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Review the flow and requirements of course ANS Requirements for NUR:
Identify, evaluate and use evidence based sources
Include a framework of personal and global ethics
Evaluate and find your place in the interdisciplinary work of health care delivery in all settings.
Investigate and develop your professional stance
Requirements for NUR 324 specifically:
Assess individual, community and population health/illness
beliefs,
values,
Attitudes,
practices
Utilize epidemiology and determinants of health to develop health promotion and disease and injury
prevention interventions for individuals, communities, and populations
Use creative, evidence-based strategies to help individuals, communities, and populations achieve health
promotion and risk reduction behavioral outcomes, considering quality and patient safety initiatives, complex
system issues, and stakeholder preferences
Develop a foundational understanding of complementary and alternative modalities and their role in health
care
Flow:
Clinical requirements:
Community assessment
Windshield survey
On-site assessment
National trends and goals
Develop a community nursing diagnosis and plan
Present health promotion/risk reduction promotion activity
,Community resource paper
Clinical evaluation tool
Lecture requirements:
Scavenger hunt
Midterm exam
Present windshield survey and discuss community assessment plan
Poverty experience
Health promotion/risk reduction presentation
Final exam (not comprehensive)
examine the meaning of "health" ANS health according to WHO 1948: "A complete state of physical,
mental, social and emotional well-being, not merely the absence of disease"
health according to WHO 1986: The Ottawa Charter stressed that "peace, shelter, education, food, income, a
stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice and equity are necessary for health"
Florence Nightingale: "Health is not only to be well, but to be able to use every power we have"
Health is relative.
"the ability to adapt and self manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges." (2008, Jadad
and O'Grady)
The WHO definition would assess most people as "unhealthy" and fails to include one's ability to live an active
and meaningful life through old age or with chronic disease.
consider community in objective and subjective terms ANS Living resources - food, shelter and
employment
Environmental resources - public green spaces, learning spaces and meeting spaces, public art (making and
viewing)
Safety - ability to access public spaces and the role of police
Community connection - Social Capital
, Social capital represents the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society,
enabling that society to function effectively.
Trust, ethics, equity, compassion, discernment, communication.
5 Core elements of community
Locus - a sense of place. Something that could be located and described denoting a sense of place, locale or
boundaries
Sharing - common interests and perspectives. The existence of shared perspective and common interests that
contribute to a sense of community
Action (joint action) - a source of cohesion and identify naturally emerges from joint action
Social ties - the foundation of community made up of interpersonal relationships at all levels.
Diversity - complexity within a community that focuses on the larger societal view of community
Community: A group of people with diverse characteristics who are linked by social ties, share common
perspectives and engage in joint action in a geographical location or setting.
discuss the environment as a source of community and personal health ANS The effect of stress on a
community - criminality, drug use drug use, environmental tragedies ...etc.
These problems could be seen as unifying elements.
health at the community level:
Meaning and purpose or knowledge that one's life makes a difference
Communities that learn and make a difference.
discuss the theories of health promotion and their application to the community assessment process. ANS
useful theories:
Florence Nightingale's consideration of the environment
Watsons Caring theory
Persily and Hildebrandt's theory of community empowerment through the use of participatory action