Global Healthcare Comparison Matrix And Narrative Statement

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Global Healthcare Comparison Matrix And Narrative Statement

If you talk about a possible poor health outcome, do you believe that outcome will occur? Do you believe eye contact and personal contact should be avoided? Global Healthcare Comparison Matrix And Narrative Statement

You would have a difficult time practicing as a nurse if you believed these to be true. But they are very real beliefs in some cultures.

Differences in cultural beliefs, subcultures, religion, ethnic customs, dietary customs, language, and a host of other factors contribute to the complex environment that surrounds global healthcare issues. Failure to understand and account for these differences can create a gulf between practitioners and the public they serve.

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In this Assignment, you will examine a global health issue and consider the approach to this issue by the United States and by one other country.

To Prepare:

  • Review the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global health agenda and select one global health issue to focus on for this Assignment.
  • Select at least one additional country to compare to the U.S. for this Assignment.
  • Reflect on how the global health issue you selected is approached in the U.S. and in the additional country you selected.
  • Review and download the Global Health Comparison Matrix provided in the Resources. Global Healthcare Comparison Matrix And Narrative Statement

The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Global Health Comparison Matrix; 1-page Plan for Social Change)

Part 1: Global Health Comparison Matrix

Focusing on the country you selected and the U.S., complete the Global Health Comparison Matrix. Be sure to address the following:

  • Consider the U.S. national/federal health policies that have been adapted for the global health issue you selected from the WHO global health agenda. Compare these policies to the additional country you selected for study.
  • Explain the strengths and weaknesses of each policy.
  • Explain how the social determinants of health may impact the global health issue you selected. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Using the WHO’s Organization’s global health agenda as well as the results of your own research, analyze how each country’s government addresses cost, quality, and access to the global health issue selected.
  • Explain how the health policy you selected might impact the health of the global population. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Explain how the health policy you selected might impact the role of the nurse in each country.
  • Explain how global health issues impact local healthcare organizations and policies in both countries. Be specific and provide examples. Global Healthcare Comparison Matrix And Narrative Statement

Part 2: A Plan for Social Change

Reflect on the global health policy comparison and analysis you conducted in Part 1 of the Assignment and the impact that global health issues may have on the world, the U.S., your community, as well as your practice as a nurse leader.

In a 1-page response, create a plan for social change that incorporates a global perspective or lens into your local practice and role as a nurse leader.

  • Explain how you would advocate for the incorporation of a global perspective or lens into your local practice and role as a nurse leader.
  • Explain how the incorporation of a global perspective or lens might impact your local practice and role as a nurse leader.
  • Explain how the incorporation of a global perspective or lens into your local practice as a nurse leader represents and contributes to social change. Be specific and provide examples.

Global Healthcare Comparison Matrix And Narrative Statement

 

Quality Improvement Project Part 2

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Quality Improvement Project Part 2

Topic: Health Care Disparities

Goal:

  • To assess a clinical issue that is the focus of the Quality Improvement Project.
  • Create a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis for the project. Faculty approval required to proceed.

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Content Requirements:

  1. Identify strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats for improvement related to the clinical issue identified.
  2. Analyze the SWOT data to provide the foundation for an action plan for quality improvement.

Submission Instructions:

  • The paper is to be clear and concise, and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
  • The paper is to be 2 – 3 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
  • Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
  • Journal articles and books should be referenced according to current APA style (the library has a copy of the APA Manual).

Quality Improvement Project Part 2

 

Case Study – Environmental Health

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Case Study – Environmental Health

Review the following case study and complete the questions that follow. Submit your completed document to Blackboard using the assignment link.

As a nurse practicing within a family practice, you are interviewing a 55-year-old woman who is an executive assistant at a local law firm, where she has worked for 9 years. She has a 7-year history of respiratory illness, which occurs several times throughout the year, not seemingly connected to the changes in season. She does not use tobacco products in any form. During your questions regarding her home and work environments, she reports that she enjoys working adjacent to the courthouse in a building over 100 years old because it is such a contrast to her brand-new home on a local golf course. When describing the health of her coworkers, she indicates, “We all share illnesses, which seem to affect everyone else during the year; we just seem to be sicker more often!” Case Study – Environmental Health

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  • What information is pertinent to your client’s case?
  • How would you assess your client’s risk?
  • What would be an exposure pathway for your client?

Your document should be 1-2 pages in length, in APA format, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font, double-spaced with 1” margins, and include at least two citations using references less than five years old.

