or family time. The project’s peer RN is Clarice Morgan, RN, available at [email protected].

Conclusion

The HP2020 topic-based presentation will focus on depression and increasing depression screenings among primary care physicians. Depression is an essential discussion topic because it is an invisible illness that affects a person’s quality of life while draining community resources. The discussion will launch on Zoom, accessible to all interested parties. The seminar assures ease of understanding; it will enhance community knowledge of depression’s signs and symptoms, and detail how to help sufferers of depression.

References

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5®). American Psychiatric Publication.

Bastable, S. B., Gramet, P. R., Sopczyk, D. L., Jacobs, K., & Braungart, M. M. (2020). Health professional as educator: Principles of teaching and learning (2nd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Maurer, D. M., Raymond, T. J., & Davis, B. N. (2018). Depression: Screening and diagnosis. American Family Physician, 8(98), 508.

Miller, P., Newby, D., Walkom, E., Schneider, J., & Li, S. C. (2020). Depression screening in adults by pharmacists in the community: A systematic review. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 28(5), 428–440. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpp.12661

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2020). Mental health and mental disorders

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Park, L. T., & Zarate, C. A. (2019). Depression in the primary care setting. New England Journal of Medicine, 380(6), 559-568. doi:10.1056/NEJMcp1712493.

Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2016). Public health nursing: Population-centered health care in the community (9th ed.). Elsevier