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Discussion Post: Health Promotion, Risk Reduction, and Community Assessment
Module Overview
You will study risk reduction in population health and community assessment. You will complete course activities related to the process of completing a community assessment. A community assessment helps the nurse to:
A. Identify the needs of a community,
B. Clarify and prioritize problems, and
C. Know what community strengths and resources are available to help solve those problems.
D. Promote entry-level competencies in practicing public health nursing at the systems and community levels of nursing practice
Overall Topics
A. Health Promotion
B. Risk Reduction
C. Community Assessment
Module Learning Objectives
A. Analyze the importance of risk reduction in population health.
B. Examine the process and purpose of a community assessment.
C. Identify the key components in a community assessment.
D. During this course, complete and document a community assessment.
Task:
Read the article - Caring in the Margins by Enestvedt et al. (2018). The article discusses essential skills in transcultural nursing around issues of equity and social justice. Consider 'aha' takeaways while/after you read the article. The synthesis and application post focuses on getting you to think a bit deeper on this topic, specific to your own profession and public health nursing. There are three questions for you to answer:
Question A. Consider your own profession. What do you see as opportunities for adopting pieces of what you read in this article within your current professions and/in public health nursing?
Question B. Consider your own profession. Are there pieces of what you read in this article that you are struggling with and/or feel are not a fit regarding your profession and/or in public health nursing?
Question C. What is something you want to know more about, as it relates to this article?