Health Promotion – Activity 1

Social determinants affect access to health care, foster or interfere with the ability to practice health behaviors, affect physiology through influences on stress hormones, and result in ecological/epidemiological changes that can affect multiple generations. Culture and lifespan have a profound effect on designing a health promotion program. Discuss how health disparities can be reduced through … Read more

Health Promotion – Discussion

Discuss one health disparity or social determinant of health and apply it to an intervention planned by the masters prepared nurse. Explain how a nurse could intervene to reduce the disparity or mitigate social determinants of health. 2 peer reviewed articles within the last 5 years 

Discussion Week 6

The media portray many images of nursing, some favorable and some unfavorable. ·  Does media portrayal of nursing affect how patients perceive nurses as authority figures? Why or why not? Think about nursing stereotypes and discuss the ways you can influence the public image of nursing. ·  Discuss the various roles nurses can play that … Read more

Discussion post

Week 6 Discussion The media portray many images of nursing, some favorable and some unfavorable. Does media portrayal of nursing affect how patients perceive nurses as authority figures? Why or why not? Think about nursing stereotypes and discuss the ways you can influence the public image of nursing. Discuss the various roles nurses can play … Read more

Discussion Post

Does media portrayal of nursing affect how patients perceive nurses as authority figures? Why or why not? Think about nursing stereotypes and discuss the ways you can influence the public image of nursing. Discuss the various roles nurses can play that support the real image of nursing. Think about community health care and preventive services … Read more

Race and Ethnicity 2.3

  Thinking about the Jim Crow system and the laws it entailed, in what ways does the U.S. demonstrate the “new” Jim Crow? Compare and contrast at least three Jim Crow-era laws to three current practices. Make sure to include in your discussion three negative consequences of Jim Crow laws.    **Note- all postings must … Read more

Race and Ethnicity 2.1

  Thinking about the authoritarian personality, are people from authoritarian families more or less likely to be prejudice? Why or why not? Research and discuss an authoritarian government administration (you can broaden your search globally). Make sure to include how authoritarianism impacts dominant-minority relations for racial and ethnic minorities. Please explain your answer in detail. … Read more

Prisoner Right 2.2

 Strip searches of prisoners are normal safety precaution undertaken in prisons. Consider and provide an example of a situation when you think a visitor should be strip searched and explain why. 

Prisoner Right 2.1

 What do you believe should be corporal punishment when it pertains to inmates? When should it be used? Do you think there are things that should not be done? Give examples and explain your position. 

Definitions of Health

Pretend you are meeting a patient at their definition of health. One person’s health goals and possibilities may differ from another’s.  Assume you are an intern at a community health clinic. Your supervisor has asked you to prepare a summary of the various definitions of health for the staff at the clinic.  Search the Internet … Read more