Devry NR443 (all discussions and all assignments) Entire Course
Devry NR443 week 1
Devry NR443 week 1 DQ 1
Core Functions of Public Health (graded)
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.
Devry NR443 week 1 DQ 2
Determinants of Health
(graded)
What makes some
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 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” link http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Determinants-of-Health and 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
Devry NR443 week 2
1
Windshield Survey (graded)
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. Review the categories
and questions in 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.
Also, discuss how a
community health nurse might prioritize the identified needs to begin planning
an intervention.
Nies, M. A., &
McEwen, M. (2015). Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of
populations (6th ed.). St.
Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier
Devry NR443 week 2 DQ 2
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
Devry NR443 week 3
DQ 1
Caring for Vulnerable Populations (graded)
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.
DQ 2
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 or those with mental health
concerns? 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 or those experiencing
mental health concerns?
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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?
Devry NR443 week 4
DQ 1
Concerns for the School Nurse (graded)
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?
DQ 2
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.
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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 from
http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/
Devry NR443 week 5
DQ 1
Population Health Intervention Strategies (graded)
Review the Week 5 Case
Study found in Doc Sharing.
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 or excess alcohol use. Choose one
evidence-based intervention that is recommended, and present this intervention
to the task force.
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Summarize this
intervention and and discuss the community health nurse’s role in implementing
this strategy.
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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 from http://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.
DQ 2
Disaster and
Communicable Disease Preparedness (graded)
Preparing for
disasters or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public
health nursing. Visit the websitehttp://www.ready.govand http://www.ready.gov/pandemic. Review the steps for being prepared for a disaster or
pandemic.
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As a community health
nurse, what elements do you think are important to stress to the community?
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How well is your
community prepared for a potential outbreak or disaster?
Federal Emergency
Management Agency. (2014). Ready: Prepare. Plan. Stay Informed.Retrieved from http://www.ready.gov/
Devry NR443 week 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.
Devry NR443 week 1 DQ 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?
Devry NR443 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.
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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
Devry NR443 week 8
<pclass=”msonormal”>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.
week 2
Caring for
Populations: Milestone1: Community Windshield Survey Form
Directions:
Please refer to the Milestone 1: Community Windshield Survey Guidelines and
grading rubric for specific instructions in order to complete the information
below. This assignment is worth 150 points.
Type your name, date,
and observations directly on this form. Click Save as and save the file with
the assignment name and your last name; for example, NR443 Windshield Survey
Form_Smith. When you are finished, submit the form to the Week 2 Caring for
Populations: Windshield Survey Dropbox by the deadline indicated in your
guidelines.
YourName: Date:
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Criteria
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Your response
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1. Introduction of Community (20 points)
Identify the city
and state of your community and briefly describe the community you will be
using for this assignment. It should be the area where you live or the area
surrounding your work setting but must include a residential area.
Demographic data are not needed.
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2. Windshield Survey (100 points)
a. Vitality:Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2 in your text to
describe your observations about the community vitality.
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b. Indicators of social and economic conditions:Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2
in your text to describe your observations about the social and economic
conditions.
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c. Health Resources:Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2 in your text to
describe your observations about the health resources.
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d. Environmental conditions related to health:Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2
in your text to describe your observations about the environmental
conditions.
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e. Social functioning:Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2 in your text to
describe your observations about the social functioning.
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f. Attitude toward healthcare:Use a majority of the questions from Box 6-2
in your text to describe your observations about the attitudes toward
healthcare.
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3. Conclusion: (20 pts)
Provide a summary of
your findings and your conclusion. What problems did you identify?
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4. References:
optional: List in APA format any referencesthat you used. If you
include any references here, you must also include an in-text citation
(author, year).
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week 4
Guidelines for Caring
for PopulationsMilestone 2:
Assessment and
Diagnosis
Purpose
The purpose of this
paper is to provide an opportunity to utilize community assessment strategies,
uncover a community health problem, and identify the components of one
community health nursing problem related to the community dynamics.
