{"id":32851,"date":"2022-02-14T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/identification-of-a-population-in-your-community-nurs-4210-role-of-the-nurse-leader-in-population-health-walden-university\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T14:38:09","slug":"identification-of-a-population-in-your-community-nurs-4210-role-of-the-nurse-leader-in-population-health-walden-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/identification-of-a-population-in-your-community-nurs-4210-role-of-the-nurse-leader-in-population-health-walden-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Identification of a population in your community | NURS 4210 – Role of the Nurse Leader in Population Health | Walden University"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Overview: As a community of practice, your task for this week is to \u00a0collaborate with professionals across the health care system. With your \u00a0community of practice, in the Discussion, find a gap in care or social \u00a0determinant that often results in poor health care outcomes. You will \u00a0begin to take the lead in advocating for and collaborating with others \u00a0to improve the health care outcomes for populations at risk.<\/p>\n

Practicum Discussion: During this week, you will identify a \u00a0population at risk in your community. This population will be the basis \u00a0for your Practicum Discussions and your individual presentations over \u00a0the next 6 weeks, as well as the focus of your final PowerPoint \u00a0presentation in Week 6. To review, a population is a group of \u00a0individuals who share a common environmental or personal characteristic, \u00a0such as obese individuals who are at risk for diabetes or \u00a0cardiovascular disease (populations at risk) or those individuals who \u00a0are otherwise healthy and could stay healthy if they do not develop \u00a0risky behaviors (populations of interest). An example of this is \u00a0teenagers who don\u2019t yet smoke but might consider it due to peer pressure \u00a0(Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016). Some of the topics you might consider \u00a0are vaccination compliance, obesity rates among children and adults, \u00a0teenage pregnancy, or infectious diseases such as Norwalk virus, genital \u00a0warts, or sexually transmitted diseases\/infections. You might look also \u00a0at emerging public health problems such as Chagas or the Zika virus. \u00a0Some of the places you might consider looking for information to \u00a0substantiate and support your ideas about populations at risk in your \u00a0communities are your local health department, the CDC, and the many \u00a0evidence-based websites that the CDC supports, such as the CDC Wonder \u00a0(http:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/). You may also review the work of other \u00a0community groups that focus on improving health care outcomes for your \u00a0community. You should begin to support your selection of population and \u00a0ideas about their health care problems through the use of health data \u00a0and scholarly literature.<\/p>\n

Please address the following points in your Practicum Discussion:<\/p>\n