Rasmussen College The Situation of Social Injustice Research Paper

Social Justice Paper (1200-1500 words)

Identify and examine a situation, action, or interaction of social injustice from your clinical or nursing experience that relates to one of the following:

• minority health
• poverty
• environmental health
• health equity
• underserved for health care.

Identify strategies for responding to the social injustice.

Format

Examine social injustice:

• Describe the situation of social injustice.
• Analyze the health consequences for the client (individual, family, or population group) experiencing the injustice.
• Describe your response as the caregiver or observer of caregiver/health provider responses to the social injustice. How do the Christian worldview and ethic principles help you to identify and understand the situation of social injustice?
• Analyze how your own identity, power, privilege, and oppression influence your viewpoint and reaction

Determine strategies to respond to the social injustice:

• Develop specific strategies that can be used to respond to the identified social injustice – consider community and systems-level interventions.
  • Identify 2 specific actions to respond to the injustice (consider relevant interventions from the Public Health Intervention Wheel).
  • Who are relevant collaborators – individuals and agencies? Interprofessional consideration?
  • What resources are required to implement the strategies?
• Identify barriers that may interfere with responding effectively to the social injustice.
• Identify strengths that will contribute, reducing the effects of the social injustice

Requirements:

• 1200-1500 words
• APA format including in-text citation of sources
• Minimum of 3 references in APA format

Course Outcomes Assessed: 1,2,3,4
Grading Method: Written Assignment Rubric
Gradebook Category: Public Health Theory