Capella University Health Problem Excel Assessment Assignment
Question Description
Instructions
For this assessment, create a detailed action plan to promote wellness and disease management by addressing your
chosen health problem you have been working on throughout this course. Based on feedback received on your
previous assessments, design a plan you could implement in a health care organization (such as a hospital, physician
practice, or federally qualified health center) to address a specific SMART goal.
Make sure you download and complete the Action Plan Template. Only submit the completed template for your
assessment. Do not submit a paper for this assessment. Papers will not be graded.
Consult the scoring guide to ensure that you are addressing all criteria at the level to which you desire.
When completing the template, be sure you address the following:
Define a goal for an action plan.
You may want to review either (or both) of the media pieces related to SMART goals to help in
addressing this criterion:
SMART Goals | Transcript.
Evidence-Based Strategies and SMART Goals | Transcript.
Evaluate an organization best suited to implement a community-health intervention.
Identify a specific organization best suited to address the problem and implement the potential
solution you have selected based on your work in the other assessments in the course.
Why is the organization best suited to address your chosen health problem?
Why is the organization best suited to implement your potential solution?
How is the organization best suited to engage and help the affected populations in the
community?
Identify roles, tasks, and time frames required to implement a plan.
This criterion is related to the first two columns in the template.
Be sure to detail the specific tasks that must be completed based on the research you have
conducted in the first column.
Identify the roles of all stakeholders needed to implement your plan. Explain why they are
needed.
For each task, be sure to identify an appropriate and realistic timeframe to complete the task in
the second column.
Formulate criteria for evaluation of task completion.
This criterion is related to the third column of the template.
Make specific connections between these criteria and evidence-based strategies to promote
wellness and disease management for a population.
Identify human, capital, and material resources needed to complete tasks in a plan.
This criterion is related to the fourth column of the template, as well as the Key Stakeholders section.
For the stakeholders:
Which stakeholders are required to complete each task?
What are the roles of the stakeholders?
In other words, why are the specific stakeholders needed?
Additionally, make sure you identify any other people, capital, materials, and so on, needed to
complete a task.
Write clearly, with correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, and good organization.
Apply proper APA formatting and style.
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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.