Nr443 discussion - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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...

NR443 Week 6 Discussion, Environmental Health

NR443 Week 8 Discussion, Future Directions

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...

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 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 8 Discussion, Future Directions • What future concerns are likely to impact public health? • How do you see global health concerns impacting your community? • Identify one way that you can implement population health in your community or workplace. Hello Professor and class, The biggest challenge is the continued failure of decision-makers to reach a consensus on how to address the major health care problems facing the country. Historically, disparities in access to hea...