• Refer to the “Population-Focused Nurse Practitioner Competencies” found in the Week 1 Learning Resources, and consider the quality measures or indicators advanced nursing practice nurses must possess in your specialty of interest.
• Refer to your Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form you submitted in Week 1, and consider your strengths and opportunities for improvement.

Learning From Experiences

• Revisit the goals and objectives from your Practicum Experience Plan. Explain the degree to which you achieved each during the practicum experience.
• Reflect on the three (3) most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was most challenging about each?
• What did you learn from this experience?
• What resources were available?
• What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients?
• What would you do differently?
• How are you managing patient flow and volume?
• How can you apply your growing skillset to be a social change agent within your community?

Global Health infographic Assignment Guidelines and Rubric

 Purpose

• This assignment aims to enhance your understanding of key global health issues and competencies by creating an informative and visually appealing infographic.

Topic Selection

• Choose a Global Health Issue: Select a specific global health issue that aligns with the global health determinants. Ensure the issue is complex and multifaceted.

Research and Data Gathering

• In-Depth Research: Conduct comprehensive research on your chosen global health issue. Gather data, evidence-based information, and epidemiological trends from reputable sources.

Infographic Creation

• Organize your infographic into the following sections, aligning with the competencies:
  • Analyzing and Prioritizing Global Health Issues
    • Issue Highlight: Provide a concise title or introduction for your chosen global health issue.
    • Data and Trends: Present data, statistics, and trends related to the issue from diverse and credible sources.
    • Rationale: Explain why this issue is a significant health challenge in various populations and regions, considering social, economic, and environmental factors.
  • Evaluating Socioeconomic Impact
    • Visual Representation: Use graphics, charts, or diagrams to illustrate how socioeconomic factors influence health outcomes.
    • Relationship Visualization: Create visual elements that show the interplay between poverty, education, access to healthcare, and disease prevalence.
    • Brief Strategies: Offer brief insights or strategies to address health disparities related to socioeconomic factors.
  • Examining Ethical Implications
    • Ethical Context: Include a dedicated section highlighting the ethical dimensions of your chosen global health issue.
    • Specific Issues: Identify and visually represent specific ethical dilemmas or human rights violations associated with the issue.
    • Ethical Solutions: Suggest interventions or ethical approaches to protect vulnerable populations and ensure ethical healthcare practices.
  • Culturally Sensitive Health Promotion
    • Cultural Sensitivity: Emphasize the importance of cultural sensitivity in health promotion.
    • Cultural Impact: Provide examples or visuals depicting how cultural diversity impacts health outcomes.
    • Age-Appropriate Interventions: Suggest culturally sensitive interventions for different age groups, with a focus on preventive care.
  • Interprofessional Collaboration
    • Visualize Collaboration: Create visuals that represent the concept of interprofessional collaboration in the context of global health.
    • Communication and Coordination: Include elements that emphasize effective communication, coordination, and teamwork among diverse healthcare professionals and stakeholders.
    • Benefits of Diversity: Highlight the benefits of integrating diverse perspectives and expertise in addressing global health challenges.

APA Guidelines

• Title of the Infographic Assignment
• Your Name
• Institutional Affiliation
• Date
• In-Text Citations
  • If you use information or data from sources within your infographic, provide in-text citations. Use author-date format. For example: (Smith, 2022) or (World Health Organization, 2020).
• References List
  • If you refer to sources within your infographic, include a separate reference list. Format it according to APA style. Each source cited in your infographic should have a corresponding full citation in the reference list.
  • Use minimally 3 peer reviewed sources, written within the last 5 years.
• Fonts and Formatting
  • Ensure your infographic is legible by using a clear and consistent font style and size.
• Figures and Images
  • If your infographic includes figures, charts, or images from external sources, cite them in the figure caption, and include the full citation in your reference list.
• Submission Format
  • PowerPoint, PDF, PNG or JPEG

Sample Outline for Concept Analysis Paper

See chapter 3 in McEwen and Wills. Use the method by Walker and Avant Box 3-1 ( p 60

I. Title Page: Select one of the following topics

a.
Advanced Practice Competency: A Concept Analysis

b.
Diversity in Nursing: A Concept Analysis

c.
Social Determinants of Health: A Concept Analysis

Format Outline(s)

II. Introduction (
Using Walker and Avant)

a. What is the concept selected-state and define the terms

b. Aims or purposes of this analysis-why are you doing the analysis?

c. Discuss all possible uses of the concept briefly-how is the concept used in different contexts, examples and then how are you using it for this paper

d. Determine the defining attributes-regardless of where it exists, what are the common identifiers that the person has this characteristic

e. Identify a model case-Use the attributes you’ve identified and highlight them in a case. A case that is hypothetical, from a text, or that you have experienced in practice.

f. Identify a borderline case and contrary case-what is a case that is something like the model case, but misses some attributes

g. Identify antecedents and consequences-what happens before the concept instance is identified; what happens as a result of acquiring it?

h. Define empirical referents- how do you know that what you are seeing is really it? How would you measure it? Or know that you are reserving it?

A 40 year old female presents with complaint of a headache for one week. Reports a “head cold” 3 weeks ago.  Thought it was getting better, but sinus symptoms are back and even worse.

Describes the headache is located across her forehead; feels like pressure behind my eyes and unable to breathe out of nose. Also feels mucus running down the back of throat.  Pain sometimes severe (8/10) but with acetaminophen reduces to moderate (4/10) and occasionally mild (2/10).  Occasional nonproductive cough.  Feels feverish at times; noted frequent sneezing and no appetite. Bending over seems to make the headache worse.  “Acetaminophen improves my headache, but doesn’t take it away.” Taking Sudafed HCL 120 mg every 12 hours, with some relief. Symptoms are worse in the morning – awakes with a headache. Ranges from 2/10 at its best to 8/10. Difficulty with concentrating at job and feels very tired.