Purpose
The purpose of this portfolio piece is to:
Apply knowledge and theory related to the prevention, diagnosis, and management of select uncomplicated common acute and chronic health problems for individuals across the lifespan.
Develop differential diagnoses and plans of care based on evidence-based research and clinical practice guidelines.
Overview
In this portfolio assignment, you continue the work you have already started by creating a script for your educational video based on the research you have conducted.
Script
Remember that your video should end up as a very basic explanation of the topic because of the limited health literacy of people in general. You have researched the best sources you could find. It is now up to you to create a script where you “translate” the findings to lay terms in an appealing and interesting way. A sixth-grade level of language is an appropriate target for your wording and explanations.
As you envision your video and prepare your script, understand that we are not asking you to become filmmakers. You do not have to learn many new skills to fulfill this assignment. However, there are simple things you can do to make your video interesting. Here is a list of some pointers:
Avoid just talking for 5-7 minutes with the camera on you the entire time. You may indeed speak for the entire time. Yet, plan cutaways where you bring in short text, still images, or other relevant and appropriate footage from time to time at least.
Write your script the way you speak. While this is an educational video for patients and others who come into your clinic, you must write in a conversational rather than robotic or stuffy tone. Use as many contractions as is natural. The degree of formality is somewhat of a personal choice. However, you should sound and appear natural and as if you are talking to the people watching the video.
Similarly, do not read your script! Just don’t do it. Learn your research and practice your script enough so that you can speak to your audience without reading anything. We put this pointer in this part of the assignment to give you plenty of notice and preparation time. Here is an example of what your final video could look like:
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