Public Health Nursing Present, Past, and Future
As a public health nurse at a free clinic, you are assessing and interviewing a 21-year-old woman who has come to the clinic because she doesn’t have any energy and hasn’t felt good in weeks. During the interview, you learn that she averages one meal per day, smokes up to two packs of cigarettes per day, and rummages through trash to find items she can sell to purchase food, snacks, and cigarettes. She admits to using street drugs every once in a while when she can find someone who will share with her. She admits her life is a mess and she doesn’t know how to make it better.
 
What data can you gather based on available client information?
 
What questions should you ask yourself while interviewing this client?
 
During planning, how can you, as the nurse, best assist this client?
 
What are the potential strategies that would assist the client to a “better” life?
 
Your paper should be 2 pages in length, in APA format, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font, and double-spaced with 1” margins. If outside sources are used, they must be cited appropriately.
 
 
 
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Week 4 Assignment  
 
HRSA Data Warehouse Website Activity and Reflection
 
Complete the HRSA Data Warehouse Website Activity.
 
Read about the HRSA Data website and what it does here: https://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/about/abouthdw.aspx
 
Explore the rest of the tabs on the site.
 
Watch the “How-To Video: Find a Health Center Locator Tool” tutorial found at the following link: https://data.hrsa.gov/how-to-videos
 
Explore some data by selecting Clark County, Nevada using the Data by Geography tool here: https://data.hrsa.gov/hdw/tools/DataByGeography.aspx
 
Next use the HRSA Fact Sheets tool located here: https://data.hrsa.gov/data/fact-sheets to look up HRSA’s activities in HHS regions, states, counties, and congressional districts and compare the data to the Clark County, Nevada data you found using your geography results. Analyze the data included in the fact sheets. Consider the data sets found in the fact sheets. How does Nevada compare nationwide when it comes to the data sets? What about Clark County?
 
Complete a new search using the Data for Geography tool for your state and county. Compare the results of your query to your Clark County, Nevada search.
 
Identify HRSA program resources for HIV/AIDS in your state and county. What are they? How many clinics are funded by HRSA?
 
Write a two-page paper reflecting on the data you collected and analyzed. How will this data warehouse be useful to you as a professional nurse? Your paper should be at least two pages in length, in APA format, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font, and double-spaced with 1” margins.
 
 
 
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Week 6 Assignment  
 
Intimate Partner Violence/Substance Abuse Project
 
Develop an informational video or handout on intimate partner violence or substance abuse.
 
Choice 1
 
Create a 3-minute video clip that includes information on prevention, treatment, and available resources.
 
OR
 
Choice 2
 
Create a trifold educational flier for any of the issues discussed in this week’s readings.
 
For either format that you choose, you must include a reference page with at least three citations using resources that are less than five years old.
 
Consider the following information when pulling your research together:
 
Summarize the models of care that have evolved in caring for victims of intentional violence.
 
Describe the impact of substance abuse and addiction on individual people and their families, communities, and nations.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Week 8 Assignment  
 
Case Study: Environmental Health
 
Review the following case study and complete the questions that follow. Submit your completed document to Blackboard using the assignment link.
 
As a nurse practicing within a family practice, you are interviewing a 55-year-old woman who is an executive assistant at a local law firm, where she has worked for 9 years. She has a 7-year history of respiratory illness, which occurs several times throughout the year, not seemingly connected to the changes in season. She does not use tobacco products in any form. During your questions regarding her home and work environments, she reports that she enjoys working adjacent to the courthouse in a building over 100 years old because it is such a contrast to her brand-new home on a local golf course. When describing the health of her coworkers, she indicates, “We all share illnesses, which seem to affect everyone else during the year; we just seem to be sicker more often!”
 
What information is pertinent to your client’s case?
 
How would you assess your client’s risk?
 
What would be an exposure pathway for your client?
 
Your document should be 1-2 pages in length, in APA format, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font, double-spaced with 1” margins, and include at least two citations using references less than five years old.