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Assignment

In at least 500 – 600 words for part A & B;

1. Identify a Community Health Assessment Model. (This document from the CDC lists commonly used community assessment models: https://www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth/cha/assessment.html ) What are some benefits of using a specific model to assess a community? What agencies should be included with the assessment? What is a reasonable time frame in which to complete a community wide assessment? What is the role of the public nurse in implementation of the chosen model?

1. Please review the course objectives (as stated in the syllabus). Please write a self-evaluation of your learning in the course and how you have personally met each of the stated course objectives.

Course Learning Objectives

1. Examine nursing roles that meet the emerging health needs of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

2. Explore historical, legal, social, cultural, political, and economic forces that influence the client, nursing practice, and the health care system.

3. Evaluate strategies that can be used by public and community health nurses to improve the health status and eliminate health disparities of vulnerable populations.

4. Predict trends in lifestyles that will affect the health of communities and the future challenges for nursing.

5. Plan, analyze, implement, and evaluate public health surveillance and outbreak investigation

6. Develop strategies to deliver nursing care in the preparedness, response, and recovery phases of disaster management

Course Structure

1: Ageing Bias

2: Life Review and Ego Integrity

3: Disaster Management and the Role of the Community Health Nurse

4: Epidemiology 5: School Health and STDs

6: LGBT

7: Community Assessment