A1. Student-facing instructions

Welcome to your Summative Performance Assessment for the module: “Promoting Population Health in Underserved Communities.”
Instructions:
This is an individual performance-based assessment containing 5 real-world prompts related to community health nursing.

· You will have 90 minutes to complete all prompts in one sitting.

· Carefully read each prompt and respond using clear, professional, evidence-based language.
Cite at least one scholarly source in each response.

APA format.
Use only course materials, lecture slides, and personal notes; no outside help allowed.

· Submit your document in Word or PDF format through the LMS portal before the posted deadline.

· Responses will be evaluated using a 3-tier rubric: Developing, Proficient, and Exemplary.

This is a summative assessment; no feedback will be provided until grading is complete.

A2. Authentic summative performance assessment

This summative performance assessment presents authentic, practice-based scenarios that mirror real challenges faced by public health nurses. It assesses students’ ability to analyze data, apply principles of public health, and propose solutions to address disparities in underserved communities.
Assessment Prompts Include:
1. Develop a culturally competent care plan for an underserved urban immigrant community.
2. Evaluate a government-funded vaccine campaign in a rural setting.
3. Analyze state-level epidemiological trends to identify healthcare access barriers.
4. Create an advocacy strategy promoting mobile clinics in remote areas.
5. Design a health education workshop to improve vaccine uptake.
Each item aligns with at least one course objective and student learning outcome and reflects measurable verbs from Bloom’s taxonomy.

A3a. Type of assessment

Performance-Based Summative Assessment: It is designed to assess students’ ability to apply theoretical concepts and clinical skills in real-world scenarios that represent authentic tasks in community and public health nursing practice.

A3b. Purpose of assessment

To evaluate the student’s ability to synthesize course content and apply public health principles through realistic, individualized case-based tasks that demonstrate readiness for population-level care delivery. This supports measurement of higher-order cognitive outcomes, including evaluation, analysis, and creation, critical to effective nursing practice in underserved communities.

A3c. Module title (topic from C920), 2 course objectives (from C920), 2 student learning outcomes (from C920)

A3d. Bloom’s taxonomy domain and level

A3e. Assessment activity alignment

*For this task, use Table 2 below.

Course Objective 1: Analyze the impact of community-based interventions on public health outcomes within diverse underserved populations.

Prompt 1: Analyze data from a recent community health survey in a low-income neighborhood. Based on your findings, recommend two evidence-based interventions that would improve chronic disease outcomes.

Prompt 2: Create a culturally competent care plan to address rising diabetes rates in an urban immigrant population, incorporating community-based strategies.

Cognitive

Analyze

Create

Course Objective 2:Apply evidence-based strategies to reduce healthcare access disparities in rural and marginalized communities.

Prompt 3: Apply public health policy to develop a proposal for a mobile health clinic initiative targeting rural areas with limited primary care access.

Prompt 4: Evaluate a public awareness campaign aimed at increasing preventive screenings in an underserved rural region. Identify two areas of improvement.

Cognitive

Cognitive

Apply

Evaluate

Student Learning Outcome 1: Evaluate the effectiveness of community-based nursing roles in improving health equity.

Prompt 5: Evaluate the role of the community health nurse in coordinating care for vulnerable populations, and explain how their efforts contribute to reducing health disparities.

Cognitive

Evaluate

Student Learning Outcome 2: Illustrate the influence of social determinants of health on care access and outcomes in underserved populations.

Prompt 1: (Aligned Again) Analyze how housing instability and food insecurity from the community survey influence chronic disease outcomes and intervention selection.

Prompt 3: (Aligned Again) Apply knowledge of socioeconomic barriers to justify your proposed mobile clinic design, explaining how it addresses key determinants of access.

Cognitive

Analyze

Apply