Please consider how you have developed the
knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable your achievement of the Course
Goals listed in the syllabus. Then write a minimum of a 1000 word APA-style
essay reflecting on how this course has helped you achieve these goals.
By the conclusion of
this course, you will be able to:
1.
Validate and evaluate
the use of epidemiology to identify major global issues in public health.
2.
Originate and elaborate
on both natural and man-made health concerns to include terrorism
and infectious diseases of global importance.
3.
Discuss advocacy for
vulnerable populations and diversity and then demonstrate cultural sensitivity
in care planning and collaboration.
4.
Critique the essential
elements of disaster and emergency interventions for health care systems.
5.
Assess major
organizations that are involved in global health and synthesize knowledge
of important global health priorities.
6.
Formulate and propose a
plan to address health concerns in regards to ethical, legal, social, and
public health policy, to express a concentration on interdisciplinary
collaboration.
Additional Information you can use or may be helpful:
1.
DNP Essential
V: Health Care Policy for Advocacy in Health Care Health Care Policy – whether it is created through
governmental actions, institutional decision making, or organizational
standards–creates a framework that can facilitate or impede the delivery of
health care services or the ability of the provider to engage in practice to
address health care needs. Thus, engagement in the process of policy
development is central to creating a health care system that meets the needs of
its constituents. Health policy influences multiple care delivery issues,
including health disparities, cultural sensitivity, ethics, the
internationalization of health care concerns, access to care, quality of care,
health care financing, and issues of equity and social justice in the delivery
of health care. Moreover, the DNP graduate is able to design, implement, and
advocate for health care policy that addresses issues of social justice and
equity in health care. The powerful practice experiences of the DNP graduate
can become potent influencers in policy formation. The DNP program prepares the
graduate to: 1. Critically analyze health policy proposals, health
policies, and related issues from the perspective of consumers, nursing, other
health professions, and other stakeholders in policy and public forums. 2.
Demonstrate leadership in the development and implementation of institutional,
local, state, federal, and/or international health policy. 3. Influence policy
makers through active participation on committees, boards, or task forces at
the institutional, local, state, regional, national, and/or international
levels to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes. 4. Educate others,
including policymakers at all levels, regarding nursing, health policy, and
patient care outcomes. 5. Advocate for the nursing profession within the policy
and healthcare communities. 6. Develop, evaluate, and provide leadership for
health care policy that shapes health care financing, regulation, and delivery.
7. Advocate for social justice, equity, and ethical policies within all
healthcare arenas.
2.
DNP Essential
VI: Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health
Outcomes – today?s complex,
multi-tiered health care environment depends on the contributions of highly
skilled and knowledgeable individuals from multiple professions. DNP members of
these teams have advanced preparation in the interprofessional dimension of
health care that enables them to facilitate collaborative team functioning and
overcome impediments to interprofessional practice. Because effective
interprofessional teams function in a highly collaborative fashion and are
fluid depending upon the patient’s needs, the leadership of high-performance
teams changes. Therefore, DNP graduates have preparation in methods of
effective team leadership and are prepared to play a central role in establishing
interprofessional teams, participating in the work of the team, and assuming
leadership of the team when appropriate. The DNP program prepares the graduate
to: 1. Employ effective communication and collaborative skills in the
development and implementation of practice models, peer review, practice
guidelines, health policy, standards of care, and/or other scholarly products.
2. Lead interprofessional teams in the analysis of complex practice and
organizational issues. 3. Employ consultative and leadership skills with
intraprofessional and interprofessional teams to create change in health care
and complex healthcare delivery systems.
3.
DNP Essential
VII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Improving the Health of a
Nation – clinical
prevention is defined as health promotion and risk reduction/illness prevention
for individuals and families. Population health is defined to include
aggregate, community, environmental/occupational, and cultural/socioeconomic
dimensions of health. Aggregates are groups of individuals defined by a shared
characteristic such as gender, diagnosis, or age. The implementation of
clinical prevention and population health activities is central to achieving
the national goal of improving the health status of the population of the
United States. DNP graduates engage in leadership to integrate and
institutionalize evidence-based clinical prevention and population health
services for individuals, aggregates, and populations. Consistent with these
national calls for action and with the longstanding focus on health promotion
and disease prevention in nursing curricula and roles, the DNP graduate has a
foundation in clinical prevention and population health. This foundation will
enable DNP graduates to analyze epidemiological, biostatistical, occupational,
and environmental data in the development, implementation, and evaluation of
clinical prevention and population health. Current concepts of public health,
health promotion, evidence-based recommendations, determinants of health,
environmental/occupational health, and cultural diversity and sensitivity guide
the practice of DNP graduates. In addition emerging knowledge regarding
infectious diseases, emergency/disaster preparedness, and intervention frame
DNP graduates? knowledge of clinical prevention and population health. The DNP
program prepares the graduate to: 1. Analyze epidemiological, biostatistical,
environmental, and other appropriate scientific data related to individual,
aggregate, and population health. 2. Synthesize concepts, including
psychosocial dimensions and cultural diversity, related to clinical prevention
and population health in developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions
to address health promotion/disease prevention efforts, improve health status/access
patterns, and/or address gaps in the care of individuals, aggregates, or
populations. 3. Evaluate care delivery models and/or strategies using concepts
related to community, environmental and occupational health, and cultural and
socioeconomic dimensions of health.
