To prepare for this assignment view the following brief video from the American Medical Association titled, “Health Literacy and Patient Safety: Help Patients Understand.” The video can be accessed through the following link:
Part I: Pamphlet
- Develop a pamphlet to inform parents and caregivers about environmental factors that can affect the health of infants.
- Use the “Pamphlet Template” document to help you create your pamphlet. Include the following:
- Select an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health or safety of infants.
- Explain how the environmental factor you selected can potentially affect the health or safety of infants.
- Offer recommendations on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants.
- Offer examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research. A minimum of three scholarly resources are required.
- Provide readers with two community resources, a national resource, and a Web-based resource. Include a brief description and contact information for each resource.
- In developing your pamphlet, take into consideration the healthcare literacy level of your target audience.
Part II: Pamphlet Sharing Experience
- Share the pamphlet you have developed with a parent of an infant child. The parent may be a person from your neighborhood, a parent of an infant from a child-care center in your community, or a parent from another organization, such as a church group with which you have an affiliation.
- Provide a written summary of the teaching / learning interaction. Include in your summary:
- Demographical information of the parent and child (age, gender, ethnicity, educational level).
- Description of parent response to teaching.
- Assessment of parent understanding.
- Your impressions of the experience; what went well, what can be improved.
Submit Part I and Part II of the Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion for Parents and Caregivers of Infants assignment by the end of Topic 1.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Rubric:
Explanation of potencial effect 15%
Explanation of how the selected environmental factor can potentially affect the health or safety of infants is accurate and supported with detail and thoughtful insight.
Recommendations 20 %
Recommendations offered on accident prevention and safety promotion as they relate to the selected environmental factor and the health or safety of infants are accurate and supported with detail and thoughtful insight.
Examples, Interventions and Suggestions 10 %
Pamphlet offers accurate examples, interventions, and suggestions from evidence-based research and is supported with detail and thoughtful insight.
Written Summary of Teaching / Learning Interctions 10 %
Summary includes demographic information, description of parent response to teaching, assessment of parent understanding, and student’s impressions of teaching.
Resources 20 %
Pamphlet provides readers all the resources indicated by the assignment (community, national, and Web-based resources), including brief descriptions of resource and contact information. Quality of resources selected and the accompanying descriptions indicate thoughtful consideration.
Presentation 5 %
The work is well presented and includes all required elements. The overall appearance is neat and professional.
Originality 5 %.
The product shows significant evidence of originality and inventiveness. The majority of the content and many of the ideas are fresh, original, inventive, and based upon logical conclusions and sound research.
Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use) 5 %
Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.
Research 5 %
Research is supportive of the rationale presented. Sources are distinctive. Addresses all of the issues stated in the assignment criteria.
Paper Format (Use of appropriate style for the major and assignment 5 %
All format elements are correct.
StudentName
Get your audience’s attention here with emotional appeal, a provocative question, benefit statement, or picture.
Topic
or Purpose
Resources Available
List the available in this order with contact information.
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Community Resource #1
· Community Resource #2
· National Resource
· Web-Based Resource
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Definition or Description:
Write your definition or description of the issue or problem here. Define your objective clearly for what you want your brochure to accomplish or the goals of the brochure.
References
Reminder of the Importance of the Topic
Explain why the topic is important.
· Insert your first reason here.
· Insert your second reason here.
· Insert your third reason here.
Topic
Lead With Evidence
Provide data, information, or research from an evidence-based source of your choice. Cite your source.
FAQs or Testimonials
· Insert your first example or intervention here.
· Insert your second example or intervention here.
· Insert your third example here.
What do you want your audience to do now?
Do not be subtle. Tell readers exactly what you want them to do, and tell them to do it now. People may forget if they do not act right away. And you do not want them to forget.
· Insert your first here
· Insert your second here.
· Insert your third here.
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