Due: Sunday, 11:59 p.m. (Pacific time)

Points Possible: 100

Case Study – Environmental Health

Evidence Based Patient Centered Concept Map

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Evidence Based Patient Centered Concept Map

Create an evidence-based, patient-centered concept map that illustrates an individualized approach to patient care, based on a patient case file of your choice. Evidence Based Patient Centered Concept Map

Evidence-based practice is a key skill in the toolkit of the master’s-prepared nurse. Its goal is to ensure that health care practitioners are using the best available evidence to ensure that patients are receiving the best care possible (Godshall, M., 2015.). In essence, evidence-based practice is all about ensuring quality care.

In this assessment, you have .an opportunity to apply evidence-based practice and personalized care concepts to ensure quality care and improve the health of a single patient.

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By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Apply evidence-based practice to plan patient-centered care.
    • Analyze the needs of a patient, and those of their family, with regard to how they will influence a patient-centered concept map.
    • Design an individualized, patient-centered concept map, based upon the best available evidence for treating a patient’s specific health, economic, and cultural needs.
  • Competency 3: Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based interventions.
    • Propose relevant and measurable criteria for evaluating the outcomes of a patient-centered concept map.
  • Competency 4: Evaluate the value and relative weight of available evidence upon which to make a clinical decision.
    • Justify the value and relevance of evidence used as the basis of a patient-centered concept map.
  • Competency 5: Synthesize evidence-based practice and academic research to communicate effective solutions.
    • Develop a strategy for communicating with patients and their families in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.
    • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style. Evidence Based Patient Centered Concept Map

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

Recall an experience you have had—or one that you might have observed in your care setting—in which you individualized care for a patient.

  • In your approach to individualized care, did you:
    • Address any health concerns other than those for which the patient was seeking care?
    • Consider the patient’s economic and daily environmental circumstances?
    • Consider any ethical issues inherent in working with the patient?
  • What might you have done differently, if you could revisit that patient’s case?
  • What evidence supported your original course of action?
  • What evidence would you present to support an alternative course of action, if you could revisit that patient’s case?

Preparation

You have been presented with a number of patient case files in the Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Care media piece. You reviewed each case, selected one case for further research, and created draft evidence-based concept map to illustrate an approach to individualized care for the patient. In this assessment, you will build upon and refine your draft concept map and develop a supporting narrative.

Create your concept map and narrative as separate documents. Be sure to note the areas where you need to include your evidence-based support and where you need to make clear your strategies for communicating information to the patient and the patient’s family.

Note: Many organizations use the spider style of concept maps (see the Taylor & Littleton-Kearney article for an example). Also, if a specific style of concept map is used in your current care setting, you may use it in this assessment.

Create your concept map and narrative as separate documents. Be sure to note the areas where you need to include your evidence-based support and where you need to make clear your strategies for communicating information to the patient and the patient’s family. Evidence Based Patient Centered Concept Map

Requirements

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. In addition, you may want to review the performance level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

Supporting Evidence and APA Style

Integrate relevant evidence from 3–5 current scholarly or professional sources to support your assertions.

  • Apply correct APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
  • Attach a reference list to your narrative.
Concept Map
  • Develop a concept map for the individual patient, based upon the best available evidence for treating your patient’s health, economic, and cultural needs.
Narrative

Develop a narrative (2–4 pages) for your concept map.

  • Analyze the needs of your patient and their family, and determine how those needs will influence a patient-centered concept map.
    • Consider how your patient’s economic situation and relevant environmental factors may have contributed to your patient’s current condition or affect their future health.
    • Consider how your patient’s culture or family should influence your concept map.
  • Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis of your concept map.
    • Explain why your evidence is valuable and relevant to your patient’s case.
    • Explain why each piece of evidence is appropriate for both the health issue you are trying to correct and for the unique situation of your patient and their family.
  • Propose relevant and measurable criteria for evaluating the degree to which the desired outcomes of your concept map were achieved.
    • Explain why your proposed criteria are appropriate and useful measures of success.
  • Explain how you will communicate specific aspects of the concept map to your patient and their family in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way. Ensure that your strategies:  Evidence Based Patient Centered Concept Map
    • Promote honest communications.
    • Facilitate sharing only the information you are required and permitted to share.
    • Are mindful of your patient’s culture.
    • Enable you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to your patient and their family, regardless of language, disabilities, or level of education.

Additional Requirements

  • Be sure to include both documents when you submit your assessment.

