Question 1

Discuss the differences in approach based on inductive versus deductive reasoning. Describe how you would build and test theory in your practice area. Provide examples and literature support. 

  

Question 2 

Select a nursing model or theory described in the textbook. What are the key concepts and components of the example you selected, and how are they defined? Create an example describing the application to an area of nursing practice. Provide examples and literature support.

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.

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.

Part #1:

You are the community nurse working for a disability program that focuses on persons with physical disabilities including use of assistive devices, oxygen, and complex medication regimes.  The organization asks you to plan for a disaster like a tornado or hurricane so that the clients can maintain their current plans of care.  What specifics would you need to address including shelters, obtaining needed equipment & medications, and assistive devices?  What resources currently exist in your community for these individuals?  How would you organize the plans and communicate them?  What community partners are needed for success?  How would you evaluate the results?

Part #2:

Read the Application to Practice on page 923. Answer the questions presented in the scenario. Additionally, what specific resources are available here in SWFL or your area of practice for situations like this? How could you access them? What other options are there? How would you enhance resources based on need for telehealth and physical distancing?  What roles can the community health nurse play in caring for elderly in the community?  How would you evaluate the initiatives you undertake for this group of persons?

Discussion #3:

You are sent to a school to fill in for the nurse who is not working because of risk for SARS- COV2 disease. The school hires you on a part-time basis, twice weekly for the school year. You are the only nurse for 800 students ages 5 – 12. The school building is old but well kept. The school administrators are supportive and receptive to new ideas. The school does receive federal funding for childhood nutrition. There is a local hospital clinic that works with the school. With SARS-COV2, students must their lunches and eat in their classrooms. No health-related programs are in place for the school’s faculty and staff. With SARS-COV2 pandemic, you are tasked with developing a program and actions to prevent spread of infections within the school.

Be specific in your answers with concrete examples within your scope of practice and abilities in this position.

1. Review the Healthy People 2030 objectives for school health and other relevant topics.
2. Identify and prioritize the top 3 needs of this school within the scope of public health and school nurse practice related to SARS-COV2 prevention and mitigation of spread.
3. What roles must the school nurse play at this school? Who could be the nurse’s partners and stakeholders in meeting health needs in the school?
4. What specific recommendations or programs could you recommend from the Community, system and individual/family levels? Examples are but not limited to use of masks, physical distance, barriers, immunizations potentially for this disease and current state mandated plus influenza for students and staff.
5. How would you evaluate your proposed initiative/ program outcomes?