Week 7 Discussion: Communities and Disaster Preparedness

Week 7 Discussion: Communities and Disaster Preparedness (Graded)

Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is for learners to identify ways their community is helping members be prepared for potential disasters including the importance of collaboration.

Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcome:

CO4 Analyze the professional nursing roles in a variety of community settings (PO7)
CO5 Utilize a collaborative approach to address factors that influence population health (PO2)

Discussion Question

Think about disasters your community has or could potentially face. Now, think about how your community is helping its members prepare.

Explore your community and find an advertisement that represents helping community members be prepared for a disaster.
Examples could be a billboard, poster at a bus stop, marquee sign, flyer, yard sign and more. Example: Sign advertising ‘free’ flu vaccinations at a local pharmacy.
Upload that picture into the discussion.
To have it display in your post:

Click the embed image (looks like a picture of a mountain),
Choose the header Canvas
Go to My files, choose the Upload file
Click on the image you want to display
Choose Open
Click Update
Describe the message the advertisement is conveying.
Describe how the message impact preparedness.
If you cannot find any advertisement in your community, describe a type of advertisement for disaster preparedness you think would be most beneficial to your community and how it would be best conveyed.
Next, identify one community setting that is impacted by the disaster advertisement you shared
Settings:
Correctional facilities
Home health
Schools
Forensic areas
Hospice
Faith communities
Occupational health
Analyze at least one nursing role (refer to Week 6 lesson, MY WEEK 6 PAPER WAS ABOUT 3 REGISTERED NURSES LEARNING ABOUT SUBSTANCE ABUSE) related to disaster preparedness in that setting. Example: In the school setting, what actions and interventions would be involved with the nurse as coordinator of disaster preparedness?
Identify at least one key stakeholder related to the setting that a CHN could collaborate with regarding disaster preparedness. Include why this collaboration is important.
Your discussion post should look like:

Uploaded picture
Paragraph one: Describe the message the advertisement is conveying and how the message impact preparedness.
Paragraph two: Identify one community setting that is impacted by the disaster advertisement you shared. Analyze at least one nursing role related to disaster preparedness in that setting.
Paragraph three: Identify at least one key stakeholder related to the setting that a CHN could collaborate with regarding disaster preparedness. Include why this collaboration is important.
Resources: Where did you find your data?

TEXTBOOK (USE AS A REFERENCE & ANOTHER 2 SCHOLARLY ARTICLE LESS THAN 7 YEARS)
Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2019). Community/Public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (7th ed.). Saunders/Elsevier.

Chapter 26: Communicable Disease, pp.518-529
Chapter 29: Natural and Man-made Disasters, pp. 589-611
Required Website
Federal Emergency Management Agency. (n.d.). Ready. https://www.ready.gov/ (https://www.ready.gov/