STUDENT INTEREST
PROJECT
PUBLIC
HEALTH
OCCUPATION OF INTEREST: NURSING
OCCUPATION OF INTEREST: NUTRITION
OCCUPATION OF INTEREST: PHYSICIAN’S
ASSISTANT
DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES
 Who reads/writes in this discourse community?
Anyone that is concerned with the general health and well -being of the
public.
i.e. Doctors, Physicians' Assistants, Nurses, Nutritionists,
psychologists, CNAs, etc.
WHO READS/WRITES IN THIS
COMMUNIT Y?
 Nutritionists
 Designs meal plans for their clientele
 Patient Progress reports
 Nurses
 Fill out discharge paper work
 Daily medical charting on patient status
 Subjective Objective Assessment and Plan Notes (SOAP)
 Physician’s Assistants
 Seek to enhance the quality of education
 Fill out discharge paper work
T YPES OF WRITING: NUTRITION
 Food Diaries
 Help the patient to
keep track of what
they eat
 Charts progression
 Magazines
 Websites - Nutrition
blogs
 Books
 Newspapers –
Columns
Advice
T YPES OF WRITING: NUTRITION
 Meal Plans
 Created to work as a
“template”
 Required nutritional
components are shown
T YPES OF WRITING: NURSING
 Medical Administration
Record (MAR)
 This serves as an excellent
example of conventions:
abbreviations, terminology,
etc.
T YPES OF WRITING: NURSING
 Nursing Care Plan
 Instructions for any and
all staff working under
a Nurse
 SOAP Notes
 Subjective, Objective,
Assessment, Plan
T YPES OF WRITING: PHYSICIAN’S
ASSISTANT
 Write prescriptions
 Under the supervision of a Doctor, Physician’s Assistants can write
prescriptions for patients—with the Doctor’s signature
 Patient Charting
 Physician's Assistants often record the work that nurses usually do to
save time and space
 Review of patient history
 Medical instructions
 Physician’s Assistants are to write out exactly how treatment should
be carried out for their patients
 Discharge instructions
 Physician’s Assistants should leave instructions for what the patient
is to do following leaving their hospital stay
CONVENTIONS/EXPECTATIONS OF THIS
COMMUNIT Y
 Conventions/Expectations of this community include
 Argumentative & opinionated styles of writing are common among
health majors
 Example: Holistic Medicine
 Uses proper nutrition aide in maintaining good health
 However, someone looking at this type of modern medicine standpoint
could argue against my beliefs through magazines, newspapers, and
books.
CONVENTIONS/EXPECTATIONS OF THIS
COMMUNIT Y
 Before writing an article
 Authors Review literature on chosen subject
 Authors Consider how their research will be different from the writing
that is already published.
 General form of an article
 Review
 Introduction
 What is this article about?
 How does it differ from others writing?
 Analysis
 Research
 Results
EXAMPLES OF CONVENTIONS
 Abbreviations: used to abbreviate medical vocabulary in order
to save time and space –necessary to use in MAR
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BID – Twice Daily
QID – Four times a day
PO – By mouth
DX – Diagnosis
 Terminology: the combination of medical prefixes and suf fixes
in order to identify/classify a certain medical disposition
 Cardiology
 “Cardio” means “heart”
 “Ology” means “the study of”
 Cardio + ology = Cardiology (the study of the heart)
WHAT PURPOSE DO THESE
CONVENTIONS/EXPECTATIONS SERVE?
 Purpose of these conventions
 This field can carry a hefty amount of risks and these conventions must be
followed in order to keep employees of the health profession in check and
within guidelines to prevent lawsuits, etc .
 Save time and space by using abbreviations
 Prevents mishaps in communication
 If conventions are not followed
 Misdiagnosis which leads to malpractice or negligence —which breaks the code
of ethics that is relevant in any occupation in the medical field
 Expectations
 Reports must be based on factual evidence/research
 Proper Vocabulary
WHAT ARE THEY READING/WRITING
ABOUT?
 Articles - Clinical Trials and Studies
 Many articles discuss the effects of certain alternative types of
treatment on patients
 The objective of these articles is to be a resource by providing
documented improvements or advances in achieving excellent health
care by reporting newly found strategies in health care that are directly
beneficial
 Examples of Article Topics:
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Advances in treatment
Change in medication
Lifestyle changes
Changes in style of patient care
WHAT GENRES ARE USED?
 Professional
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Clinical Trials
Studies
Reports
SOAP Notes
 Keeps everything organized and effectively conveys ideas without
overloading the reader with information
 Arguments
 Analyzing treatments and effect of care
 Example: Holistic Medicine Practices
 Casual Analysis
 The evaluation/discussion of the cause and effect of patient care
 Mostly seen in journals
WHAT ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETIES OR ASSOCIATIONS ARE THERE?
 American Public Health Association (APHA)
 Funds many important public health publications such as The
American Journal of Public Health and a large number of books such
as “Public Health Management of Disasters, 3 rd Edition” by Linda
Young Landesman
 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
 First national organization created for nurse practitioners of all
specialties
 Mission:
 to promote excellence in NP practice through education and research
 To shape the future of healthcare
 Build a positive image of the NP role as a leader in the healthcare
community
WHAT ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETIES OR ASSOCIATIONS ARE THERE?
 The society for Nutrition Education and Behavior
 Represents interest of nutrition educators internationally
 Mission:
 To promote effective nutrition education and communication to support
and improve healthful behaviors
 Forums for sharing strategies for nutrition educations and expressing
views on important scientific, pedagogic and policy issues
 The American Academy of Physician Assistants
 National professional society for physician assistants
 Mission:
 “To ensure the professional growth, personal excellence, and recognition
of physician assistants, and to support their efforts to enable them to
improve the quality, accessibility, and cost -effectiveness of patientcentered health care.”
WHAT T YPES OF CITATIONS ARE USED IN
THIS FIELD?
 AMA style (American Medical Association)
 Citations are used inside of the text
 Numbered superscripts that match up to the numbered references
in the bibliography
 References must appear in the numerical order in which they are
cited
 APA style (American Psychological Association)
Conventions include:
 Citations are used inside of the text
 Must have a reference list
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