NUR 392 Module 1 Health Matters Introductory Presentation Example

Reviewed by Ingrid Vasterling, MSN, RN Arizona State University Updated October 2026

This NUR 392 Module 1 sample is the Health Matters introductory activity, a short presentation in which you introduce yourself, define health in your own terms and report what your self-health assessments showed. ASU NUR 392, Health Promotion Across the Life Span, is part of the RN to BSN core, and its first module is about personal health before the course turns to families and communities. The composite presenter is a 38-year-old intensive care nurse who has worked nights for eight years. Her six slides move from a working definition of health, through her scores on the eight cardiovascular health measures the American Heart Association calls Life's Essential 8, to the single behavior she plans to change, with speaker notes that cite the sources behind each claim.

CourseNUR 392 Health Promotion Across the Life Span
ModuleModule 1
Paper typeIntroductory presentation, slides with speaker notes
LengthAbout 873 words, 6 pages
FormatAPA 7 slide deck with speaker notes
SchoolArizona State University
ProgramRN to BSN
UpdatedOctober 2026

Free sample paper for NUR 392 Module 1

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Health Matters: What Health Means to a Night-Shift ICU Nurse, and What Eight Measures Say About Her Own

Student Name

Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University

NUR 392: Health Promotion Across the Life Span

Instructor Name

Month Day, Year

What this page is doingThe title joins the module's activity name to the writer's angle, a nurse who promotes health for others while working nights, which sets up the honest self-assessment that follows.
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Slide 1: Who I Am

Registered nurse, 11 years. Medical ICU, nights, three 12-hour shifts a week. Two school-age children, one dog, one ongoing argument with my alarm clock.

Speaker notes: Hi, everyone. I am an ICU nurse on a medical intensive care unit, and for the last eight years I have worked nights. I chose this course partly because I spend my shifts caring for people whose chronic illnesses started years before they reached our unit, and I wanted to think more about the prevention side of nursing. I also chose it because I suspected my own health habits were not what I would recommend to a patient, and this first activity confirmed that.

Slide 2: How I Define Health

Being healthy means I can do what matters to me, with energy left over, this year and twenty years from now. It is physical, mental and social, and it changes over a life.

Speaker notes: Our reading describes health as more than the absence of disease, and as something that varies along a continuum rather than being simply present or absent (Friberg & Saewert, 2023). My own definition adds two ideas. The first is capacity: health is what lets me do the things that matter, such as being awake and patient with my kids after a night shift. The second is time. A habit can feel fine this year and still cost me in twenty years, which is exactly the pattern I see in the patients I care for. I chose a definition that includes the future because health promotion only makes sense if we care about later.

Slide 3: The Self-Assessment I Used

American Heart Association Life's Essential 8: diet, physical activity, nicotine exposure, sleep, body mass index, blood lipids, blood glucose, blood pressure. Each scored 0 to 100; the average is the overall score.

Speaker notes: Of the self-assessments offered this module, I used the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 because it gives a number for each behavior and each health factor and it added sleep to the earlier list of seven (Lloyd-Jones et al., 2022). I took my last blood pressure, lipid and glucose values from my annual employee health screening and estimated the behaviors honestly from a week of tracking. Each metric is scored from 0 to 100, and the overall score is the average, with higher scores meaning better cardiovascular health. The tool is meant for adults and is easy to repeat, which makes it a good baseline for this course.

Slide 4: My Results

Strong: nicotine (never smoked), blood pressure, glucose. Middle: diet, body mass index, lipids. Weak: physical activity (roughly 70 minutes weekly) and sleep (5.5 hours on workdays).

Speaker notes: My best scores were the ones I inherited or avoided: I have never used nicotine, and my blood pressure and fasting glucose were in the ideal range. Diet, weight and cholesterol were in the middle. The two weakest areas were both connected to my schedule. I averaged about 70 minutes of moderate activity a week, well under the 150 minutes the tool treats as ideal, and on workdays I slept about five and a half hours, well under the seven to nine hours scored as best for adults. Seeing these as numbers was more persuasive than the vague sense I had that I was tired.

Slide 5: Why Sleep and Activity Are Linked for Me

Night-shift recovery sleep is short and broken. Short sleep leaves no energy for exercise. Low activity may make sleep worse. One change could help both.

Speaker notes: When I looked at the two weak scores together, they seemed connected. After a night shift I sleep in pieces, so I skip the walk I meant to take, and on my days off I am too tired to make it up. A review drawing on 38 meta-analyses found that shift work mainly disrupts sleep around night and early morning shifts and is linked with weight gain, type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease (Kecklund & Axelsson, 2016), so the measure I scored lowest on is the one most affected by my job. I do not want to change jobs, so I need a plan that works within nights. I also noticed that the American Heart Association placed sleep in the same construct as blood pressure and cholesterol, which reminded me that sleep is not a luxury but a health factor (Lloyd-Jones et al., 2022).

