DEVRY NR 443 ALL WEEKS
DISCUSSION-LATEST 2015 OCTOBER
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Question
Let’s start with a broad
overview of public health nursing. The three core functions of public health
are assessment, assurance, and policy development (Nies & McEwen, 2015, p.
6).
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Describe one of these core public
health functions.
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Discuss how this core function
relates to one intervention from the Public Health Intervention Wheel (Nies
& McEwen, 2015, pp. 14–15).
Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2015).Community/public
health nursing: Promoting the health of populations(6th ed.). St. Louis,
MO: Saunders/Elsevier.
What makes some healthy and others ill? Healthy People 2020
identifies fivedeterminants of healththat influence the
health of individuals and populations.Healthy People 2020
describes them as “A range of personal, social, economic, and environmental
factors that influence health status are known as determinants of health” (U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, 2014,About
Determinants of Health, para. 1). Determinants fall into five categories including:
(a) policy making, (b) social factors, (c) health services, (d) individual
behavior, and (e) biology and genetics.
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Go to the “Determinants of Health”
linkhttp://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Determinants-of-Healthand
click on each determinant to read about all of the determinants.
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Choose one of the five determinants.
In your posting, describe this determinant and its importance.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2014)HealthyPeople2020:
About Determinants of Health. Retrieved fromhttp://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Determinants-of-Health
week 2
Windshield
Survey (graded)
In
this discussion thread, you will view a windshield survey video of a community
called Iron Ridge to practice performing part of a windshield survey. This will
help you when you perform a windshield survey of your community for your first
assignment. Review Box 6-2 on page 98 of your text (Nies & McEwen, 2015).
Next,
choose one of the six assessment categories from Box 6-2, and discuss what you
observed about Iron Ridge related to the questions in that category.
Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2015). Community/Public health
nursing: Promoting the health of populations (6th ed.). St.
Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.
Demographic
and Epidemiological Assessment (graded)
For
this post, you will collect assessment data about your city or county. This
post will include information about demographics (general characteristics) and
epidemiological data (disease or health behavior rates) of your community. This
data collection will help with two sections of your Week 4 Milestone 2
assignment.
1.
Demographic data: Go
online to the U.S. Census Bureau at http://quickfacts.census.gov/.
Obtain information about the demographic characteristics of the population for
your city or county of residence. You may have to look at county data if your
city is not listed. Collect a range of demographic data about age, ethnicity,
poverty levels, housing, and education.
2.
Epidemiological data: Go
to your city or county health department website (search the Internet) or
County Health Rankings (http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/)
to discuss epidemiological data about your area. Identify several priority health
concerns for your area.
Here is a helpful tip sheet about the U.S.
Census website that will assist you in using this website as a
resource
week 3
Caring
for Vulnerable Populations (graded)This week, you are learning about many
different vulnerable populations. Choose one vulnerable population.
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Briefly describe this vulnerable
population.
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Discuss several risk factors that may
impact health outcomes for this group.
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Describe two priorities for community
health nurses working with this population.
Assuring
Resources for the Vulnerable (graded)Review the Week 3 Case Study that may be
found in Doc Sharing.
Assurance
is one of the three core functions of public health. Find a resource in your
community (other than WIC) that could assist Mary during her pregnancy. Start
by searching the Internet for your local health department’s website. What
services do they provide for pregnant women? What about your local welfare
office? Do they provide prenatal or mental health services? Are there any
service organizations, crisis pregnancy centers, or churches providing help for
pregnant women?
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Briefly describe the types of
services that you found.
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Choose one agency and assess this
agency in terms of the 4 As. Is it accessible, acceptable, affordable, or
available for Mary or other pregnant women that you case-manage?
week 4
As the
school nurse role evolves, there are increasingly more health concerns for the
school nurse. Does the locale make a difference in the problems, or are health
problems in children and adolescents universal? In some inner-city areas,
violence is a prevalent issue. What do you think are the biggest problems in
your areas?
Healthy
People Objectives for Community Settings (graded)The federal government
developed Healthy People as a set of national health objectives that are
revised every 10 years. These objectives are very specific in order to guide
and measure our nation’s progress related to public health.
