NR 443 (NR 443)

NR_443 Week 5 Discussion, Disaster Preparedness Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing. • Share an overview of a natural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years. o Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article. • Describe how your community was impacted. • Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness. Hurricane Irene impacted ...

NR443 Week 4 Discussion, Community Settings Community health nurses practice in a variety of settings. Choose one of the following CH settings, and describe what you have learned about the setting and the role(s) of the nurse in that setting (see Nies & McEwen, 2019, Chapters 30-34). Please do not choose school nursing for this discussion because your paper is on school nursing. • Home health nursing • Occupational health nursing • Forensic nursing • Hospice nursing Next study le...

NR443 Week 3 Discussion, Caring for Vulnerable Populations Choose one of the three attached case studies, and reflect on the vulnerable population that the case study portrays. Identify which case you chose. Discuss several risk factors that may impact health outcomes for the vulnerable population in your case study. Identify one agency in your community that can assist this vulnerable group and assess this agency in terms of the 4 A's (see the lesson). Discuss each of the A's separately t...

Week 1: Determinants of Health This week's graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO). • CO1: Apply principles of nursing theory to the public health system by analyzing determinants of health and the public health intervention wheel. (PO1) What are some factors that make some people healthy and others ill? Healthy People 2020 identifies five determinants of health that influence the health of individuals and populations. Healthy People 2020 describes them as "a range of pe...

Week 5: Disaster and Communicable Disease Preparedness Preparing for disasters or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing. Visit the website . 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. Re...

NR 443 Week 2 Discussion, Demographic and Epidemiological Assessment 1 For this discussion, you will collect assessment data about your city or county. This post will include information about demographics (general characteristics). You will then find epidemiological data (disease or health behavior rates) about one priority health problem in your community. I currently live in the town of West Orange. I’ve been there since 2000. According to the US Census Bureau, the population of West ...

NR443 Week 8 Discussion, Future Directions Professor and class, “The field of public health aims to improve the health of as many people as possible as rapidly as possible” (Frieden, 2015). We must focus not only on the future populations but the current population problems. These impacts can include work environments, urban development, transportation systems, and food production. (Graham, 2010) The public health community all agree that public health is “the science and art of prevent...

NR_443 Week 7 Discussion, Healthcare Policy Locate a news article or story related to a current event in healthcare policy. Some examples may be, but are not limited to healthcare reform, the Affordable Care Act, prescription drugs, healthcare costs, insurance coverage, healthcare fraud, transparency, or underinsured populations. • Provide a brief overview of the article, and include the URL link. • As a healthcare professional, has this raised any ethical questions or concerns for you? ...

NR443 Week 6 Discussion, Environmental Health For this week’s discussion I chose to look at the My Health tab on the EPA (2018) website. The 2014 risk for cancer due to inhalation of toxins in the air in Williamson County, Texas is 32 per million. One surprising thing I learned is that the largest contributor to toxic air in my county are secondary sources at 67.3% and that is a measure of ambient concentrations of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein. This is important information to hav...

NR443 Week 5 Discussion, Disaster and Communicable Disease Preparedness Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing. • Share an overview of a natural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years. o Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article. • Describe how your community was impacted. • Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness. Hur...