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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 ...

NR447 Week 8 Discussion Question, Closing the Loop 1. Compare your scores from Week 2 to Week 8. My score from week 2 was 46 and week 8 was 53. This course has assisted me in improvement in several areas but mostly in the leadership area. It has enhanced the qualities that I have as a leader and afforded me with the knowledge to apply the concepts, skills, decision making, communication skills that are essential to becoming a successful leader. 2. Describe how far have you come and how mu...

Week 7: Our Future Leaders 1 1 unread reply. 22 22 replies. In Huston’s (2010) brief, but impressive article (required reading this week), the author outlines several leadership competencies that EVERY nurse leader will need for 2020. That year is not too far in the future, is it? 1. Select one of the eight leadership competencies Huston described and relate it to your own leadership of nurses and nursing. This should promote a robust discussion as we come from different clinical and noncl...

NR_447 Week 6 Discussion Question, Civility in the Workplace Reflect on what you observed in the video as you answer the following: 1. Based on what you observed, what leadership skills should you, as Masaya’s preceptor, model for your fellow coworkers to promote his acceptance into the work-group or team. 2. Does incivility seem to be an issue in the scenario? 3. Describe any common themes you discovered among the article, the video and the Civility Index 4. Share how you may improve you...

NR_447 Week 5 Discussion Question, Patient Outcomes (Two Responses) Patient outcomes are a result of an action or actions. As a nurse, we are to educate and guide our patients to favorable outcomes. I have chosen the area of total knee replacement as I have been through this twice in the past 6 months with my mother-in-love (MIL). It is imperative as a professional nurse that we provide education of the procedure and what to expect prior to their hospital admission. Having a pre-operative e...

Week 4: Transformational Nursing Leaders This week's graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO). • CO7 Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3) Review Appendix A, Sections I–V in Finkelman (2016). 1. Select one of the sections and share how your chief nurse executive demonstrates expertise in the...

NR447 Week 3 Discussion Question, Conflict and Collaboration After watching the video and listening to the audio this is a very realistic scenario. My first job as a nurse was doing homecare in a not so safe neighborhood, its very scary and makes one apprehensive about going to work every day. 1 .Explain the conflict resolution skills displayed by the leader in the scenario.On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate those of the leader. On a scale of 1-10 I would rate the leader a 7. She ...

NR 447 Week 2 Discussion Question, AACN Essentials Self-Assessment and Patient-Centered Care After you have completed your self-assessment, answer the following questions: 1. If you are willing, please share your total score on the AACN Essentials Self-Assessment. If you do not wish to share your score, give a general description of your current KSA levels. 2. Candidly identify and share with your classmates areas where knowledge, skills or abilities (KSAs) are lacking? 3. Describe the relat...

NR 447 Week 1 Discussion Question, The Affordable Care Act Healthcare reform is a term that is ever present in our practice settings and will not disappear any time soon. 1. Share with the class implementation of the Affordable Care Act in your organization. (If you are not working as a nurse, think about what was happening when you were a prelicensure student). 2. How did your fellow healthcare workers react to implementation of the ACA? 3. How were citizens in your community impacted? T...