NURS-FPX4055 Assessment 3: Disaster Recovery Plan

Develop a disaster recovery plan to reduce health disparities and improve access to community services after a disaster. Then develop a brochure, storyboard, or poster communicating the plan for the local system, city officials, and the disaster relief team.

Introduction

Nurses perform a variety of roles and their responsibilities as healthcare providers extend to the community. The decisions we make daily and in times of crisis often involve the balancing of human rights with medical necessities, equitable access to services, legal and ethical mandates, and financial constraints. In the event of a major accident or natural disaster, many issues can complicate decisions concerning the needs of an individual or group, including understanding and upholding rights and desires, mediating conflict, and applying established ethical and legal standards of nursing care. As a nurse, you must be knowledgeable about disaster preparedness and recovery to safeguard those in your care. As an advocate, you are also accountable for promoting equitable services and quality care for the diverse community.

A comprehensive recovery plan, guided by the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) framework and the National Incident Management System approach is essential to help ensure everyone’s safety. The unique needs of residents must be assessed to lessen health disparities and improve access to equitable services after a disaster.

Recovery efforts depend on the appropriateness of the plan, the extent to which key stakeholders have been prepared, quality of the communication, and the allocation of available resources. In a time of cost containment, when personnel and resources may be limited, the needs of residents must be weighed carefully against available resources.

In this assessment, you are a community task force member who is responsible for developing a disaster recovery plan for the community you have focused on in earlier assessments using the CERC for your crisis communication plan, which you will present to city officials and the disaster relief team. You will use the community from your windshield survey OR you may select a community from the document provided in this assessment.

Note: Complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

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Preparation

For this assessment, you will use the community from your windshield survey OR you may select a community from the Assessment 3 Supplement: Disaster Recovery Plan [PDF]. You will then develop a brochure, storyboard, or poster communicating the plan for the local system city officials, and the disaster relief team.

Instructions

Use the following steps to gather the information you need to create your disaster recovery plan. Then follow the grading criteria as the guide for what to include and how to structure your brochure, storyboard, or poster.

1. Develop a disaster recovery plan for the community that will lessen health disparities and improve access to services after a disaster. Refer back to the community chosen for your health promotion plan.
   • Assess community needs.
   • Consider resources, personnel, budget, and community makeup.
   • Identify the people accountable for implementation of the plan and describe their roles.
   • Focus on specific Healthy People 2030 objectives.
   • Include a timeline for the recovery effort.
2. Focus on the following areas in your crisis communication plan:
   • Information gathering.
     • This is critical not only to promote situational awareness but also to receive feedback on messages and how they are received and interpreted. Media monitoring and analysis, including social media, is a central function because the media remains a source of timely information during any crisis. Close coordination with other response agencies and partners, and their public information officers (PIOs), to gather the most current information is also critical.
     • Use the demographic data and specifics related to the disaster to identify the needs of the community and develop a recovery plan. Consider physical, emotional, cultural, and financial needs of the entire community.
   • Information dissemination.
     • This includes using a variety of channels to reach multiple audiences. These activities include general media relations, working with designated spokespersons, organizing news conferences, and providing briefings and updates. Inquiries and questions from the general public must also be addressed and should be documented through contact logs. In addition, officials and other key leaders must be briefed. These information dissemination activities should extend to web support and social media.
   • Operation support.
     • This involves a variety of communication activities, including addressing special needs and multilingual audiences through translation and other services. Facilities’ support activities involve ensuring sufficient communications capacity to support operations.
   • Liaisons.
     • They can provide two-way communication and coordination with key stakeholders and partners. Close coordination is necessary to achieve an effective response and create consistent messages.
     • Provide support for your position.
     • Include in your plan contact tracing of the homeless, disabled, displaced community members, migrant workers, and those who have hearing impairment or English as a second language in the event of severe tornadoes.
3. Develop a brochure, storyboard, or poster of your disaster recovery plan. You can use one of the free templates available on the Brochure Design Templates web page, storyboard, or poster templates.

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be assessed.

• Describe determinants of health and cultural, social, and economic barriers that impact community safety, health, and disaster recovery efforts.
  • Consider the interrelationships among these factors.
• Explain how your proposed disaster recovery plan will lessen health disparities and improve access to community services.
  • Consider principles of social justice and cultural sensitivity with respect to ensuring health equity for individuals, families, and aggregates in the community.
• Explain how health and governmental policy impacts disaster recovery efforts in a community.
  • Consider the implications of legislation for community members such as the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, and 2018 Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA).
  • Consider trace-mapping the community progress during the recovery phase. (You can consult the resources in the Contact Tracing reading list for more information about contact trace-mapping.)
• Present specific, evidence-based strategies to overcome communication barriers and enhance interprofessional collaboration to improve disaster recovery efforts in a community using the CERC framework.
  • Consider how your proposed strategies will affect members of the disaster relief team, individuals, families, and aggregates in the community.
  • Identify evidence that supports your strategies.
• Organize content with clear purpose/goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years).
• Make sure your choice of a brochure, storyboard, or poster is easy to read and error-free.
  • Develop your assessment with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
  • Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.

