Assignment 1: Concept Map: Community Health Promotion – Application to Your Practice
NOTE: This assignment is submitted in 2 parts. Assignment 1A – a draft concept map is the first submission of the course and is graded as pass/fail. Assignment 1B is the last submission of the course, which includes an improved concept map and a scholarly paper).
Purpose
This assignment will provide the student with the opportunity to create a concept map of a community health promotion.
Between assignment 1A and 1B, students will demonstrate growth in learning. Assignment 1A outlines your initial understanding of the target community and demonstrates you have considered relevant factors and the determinants of health impacting your community. At the end of the course, concept map and scholarly paper (assignment 1B) will build on earlier course work. The concept map in the final course submission (1B), will have increased depth and detail. The scholarly paper will introduce the target community and analyse 4 chosen community health concepts and demonstrate how concepts relate to the community’s overall health.
Assignment Guidelines
Concept maps are visual tools used to support learners in demonstrating relationships, connections and processes between concepts and ideas about a central subject (Harrison & Gibbons, 2013). As a learner, you will have the opportunity to draw from existing knowledge, identify knowledge gaps and make learning meaningful to you through concept mapping (Fitzgerald, n.d.). Often in nursing concept maps, the central node is the client, and the arcs link to outlying nodes about the client. In this assignment the central node must be the community as the client. First, you will develop a comprehensive community health promotion concept map and then select 4 community health concepts that stand out in relation to your community client for in depth discussion in a scholarly paper.
Community health nursing is not limited to any one place or unit instead it can be found practiced anywhere and with anyone if the practitioner so chooses. The following resources are not meant as an exhaustive list but instead provide some opportunity to explore trends and issues that you may find to be both intriguing and relevant to your current nursing practice. Consider these topics as examples of how a nurse might identify a community of interest. Careful choice of your group is important as all course assignments relate to your chosen community.
Alzheimers Society of Canada. (2020).
http://www.alzheimer.ca/en/?gclid=CI3LmaPvn9MCFY61wAod2uQGew
Fentanyl Crisis. (2017).
https://www.canadian-nurse.com/en/articles/issues/2017/january-february-2017/the-fentanyl-crisis
Food Secure Canada. (n.d.). Food insecurity in Canada.
https://foodsecurecanada.org/resources-news/resources-research/food-insecurity-canada?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm-fc3bTA5wIVFdVkCh1bkAupEAAYASAAEgLYSfD_BwE
Public Health Agency of Canada. (2020).
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/index-eng.php
Reconciliation Canada. (n.d.).
http://reconciliationcanada.ca/
Concept maps are common in nursing practice; the following concept map is an example of an individual client in acute care, note how the client is central with the arcs identifying relationships to a variety of nodes specific to this client’s health
Community Health Concept Map Sample
You can also find a variety of concept maps by searching the internet. You may choose to use any form. Remember that whatever you choose, it must be electronically developed and contain clearly developed nodes and arcs. Consider that you will want to add to your map as you are introduced to the many aspects of community health promotion.
If you are not familiar with developing a concept map, you may find the following resources helpful:
Novak, J.D. (2008). Concept maps: What the heck is this?
http://ctools.msu.edu/ctools/How-to-Cmap.pdf
Or you may want to search your own resources by entering into your browser search terms such as, concept mapping public health, concept mapping community nursing, concept mapping nursing education. If you are a visual learner be certain to select Videos
If you are interested in reading further the full references are:
Fitzgerald, P. (n.d.). Concept mapping: A GPS for patient care in various health care environments. https://docplayer.net/19247164-Concept-mapping-a-gps-for-patient-care-in-various-health-care-environments-patrizia-fitzgerald-msn-rn.html
Garwood, J. K., Ahmed, A. H., & McComb, S. A. (2018). The effect of concept maps on undergraduate nursing students’ critical thinking. Nursing Education Perspectives (Wolters Kluwer Health), 39(4), 208-214. https://0-doi-org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000307
Harrison, S., & Gibbons, C. (2013). Nursing Student Perceptions of Concept Maps: From Theory to Practice. Nursing Education Perspectives (National League For Nursing), 34(6), 395-399. doi:10.5480/10-465
Marking Criteria
Concept Map (15/30)
1A initial draft submission graded as pass/fail, 1B final submission is graded out of 15 marks.
The community is the central node.
Multiple nodes of community health concepts are included.
Distinct, concise, descriptive terms of linking relationships/arcs are evident.
Progression from the first submission to the second submission demonstrates a greater depth of understanding of community health promotion.
Contained in a single page.
