walden nurs6051 Week 11 Assignment: Health Information Patient Handout

walden nurs6051 Week 11 Assignment: Health Information Patient Handout

One of the pivotal goals of consumer health literacy efforts
is to design educational materials that attract as well as educate users In
this Assignment, you design a health information document on a topic that is of
interest to you

To prepare:

Select a health issue of interest to you

Identify the audience or population that you seek to educate
about this issue

Search the Internet to find credible sites containing
information about your selected topic

Review the two health literacy websites listed in this
week’s Learning Resources Focus on strategies for presenting information

To complete:

Design an educational handout on the health issue you
selected

Include a cover page

Include an introduction that provides:

An explanation of your issue and why you selected it

A description of the audience you are addressing

In the handout itself:

Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the
attention of the intended audience

Include a description of the health issue and additional
content that will enhance your message (ie, key terms and definitions,
graphics, illustrations, etc)

Recommend four or five sites that provide clear, valuable,
and reliable information on the topic

Note: Remember to keep the information in your health
handout and its design at the appropriate level for the audience you are
seeking to inform Submit your Assignment as a Word document

By Day 5

Submit the Assignment

Submission and Grading Information

To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading,
do the following:

Please save your Assignment using the naming convention
“WK11Assgn+last name+first initial(extension)” as the name

Click the Week 11 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading
Criteria for the Assignment

Click the Week 11 Assignment link You will also be able to
“View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area

Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My
Computer button Find the document you saved as “WK11Assgn+last name+first
initial(extension)” and click Open

If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox
for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database

Click on the Submit button to complete your submission