Slide 6: What I Will Work On

One goal for this course: walk 20 minutes outdoors before my first post-shift sleep, four days a week, and track it. Recheck the Life's Essential 8 score at the end of the session.

Speaker notes: My goal is small on purpose. A short walk in daylight before sleeping is something I can do on workdays and days off, and it adds about 80 minutes a week of activity. I will log it on my phone and repeat the Life's Essential 8 at the end of the course. Later in NUR 392 we write a health promotion plan for ourselves, so this goal gives me a starting point. I look forward to hearing what your assessments showed, especially from anyone else who works nights.

References

Friberg, E. E., & Saewert, K. J. (Eds.). (2023). Conceptual foundations: The bridge to professional nursing practice (8th ed.). Elsevier.

Kecklund, G., & Axelsson, J. (2016). Health consequences of shift work and insufficient sleep. BMJ, 355, i5210. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i5210

Lloyd-Jones, D. M., Allen, N. B., Anderson, C. A. M., Black, T., Brewer, L. C., Foraker, R. E., Grandner, M. A., Lavretsky, H., Perak, A. M., Sharma, G., & Rosamond, W. (2022). Life's Essential 8: Updating and enhancing the American Heart Association's construct of cardiovascular health: A presidential advisory from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 146(5), e18-e43. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001078

NUR 392 Module 1 instructions, in plain terms

Module 1 of the current ASU Online syllabus is titled Personal Health. Its activities are introductions, definitions of health and health promotion, selected online self-health assessments, and the Health Matters introductory activity, listed in the grading table as the introductory activity presentation. The usual prompt asks you to introduce yourself, give your own definition of health with support from the reading, complete one or more self-assessments, and share what you learned, often as a short narrated presentation or a slide deck posted for the class. Read the Canvas instructions for the format, time or slide limit, which assessments are required, and whether you must cite the textbook page assigned for the module. Some instructors also ask you to post the deck so classmates can comment.

Inside the NUR 392 Module 1 example

This sample is a six-slide deck with full speaker notes. The first slide introduces a composite ICU nurse and her schedule in three lines. The second gives a personal definition of health and grounds it in the course reading. The third names the self-assessment used, the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8, and explains how it is scored. The fourth reports results in three groups, strong, middle and weak, with numbers for the weak areas. The fifth connects the two lowest scores to each other and to night shift work, and the last sets one small, measurable goal for the session, with a plan to recheck the score. Each statistic in the notes is traced to the tool or the reading that produced it.

Where the marks sit in the NUR 392 Module 1 rubric

Introductory presentations are usually graded on completeness, meaning that each element of the prompt appears; on the quality of the definition of health and its link to the reading; on honest, specific reflection about the self-assessment; and on presentation basics such as clarity, timing and APA citations. Graders look for a definition that goes beyond the absence of disease and for reflection that names actual results, not general statements about wanting to be healthier. A brief, realistic goal often scores well because it previews the personal health promotion plan later in the course. Missing citations on a slide-based assignment are a common way to lose easy points. Presentations that run over the time limit can lose a few points even when the content is strong.

NUR 392 Module 1 help from the desk

Students sometimes treat this activity as an icebreaker and skip the reading, which costs points on the definition. Others report every assessment they took without interpreting any of them; choose one or two and explain what the numbers mean. Avoid sharing more personal health information than you are comfortable with, since classmates will see it; it is acceptable to summarize ranges. Keep slide text short and put the explanation in narration or notes. Set a goal you can measure in seven and a half weeks. If you would like help structuring your own Health Matters presentation, send the prompt and your outline to the desk. A recorded rehearsal will show you whether the narration matches the slide order.

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NUR 392 Module 1 questions, answered

Where can I find a free NUR 392 Module 1 sample paper?

The Health Matters presentation is on this page in full: six slides with speaker notes covering a definition of health, Life's Essential 8 results for a night-shift nurse, and a goal, with references.

Which self-assessment should I use for NUR 392 Module 1?

Use one offered on the course site. Tools that give numbers, such as the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8, make the reflection easier because you can compare scores.

How personal does the NUR 392 Health Matters activity need to be?

Share enough to show honest reflection, such as which areas scored low, but you can give ranges rather than exact values. Classmates may see the presentation.

How should I define health in NUR 392?

Use the reading as a base, then add your own view, for example health as capacity to do what matters to you. Explain your definition rather than quoting one.

Does the NUR 392 introductory presentation need citations?

Yes. Cite the textbook for your definition and any tool you used, both on the slide or in narration and in a reference slide.