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NURS 4210 Assignment Rubric

Week 3 Windshield Survey/Community Assessment – Week 3 Day 7

Assignment:

Conduct a windshield survey in a section of your community as viewed through the eyes of the public health nurse. The 3-4 page paper includes an introduction to the community, photographs of selected areas, Windshield Survey findings, description of the population, vulnerable population description, and available resources. Include your conclusions about your community and your selected population for your practicum. Select at least 5 scholarly resources to support your assessment. Websites may be included but the paper must include 5 scholarly resources in its development.

Grading Rubric:

Review the Rubric on page 2 to guide you in writing your assignment. The Rubric is also your instructor’s guide to grading your assignment.

The template includes the correct font and formatting: 12 pt. Times New Roman font, double spacing, and 1 inch margins on all sides.

Submission Instructions:

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Assignment Rubric	Comments	Points possible
Required Content	160
Introduced the community including the name of the community and interesting or historical facts.( 20 pts) Described general population demographics of the community and noted whether this was borne out in the windshield survey (20 pts) Presented findings of windshield survey including photographs of the selected areas. (40 pts) Described vulnerable populations, related social determinants, and community strengths. (50 pts) Included conclusions based on nursing assessment of the community and selected population for practicum.(30 pts)
Use of Resources Writer makes use of course resources as directed in the assignment instructions. Resources are clearly identified when used.		/20
Format and writing Writer meets all of the Academic Writing. Expectations. Paper is presented in a clean, professional format with few formatting, typographic or other errors. (AWE 4000)		/20
Timeliness Points may be deducted for late submissions. See policy in syllabus.
Total		200

Note: Please refer to the detailed explanation on page 3. Also, please review the AWE 4000 documents that fully address format and writing expectations.

Detailed explanation of Assignment expectations

Exceeds Expectations

Meets Expectations

Does Not Meet Expectations

Required Content

160

Writer goes into depth in addressing the issues and brings additional insights to the topic.

(145-160 pts)

Writer successfully addresses all issues and questions given in the assignment details.

(119-144 pts)

Writer does not successfully address all aspects of the assignment.

(0-118)

Use of Resources

Writer makes substantial and insightful use of resources as supporting material. May also include additional resources.

(19-20 pts)

Writer makes use of course resources as directed in the assignment instructions. Resources are clearly identified when used.

(16-18 pts)

Writer does not use required resources appropriately.

(0-15 pts)

Format and Writing

AWE

4000

Writer meets all of the Academic Writing Expectations.

Paper is free of almost all errors, and is written in clear prose.

(19-20 pts)

Writer meets all of the Academic Writing Expectations. Paper is presented in a clean, professional format with few formatting, typographic or other errors.

(16-18 pts)

Writer does not meet basic expectations for academic writing and/or paper contains substantial errors.

(0-15 pts)

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Academic Writing Expectations Checklist

4000 level

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· Sentence-level skills

|_| Using commas appropriately. See examples of the different comma uses. |_| Ensuring that pronouns match their nouns. See this discussion of noun-pronoun agreement. |_| Proofreading for grammar, mechanics, and spelling. Read these proofreading tips.

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· Awareness of audience and discipline

|_| Writing in an academic voice. See the different facets of an appropriately formal tone.

|_| Formatting the paper according to APA style guidelines. See the course paper template for correct margins, spacing, font, and more.

· Use of evidence

|_| Using readings, statistics, or data to effectively support a claim. See examples of integrating evidence in a paper.

|_| Avoiding quotes. If used enclosing direct quotes in quotation marks. Read about the purpose of quotation marks.

|_| Paraphrasing to avoid plagiarizing the source. See paraphrasing strategies. (Paraphrase rather than quote -no more than one quote)

|_| Use the most current evidence (usually ≤ 5 years old).

· Credit to source

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childhood_obesity_paper.docx

Running Head: CHILDHOOD OBESITY 1

CHILDHOOD OBESITY 3

CHILDHOOD OBESITY

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Introduction

Obesity is one of the chronic infections that affect a greater population in United States. This is attributed to increased consumption of fast foods with very little or no physical exercises that help in the regulation of fat content in the body as stated by (Cote et al, 2013). The disorder can both be traced immensely on adults and equally on children who are susceptible to developing it. In my residence area that is south of Maryland in the City of Clinton, this menace is one of the health hazards. Statistics indicate that Maryland is among the leading regions in the obesity rate. According to (Odgen et al, 2010), the current standings indicate that 28.9% of Maryland’s adult population is absorbed in the obesity complex web and this is an increase from previous years. This assignment focuses on discussion of childhood obesity per stipulates of Windshield Survey.

