Part 1: Serving Vulnerable Populations
Imagine you are a community health nurse assigned to care for a family with a newly diagnosed type-2 diabetic member. The diabetic family member, JK, is a 66-year-old Black woman with hypertension and asthma. JK lives in a food desert and does not drive. JK’s family visits her weekly, but they have complicated lives and are unable to provide daily care for her. 
Evaluate the following community health resources and summarize them in a table: 
United States Department of Agriculture:
Food Access Research Atlas 
Food Access Research Atlas Map 
Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts 
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
A Systematic Review of Food Deserts, 1966-2007 
Small Food Stores and Availability of Nutritious Foods: A Comparison of Database and In-Store Measures, Northern California, 2009 
Data & Statistics 
Create a plan detailing opportunities for JK to gain adequate access to appropriate foods for one week and address the following: 
Appropriate and realistic estimated budget 
Shopping locations 
Transportation means, routes, and timing 
Support services 
Compare JK’s community to your county census data. 
Format your assignment as a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes. 
Part 2: Disease Prevention Teaching Project
Step 1: Choose a community health agency (day care, church, school, clinic, homeless shelter). 
Step 2: Review Table 1-1 (p. 49) of Community/Public Health Nursing and the results of your windshield survey completed in Week 2.
From the results of your windshield survey, you will identify a health issue facing the community. You will prepare an outline for a teaching project surrounding the issue, which you would present to your selected agency about this issue. 
Assess the community for: 
Healthy food option 
Boundaries 
Housing and zoning 
Open space 
Commons 
Transportation 
Social service centers 
Stores, businesses, and industries 
Street people and animals 
Condition of the area 
Race, culture, and ethnicity 
Religion 
Health indicators and morbidity 
Politics 
Media 
Signs of decay 
Crime rate 
Employment rate 
Schools 
Environmental factors 
Public services (fire, police) 
Step 3: Recommend an appropriate disease prevention teaching project that could be offered by your chosen agency for the local community. 
Prepare a 750-word summary of the teaching project with the following: 
Summarize the public health issues facing the selected community. 
Select 1 issue and prepare an outline of the problem or issue faced. 
Explain how your selected agency could address the issue. 
Prepare an outline of a disease prevention teaching project that could be offered by your agency.