HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Read the case story about how a Nurse Manager helps her staff become more culturally competent. 

http://support.mchtraining.net/national_ccce/case0/case.html

After reading the case story, click on the Learning Activities link on the left side. Complete Activities 1, 2, and 4. 

You may complete Activity 3 if you like, but it is not required.

In a paper:

1. Reflect upon what you learned after completing the Learning Activities.
   1. Your comments should show thoughtful reflection about how you have  assessed your own personal development as you strive for cultural  competence.
   2. Consider the following questions:
      1. After reading about Christy’s situation, how have your thoughts about and/or expectations of other cultures changed, if at all?
      2. What changed, if anything?
2. Describe how Christy can handle the situation better the next time she encounters a Romani patient.
3. Identify at least one thing an organization can do to improve cultural competence.

Assignment Expectations

Length: 3 pages (excluding the cover page and the reference list).

The role of the community health nurse is to increase public awareness and compliance in health promotion within the community (Green, 2018). The role of the community health nurse not only includes taking care of the sick within the community, but also being politically involved in healthcare reform policies that may affect the community and being an advocate for the members of the community that the nurse serves (Kulbok, Thatcher, Park, & Meszaros, 2012). Furthermore, the role of the community health nurse can be specialized for certain stakeholders. For example, the school nurse is a specialized type of community health nurse in which the community stakeholders are the school, parents, and students. The school nurse’s role would be to work with the school and the parents to promote a healthy environment both at the school and at home. The broad scope of the role of the community health nurse involved not only promoting individual and family health needs, but community health needs (Green, 2018). The community health nurse works with the community stakeholders to promote overall community wellness throughout the neighborhood and surrounding areas (Green, 2018). It is important to appraise community resources as part of a community assessment in order to execute a fully-developed plan of care when community health issues arise. Resources such as nonprofits and spiritual organizations be valuable assets and partners with the community health nurse (Green, 2018). Partnerships such as these serve not only for platforms of reform and support in the community (Green, 2018). For example, nonprofit resources such as a soup kitchen, can help to level the health disparities that are often present in diverse communities or communities with a lower socio-economic population (Green, 2018).

Resource:

Green, S. (2018). Populations as clients. In Grand Canyon University (Eds.). Community and Public Health: The Future of Healthcare. Retrieved from https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs427vn/community-and-public-health-the-future-of-health-care/v1.1/#/chapter/1

Kulbok, P.A., Thatcher, E., Park, E., Meszaros, P.S. (2012). Evolving public health nursing roles: Focus on community participatory health promotion and prevention. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 17(2). Doi:10.3912/OJIN.Vol17No02Man01

A healthy community can be described as one in which local groups from all parts of the community work together to prevent disease and make healthy living options accessible. It also helps to reduce health gaps caused by differences in income, education, race and ethnicity, location and other factors can affect health (CDC, 2015). The community nurse plays a significant part in promoting, preventing, and maintaining the health of the community by using her skills, knowledge and expertise, and experience in the delivery of care in public settings. Care within the community is focused on disease prevention and health promotion through education, screenings and vaccinations to prevent communicable diseases.

The stakeholders play an integral part in promoting the health of a community through the implementation of policies and availability of necessary resources. Stakeholders assist in community health promotion by reducing health gaps caused by differences in income, education and race, and encourages equality. They often make contributions in the form of cash, providing goods and services, events, spiritual and psychological support. The development and success of any community is determined/measured by the health of its members; hence it is important for all stakeholders to play their part (GCU, 2018) in making the dream a reality.

Appraising the community resources during the community assessment is very important as these meet the needs of the people. If there is a lack of resources in the community, then there will be a problem because the needs of the people won’t be met effectively. For example, a church in a community helps in meeting the spiritual needs of the members by providing counselling and emotional support, prayer and worship service.

References

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015). A healthy community is a prepared community. Retrieved from https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2015/09/a-healthy-community-is-a-prepared-community/

Grand Canyon University (Ed). (2018). Community & public health: The future of health care. Retrieved from https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs427vn/community-and-public-health-the-future-of-health-care/v1.1/

Teaching is a collaborative discipline. Exposure to other faculty’s experiences and strategies helps us to refine our own practice. What unique skills and expertise do you possess that can help you effectively mentor your colleagues? What areas of your own performance as a nurse educator do you hope to improve through being mentored by colleagues? In 400-500. 2-3 references.

C. T. a 48-year-old male patient presents for a checkup.  He admits it has been 4 years since he has been seen by a medical professional and at that time was diagnosed with an upper respiratory illness. He did have his blood pressure takin a year ago at his employer’s health fair and was told it was a “little high”.

He has had no major illness or chronic diseases. He has no known allergies and does not take any regular medication.

His family history shows that is father died of a heart attack at age 68, his mother is alive and well at age 72, he has a 50-year-old brother with depression and alcoholism, and one son who is healthy at age 24. He did have a maternal uncle with prostate cancer.

On review of systems, he has occasional headaches, experiences shortness of breath when he walks upstairs, and gets up once a night to urinate.

• What should the major objectives of this health maintenance visit be?
• What conditions, risk factors, and health related behaviors should be screened for during this visit?
• What are the common causes of morbidity and mortality for 48-year-old men in the United States?

Read and respond to two of your peers posts. Compare and contrast your responses with theirs and discuss different perspectives.

Use correct APA formatting and in text citations to support your responses.

In this module, we reviewed different types of information technology systems used in healthcare. While using information technology systems in healthcare is advantageous, having too many could be problematic. Select two challenges that could result from having too many systems and discuss impact on both the organization and also on care outcome and patients.