Perception on Public Health Nursing and Availability of Healthcare Resources

Coursework

Question 1

On page 26 Nightingale is quoted as saying “the health of the unity is the health of the community. Unless you have the health of the unity there is no community". Explore the possible meanings of this quote. Do you agree or disagree with her statement? What is your rationale for this position? How does this influence your current perception of Public Health Nursing? What is the relevance of this quote to current health practice? Are there ethical, moral and legal responsibilities for promoting the health of all humans, our environments and the other species that inhabit our planet? 250 - 300 Words – 2 references

Question 2

Discuss your perception towards the availability of health care resources, the validity of the claim that all people have a right to health care, and the right to expect equal health care. What are the differences between a nurse working in critical or extended care sites and/or a nurse working in a community care or public health setting? How might these differences lead to different perceptions of ethical problems and decision making? 250 - 300 Words – 2 references

Question 3

What is the difference between a public policy that is driven by attention to illness and fix versus attention to health and prevention? How can this be termed Upstream thinking? If we adopt upstream thinking it will call for a significant change in the structure and process of the current health care environment. What changes will be required? What skills and knowledge will need to be acquired and mastered? How will these changes impact the current nursing practice?  250 - 300 Words – 2 references

Question 4

Compare and contrast the various definitions of epidemiology. To what do you attribute these changes in emphasis? How do emergent issues "fit" with the current definition of epidemiology? What professional and personal practices have contributed to the growth of new infectious diseases? What are the ethical moral and legal responsibilities of PHNs (Public Health Nurse) and PH to address these issues? 250 - 300 Words – 2 references 

Question 5

What is the difference between health disparity and health inequity? What are the ethical, moral and legal responsibilities of PH and PHNs to address both disparity and inequity? Does either a disparity or inequity exist with human trafficking? What are the ethical, moral and legal responsibilities of PH and PHNs to address disparity, inequity and human trafficking? 250 - 300 Words – 2 references

Question 6

Explain why the source of investigating drinking water is important to investigate in the assessment of an unusually high number of infertility cases in a community; on increased lead levels in children from a certain school; and in an outbreak of a gastrointestinal epidemic in an agricultural community. Discuss the use of the epidemiological triangle in explaining the determinants of health. 250 - 300 Words – 2 references 

Question 7

Debate the opposing positions of the following questions: Participants in your community's emergency preparedness plans is an ethical obligation as a registered nurse. The minimal involvement of my social obligation is to prepare my family and friends for potential natural and man-made disasters? 250 - 300 Words – 2 references

Question 8

Comment on the following statements, do you agree/or disagree, provide the evidence. What is the role, responsibility, ethical and legal obligations of the PHN, PH professionals, and that of the profession of nursing in general? 200 - 250 Words – 2 references

• Bella Abzug (1998) stated in an address to the UN:
  • This is the time to declare as we approach the great millennium that women must be made free. We cannot be free as long as our human rights are violated, as long as we don't have economic equality and as long as we are participating in gender-balanced political bodies. In all of our countries women have been in the forefront of the struggle for freedom and liberation, not only for themselves but for others, as well as themselves, to create democracies instead of hypocrisies which seek to deny them equality....A war still continues against the women of this world. And we must use the strength of the UN to end that war, to end the war against the civil rights of women and the human rights of women, and our children and people everywhere. Abzug, A. (1998, March 31). Address to United Nations. New York: United Nations