Welcome to the first discussion forum for Population and Community Health Nursing. The purpose of this activity is to introduce yourself to the class, to provide an overview of your practicum setting and project and to relate your practicum setting to concepts of population/community/public health.
Please be sure to complete the readings in the text before submitting your initial post. In our textbook, Rector and Stanley (2022), several models of population health are included. Please see models: Fig.1-3, Fig. 1-5, Fig. 9-1 and Fig 9-2 in chapters one and nine (pages 8, 11, 245 and 246). This discussion asks you to consider your preceptor’s role and the setting of your practicum experience in the context of one of these models. The engagement of these models is a preliminary step in module one and relevant concepts will be further explored in subsequent modules.
Directions:
Introduce yourself by including your name, years in nursing, current occupation, and experience in the field of community health. I’ve been a nurse for seven years, I was an LPN before becoming a RN. I graduated with my ASN in 2022. I am currently a pediatric nurse working in a special education alternative elementary school. I also work with individuals with developmental disabilities within a medically fragile house. Many of my students have private duty nurses which is given to them from home care agencies so that they are still able to attend school services, while having their medical needs met.
Describe the site for your community health practicum. HOME CARE
Explain the origin of this setting and its historical context (why did it develop, how long has it existed, what is its mission). Briefly note how this relates to a historical aspect of nursing as a profession.
Identify the primary client(s) of your practicum – who is being served? Can you identify a primary population served? MOSTLY PEDIATRIC AND ELDERS
Explain the role of your preceptor in promoting the health of the community or population(s). Relate this work and the practicum setting to one of the public/population health models presented in the reading. Please identify one model and briefly discuss where and how does the work of the preceptor and the clinical site fit might fit with the model?
Please submit your initial post by the first half of the module and then use the second half of the module to interact with your classmates.