Community Health Nursing Intervention and Evaluation PowerPoint: A Step-by-Step Guide for NR443 Milestone 3

Developing a community health nursing intervention and evaluation PowerPoint presentation requires applying the nursing process to a vulnerable population, selecting an evidence-based intervention, and proposing measurable outcomes that community leaders can fund and support.

Purpose of the Assignment

The purpose of this PowerPoint presentation is to provide an opportunity to develop a community health nursing intervention and evaluation plan for a community health problem that you identified in your community (described in Milestone 2: Vulnerable Population Assessment). Students draw directly on data gathered during the windshield survey and the vulnerable population assessment to ground their proposal in local, observable evidence. You will apply the components of the nursing process to assist this vulnerable population and develop a proposal that could be presented to community leaders.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

• CO1: Apply principles of nursing theory to the public health system by analyzing determinants of health and the public health intervention wheel. (PO 1)
• CO3: Plan prevention and population-focused interventions for vulnerable populations using professional clinical judgment and evidence-based practice. (PO 4, 8)
• CO4: Evaluate the delivery of care for individuals, families, aggregates, and communities based on theories and principles of nursing and related disciplines. (PO 1)

Due Date and Points

Submit your Caring for Populations: Intervention and Evaluation PowerPoint presentation by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday by the end of Week 6. This assignment is worth a total of 225 points.

Scenario

You are a community public health nurse (C/PHN) working with the vulnerable population you identified in Milestone 2. You will choose a specific community health role that would serve this population. You have analyzed the data collected from your windshield survey and vulnerable population assignments (the first two milestones) and identified one community health problem that a nurse can impact. Grounding the proposal in local epidemiological data, census figures, or county health department statistics strengthens the rationale considerably and makes your case more persuasive to potential funders.

Now, review the scholarly literature or scholarly websites listed below and identify one specific evidence-based nursing intervention that has the potential to improve the health of this group. Then develop a proposal to implement this intervention and a plan to evaluate the outcomes of this intervention. Create a PowerPoint that you could use to present to an organization in your community to request approval for funding and support for this intervention. (You are not required to implement the intervention or present your PowerPoint, though you may want to consider implementing your project in the future.)

Directions

Watch the Milestone 3 tutorial at http://www.brainshark.com/devry/Milestone3_2016 before beginning your slides.

1. Introduction (average of 2–3 slides)

• Describe the identified problem.
• Include at least two important findings that demonstrate that this is a problem in your community.
• Describe your specific community health role. Some examples of roles are school nurse, parish nurse, home health nurse, occupational nurse, health department nurse, etc.
• Identify the purpose of the presentation, which is related to proposing a community health intervention and evaluation plan.

2. Identify an Evidence-Based Intervention (average of 2–3 slides)

Find an evidence-based nursing intervention from a peer-reviewed journal article OR one of the following databases. These databases evaluate research evidence about community health interventions. Be sure that your intervention is one that is recommended. Cite your source on the slide with the author or organization and year. Selecting an intervention that has already demonstrated measurable effectiveness in a comparable community setting gives your proposal greater credibility with decision-makers.

Use at least one of the following to identify an evidence-based intervention:

• A peer-reviewed journal article demonstrating that your intervention has been successful.
• The Community Guide — choose one of the topics in the topic tab to find interventions.
• The CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator Database of Interventions
• Healthy People 2020 evidence-based interventions — find a relevant topic area, click on that topic area, and then click on the “Interventions and Resources” tab to see the evidence-based interventions list for that topic area.

• Provide a brief overview of your intervention.
• Discuss why this intervention is a good fit for your community (why you expect it to be effective in your community).

3. Intervention Implementation (average of 3–4 slides)

Describe how you would implement your community health nursing intervention in your community. Logistical details — such as the location, frequency, and community partners involved — are what separate a theoretical plan from an actionable proposal.

• Discuss the actions you will take as the community health nurse to accomplish this intervention.
• Relate your actions to the Public Health Intervention Wheel (Nies & McEwen, 2015, p. 14, Figure 1-3).
• Identify your target population.
• Describe how you will reach out to your target population.
• Include strategies to engage your target population.
• Describe where the intervention will take place.
• Identify when your intervention will take place. Will it take place once or multiple times?
• Identify those in the community that you will collaborate with (e.g., physician’s office, church, local resources, etc.).
• Explain what level(s) of prevention your intervention addresses (primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention).

4. Proposed Evaluation Methods (average of 2–3 slides)

Your presentation must include at least one proposed quantitative or qualitative evaluation method that you would use to determine whether your intervention is effective. Outcome measurement is a crucial piece when implementing interventions. Selecting both a short-term process measure and a long-term outcome measure allows the evaluation plan to capture early signals of success while tracking population-level change over time.

• Describe the method you would use to evaluate whether your intervention was effective. (The Qualitative and Quantitative Education Methods handout can help with understanding qualitative and quantitative methods of evaluation.)
• Identify the outcomes you would track to show whether your intervention works (e.g., BMI would be one outcome you could track for a weight loss intervention).
• Specify when you would measure these outcomes.
• Describe the short-term and long-term impact on your community if the intervention is successful.

5. Summary (average 1 slide)

The summary should reiterate the main points of the presentation and conclude with what you are asking to be accomplished; for example, “Based on ABC, it is imperative our community has XYZ. Can we count on your support? Thank you for your consideration.”

