NR 443 (NR 443)

NR_443 Week 7 Discussion, Healthcare Policy Professor and class, The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010 by President Obama and has had several updates since. While this law was supposed to help lower income families be able to afford and access healthcare, it has since proven that it is in fact not that at all. People have talked about how difficult it is to maneuver through the website. The website may walk you through the first part that ask about the basic of you, but then the...

NR443 Week 4 Discussion, Community Settings For this week’s topic of discussion, I chose to talk about the setting and role of the Community Health Nurse in the school health setting, as well as an objective from Healthy People 2020 regarding that of bullying among adolescents. At-risk health behaviors typical for teens among the school-aged group tend toward things like violence, irresponsible sexual activity, poor dietary intake, suicide, inadequate physical activity, reckless driving, and ...

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 h...

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 ...

Week 1: Determinants of Health 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 personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status" (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018, About Determinants of Health, para. 1). Determinants fall into five categories, including (a) ...

NR_443 Week 5 Discussion, Disaster Preparedness The date was 10/01/2017. The location was Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was the Route 91 Music Festival. I was in Las Vegas for a World Class Softball Tournament for ages 50 and over in which my husband was a participant. We had considered attending the festival however, in the world of softball tournaments, it is unpredictable when games will be played. We were unable to advance purchase tickets. We chose to forgo the concert festivities sin...

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...

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? ...

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...