As a community of practice, your task for this week is to collaborate with professionals across the health care system. With your community of practice, in the Discussion, find a gap in care or social determinant that often results in poor health care outcomes. You will begin to take the lead in advocating for and collaborating with others to improve the health care outcomes for populations at risk.
Practicum Discussion: During this week, you will identify a population at risk in your community(African Americans at risk for hypertension). This population will be the basis for your Practicum Discussions and your individual presentations over the next 6 weeks, as well as the focus of your final Powerpoint. Some of the places you might consider looking for information to substantiate and support your ideas about populations at risk in your communities are your local health department, the CDC, and the many evidence-based websites that the CDC supports, such as the CDC Wonder (http://wonder.cdc.gov/). You may also review the work of other community groups that focus on improving health care outcomes for your community. You should begin to support your selection of population and ideas about their health care problems through the use of health data and scholarly literature.
By Day 4
Post your response to the following:
Briefly describe your community and then describe your practice setting.
What are the determinants of health in your community? (https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-determinants-health)
What are the most prevalent health problems in your community or in your practice?
Choose a population at risk and describe the health problem specific to that population.(African Americans in the south at risk for Hypertension) Remember that you will have to define the population’s age, culture, religious beliefs, foods, and traditions eventually as your project progresses.
Support your response with references from professional nursing literature.
For all posts, be sure to use evidence from the readings and include in-text citations. Avoid quotes; paraphrase to incorporate evidence into your own writing. A reference list is required. Use the most current evidence (usually ≤ 5 years old).
