NR443 Week 5 Discussion: Disaster Preparedness

NR443 Week 5 Discussion: Disaster Preparedness

NR443 Week 5 Discussion: Disaster Preparedness

This week’s graded topics relate to the following Course Outcomes (COs).

CO3: Plan prevention and population-focused interventions for vulnerable populations using professional clinical judgment and evidence-based practice. (POs 4 and 8)
CO6: Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO2)

Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing.

Share an overview of a natural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years.
Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article.
Describe how your community was impacted.
Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness.

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Week 6 Discussion: Environmental Health

This week’s graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO).

CO6: Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO2)

Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MyEnvironment site at http://www.epa.gov/myenvironment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and enter your city and state, ZIP code, or location into the location box.

Choose one of the topic areas.

My Health
My Climate
My Air
My Water

Then, click on the boxes under the Map Contents menu to add data into the map on specific topics. Explore the site to learn more about your environment and things that might be impacting the health of its citizens.

Identify something new you learned about your environment and how it could be affecting health by completing this statement, “I didn’t know _____.”
How could you, in the role of a community health nurse, address these concerns?

Optional: For more environmental health information, you can also visit the following resources.

Environmental health tracking: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/InfoByLocation/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Air quality: http://www.airnow.gov (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Toxic release inventory: https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.