Windshield Survey Conduct a windshield survey to identify a population and its primary health concern. Develop a 3–5-page report that explains demographic changes for a population and describes the health disparities and social determinants of health that can affect the population. Note: The assessments in this course build upon each other. You are strongly encouraged to complete them in sequence. By successfully completing this […]

  It is important for a public health professional to show evidence of professional development over time. The professional portfolio is one way to collect and showcase achievements and artifacts or evidence of accomplishments. For this assignment, you will prepare a professional portfolio that includes the following: Reflection of Your Practicum Experience In a 1,000-1,250 words, address the following: Summarize your practicum experience. Describe how […]

 Based on the various definitions of health, define health and explain if you agree with one definition more than the other? Why?    Instructions: Use an APA 7 style and a minimum of 350 words. Provide support from a minimum of at least (4) scholarly sources. The scholarly source needs to be: 1) evidence-based, 2) scholarly in nature, 3) Sources should be no more than […]

Assignment 3 details: Please select a personal health behavior that you would like to change. Examples of health behaviors could include lifestyle changes to improve physical health (e.g. changing sleep habits, drinking more water, eating healthier, exercising more, etc.)  or mental health (e.g. managing stress, engaging in healthy social relationships, etc.). Health behaviors can also include health-seeking behaviors (e.g. screening for a certain health condition, […]

  This week, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation reviewing the theories from each module. Please select one theory from each module (1-8) and answer the following questions. You should have two slides per theory: Describe the theory Provide 3 examples of how the theory applies to current practice Provide 3 positive patient outcomes resulting from utilizing the theory Explain 3 benefits to nursing satisfaction […]

    Conduct additional research on trends happening in managed care today. The following websites are a great place to start: You can also visit the following videos related to managed care trends: Managed Care contracting and Payer Scorecards Monitoring Performance: A Dashboard of Medi-Cal Managed Care After conducting your research, construct a 3-page report in APA format of your findings. At a minimum, your […]

Respond on two different days by making recommendations for how they might strengthen the leadership behaviors profiled in their CliftonStrengths Assessment, or by commenting on lessons to be learned from the results that can be applied to personal leadership philosophies and behaviors.                                                                     Main Post                                                           Leadership Profile Leadership of people begins with a leader who knows themselves and can cultivate the strengths in others.  […]

  Assessment is a structured approach to gathering and analyzing information about the client system and their story. How is the assessment process different when the client system is an individual or family versus a community made up of individuals and families? Assessment involves gathering the needed information in order to determine appropriate intervention. Thorough assessment allows social workers to identify the problems that need […]

Professional nurses rely on research findings to inform practice decisions; they use critical thinking to apply research directly to specific patient care situations. Think about an independent nursing practice problem you care passionately about and would be interested in searching for evidence. The below problems should not be used: *medical/doctor/physician problems such as medications, or medications administration or effects, diagnostics such as EKGs, labs, cardiac […]

PICOT Question and Literature Search The first step of the evidence-based practice process is to evaluate a nursing practice environment to identify a nursing problem in the clinical area. When a nursing problem is discovered, the nurse researcher develops a clinical guiding question to address that nursing practice problem. For this assignment, you will create a clinical guiding question know as a PICOT question. The PICOT […]