Devry NR443 (all discussions and all assignments) Entire Course

Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2014). Pandemic.Retrieved from
http://www.ready.gov/pandemic
Devry NR443 week 6
Affordable Care Act (ACA) (graded)
Please explore the healthcare marketplace website at https://www.healthcare.gov/. Choose the get answers tab
towards the top of the page. Review several of the topics under this tab and share something that you learned about
how the marketplace works and how this would apply to those in your community.
The Affordable Care Act is a controversial topic, and I’m sure there are many different viewpoints represented in our
class. For this discussion, let’s focus on understanding the basics of the marketplace so that we can provide accurate
information for our patients and communities.
Devry NR443 week 1 DQ 2
Environmental Health (graded)
Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MyEnvironment site
athttp://www.epa.gov/myenvironment/howUsePage.html. Review the site overview and enter your city, zip code, or
location into the MyEnvironment box. 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?
Devry NR443 week 7
This week, you were assigned to read and review Recommendation 8 of IOM’s Future of Nursing Recommendations.
Recommendation #8 states:Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional healthcare
workforce data.
Visit http://thefutureofnursing.org/recommendation/detail/recommendation-8
Consider the problem you identified in your Caring for Populations Milestone. How could collaboration be
improved to enhance outcomes?
The Institute of Medicine. (2010). The future of nursing leading change, advancing health: Recommendation 8.
Retrieved fromhttp://thefutureofnursing.org/recommendation/detail/recommendation-8
Ethics and Diversity (graded)
Review the Week 7 Case Study found in Doc Sharing.
You will continue in your role as a nurse with your local health department. As part of the health department’s “Think
Cultural Health” seminar, each team member will discuss oneof the 15 National Cultural and Linguistically
Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards. Visithttps://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/Content/clas.asp. Browse the
site and click on the link to open the list of the National CLAS Standards.
Describe one National CLAS Standard.
Discuss one way that you could implement this standard for a specific cultural group in your community.
Office of Minority Health, Department of Health and Human Services. (2013). National standards for culturally and
linguistically appropriate services in health and health care: a blueprint for advancing and sustaining CLAS policy and
practice. Retrieved fromhttps://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/Content/clas.asp
Devry NR443 week 8