Nr443 week 3 discussion - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. Choose one of the following population health problems to focus on: a. Substance use and/or abuse b. Environmental health (air, water, ground, energy, climate, etc.) i. c. Violence d. Abuse 2. Research and share an overview of the current data on this population health problem specific to your community. You must use one (or more) of the resources from the Direct Care Project Part 1: Assessment and Diagnosis assignment. The Webliography (link) also has many resources. You may choose to ...

Week 3: Social Media Discussion: population Health Problems Problems that impact populations are vast and now more than ever social media is getting involved. 1. Choose one of the following population health problems to focus on: a. Substance use and/or abuse b. Environmental health (air, water, ground, energy, climate, etc.) i. c. Violence d. Abuse 2. Research and share an overview of the current data on this population health problem specific to your community. You must use one (or mor...

Week 3: DQ Resources Assurance is one of the three core functions of public health. Knowing what resources are available is part of this function. Find a resource in your community that could be used as a referral source and share information about the services provided. Who is eligible for the services? What could be done in order to improve the accessibility, acceptability, affordability, or availability of this resource in your community? Make sure to address all four of the A's in your pos...

NR443 Week 4 the setting and role of the Community Health Nurse 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, re...

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 4 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 the use/abuse of drugs, alcoho...

NR443 Week 4 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 the use/abuse of drugs, alcoho...

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 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...