NR 443 Week 8 Graded Discussion Topic: Future Directions. CO9: Examine future trends in community health nursing, including the impact of information systems and evidence-based practice. (PO8) Review this week’s lesson and assigned reading on the nurses’ role in population health, and reflect on what you have learned in this course. Address the following questions. What future concerns are likely to impact public health? How do you see global health concerns impacting your community? ...

NR 443 Week 7 Graded Discussion Topic: Healthcare Policy

NR 443 Week 6 Assignment: SBIRT Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Presentation

NR 443 Week 5 Graded Discussion Topic: Disaster Preparedness. CO3: Plan prevention and population-focused interventions for vulnerable populations using professional clinical judgment and evidence-based practice. (POs 4 and 8) CO6: Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO2) Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health n...

NR 443 Week 4 Assignment: Community Settings and Community Health Nursing Roles.

NR 443 Week 3 Graded Discussion Topic: Caring for Vulnerable Populations.

NR 443 Week 2 Graded Discussion Topic: Demographic and Epidemiologic Assessment. CO2: Assess the health needs of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities using demographic and epidemiological data to identify population health risks. (PO4) 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 pri...

NR 443 Week 2 Assignment: Community Windshield Survey Form

NR 443 Week 1 Graded Discussion Topic: Determinants of Health. Purpose This week’s graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO). CO 1: Apply principles of nursing theory to the public health system by analyzing determinants of health and the public health intervention wheel. (PO 1) The Assignment What are some factors that make some people healthy and others ill? Healthy People 2020 identifies five determinants of health that influence the health of individuals and populations....

NR 443 Week 1 Discussion, Determination of Health Go to the Determinants of Health link at Choose one of the five determinants other than individual behavior (as we are all aware of how individual behavior impacts health). In your post, describe this determinant and its importance. Discuss how a community health nurse (CHN) could use one of the 17 intervention categories from the Public Health Intervention Wheel to address this determinant (Nies& McEwen, 2015). U.S. Department of Health and Hu...