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. You may find it helpful to email your instructor early to share the community as client focus you have chosen with a brief description of why.
When choosing a topic, consider the health needs of your community. If you live in an urban center, are there particular communities that face challenges maintaining their health and meeting their potential?
If you work in a health facility, is there one population that has higher rates of admission? If you live in a rural setting, are there certain groups that have unmet needs, or who are at risk for poor health?
Thinking about the community around you may help when you try to focus on one group that you would like to research and write about throughout the course.
Students will demonstrate growth in learning. 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.
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.