Evidence Based Patient Centered Concept Map

Week 8 Assignment: Essay – Interrelationships Reflection

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Week 8 Assignment: Essay – Interrelationships Reflection

Instructions
As we learned in Week 1, there is a difference between being educated and simply trained. The purpose of education is not only to determine what someone can do, but also what kind of person they become as a result of their education. Studies in the humanities will advance the communication skills, empathy, self-awareness, judgment, and professionalism of students, and they help students with becoming skilled at the social and cultural context of working with people.

In addition, studying the humanities can help students in the following ways: Week 8 Assignment: Essay – Interrelationships Reflection

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  • Literature can introduce students to life situations with which they may not be familiar.
  • Drama can teach oral communication.
  • Philosophy can teach skills of analysis and argument.
  • Art, literature, drama. and music are expressions of human creativity, and taking part in some form of artistic activity, either as reader or viewer, is part of what makes us human.

For this assignment, choose a work of art that made an impression on you during this course. Then, address the following:

  • Include an image of or link to the work.
  • Identify the artist, the title, date completed, and the medium.
  • Explain how learning about the work will help you in your life and career. Consider the context in which the work was created and the meaning of the work.
  • Explain how one or more specific disciplines (literature, drama, philosophy, art, music) influenced you.
  • Examine the effect that you think this class could have on your career and personal life. Week 8 Assignment: Essay – Interrelationships Reflection

Writing Requirements (APA format)

  • Length: 2-2.5 pages (not including title page or references page)
  • 1-inch margins
  • Double spaced
  • 12-point Times New Roman font
  • Title page
  • References page (minimum of 1 scholarly source)

Week 8 Assignment: Essay – Interrelationships Reflection

 

American Nurses Association (ANA) Competencies And Standards In Practice

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American Nurses Association (ANA) Competencies And Standards In Practice

To Prepare

Part 1: ANA Competencies and Standards Identification

  • Review the American Nurses Association competencies found in the Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice and reflect on the ANA functional areas detailed to determine which interests you the most.
  • Review the TIGER competencies and reflect on which of these you could develop based on how they relate to the ANA functional areas.
  • Review the QSEN competencies and reflect on which of these you could develop based on how they relate to the ANA functional areas. American Nurses Association (ANA) Competencies And Standards In Practice

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Part 2: ANA Competencies and Standards in Practice

  • Identify a nurse informaticist to interview. You may interview the same nurse informaticist you interviewed in Module 2.
  • Set up an interview date and time. Consult the Module 4 Interview Guidelines handout for guidance. In the Module 4 Interview Guidelines handout, you will find a form for the interview subject to sign as proof for the interview occurring.
  • Develop interview questions that address all of the following:
    • An explanation of the interview subject’s current role.
    • A description of the challenges the interview subject has overcome, currently encounters, and foresees.
    • A description of how the ANA functional areas, TIGER competencies, and QSEN competencies relate to the interview subject’s role.
  • Evaluate your responses in Part 1 and compare your responses with the responses from your interview subject.

The Assignment

Part 1: ANA Competencies and Standards Identification

Submit a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

  • Identify the ANA functional areas you are interested in and explain why.
  • Identify the TIGER competencies you might develop based on how they relate to the ANA functional areas you identified and explain why.
  • Identify the QSEN competencies you might develop based on how they relate to the ANA functional areas you identified and explain why.

Part 2: ANA Competencies and Standards in Nursing Practice

Create a 6- to 8-slide PowerPoint presentation that addresses the following:

  • Explain how your vision of your future as a nurse informaticist compares with the interview subject’s current role. To support your explanation, identify at least one area that has prompted you to change your vision of the future and explain how or why. Then, identify at least one area that aligns with your vision of the future and explain how or why. American Nurses Association (ANA) Competencies And Standards In Practice
  • Compare the challenges you foresee in the nurse informaticist role with the challenges your interview subject regularly encounters. To support your comparison, identify at least one challenge that has prompted you to change your interpretation of typical challenges and explain how or why. Then, identify at least one area that aligns with your interpretation of typical challenges and explain how or why.
  • Determine how the ANA functional areas, TIGER competencies, and QSEN competencies you identified relate to your interview subject’s current role. Are these functional areas and competencies still relevant or aligned to your future role as a nurse informaticist? Why or why not?
  • Based on your responses in Part 1, evaluate whether your assessment of your own knowledge, skills, and attitudes about the functional areas, standards, or competencies has changed, broadened, or strengthened your alignment based on your interview. Be sure to refer to your Part 1 responses and explain the change (or lack of change).
  • Provide references in APA style at the end of your presentation—the reference slide or slides do not count toward your Assignment total.
  • Submit the completed parts of the Module 4 Interview Guidelines handout.