Supporting Evidence

• Cite at least two articles from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications within the 5 past years to support your plan.
• Include data from the CDC, United States Census Bureau, and other government agencies.

Before submitting your assessment, proofread your brochure, storyboard, or poster to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it difficult for them to focus on the substance of your presentation.

Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact DisabilityServices@Capella.edu to request accommodations.

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Competencies Measured

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

• Competency 1: Analyze health risks and healthcare needs among distinct populations.
  • Describe the determinants of health and the cultural, social, and economic barriers that impact safety, health, and disaster recovery efforts in a community.
• Competency 2: Propose health promotion strategies to improve the health of populations.
  • Present specific, evidence-based strategies to overcome communication barriers and enhance interprofessional collaboration to improve disaster recovery efforts.
• Competency 3: Evaluate health policies, based on their ability to achieve desired outcomes.
  • Explain how health and governmental policy impact disaster recovery efforts in a community using the CERC framework.
• Competency 4: Integrate principles of social justice in community health interventions.
  • Explain how a proposed disaster recovery plan will lessen health disparities and improve access to community services.
• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health.
  • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
  • Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
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NURS-FPX4055 Assessment 1: Health Promotion Research

Conduct the windshield survey worksheets and research for the health promotion research assessment.

Introduction

This first assessment is the research and background information for the presentation you will give in your last assessment. Consider this the nursing process for your chosen community (assessment, diagnostics, planning, interventions, and evaluation). The first step in any effective project or clinical patient encounter is planning. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to plan a learning experience focused on health promotion associated with the specific community health concern you selected from the provided document. Such a plan defines the critical elements of who, what, when, where, and why that establish the foundation for an effective clinical learning experience for the participants. Completing this assessment will strengthen your understanding of how to plan and negotiate individual or group participation. The two windshield survey worksheets will be critical steps in completing this assessment. This assessment is the foundation for the implementation of Assessment 4, Health Promotion Plan Presentation.

Note: Assessment 1 must be completed first before you are able to submit Assessment 4. Complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Preparation

Be sure you’ve completed the Windshield Survey Worksheet 1: Assess Your Community and Windshield Survey Worksheet 2: Tour Your Community activities. Then complete this assessment as if within a neighborhood or community of your choice. Your community, which will become the focus of your health promotion plan, could be something like the elderly housing center, high school, or your own neighborhood. It could even be a subset of or an individual within that community, for instance, one of the students at the high school or a resident at the elderly housing center.

Instructions

Complete the following:

• Assess your chosen community to include socioeconomic and demographic data such as location, lifestyle, age, race, ethnicity, gender, marital status, income, education, employment. (Complete the windshield surveys first.)
• Choose a specific health concern or health need from the Assessment 1 Supplement: Health Promotion Research [PDF] as the focus of your health promotion plan for your chosen community. Then, analyze a population within your community with the health concern or need you’ve chosen to focus on and the best practices for health improvement, based on supporting evidence. Consider underlying assumptions and points of uncertainty in your analysis.
• Describe in detail the characteristics of your chosen community who will be the audience for the activity you are planning and how those characteristics are relevant to what you’ve learned about the targeted population. Describe in detail the relevant information of who within this community is affected by your chosen health issue.
• Explain why the population you are focusing on in your community is predisposed to this health concern or health need and why they can benefit from a health promotion educational plan. Consider the factors that contribute to health, health disparities, and access to services. Support your conclusions with relevant population health and demographic data.
  • Based on the health concern for your individual or group, discuss what you would include in the development of a sociogram. Take into consideration possible social, economic, cultural, genetic, and/or lifestyle behaviors that may have an impact on health as you develop your educational plan in this assessment. You will take this information into consideration when you present your educational plan in Assessment 4.
• Identify your chosen individual’s or group’s potential learning needs. Imagine the input of your audience if you were collaborating with the individual or group to establish the SMART goals that would be used to evaluate the education session (Assessment 4).
  • Identify the individual or group’s current behaviors, outline clear expectations for this educational session, and offer suggestions for how the individual or group needs can be met. Health promotion goals need to be clear, measurable, and appropriate for this activity and audience. Consider goals that will foster behavior changes and lead to the desired outcomes.

Be sure to apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

• Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
• Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.

Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be assessed.

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:

• Document format and length: Your health promotion plan should be 4–6 pages in length.
• Supporting evidence: Support your health promotion plan with peer-reviewed articles, course study resources, and Healthy People 2030 resources. Cite at least three credible sources published within the past 5 years using APA format.
• Before submitting your assessment for grading, proofread it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it difficult for them to focus on the substance of your plan.

Competencies Measured

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

• Competency 1: Analyze health risks and healthcare needs among distinct populations.
  • Analyze a population within a chosen community with a health concern or need that is the focus of a health promotion plan.
  • Describe in detail the characteristics of a chosen community who will be the audience for a health promotion and how those characteristics are relevant to a larger target community.
• Competency 2: Propose health promotion strategies to improve the health of populations.
  • Explain why a health concern or need is important for health promotion within a community and population, supporting conclusions with relevant population health and demographic data.
  • Establish health goals appropriate for a chosen individual or group of participants that are realistic, measurable, and attainable.
• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health.
  • Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
  • Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
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