Demographics of General Population

The general population of the region of study is approximately 35,970 according to the census done in 2010 by (Odgen et al, 2010), 5.4% of the population comprises of those below 5 years of age while those between the ages of 5 and 18 are represented by 23.1%. The highest population is composed of individuals between 18 year and 65 years who are about 50.9% of the general population. Those above 65 years are however represented by a percentage of 11.6. The obesity rate in this region is much felt among the adults since they compose a better part of the population and hence most deaths are coiling about their age brackets as (Lloyd et al, 2012) puts. Over the years, Maryland has been on verge of increased cases of adult obesity. However, children are also shown as the most susceptible ones in the general population in terms of obesity rates. In survey and statistical analysis done in Maryland in 2011, the obesity rates were displayed as 15.3% rate for children between 2 and 4 years of age, 15.1 for those children between 5 and 17 years. Following from (Bacha & Gidding, 2016), the same survey gives high school students a general obesity rate as 11.5 % with historic rates of 32/43 between 1999 and 2015. This statistical representation gives the children vulnerability of coming in contact with the obesity trends. These demographics are clearly borne from windshield survey. What exactly do you mean by that? You do not come in contact with obesity trends please.

Findings - What are the findings from your windshield survey? Who did you talk to? What did they say that made you to conclude that you want to focus on childhood obesity?

In most research works done on obesity prevalence in the country, poverty is one of the major courses and it is beyond no doubt that a better part of Maryland’s population hail in poverty. Based on (Mohanan et al, 2014), this makes children born in such an area at high risk of developing obesity at tender ages as early as 3 years of age. Depression is also a distinguished cause of obesity to given social classes in the society. Drawing on (Odgen et al, 2010), a number of individuals subject their children to depression from parental care and other necessities and hence their children succumb to obesity through weight loss or even increase hence offsetting the BMI. Apart from depression, other psychological problems also contribute very much on development of obesity and this includes anxiety and low self esteem. A number of cases of obesity in Maryland are attributed to generic factors, lack of physical exercises among the young children, and unhealthy eating habits of children more so their attraction to fast junky foods. At given instances, obesity is triggered by medical complications such as hormonal problem (Mohanan et al, 2014).

Population description

Adults form the greatest percentages of obesity infection in the general public of Maryland region and around the city of Clinton. However, (Odgen et al, 2010) observes that children are not left behind since they are the most susceptible lots?? to this infection- obesity is not an infection please. This is because they are easily derived into the factors that facilitate the thriving of the disorder and furthermore the disorder seems to develop faster in them What??. Among the children, those between 2 and 4 years show very high percentage of inception of obesity according to the statistical researches done in 2011 which put their susceptibility at 15.3percent ahead of other groups of children, as per the research done by (Bacha & Gidding, 2016). This is because children at this age bracket are less active in food consumption What?? and they tend to love very much of junk foods and less of physical exercises. Other social determinants in such cases are dictated by depression, self-esteem and at given cases, stigmatization forms the basis of obesity.

Communal eradication and control of the spread or rather increase in the cases of obesity are introduced I this region. What??? Some of which include mass education to parents to help in controlling and getting the significance of some of the health precautions. At given instances, community takes the initiative of encouraging schools to include mandatory physical exercises to all students which shall help in containing their ages what??. (Mohanan et al, 2014) opine that there is regulations on the number of fast foods outlets in the region and the sales to the children be regulated by their parents. These are some of the initiatives that the communities have taken to ensure that obesity is put under check.

Conclusion

The community around the City of Clinton after assessment of the obesity prevalence in their area, it was evident that most of the children in the poor families showed to most positive to the disorder. This makes their control and address very much simple for nursing assessment and health precautions be taken to consideration. This population allowed to assessment of their children and it was evident that the solutions were far much ready to be effected in control of the obesity. In the recent past, some of the initiatives taken by the community have helped me reducing the rates of obesity in the region.

