Nursing health determinants

Nursing health determinants

Nursing health determinants

Description

Competency

Determine population-based strategies that incorporate health determinants to promote optimal health and prevent escalation of diseases and conditions.

Transferable Skills
  • Communication – Displaying capability in writing, reading, and oral communication; understanding of non‐verbal language.
  • Critical Thinking – Improving thinking, including problem‐solving and creativity, by applying intellectual standards such as clarity, precision, logic, and reflection.
  • Diversity & Teamwork – Demonstrating awareness and empathy while working collaboratively with people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
  • Ethics & Professional Responsibility – Understanding and exhibiting principles of conduct and professional behavior which impact a greater good in the world and workplace. Understanding and applying ethical and professional principles of conduct.
  • Information Literacy – Discovering information reflectively, understanding how information is produced and valued, and using information to create new knowledge and participate ethically in communities of learning.
Scenario

After completing your BSN, you have assumed a newly created position as the outreach coordinator for a mental health clinic within the local Veterans Hospital. Your position requires you to manage the outpatient unit and the resources necessary to serve the veteran population better. The Director of the Hospital is seeking to expand outreach to promote mental health among veterans.

Instructions

Create an executive summary containing a community outreach strategy that will improve the quality of life for Veterans with mental health concerns.

  • Identify a problem that requires a mental health community outreach strategy for the veteran population.
  • Describe the problem in detail including:
  • Specific health determinants supported with current evidence.
  • Predictions for how those determinants affect the ability of the outreach to be successful.
  • Propose a community outreach strategy to the Director of the Veterans Hospital including:
  • Description of the community outreach strategy.
  • Explanation of how the proposed strategy will align and assist with the health determinants.
  • Support for the explanation with current evidence.
  • Describe the resources needed to initiate the community outreach strategy including:State your ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar.
  • Detailed description of resources needed to initiate the community outreach strategy.
  • Potential impact of the recommended resources to the health determinants.
  • Description of how the health determinants will be overcome to ensure accessibility to the community outreach strategy.
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