Discussion 1
Click here to watch Rebecca Onie: What if our healthcare system kept us healthy?
· What role does your facility play in keeping people healthy? Would the Health Leads program work in your facility? Why or why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoRUrWcdkQ4
Discussion Prompt #2
· How do the nutrition and fitness goals in Healthy People 2010 compare to those in Healthy People 2020?
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After reviewing the powerpoint consider the following questions:
How does culture affect your health decisions?
What about your friends and family?
Have you started making healthier decisions?
What can you do to continue changing your health behavior to live a long and healthy life?
What advice or recommendations would you give you someone looking to making healthier life choices?
The environment in a neighborhood and surrounding community has a profound impact on individuals’ lifespan and health. Disease prevention and health promotion usually aim at keeping individuals healthy. Health promotion involves empowering and engaging communities to change to healthy behaviors. Health promotion programs typically make changes that reduce people’s risks of developing various morbidities such as chronic diseases. Health promotion usually enables people to have better control over their health. This promotion covers multiple environmental and social interventions designed to protect and benefit a person’s quality of life and health by preventing bad health’s root causes and centering on cure and treatment (Raphael et al., 2006). Disease prevention varies from health promotion since it involves specific efforts to minimize the severity and development of chronic disease among other morbidities. Disease prevention and health promotion get related to wellness.
Health promotion is defined as protecting and improving the public’s health. Health promotion can get achieved by planned activities and programs that aim to enhance a population’s health outcomes. This promotion usually enables a community to reduce their risks of disability and disease while making healthier choices. At the population level, health promotion and disease prevention can enhance the quality of life while eliminating health disparities and improving healthcare and related services availability and accessibility. Health professionals can implement various health promotion activities that address different social determinants that impact modifiable risk behaviors (Stanhope et al., 2019). Social factors include the political, economic, and cultural conditions in which a person gets born, grows, and lives that impact one’s health status. Through focusing on preventive measures, health promotion usually minimizes the costs in human and financial terms that families, employers, individuals, communities, insurance companies, the state, medical facilities, and the national government would spend during medical treatment procedures.
Actions on health social determinants can get implemented at community, practice, and patient levels. Health professionals can support patients facing social challenges better through enquiring about an individual’s social history. These professionals can offer people at risk with advice and, in severe cases, refer them to local support services. Additionally, health professionals can also facilitate access to various health services and even stand-in as reliable resources. People usually encounter varying disadvantage types that are not obvious through patient observation. Enquiring about challenges facing a patient in a caring way is vital since it has been proven that empathy and compassion make patients more open about their concerns and symptoms, allowing for more accurate diagnoses and enhanced care. A health professional in a community can also refer patients and help them access support services and benefits (Raphael et al., 2006). Once a patient social issue gets identified, a professional can initiate social prescribing. Social prescribing involves connecting people with available support resources beyond and within the system. Health professionals can also advocate for patients even after referral. This backing can be through writing letters on behalf of a patient to support resources.
In conclusion, various community, patient, and practice level actions that health professionals can utilize to promote population and community health. Practice level interventions can prove vital in promoting population and community health. Professionals can enhance the quality of care and access to services for a patient group in remote areas. For instance, patients can get provided with child care services and bus fare that allow them to attend doctor appointments (Stanhope et al., 2019). Further, patient language preferences can get recorded while practitioners’ language skills are identified and provide interpretation services. Health professionals undoubtedly have a vital role to play in promoting the health of a population and communities.
References
Raphael, D., & Bryant, T. (2006). The state’s role in promoting population health: Public health concerns in Canada, USA, UK, and Sweden. Health policy, 78(1), 39-55.
Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2019). Public health nursing e-book: Population-centered health care in the community. Elsevier Health Sciences.
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Please answer the following Discussion Question. Please be certain to answer the four questions on this week DQ and to provide a well-developed and complete answer to receive credit. Also, please ensure to have read the assigned chapters for the current week.
Case Study, Chapter 21, Health Care Reform: The Dismantling of the Affordable Care ActAs we entered 2018, millions of Americansstill relied onAffordable Care Act(ACA) subsidies, health premiums were soaring, and provider choice was more limited than ever.There was, however, momentum for reform. Health care was identified as the country’s leading priority for Democrats (54%) and the second highest priority for Republicans (42%) at the close of 2017. A group of registered nurses debate the issue of health care reform
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1. The nurses debate whether the country feels that health care reform is really necessary. Discuss reasons why reform is needed and what that reform should address.
