Community Teaching Work Plan (Nursing)
Running head: COMMUNITY TEACHING WORK PLA
Community Teaching Work Plan
Cristeta Flynn, Lynette Ortiz, Virginia Wilson, James LaRue
Grand Canyon University
Community Teaching Work Plan This is a Community Teaching Plan Work Proposal group project for the city of San Diego, and our target community is children in elementary school. We have chosen primary health promotion/prevention and will address Childhood Obesity, which falls under the category of Nutrition and Weight Status in Healthy People 2020. According to the County of San Diego, HHSA, Public Health Services, Community Health Statistics (County of San Diego, August 2011, p. 11-13), one in four children in San Diego is overweight or obese, which is slightly higher than the national average. Overweight children are far more likely to be obese as adults (California Center for Public Health Advocacy, 2009), and if today’s current trend continues, it is anticipated that 1 in 3 children born in the United States after the year 2000 will develop type 2 diabetes. This is our epidemiological rationale for choosing this topic. There are multiple nursing diagnoses that apply to our topic, such as: Altered nutrition, food intake exceeds body needs, reported/observed dysfunctional eating patterns, knowledge deficit, ineffective health maintenance, activity intolerance, and sedentary lifestyle. Factors that would indicate readiness to learn for the elementary school population include both emotional and experiential aspects. According to Eleanor M. Thomas (Thomas, August 7, 2006) these factors include the child’s language and communication skills, the child’s academic skills, the child’s self-regulation of their own learning, the child’s self-control of their behavior, and the child’s social competence and independence. Other factors that influence readiness for learning are the child’s and the family’s characteristics, the income level of the child’s household, the child’s
Community Teaching Work Plan
Cristeta Flynn, Lynette Ortiz, Virginia Wilson, James LaRue
Grand Canyon University
Community Teaching Work Plan This is a Community Teaching Plan Work Proposal group project for the city of San Diego, and our target community is children in elementary school. We have chosen primary health promotion/prevention and will address Childhood Obesity, which falls under the category of Nutrition and Weight Status in Healthy People 2020. According to the County of San Diego, HHSA, Public Health Services, Community Health Statistics (County of San Diego, August 2011, p. 11-13), one in four children in San Diego is overweight or obese, which is slightly higher than the national average. Overweight children are far more likely to be obese as adults (California Center for Public Health Advocacy, 2009), and if today’s current trend continues, it is anticipated that 1 in 3 children born in the United States after the year 2000 will develop type 2 diabetes. This is our epidemiological rationale for choosing this topic. There are multiple nursing diagnoses that apply to our topic, such as: Altered nutrition, food intake exceeds body needs, reported/observed dysfunctional eating patterns, knowledge deficit, ineffective health maintenance, activity intolerance, and sedentary lifestyle. Factors that would indicate readiness to learn for the elementary school population include both emotional and experiential aspects. According to Eleanor M. Thomas (Thomas, August 7, 2006) these factors include the child’s language and communication skills, the child’s academic skills, the child’s self-regulation of their own learning, the child’s self-control of their behavior, and the child’s social competence and independence. Other factors that influence readiness for learning are the child’s and the family’s characteristics, the income level of the child’s household, the child’s
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