Health Maintenance and Screening Activities Paper

Purpose: This Assignment will demonstrate your ability to apply your knowledge to health maintenance and screening activities specific to the child’s age. In addition, you will investigate community resources in your area for ease of referring as needed (Florida). These will be useful resources for you during clinicals as well as future pediatric encounters.

Directions:

This Assignment will demonstrate your ability to apply your knowledge to health maintenance and screening activities specific to the child’s age.

Imagine you are working as a family nurse practitioner for a primary care office. A child is presented to you as a new patient and the family is new to the area. The child is due for a health maintenance visit and, as a primary care provider, you are aware that there are different requirements for health maintenance visits and different screenings to be completed, based on the child’s age.

You will write a paper addressing the specific health maintenance and screening activities required for a child for this following age group: a 4-year-old .

In addition, you will be required to research some community resources available in your area to assist new parents in adjusting to their new home. These resources can include the health department, dentists, therapists, pharmacies, schools, as well as pediatric specialists and hospitals.

The paper must be 3–5 pages, use APA format, and include citations and references should be 5 years old.

addresses all of the specific health maintenance and screening activities required for a child from specific age groups. Details of the health maintenance and screening activities are complete. Community resources provide significant detail about items available in the area. 

Supports opinions and ideas with relevant and credible sources of information; meets or exceeds the required number and types of resources.

There are no confusing sentences, but the overall sentence and paragraph meanings are clear. There are no minor punctuation errors such as comma splices or run-on sentences.

No misspelled words normally caught by spellcheckers are present but do not significantly interfere with the overall readability of the paper.

The overall order of the information is clear and contributes to the meaning of assignment. There is one paragraph or a sentence or two that are out of place or other minor organizational issues. A few sentences may be long and hard to understand. Meets length requirements.

The overall order of the information is clear and contributes to the meaning of assignment. There is one paragraph or a sentence or two that are out of place or other minor organizational issues