American Nurses Association (ANA) Competencies And Standards In Practice

 

Ethics And Professional Codes Assignment

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Ethics And Professional Codes Assignment

Assessment 5 Instructions: Tonya’s Case: Ethics and Professional Codes

  • Write a 2-3 page paper that examines end-of-life issues in relationship to hospitals, professional ethics, and accrediting bodies.
    How Institutional Conceptual Frameworks Influence Ethical Decision Making
    We wrap things up by exploring institutions and groups designed to help ensure that hospital staff at all levels think and act ethically in caring for patients. Accrediting bodies are oversight agencies charged with performing accreditation of hospitals and helping to establish standards for health care delivery. Their aim is to keep the quality of care as high as possible and to make sure the care is delivered ethically. Ethics committees are groups of individuals within hospitals that meet regularly to advise staff on ethically difficult cases and to promote an ethical institutional culture.

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    Demonstration of Proficiency
    By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

    • Competency 2: Apply sound ethical thinking related to a health care issue. Ethics And Professional Codes Assignment
      • Demonstrate sound ethical thinking in applying ethical principles and moral theories to a specific case.
    • Competency 3: Analyze ethical issues associated with patient care from the perspectives of various health care professionals.
      • Explain professional codes of ethics and apply them in to a specific case.
    • Competency 4: Explain the conceptual framework that health care leaders use to make ethical decisions.
      • Explain organizational documents like mission and value statements and use them to analyze a case study.
      • Explain the role of accrediting bodies and applies this understanding in analyzing a case study.
    • Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with health care professionals.
      • Provides validation and support within written communications by including relevant examples and supporting evidence using APA citations.
      • Produce writing with minimal errors in grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanics.
    • Preparation
      Complete the Case Study: Tonya Archer media activity, which is linked later in this assessment.
      Before you begin creating your submission for this assessment, make sure you have worked through the Tonya Archer case study. This will provide the foundational context for the assessment, for which you will be carrying out independent research by using the Internet to complete the following:
    • Identify the professional code of ethics for your professional specialty or a specialty that you are interested in.
    • With a local hospital in mind (perhaps one you work for), locate the mission, vision, and values statement of that hospital. Ethics And Professional Codes Assignment
    • After you identify the professional ethics code and the hospital mission, vision, and values statements relevant to your work and interests, it may be useful to complete the following:
    • Identify which item in the ethical code you believe is the most important and explain why.
    • Name something in the code you would like to see addressed in more depth. Why?
    • Which item in the code do you think would be the most challenging to follow and why?
    • Does your code make an explicit distinction between what is legal and what is ethical? That is, is the code clear that, while an action may be legal, it may not be ethical?
    • Finally, how well does your professional code of ethics align with the mission and values statement of your hospital? Can you imagine a situation in which following one would make it challenging to follow the other?
    • Instructions
      For this assessment you will apply some concepts we have learned in the course, particularly those relating to the basic principles of health care ethics, professional codes of ethics, and values of health care institutions.
      Write a paper that answers the following questions as it relates to the Tonya Archer Case Study:
    • What are the most relevant end-of-life issues in health care ethics as they relate to this case?
    • What should the hospital do? Should doctors simply keep Tonya on life support, as the parents want? Or, since all medical evidence indicates that Tonya’s brain damage is permanent, should life support be removed?
    • Support your answer with the following considerations in mind: Ethics And Professional Codes Assignment
    • Explain which principles of health care ethics and which moral theory are the best philosophical foundations for your view.
    • Is your view supported by your professional code of ethics? If so, explain how. If not, explain what your code gets wrong about a case like this.
    • Is your view consistent with the mission statement and values of the hospital you identified in your independent research you conducted to prepare to complete this assessment?
    • Would an accrediting body, like the Joint Commission, support your choice? Why or why not?
    • Submission Requirements
      Your paper should meet the following requirements:
    • Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
    • APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.
    • Length: 2–3 typed, double-spaced pages.
    • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
  • SCORING GUIDE
    Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

Ethics And Professional Codes Assignment

Middle Range Theory Utilization & Application Paper

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Middle Range Theory Utilization & Application Paper

Goal:

Analyze and evaluate a middle range theory.  You will select a middle range theory and identify application of nursing theories into clinical practice. Middle Range Theory Utilization & Application Paper

Content Requirements:

