MSN6026 Unit 7 Discussion (dq1+dq2) Latest 2019 January

MSN6026 - Biopsychosocial Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice II

Unit 7 Discussion

DQ1 Applying Levels of Prevention to a Population-Based Health Issue

The ultimate goal in population-based health care is to improve the health of the client—whether that client is an individual or an entire community. The best way to decrease or omit the impact a health issue may have upon a client is to keep the client healthy, but this is not always possible. Even if the client’s health is already compromised, a health care provider can introduce ways to lessen the problem’s impact. Through the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention, a health provider can design interventions that have the best chances to keep the client as healthy as possible.

For this discussion, use the health issue and population for which you developed your policy proposal in your Unit 6 assignment and address the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for initial postings found in the Faculty Expectations Message (FEM).

Explain how you would apply a primary level of prevention.

What would be the benefits and challenges of applying this level to your health issue and target population?

Explain how you would apply a secondary level of prevention.

What would be the benefits and challenges of applying this level to your health issue and target population?

Explain how you would apply a tertiary level of prevention.

What would be the benefits and challenges of applying this level to your health issue and target population?

Response Guidelines

In your response post, address one or more of the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for response posts found in the FEM.

Which level of prevention presented by your peer will have the biggest positive impact on their chosen health issue and target population? Explain why you think this.

Review the challenges acknowledged by your peer, and provide a potential solution for one of them.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Concisely explain complicated subject matter to a specific audience.

Explain the benefits of applying a level of prevention to improving outcomes for a specific health care issue or population.

Identify levels of prevention relevant to a specific health care issue or population.

Use evidence to support claims.

DQ2 Leveraging Health Policies to Support Prevention

Some of the most effective interventions and prevention programs utilized the development of health policies as stepping stones to achieving their goals. For example, secondhand smoke was shown to be very detrimental to lung health. It was linked to cancer development and to increased risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Through the development of policies, such as prohibiting smoking inside restaurants, the rate of exposure to secondhand smoke dropped dramatically, thereby reducing lung cancer, and other related health issues.

In your initial post, address the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for initial postings found in the Faculty Expectations Message (FEM).

Propose a new health care policy (or summarize an existing one) that could support one or more of the levels of prevention that you wrote about in your first discussion post for this unit.

Analyze the ways in which the health policy could be leveraged to support the levels of prevention that are relevant to it.

Explain the potential benefits and challenges to leveraging the health policy.

Response Guidelines

In your response post, address one or more of the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for response posts found in the FEM.

Suggest one or more additional ways that your peer's health care policy could be leveraged to support the levels of prevention they are writing about.

Review the challenges acknowledged by your peer, and provide a potential solution for one of them.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Analyze how leveraging health care policies to support levels of prevention leads to improvements in care.

Apply APA formatting.

Concisely explain complicated subject matter to a specific audience.

Explain how a health care policy supports one or more levels of intervention.

Identify contemporary evidence (from within the last five years) relevant to a specific topic.

Use evidence to support claims.