2. What were the 10 essential benefits guaranteed by insurance plans in the ACA Health Care Marketplace?
3. What are the successes of the ACA?
4. What are the failures of the ACA?
find a med-surg nurse to make an interview by asking those questions and.
Begin reviewing and replying to peer postings/responses early in the week to enhance peer discussion. See the rubric for participation points. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing viewpoints with a rationale, challenging aspects of the discussion, or indicating relationships between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress.
Peer 1
Topic 1: Health Promotion: Using one of the health issues identified for your community, discuss health promotion areas at two of the three levels primary, secondary, or tertiary promotion.
For the public health nurse and the overall public health well-being it is important to use the three levels of health prevention to care for a community. The three levels of health prevention are primary, secondary and tertiary. Each health problem or potential problem can be broken down into these levels for appropriate implementation of interventions. Primary prevention promotes health and protects against threats to health, secondary prevention detects and treats health problems, and tertiary prevention limits the further negative effects of a health problem (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2020).
In 2019, heart disease was the second leading cause of mortality in my local community (Georgia Department of Public Health, 2019). For my local community, primary prevention interventions could include counseling on smoking cessation, teaching on a healthy heart diet and teaching on the importance of physical activity. Secondary prevention interventions could include teaching medication compliance, obtaining cholesterol screening, obtaining blood pressure screening and BMI screening. Tertiary prevention interventions could include establishing a community-based clinic to facilitate monitoring and treatment of individuals who are diagnosed with heart disease to prevent further heart function decline.
Reference:
Georgia Department of Public Health [DPH]. (2019). Retrieved from: https://oasis.state.ga.us/gis/TrendableMaps/agsBirthTrend.aspx
Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2020). Public health nursing: Population-centered health care in the community (10 th ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/https://digitalbookshelf.southuniversity.edu/#/books/9780323582247
Peer 2
One of the health issues that I have identified in my community is Diabetes and the two levels of prevention I looked at were primary and secondary. As far a primary prevention it was believed at one point that type 2 diabetes was attributed to genetics and environmental factors. But after much research, it can be prevented through diet and lifestyle modifications. Maintaining a healthy weight and avoiding excessive weight gain is essential to diabetes prevention. Overall a healthy diet, increasing physical activity, avoiding a sedentary lifestyle, moderate alcohol consumption, and avoiding smoking can prevent diabetes.
Secondary preventions focus on screening and testing. It is important for good glycemic control, this means getting your HGA1C checked. A person needs to have good lipid control, that means checking lab work and giving patient statins or other medication if necessary. Another preventive measure is blood pressure control and treatment of hypertension. Regular eye doctor visits are essential in order to prevent retinopathy. Also, aspirin use, regular dental care, regular foot care, weight reduction, smoking cessation, and vaccination are preventive measures as well.
References
Diabetes mellitus type 2 secondary prevention. (2020, October 23). Retrieved November 05, 2020, from https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Diabetes_mellitus_type_2_secondary_prevention
Schulze, M. B., & Hu, F. B. (2005). Primary prevention of diabetes: what can be done and how much can be prevented?. Annual review of public health, 26, 445–467. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.26.021304.144532
Final Retrospective Research Proposal
Must submit the Retrospective Records Review Research Proposal in (Word Doc) and create a data collection sheet (Excel) showing the variables you would be collecting. ( find excel sample online)
*Reminder* You are not collecting any data, you are not reviewing patient information. You are creating a proposal as if you were submitting it to an Institutional Review Board.
Find any data online to collect information to match the criteria from the sample attached to this assignment.
This is a nursing-related assignment
Must cite any sources
Must answer all questions.
Must follow the sample to answer all questions.
Plagiarism free, APA format. Please do not have it turniti
Dissemination of EBP and research, such as presenting results at a conference or writing an article for a journal, is an important part of professional practice. Identify one professional journal and one nursing or health care conference where you might present your project. Discuss why each of your choices is the best option for you to disseminate your new knowledge.
Integrating Evidence-Based Practice
Write a 1000-1500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. There should be two main sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with (2) sources (1 outside source and the textbook) using citations in your essay. Make sure to cite using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page in correct APA do not count towards the minimum word amount. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.
Part 1:
Describe the eight steps to integrating evidence-based practice into the clinical environment. What barriers might you face in implementing a new practice to address your research topic (as identified in Module 1)? Describe strategies that could be used to increase success including overcoming barriers.
Part 2:
Describe six sources of internal evidence that could be used in providing data to demonstrate improvement in outcomes.
Assignment Expectations:
Length: 1000 – 1500 words
Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.
References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of one (1) scholarly source and the textbook are required for this assignment.
