NRS427V Week 3 Assignments – Assessing Vulnerable Groups and Nurse Cultural Competence

NRS427V Week 3 Assignments – Assessing Vulnerable Groups and Nurse Cultural Competence

NRS427V Week 3 Assignments – Assessing Vulnerable Groups and Nurse Cultural Competence

NRS 427V Week 3 DQ 1

What is the difference between a group “at risk” for poor health and a group considered a “vulnerable” population? Provide an example of a group at risk and a group considered a vulnerable population.
Explain why members of these groups cannot advocate for themselves or why advocating for these groups would be beneficial

What would you advocate for?

NRS 427V Week 3 DQ 2

How can community health nurses apply the strategies of cultural competence to their practice? Provide at least one example from each of the following four strategies: cultural preservation, cultural accommodation, cultural re-patterning, and cultural brokering. What is a possible barrier to applying the strategy/example chosen? Use an example that is different than the postings of other students.

NRS 427V Week 4 DQ 1

What is your evaluation of the effectiveness of the U.S. health care system in the context of delivery, finance, management, and/or sustainability? What are the issues that prompted a need for health care reform? Support your answer with a credible data reference. Do not use a reference already used by another student.

NRS 427V Week 5 DQ 1

Throughout this course, you have viewed the Diary of Medical Mission videos dealing with the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Reflect on this natural disaster by answering the following questions:

Propose one example of a nursing intervention related to the disaster from each of the following levels: primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention. Provide innovative examples that have not been discussed by a previous student.

Under which phase of the disaster do the three proposed interventions fall? Explain why you chose that phase.

With what people or agencies would you work in facilitating the proposed interventions and why?
Link to the Diary of Medical Mission videos: