Describe How This Activity Connects To Population-Based Public Health Nursing Practice Case Study
A. Briefly describe the experience
The public health shadow event was worth attending for me. We went to a private assisted living apartment of an 80-year-old woman at Robbinsdale. The daughter of the woman called for an assessment to see if the mother can qualify for an elderly waiver so that she can get PCA helps in the apartment and other services because lately, she has been found wandering on the highway and the police had picked her up twice. So, they are afraid that they might not be lucky next time if that happens. Also, she had fallen twice last month but was lucky her grandchildren stopped by because they are always checking on her since they live nearby. She is healthy looking for her age, and her diagnoses so far are dementia and …show more content…
It could be because of the value I have for respecting others culture, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, religious backgrounds, health status, age, and lifestyle preferences.
2. Describe how this activity connects to population-based public health nursing practice
A. Identify the population and/or community that is served through this experience.
This event served individual living in the community needing help in obtaining services to enhance health outcome.
B. Identify interventions from the intervention wheel and provide examples
The intervention from the intervention wheel that was used during this event includes:
• Referral and follow-up: this is the process of utilizing necessary resources to prevent or resolve problems or concerns. For instance, in this situation, the PHN did her assessment and determined what the family may need apart from their priority wants that could help them and refer them to other services. The nurse will call back about 2- 3 weeks with information or resources that they qualified for. Also, the nurse told the daughter to request a neuro – exam from the primary care provider since it has not been
The public health shadow event was worth attending for me. We went to a private assisted living apartment of an 80-year-old woman at Robbinsdale. The daughter of the woman called for an assessment to see if the mother can qualify for an elderly waiver so that she can get PCA helps in the apartment and other services because lately, she has been found wandering on the highway and the police had picked her up twice. So, they are afraid that they might not be lucky next time if that happens. Also, she had fallen twice last month but was lucky her grandchildren stopped by because they are always checking on her since they live nearby. She is healthy looking for her age, and her diagnoses so far are dementia and …show more content…
It could be because of the value I have for respecting others culture, socioeconomic, educational, racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, religious backgrounds, health status, age, and lifestyle preferences.
2. Describe how this activity connects to population-based public health nursing practice
A. Identify the population and/or community that is served through this experience.
This event served individual living in the community needing help in obtaining services to enhance health outcome.
B. Identify interventions from the intervention wheel and provide examples
The intervention from the intervention wheel that was used during this event includes:
• Referral and follow-up: this is the process of utilizing necessary resources to prevent or resolve problems or concerns. For instance, in this situation, the PHN did her assessment and determined what the family may need apart from their priority wants that could help them and refer them to other services. The nurse will call back about 2- 3 weeks with information or resources that they qualified for. Also, the nurse told the daughter to request a neuro – exam from the primary care provider since it has not been