Community Staff Nurse Intervention Project Paper
You will develop a proposed public health nursing intervention to meet an identified need and/ or gap based on the list below and using data found for your individual community (county).  You will frame the paper within the elements of the nursing process (Assess/ Identify/ Plan/ Implement / Evaluate).

This is the population intervention paper topic:
Mental health issues suicide prevention /PTSD in specific population specify) cant be to build a new facility or clinic or program.

The intervention must be focused on the community/ population (not individual patient/family) within your own community (community used for the Windshield Survey paper). This must be within the scope of the Tier 1 staff nurse level public health/ community health nurse. (Note: you cannot propose building facilities, developing a large program, expanding mental health care, or purchasing a mobile health van).  Please refer to the QUAD COUNCIL Competencies for Community/ Public Health Nurses. https://www.cphno.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/QCC-C-PHN-COMPETENCIES-Approved_2018.05.04_Final-002.pdf (Links to an external site.).  (Link also found in Course Resources in Modules).

The baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN) is the educational preparation for entry level C/PHN practice. The varied courses in a BSN Program provides the grounding in order to understand how personal, social, policy, economic, work, and environmental determinants affect health status of individuals, communities, and populations. BSN education prepares PHNs both didactically and clinically. 

The following topics must be covered in the paper.  You are a OHN in a local health department (your community from Windshield Survey).

Introduction the identified need and a summary of relevant data that supports the need, its relevance to public health nursing practice as summarized from your data collected.
Proposed Intervention description of intervention evidence/ research/ literature to support and at what level(s) of prevention is the This must be at the Tier 1 Community/ Public Health Nurse competencies. Develop the initiative as a one day health event in a local grocery/ drug store area what level of prevention
Resources required stakeholders and how to involve, financial costs estimated not to exceed $500 and how you will obtain the funds, other requirements like facilities, locations, persons,equipment
Implementation plan including timeline- specifically the steps in the actual implementation.
Specific Evaluation method(s) to assess effectiveness of the This should be a SMART goal with a specific goal and how to evaluate the goal.
Reflection on your individual learning from completion of the project. Include how this has or will impact your professional practice at this point in your career or in the Product 4-5 page paper excluding title page and references including a handout advertising the event and services provided.

APA format is required see grade rubric for reference type and number. (Student paper format title page)

https://www.cphno.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/QCC-C-PHN-COMPETENCIES-Approved_2018.05.04_Final-002.pdf