  1. Components of the theory

  2. Structural aspects of the theory

    • Discuss the framework of the theory.
  3. Identify an area of your practice where this theory could be applicable
    • What question does the theory help to answer?
    • Describe the area of interest in relationship to the theory/theoretical model.
    • Is it appropriate for the practice setting and is it applicable?
    • Discuss the strength and weakness of the theory. If there is weakness, discuss what makes it difficult to be used in practice.
  4. Use of theory in clinical practice.
    • Performing a literature review is essential to completing this section. If there is no literature available about the application of this theory in practice, address reason(s) why based on your findings.
  5. Evaluation of theory
    • Is this theory used to understand and apply into practice?
    • What difficulties did you encounter or would anticipate encountering in using this theory?
    • What would make this theory more usable or applicable to practice? Middle Range Theory Utilization & Application Paper

Submission Instructions:

  • The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
  • The paper should be formatted per current APA and references should be current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions.)
  • The paper is to be 3 – 5 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
  • Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work. Journal articles and books should be referenced according to current APA style.

Middle Range Theory Utilization & Application Paper

Nursing Post Research Example

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Nursing Post Research Example

  1. Read the profiles of the patients provided and determine which patient is at greatest risk of infection. Explain why this patient’s risk is highest and provide 3 nursing interventions aimed at reducing the patient’s infection risk based upon their specific risk factors. Nursing Post Research Example

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  • Patient A: A 53-year-old woman who takes prednisone daily for lupus. She is admitted to the hospital for routine post-op care following a routine hysterectomy. Her surgery was laparoscopic. Nursing Post Research Example

  • Patient B: A 78-year-old man who takes Lipitor for high cholesterol. He was admitted to the hospital 2 days ago with cellulitis and has been on intravenous antibiotics for 24 hours. His condition is improving.
  • Patient C: A 44-year-old man who takes metformin for type II diabetes. He was hospitalized for an exestuation of asthma eight hours ago. He is being given high dose steroids and oxygen to help his breathing.

Discussion 2

Vancomycin:

A patient is prescribed vancomycin for a gram-positive organism. The nurse on the shift before you stated in report that they could not find an IV pump, so they just hung the vancomycin and let it run to gravity. When you assess your patient, you notice flushing of the skin, a rash starting to appear, and the patient is becoming hypotensive.

  1. What do you suspect is happening with this patient?
  2. What is the cause of this rash? What could have been done to prevent this adverse effect to this patient?

Nursing Post Research Example

World Health Organization’s Discussion

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World Health Organization’s Discussion

To Prepare:

  • Review the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global health agenda and select one global health issue to focus on for this Assignment.
  • Select at least one additional country to compare to the U.S. for this Assignment.
  • Reflect on how the global health issue you selected is approached in the U.S. and in the additional country you selected.
  • Review and download the Global Health Comparison Matrix provided in the Resources. World Health Organization’s Discussion

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The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Global Health Comparison Matrix; 1-page Plan for Social Change)

Part 1: Global Health Comparison Matrix

Focusing on the country you selected and the U.S., complete the Global Health Comparison Matrix. Be sure to address the following:

  • Consider the U.S. national/federal health policies that have been adapted for the global health issue you selected from the WHO global health agenda. Compare these policies to the additional country you selected for study.
  • Explain the strengths and weaknesses of each policy.
  • Explain how the social determinants of health may impact the global health issue you selected. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Using the WHO’s Organization’s global health agenda as well as the results of your own research, analyze how each country’s government addresses cost, quality, and access to the global health issue selected.
  • Explain how the health policy you selected might impact the health of the global population. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Explain how the health policy you selected might impact the role of the nurse in each country.
  • Explain how global health issues impact local healthcare organizations and policies in both countries. Be specific and provide examples.

Part 2: A Plan for Social Change

Reflect on the global health policy comparison and analysis you conducted in Part 1 of the Assignment and the impact that global health issues may have on the world, the U.S., your community, as well as your practice as a nurse leader.

In a 1-page response, create a plan for social change that incorporates a global perspective or lens into your local practice and role as a nurse leader. World Health Organization’s Discussion

  • Explain how you would advocate for the incorporation of a global perspective or lens into your local practice and role as a nurse leader.
  • Explain how the incorporation of a global perspective or lens might impact your local practice and role as a nurse leader.
  • Explain how the incorporation of a global perspective or lens into your local practice as a nurse leader represents and contributes to social change. Be specific and provide examples.

World Health Organization’s Discussion