In addition to the slides described above, your presentation should include a title slide with your name and role, and a reference slide. Cite all sources used with (Author, year) on the PowerPoint slide. The slides should include the most important points in short, bullet-pointed phrases. Do not include full sentences or paragraphs on the PowerPoint slides. You may add additional comments in the notes section to clarify information for your instructor. The slides should be visually appealing and not overcrowded. Use an interesting template and include some clipart or graphics for interest.

Guidelines

• Application: Use Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 or later.
• Length: The PowerPoint slide show is expected to be no more than 20 slides in length (not including the title slide and reference list slide).
• File naming: Save the assignment with your last name in the file title — for example, “Smith Intervention and Evaluation.”
• Submission: Submit your PowerPoint file by 11:59 p.m. Sunday by the end of Week 6.
• Late Submission: See Policies on late submissions.
• Tutorial: For those not familiar with PowerPoint, visit Microsoft’s training page. The SSP Chamberlain Student Success Strategies module on Computer Literacy also contains a section on PowerPoint accessible through your course list in the student portal.

Best Practices in Preparing PowerPoint

• Be creative.
• Incorporate graphics, clip art, or photographs to increase interest.
• Make slides easy to read with short bullet points and large font.
• Review directions thoroughly.
• Cite all sources within the slides with (author, year) as well as on the Reference slide.
• Proofread prior to final submission.
• Spell check for spelling and grammar errors prior to final submission.

Sample Answer / Example Response

A well-constructed NR443 Milestone 3 presentation typically opens by naming the population and problem with precision — for instance, citing county-level data showing that 34% of adults in a low-income urban ZIP code lack access to primary care, which drives preventable emergency department visits at nearly twice the state average. The chosen community health role in such a case could be a health department nurse coordinating a mobile health screening program, a role explicitly supported by the Public Health Intervention Wheel’s “outreach” and “screening” wedges (Nies & McEwen, 2015). Evidence for the intervention might be drawn from Dickson-Gomez et al. (2020), whose mixed-methods study found that community health worker-led outreach reduced unmet primary care needs by 28% among uninsured adults — a finding directly applicable when the target population faces structural barriers to clinic attendance. Implementation slides would then map each nursing action to a prevention level: distributing blood pressure cuffs at community centers as primary prevention, conducting on-site screenings as secondary prevention, and coordinating referrals for clients with uncontrolled hypertension as tertiary prevention. Evaluation could include a pre- and post-intervention survey measuring self-reported access to care at three months and six months, with blood pressure readings serving as an objective quantitative outcome tracked across those same intervals.

Framing the evaluation plan around both process measures and outcome measures reflects current best practice in community health program assessment. The CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health recommends that nurses identify short-term outcomes — such as increased screening uptake within 90 days — alongside longer-term indicators like reduced emergency department utilization rates at 12 months (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2024). Incorporating community stakeholders, including faith leaders, school administrators, or federally qualified health center staff, into the implementation plan aligns with the social determinants of health model and has been shown to improve program reach among populations with limited institutional trust (Artiga & Hinton, 2018). When the summary slide presents a clear call to action tied to specific, measurable outcomes, community leaders are far more likely to commit resources, because the proposal answers not just “what will you do” but “how will we know it worked.”

References / Learning Materials

1. Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2015). Community/public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (6th ed.). Elsevier Saunders.
2. Dickson-Gomez, J., Owczarzak, J., Convey, M., Weeks, M., & Corbett, A. M. (2020). Community health workers as facilitators of access to health and social services for people who use drugs. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01173-3
3. Artiga, S., & Hinton, E. (2018). Beyond health care: The role of social determinants in promoting health and health equity. Kaiser Family Foundation. https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/beyond-health-care-the-role-of-social-determinants-in-promoting-health-and-health-equity/
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2024). Framework for program evaluation in public health. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.cdc.gov/evaluation/framework/index.htm
5. Alderwick, H., Gottlieb, L. M., Fichtenberg, C. M., & Adler, N. E. (2018). Social prescribing in the U.S. and England: Fresh momentum and questions for research. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 54(5), 723–730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2018.01.039

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5. Create a 15-to-20-slide PowerPoint presentation applying the nursing process to propose an evidence-based community health intervention and evaluation plan for a vulnerable population identified in your NR443 Milestone 2 assessment — due Week 6, worth 225 points.
6. Develop a 3-to-5-page equivalent slide deck presenting a community health nursing intervention, implementation strategy, and qualitative or quantitative evaluation method for the vulnerable population you assessed in Milestone 2 of NR443.
7. NR443 Week 6 Milestone 3: propose a community health nursing intervention for a vulnerable population, outline implementation steps using the Public Health Intervention Wheel, and describe measurable evaluation outcomes for community leader approval.

Assignment: NR443 Week 7 – Caring for Populations: Reflection (Milestone 4)

Course: NR443 – Community Health Nursing

In Milestone 4, students submit a written reflection paper that synthesizes learning from all three previous milestones — the windshield survey, the vulnerable population assessment, and the intervention and evaluation PowerPoint. The paper asks you to evaluate what you learned about your selected community and vulnerable population, discuss how the experience changed or confirmed your assumptions about community health nursing practice, and connect your insights to at least two course outcomes using evidence-based literature. Students should address how social determinants of health, cultural considerations, and the Public Health Intervention Wheel informed their proposed intervention, and reflect on how they might approach a similar community health problem differently in professional practice. The reflection is typically 3–4 pages in APA format, not including the title and reference pages, and is due by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday at the end of Week 7.