Course Outcomes
This assignment
enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO2: Assess the health
needs of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities using demographic
and epidemiological data to identify population health risks. (PO 4)
CO6: Utilize a
systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the
health of a community and population health problems. (PO 2)
Due Date
Submit to the
appropriate basket in the Dropboxby 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday of Week 4.
Points:225
points
Directions
Watch the Milestone 2
tutorialby clicking thislink. This tutorial is also available on Course
Project page under Course Home as well as Week 4 Assignments page.
This paper is expected
to be no more than fourpages in length (not including the title page and reference
list). Below are the requirements for successful completion of this paper.Please use the
following categories as the first level headings on your paper. See the documents in the APA category in
Course Resources for assistance with APA formatting.
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[Introduction:]This beginning of your paper should catch the reader’s attention
with interesting facts about your communityand shouldinclude the purpose
statement of the paper.
This should be one paragraph.APA states that you should not title this as introduction; however, you
are still expected to write a separate introduction. The title of the paper
should be repeated at the top of page two and centered.
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Community Overview: Identify the community that you are assessingby name and
stateand provide a generaldescription of the community. What is the general
character of the community?Statistics should not be included here. Your
community should be the area you live or workin and should include a
residential area. It should be a large enough area to answer the questions in the
text. This should be one paragraph.
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Demographic Data: Compile a range of demographic (population description) data
for your community by examining U.S. Census Bureau reports. Using this data,
describe yourcommunity. Compare your community data to state or national data.
A summary of this data should beno more than two paragraphs.
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Epidemiological Data: Compile and summarize a range of epidemiological (illness,
morbidity, and mortality) data for your community by examining data from
sources such as city or county health department reports, County Health
Rankings (countyhealthrankings.org), or the Centers for Disease Control to
describe priority health problems in your area. See the Webliography for
applicable sites to search. Compare your community to state or national data.
This comparison will help to identify a priority community health problem
specific to your community. A summary of this data should be no more than two
paragraphs.
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Windshield Survey: Provide a summary of your observationsfrom your first milestone. Make sure
to discuss observations related to your identified problem. This should
be one to two paragraphs.
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Problem Diagnosis:
o Using the assessment
data, identify one community health nursing problem that you consider to be a priority
concern.
o Relate your choice
to one of the Healthy People 2020specific numbered objectives (not just a goal). Healthy People objectives are located within a topic
area under the Objectives tab.
o Your rationale
should also include why this is a problem in your community and factors that
contribute to the problem. Avoid discussion of interventions in this milestone.
o Include a discussion
of your problem withinformation from at least two scholarly sources (such as
professional journal articles).(Review the documents in the APA category in Doc Sharing for
help in determining sources that are considered scholarly—hint, .com websites
are not considered scholarly sources).This should beno more than three
paragraphs.
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Summary:Summarize
your community assessment and diagnosis findings and include a brief statement
about the problemand the major factors that contribute to this problem. This
information should be no more than two paragraphs.
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Reference Page: All references should be cited within the paperand should be
included on the reference page.
Guidlines
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Application: Use
Microsoft Word 2010 (or later)to create this assignment.
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Use the categories above as APA headings for the sections of
your paper.
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Length: This paper is
expected to be no more than four pages in length (not including the title page and reference
list).
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Submission: Submit
your file via the basket in the Dropbox: Milestone 2 Assessment and Diagnosis,
by 11:59 p.m.MT Sunday of Week 4.
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Scholarly Writing: APA
format is required. Review APA documents in the APA categoryin Course
Resourcesand use the free resources of SmartThinking for writing tutors.
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Save your paper with
your last name in the document title (e.g., Smith Assessment and Diagnosis).
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Late Submission: See
the course policy on late submissions.
Best Practicesin Preparing the Paper
The following are best
practices in preparing this project.
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Complete the
demographic, epidemiologic, and windshield survey prior to choosing a problem
to focus on.
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Choose onenursing
problem specific to your community.
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Make sure all elements
of the paper are addressed and headings for each category are included.
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