After reading Chapter 7 and reviewing the lecture power point (located in lectures tab),  please answer the following questions.  Each question must have at least 3 paragraphs and you must use at 3 least references (APA) included in your post.

Additionally, you are expected to reply to two other students and include a reference that justifies your post.  Your reply must be at least 3 paragraphs.

Questions:

1.  Do you view nursing as a career or a job?  What are your professional goals related to nursing?

2.  Describe the steps you would take to prepare yourself to interview for your ideal future Nursing role?

Select one of the following special populations for focus this week

Care of Lesbian, Bisexual Gay, Transgender Populations.

Care of Poor and Homeless Populations

Care of School Populations

Care of Employee Populations

Care of Correctional Populations

Care of Populations Affected by Disaster

identify and describe:

-Key determinants affecting the health of your chosen special population.

-At least five health promotion and five illness/injury prevention interventions that might be appropriate for the special population that you selected.

-At least 2 restorative health care considerations for your chosen special population and analyze the role of the community health nurse in each.

Must include at least 2 nursing, peer-reviewed journal articles. 

Must be in APA 

Discussion: The Application of Data to Problem-Solving

In the modern era, there are few professions that do not to some extent rely on data. Stockbrokers rely on market data to advise clients on financial matters. Meteorologists rely on weather data to forecast weather conditions, while realtors rely on data to advise on the purchase and sale of property. In these and other cases, data not only helps solve problems, but adds to the practitioner’s and the discipline’s body of knowledge.

Of course, the nursing profession also relies heavily on data. The field of nursing informatics aims to make sure nurses have access to the appropriate date to solve healthcare problems, make decisions in the interest of patients, and add to knowledge.

In this Discussion, you will consider a scenario that would benefit from access to data and how such access could facilitate both problem-solving and knowledge formation.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on the concepts of informatics and knowledge work as presented in the Resources.
• Consider a hypothetical scenario based on your own healthcare practice or organization that would require or benefit from the access/collection and application of data. Your scenario may involve a patient, staff, or management problem or gap.

Post a description of the focus of your scenario. Describe the data that could be used and how the data might be collected and accessed. What knowledge might be derived from that data? How would a nurse leader use clinical reasoning and judgment in the formation of knowledge from this experience?

Please review the course objectives stated in the Syllabus. Conduct a self-reflection of your learning in the course and how you personally have met each of the course objectives. (400 words, APA FORMAT)

Course Learning Objectives:

1. Apply a knowledge base of community health nursing and health teaching skills to the development an educational project with a focus on illness prevention, health promotion and/or health maintenance of individuals, families and groups (PLG 2, 4)
2. Demonstrate use of information technology in data gathering and analysis of a community or a specific population group (PLG 5)
3. Analyze a community assessment to plan a health teaching project that meets the needs of communities and populations (PLG 3, 4)
4. Create an educational project that can be utilized by public and community health nurses to improve the health status and eliminate health disparities of individuals, families, communities and populations (PLG 2, 4)
5. Implement the planned teaching project to the selected target population(PLG 4)
6. Collaborate with community partners to provide education designed to improve population health(PLG 4)
7. Record and present evidence of the completion of each phase of the teaching project (PLG 3)

Why do you want to work here?