Competency

Analyze communicable diseases and their potential impact on public health.

Scenario

Your supervisor has asked each public health nurse to research a different communicable disease and prepare a communication document about the disease. These communication documents will be used to support your department in better understanding the public health issues, the potential consequences to the population, and the actions that public health nurses can take to educate and provide services for the population.As the senior public health nurse in your department, your supervisor has requested that you select your communicable disease to research first and then they will assign your coworkers their communicable disease topic.

Instructions

Part One – Select one communicable disease from the list below, and research the communicable disease:

• Vaccination rates of children and any outbreaks
• Rates of influenza among those over 65
• Rising rates of new HIV rates of infection.
• High immigrant community and concern about Ebola, Zika, or SARS
• New cases of acute flaccid myelitisRising rates of sexually transmitted diseases
• Salmonella outbreak
• Rising rates of hepatitis

Part Two – Prepare a communication document that:

• Explains the selected communicable disease’s impact or potential impact on public health.
• Analyzes data using correct epidemiologic terminology on the communicable disease (from the surveillance sources’ websites provided below).
• Explains the potential impact on the population if this communicable disease is not addressed, with a focus on the social impact and the emotional distress to the community.
• Examines nursing interventions that have been proven effective in similar communities.
• Details the action steps that can be taken by public health nurses to prevent and control the communicable disease, including education strategies.
• Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the communication document.

Reflect on your clinical skill practice (in the clinical setting and/or for required videos) by writing your response to the following prompts:

• Describe your experience with physical assessment over the first half of this course. (What components of the exam have you completed?  Completed head and neck assessment, abdomenal assessment. With what aspects of assessment are you most familiar and confident? With what aspects of assessment are you least familiar and confident? What experience have you had with pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients?)
• Share the most exciting aspect of your skill practice to this point.
• Share the aspect of assessment you have found to be most challenging.
• How have your learning experiences in this course affected your current nursing role? My nursing role – pediatric nurse supervisor.
• What steps will you take to overcome challenges, and increase proficiency and efficiency in your performance?

Understanding family structure and style is essential to patient and family care. Conducting a family interview and needs assessment gathers information to identify strengths, as well as potential barriers to health. This information ultimately helps develop family-centered strategies for support and guidance.

This family health assessment is a two-part assignment. The information you gather in this initial assignment will be utilized for the second assignment in Topic 3.

Develop an interview questionnaire to be used in a family-focused functional assessment. The questionnaire must include three open-ended, family-focused questions to assess functional health patterns for each of the following:

1. Values/Health Perception
2. Nutrition
3. Sleep/Rest
4. Elimination
5. Activity/Exercise
6. Cognitive
7. Sensory-Perception
8. Self-Perception
9. Role Relationship
10. Sexuality
11. Coping

Select a family, other than your own, and seek permission from the family to conduct an interview. Utilize the interview questions complied in your interview questionnaire to conduct a family-focused functional assessment. Document the responses as you conduct the interview.

Upon completion of the interview, write a 750-1,000-word paper. Analyze your assessment findings. Submit your questionnaire as an appendix with your assignment.

Include the following in your paper:

1. Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining the family composition, race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment.
2. Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the family.
3. Based on your findings, describe at least two of the functional health pattern strengths noted in the findings. Discuss three areas in which health problems or barriers to health were identified.
4. Describe how family systems theory can be applied to solicit changes in family members that, in turn, initiate positive changes to the overall family functions over time.

Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance

Please review the website I had you all read for Wednesday. Here is the link: https://www.npaf.org/patients-and-caregivers/skilled-communications/ 

Please address the following questions: 

1. How is information communicated on this website? 

2. How are aspects of PCC (from the perspective of providers and patients) reflected within this website. Please relate it to course material. 

3. Please discuss how effective the resources on this website are and report/reflect on what stuck out the most to you and why. 

Discussion Board Week 8

Choose a health care-related topic that would be best studied using a SURVEY.  Do not administer this survey to anyone, please. We are not using an IRB – so no surveying, please. Write a 3 question questionnaire.State whether your survey is qualitative or quantitative.State: What type of study participants would you look for? 

Identify where/how you could find these participants.

Discuss any barriers you think you might find in carrying out your survey if you were to do it. 

Requirements:  One original post (150+ words) and two reply posts (150+ words each).