References

Bacha F, Gidding SS. (2016). Cardiac abnormalities in youth with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Curr Diab Rep.;16(7):62. doi: 10.1007/s11892-016-0750-6. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27168062/

Cote A.T, Harris KC, Panagiotopoulos C, et al. (2013). Childhood obesity and cardiovascular dysfunction. J Am Coll Cardiol.; 62(15):1309–1319. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../239543

Lloyd L.J, Langley-Evans SC, McMullen S. (2012) Childhood obesity and risk of the adult metabolic syndrome: a systematic review. Int J Obes (Lond).;36(1):1–11 Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-42302013000100013

Mohanan S, Tapp H, McWilliams A, Dulin, M. (2014). Obesity and asthma: pathophysiology and implications for diagnosis and management in primary care. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 239(11):1531–40. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230977/

Odgen, C. L., PhD, Lamb, M. M., PhD, Campbell, M. D., M.S.P.H, &Flegal, K. M., PhD. (2010, December). Obesity and Socioeconomic Status in Adults: United States, 2005–2008. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db50.pdf

Practicum WK2.docx

Healthcare is a critical facet in defining the general well-being of every community. It determines how fast the economy can grow and how well all other sectors perform. In this light, my selected population is Prince George's (PG) County. 2015 PG County report indicates that the county has a total population of the county in 2013 was 890,081 (Prince George County Health Report, 2015). This population makes 15% of Maryland's population and 0.28% of the entire US population. While PG County prides itself for a great milestone in the health sector over the last three years, the county still faces a problem of a high number of residents who are not yet insured and a relatively high mortality rate due to the prevalence of chronic diseases (Prince George County Health Report, 2015).

The topic I have chosen to focus on Childhood obesity for this practicum. As I was researching obesity in general, I came across this link that read “Teach Every Child about Food.” I click on it, and it was one those TED Talks videos, and after I finish watching, I decided to focus on childhood obesity. Researching the topic of obesity has motivated me to want to learn as much as I can about what is going on in my community and state. I agree with the speaker that is imperative to teach kids at an early age about food and exposing them to fruit and vegetables.

According to the county Health Department, 71.5 percent of adults in Prince George’s are obese or overweight, and 48% of youth ages 12-19 are at risk for obesity, and 16% are obese in the County; higher than the State of Maryland baseline of 11.9%. The national statistics provided by the CDC state that 9.4% of 2-5-year-olds, 17.4% of 6-11-year-olds, and 20.6% of 12-19 years olds are all classified as obese. (CDC, 2013). This of troubling because while adult obesity is associated with a lot of preventable diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases, and cancer, Pediatric obesity, on the other hand, may produce a generation that might not survive to live long like their parents or grandparents.

Part of the problem is because of low levels of physical activity and poor access to healthful foods in my community. 71% of food establishments in the PG County are fast-food restaurants, according to a November 2012 report from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission with few groceries and supermarkets. A recent study was examined on children, and the impact exercise has on children. Zuraikat stated that "obesity in school aged children has doubled in the past two decades" (Zuraikat, 2015). Some problems observed in this study were the amount of vending machines readily available to children as well as the reduction of gym, recess, and after school programs due to funding. (Zuraikat, 2015).

There are a variety of plans designed to educate residents about healthy eating habits, encouraging physical activities, launching community gardens where residents can grow vegetables for children identified obese or at risk for developing obesity. Most schools in the area are removing vending machines from school gyms. Twenty-two PG County schools are taking the lead and are among 250 public schools nationwide recognized by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the William J. Clinton Foundation for making their schools healthier. Schools have to have nutrition services and physical activity programs that meet or exceed the alliance’s standards in other to win an award.

References

Pittman. 2014. Parents Often Underestimate Children’s Weight: Study. Reuters. Retrieved from:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-parents-underestimate-children-weight-idUSBREA1317620140204

Ted. (2010). Teach Every Child about Food retrieved from

https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver

Zuraikat, N., & Dugan, C. (2015). Overweight and Obesity among Children: An evaluation of a

walking program. Hospital Topics, 93(2), 36-43. doi: 10.1080.00185868.2015.105223

Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2013). Retrieved from

https://cdc.org/nchs/products/databriefs/db239.com