Ask a peer an open-ended question about their described system.

09 Jun Ask a peer an open-ended question about their described system.

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NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 1 Discussion

Introductions and Chosen Community

Instructions:

Introduce yourself and tell us about where you work

Give an Overview of the community where you live.

Provide examples of the 3 levels of prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary as defined by the material in Unit 1 Topic 2) that you see in your community.

This topic is valued at 20 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Peer Response: Unit 1, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Introductions and Chosen Community

Please respond to a minimum of 2 peers. Include the following in your response:

Discuss a commonality between yourself and your peer or something about them that you find interesting.

Comment on one of the examples of the levels of prevention your peer offered, and whether or not your community has a similar example.

Discuss the benefits or potential threats of the example in your community.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 2 Discussion

Community Health Nursing

Instructions:

Please review one of the following scenarios for your initial discussion post:

Scenario 1: Aging Population

Sousa County is a rural county located near three cities. Demographic profile estimates for Sousa County are close to the trends of state and national percentages. One difference of note is that the percentage of residents older than 65 years of age is higher in Sousa County than are the state’s percentages. Sousa County’s crude death rate is higher than the rates for the state and the nation; this may be attributable to the large number of senior citizens who reside in the county. Each Fall, 10% of the residents over 65 develop symptoms of the Flu. Of those 10%, 25% need hospitalization and 5% die.

Scenario 2: Homelessness

The community of Finnytown has identified the need for a shelter to serve homeless women and children. Finnytown currently has a homeless shelter for men. Women and children can obtain health care services there but are not allowed to stay overnight. The Finnytown health care task force performed a community assessment that revealed that a higher number of homeless men than women reside in Finnytown, but the percentage of homeless women is steadily increasing. Results further showed that more women with children than men are living in poverty. The task force speculated that many women who are living in poverty are being overlooked and thus are becoming women without homes.bei

Scenario 3: Migrant Workers

Bogg County is a rural area whose residents rely on farming for income. The most popular crop in Bogg County is tobacco, a very labor-intensive plant. To save money, many farmers employ Hispanic migrant farmworkers who come to the county looking for work. Migrant farmworkers are cheaper to employ than other farmworkers because many of them are illegal immigrants who cannot afford to complain about the low wages.

Scenario 4: Adolescent Health

Glenda R. is a parish nurse for Holy Cross Catholic Church. The church’s youth group teacher has overheard several of the 13- and 14-year-old teenagers talking about dating and sexual behaviors. The community, which includes the church, has seen a recent rise in unprotected sexual activity among adolescents.

Then complete the following steps for your discussion post:

Identify which scenario you have chosen to use for this post.

Identify a potential public health issue based on your chosen scenario.

Provide a written explanation of why it would be difficult to solve the presented problem at the individual level.

Discuss a problem you have identified in your community and how you might use community nursing rather than clinical nursing practices to address it.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Peer Response: Unit 2, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Community Health Nursing

Please respond to a minimum of 2 peers. Include at least 2 of the following in your response:

Ask a peer an open-ended question about their described problem (based on their chosen scenario).

Compare your explanation of why it would be difficult to solve the presented problem at the individual level to theirs.

Comment on the problem in their community.

Evaluate their plan to use community nursing rather than clinical nursing practices to address the problem identified.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 3 Discussion

Community Systems

In this unit, you are learning about community systems and how they can affect community health. For this discussion, you are asked to select one of the systems presented in Unit 3 Topic 3 and discuss it in terms of strengths and weaknesses.

Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response.

Choose one of the following systems in your community:

Safety and Transportation

Economics

Education

Recreation

Communications

Physical environment (natural or built)

Identify strengths and weaknesses in the system you have chosen.

Discuss how the system contributes to or fails to contribute to a healthy community.

Using the literature, describe how the system can be improved.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Community Systems

Please respond to a minimum of 2 peers. Include at least 2 of the following in your response:

Ask a peer an open-ended question about their described system.

Contrast the strengths and weaknesses they noted in the system in their community to those of the same system in yours.

Comment on their description of how the system can be improved.

Discuss how that same system contributes to or fails to contribute to your community’s health.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 4 Discussion

Community Health Issues

In this unit, you are learning about health issues that may affect your community. Your community may already be addressing some of those issues. For this discussion, you are asked to select one of the issues presented in the unit that has been addressed in your community.

Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response.

Select one of the following topics:

Children’s immunization

Adolescents’ risk-taking behaviors

Mental Health and/or homelessness

Migrant health

Substance abuse

Domestic violence

Describe how the issue is currently being addressed in your community.

Using the literature, describe one other approach to handling the identified issue.

Be sure to include whether the chosen approach represents a primary, secondary, or tertiary level of prevention.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Peer Response: Unit 4, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Community Health Issues

Please respond to a minimum of 2 peers. Include at least 2 of the following in your responses:

Ask a peer an open-ended question about the topic they have chosen and how it has been addressed in their community

Discuss what is currently being done in your community related to that topic.

Comment on whether the alternative approach suggested would work in your community. Why or why not?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 5 Discussion

Partnerships

You have formed partnerships during your clinical experience. For this discussion question, you are asked to evaluate one of the partnerships formed.

Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response.

Discuss a partnership from your clinical experience

How was the partnership was formed

Who are the Key stakeholders

What is the Mission of the partnership?

Considering the literature, what could be done to strengthen the partnership

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Partnerships

Please respond to a minimum of 2 peers. Include at least 2 of the following in your responses:

Ask a peer an open-ended question about their described partnership.

Compare your partnership to your peers’ partnerships – discuss how are they similar and how they are different.

Comment on their suggestion of how to strengthen the partnership.

Describe how you could use your peers’ suggestion to strengthen your own partnerships.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

NU474 Community Health Nursing

Unit 6 Discussion

Community Interventions

The determination of the appropriate intervention, given the assessment and diagnosis of community issues, is critical. The PHN works with the community stakeholders to select an intervention specifically targeted at one of the issues identified.