Describe your thoughts on the role health care professionals should play in resolving the ethical issue. Provide specific theories and refer to specific ethical codes to support your position.
September 12, 2018Discuss factors that contribute to risk-taking behaviors and situations during adolescence. What impact might stress play on this age group? Do you see any connection between stress and common adolescent risk factors? Consider the findings from the 2013 APA report Stress in America on millennials
September 12, 2018How should you use Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns to assess individual health? What health screening interventions do you regularly participate in?
Westcoast NURS561 Full Course Weekly Assignments
Week 1 discussion
Discussion 1
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 so, you were engaged in health promotion activities as part of your nursing role.
Where there any strategies used in this simulation exercise that you use to improve patient health literacy? Are there any that you use that were not mentioned here? In your experience, how effective are these strategies?
What are some of the biggest challenges you encounter when trying to improve health literacy? What solutions can you offer to manage these challenges?
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Discussion 2
Choose two emerging populations, such as Latino/Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, or Black/African Americans. How do health issues differ between the two populations?
Week 2 discussion
Discussion 1
How should you respond if your health promotion values conflict with a client’s values?
Discussion 2
What ethical issue have you recently encountered when teaching health promotion strategies to a patient? What ethical decision-making process did you use?
Week 3 discussion
Discussion 1
How should you use Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns to assess individual health? What health screening interventions do you regularly participate in?
Discussion 2
What family characteristics may contribute to potential or actual dysfunctional health patterns?
Week 4 discussion
Discussion 1 Watch the Ted Talk video,
What if our health care system kept us healthy?
Watch Video
Rebecca Onie: What if our healthcare system kept us healthy?
Duration: (16:35)
User: TED – Added: 6/12/12
What role does your facility play in keeping people healthy? Would the Health Leads program work in your facility? Why or why not?
Discussion 2
How do the nutrition and fitness goals in Healthy People 2010 compare to those in Healthy People 2020?