Please visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/.
Click on a topic area that relates to a community health (CH) setting you are learning
about. Click on the green Objectives area in that topic area to choose one
Healthy People 2020 numbered objective.
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Describe the community health setting
of interest (see Chapters 30–33).
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Discuss one specific numbered Healthy
People 2020 objective (not a goal) related to this community
health setting.
·
How could a community health nurse
help this setting meet this objective?
Here is a helpful “Introduction
to Healthy People 2020 website” document to aid you in navigating
the HP 2020 website.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
(2014). Healthy People 2020: 2020 Topics & Objectives.
Retrieved fromhttp://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/
week 5
You will
continue in your role as a nurse with your local health department. Examine
your online lesson, assigned readings, and visit The Community Guide
website: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/ to explore
interventions related to violence. Choose one evidence-based intervention, and
present this intervention to the task force.
·
Summarize this intervention and why
it might work in your area.
·
Describe whether it is considered a
primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention strategy and include your rationale
(see Nies & McEwen, 2015, Chapter 1, p. 7 for a review of levels of
prevention).
Community Preventive Services Task Force. (2014). The Community Guide.
Retrieved fromhttp://www.thecommunityguide.org/
Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2015). Community/Public health
nursing: Promoting the health of populations (6th ed.). St.
Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.
Disaster
and Communicable Disease Preparedness (graded)
Preparing for disasters or communicable disease outbreaks
is an important part of public health nursing. Visit the website http://www.ready.gov.
Review the steps for being prepared for a disaster.
·
As a community health nurse, what
elements do you think are important to stress to the community?
·
How well is your community prepared
for a potential outbreak or disaster?
Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2014). Ready: Prepare. Plan. Stay
Informed.Retrieved fromhttp://www.ready.gov/
week
6week 6
Affordable Care Act
(ACA) (graded)
Please explore the healthcare marketplace website at https://www.healthcare.gov/. Choose the get answers
tab towards the top of the page. Review several of the topics under this tab
and share something that you learned about how the marketplace works and how
this would apply to those in your community.
The Affordable Care Act
is a controversial topic, and I’m sure there are many different viewpoints represented
in our class. For this discussion, let’s focus on understanding the basics of
the marketplace so that we can provide accurate information for our patients
and communities.
diss 2
Environmental Health
(graded)
Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MyEnvironment
site at http://www.epa.gov/myenvironment/howUsePage.html. Review the site
overview and enter your city, zip code, or location into the MyEnvironment box.
Explore the site to learn more about your environment and things that might be
impacting the health of its citizens.
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Identify something new you learned
about your environment and how it could be affecting health by completing this
statement, “I didn’t know _____.”
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How could you, in the role of a
community health nurse, address these concerns?
week 7
This week, you were assigned to read and review
Recommendation 8 of IOM’s Future of Nursing Recommendations. Recommendation #8
states:Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of
interprofessional healthcare workforce data.
·
Consider the problem you identified
in your Caring for Populations Milestone. How could collaboration be improved
to enhance outcomes?
The Institute of Medicine. (2010). The future of nursing leading
change, advancing health: Recommendation 8. Retrieved fromhttp://thefutureofnursing.org/recommendation/detail/recommendation-8
Ethics
and Diversity (graded)
Review
the Week 7 Case Study found in Doc Sharing.
You will continue in your role as a nurse with your local
health department. As part of the health department’s “Think Cultural Health”
seminar, each team member will discuss oneof the 15 National Cultural and Linguistically
Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards. Visit https://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/Content/clas.asp.
Browse the site and click on the link to open the list of the National CLAS
Standards.
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Describe one National CLAS Standard.
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Discuss one way that you could
implement this standard for a specific cultural group in your community.
Office of Minority Health, Department of Health and Human
Services. (2013). National standards for culturally and linguistically appropriate
services in health and health care: a blueprint for advancing and sustaining
CLAS policy and practice. Retrieved from https://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/Content/clas.asp
week
8
Future Directions (graded)
Reflect on what you have
learned in this course. What could you take from it and bring into your current
practice? Please share specific examples
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