DQ1 How should you respond if your health promotion values conflict with a client’s values?   DQ2 What ethical issue have you recently encountered when teaching health promotion strategies to a patient? What ethical decision-making process did you use?

What are the responsibilities of community and public health nurses in promoting health and decreasing illness and injury in populations, families, and individuals? Provide specific examples from your community.

Identify at least two changes that have occurred in your local community within the past few years that may contribute to emerging infectious diseases. Why do you think these changes are beneficial or not?

You have heard a lot about President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.   A) What are the major milestones that represent the health care reform act?   B) Explain how this act helps to deliver better health care services.   C) Explain the reasons why this act has been considered a long and […]

Analyze the roots of public health nursing and its influence on practice today. What significant changes or historical events have made public health what it is today?

DQ1 This discussion prompt refers to the Pathways to Safer Opioid Use simulation. After participating in the Pathways to Safer Opioid Use simulation exercise, reflect on the following.   Have you empowered a patient to believe they could make needed lifestyle modifications irrespective of the barriers that exist in their environment? Please provide examples. If […]

Ethical Health Promotion Paper Find a scholarly, peer-reviewed article no more than four years old that discusses an ethical health promotion-related issue. Use the WCU library databases to search for appropriate articles.   In your paper:   Briefly summarize the presented issue.   Describe your thoughts on the role health care professionals should play in […]

Global Health Risk Paper Choose a global health issue. For this assignment, you will introduce the health issue and discuss the interventions necessary to prevent the issue and promote health.   Some topics to consider may include:   Anthrax   Bioterrorism   Cholera   Clostridium botulinum infection   Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus   Ebola virus disease […]

Adolescent Health Risk Seminar   For this assignment, you will develop and deliver a 10–15 minute seminar/workshop aimed at the teen or young adult audience on a specific health risk associated with the population. You will submit your presentation using the Panopto recording tool within Blackboard.   * If you predominantly work with a specific […]

Disease Analysis Paper For this assignment, you will select a disease of your choice and conduct a detailed analysis of that disease, exploring it from a balanced traditional and alternative health perspective.   Begin by searching the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website Diseases and Conditions Index to choose a disease or condition of interest […]