The MAP-IT Framework

An ending aspect of the MAP-IT framework’s assessment step includes prioritizing the health issues of the group, which in this case is the community of African-American citizens of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, with heart disease. Once this is done, then creation of an action plan for the community’s health issue is performed in the planning step of the MAP-IT framework (Healthy People 2020, 2017a). It is important to note that this framework is not nursing-oriented; it is a framework that can be used by several disciplines. The MAP-IT framework instructs one to list all of the issues for the population, and then identify the following: the priority issues by identifying the issues, frequency of the issue, the group affected, the urgency …show more content…
Each diagnosis consists of an identified problem, list of etiological factors of the problem, and the manifestations of the problem (Anderson & McFarlane, 2015). It is also important to note that the community nursing diagnosis development process provided by Anderson and McFarlane (2015) does not use NANDA International’s terminology. The community nursing diagnoses for the given population of African-Americans in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, are the following: increased morbidity and mortality secondary to heart disease associated with poverty, lack of knowledge, lack of access to healthcare, distrust towards healthcare personnel, lack of access to nutritious foods, lack of access to health and wellness promoting recreation centers, lack of preventative health habits, and lack of community and peer support among African-Americans as manifested by the higher mortality rate associated with heart disease in this population, and the potential for health problems secondary to heart disease associated with the lack of access to healthcare related to lack of knowledge of community resources and healthcare facilities as manifested by the increased mortality rate associated with heart disease within this …show more content…
1). There are 25 objectives for this goal regarding heart disease. The first objective is to increase overall cardiovascular health in the nation. The rest of the objectives influence the attainment of this first goal. For example, the second objective is to reduce coronary heart disease deaths with a target goal of 103.4 deaths per 100,000 persons. If the nation meets this objective, then the likelihood of the nation meeting the first objective