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Assignment: Part 1: 1. What are social determinants of health?

2. Explain how social determinants of health contribute to the development of disease.

3. Describe the fundamental idea that the communicable disease chain model is designed to represent. Give an example of the steps a nurse can take to break the link within the communicable disease chain.

Part 2: 1. Select a global health issue affecting the international health community.

2. Briefly describe the global health issue and its impact on the larger public health care systems (i.e., continents, regions, countries, states, and health departments).

3. Discuss how health care delivery systems work collaboratively to address global health concerns and some of the stakeholders that work on these issues.

Part 3: Issue: Infection Control and Prevention

Topics: Cleaning and disinfection; Standards precaution and Cross-contamination

Place: University Plaza Nursing and Rehabilitation cente

1. Describe one internal and one external method for the dissemination of your evidence-based change proposal. For example, an internal method may be the hospital board, and an external method may be a professional nursing organization.

2. Discuss why it is important to report your change proposal to both of these groups. How will your communication strategies change for each group?

Part 4: Issue: Infection Control and Prevention

Topics: Cleaning and disinfection; Standards precaution and Cross-contamination

Place: University Plaza Nursing and Rehabilitation center

In order to evaluate an evidence-based practice project, it is important to be able to determine the effectiveness of your change.

1. Discuss one way you will be able to evaluate whether your project made a difference in practice.

Part 5: Darlene, age 32 years, has been having back pain for a number of years, ever since suffering a compressed L2 disc as the result of a motor vehicle accident that led to surgery and extensive physiotherapy. Now she is missing time from work as a secretary because of constant pain. Darlene has been referred to you for chronic pain.

1. As the nurse practitioner working with Darlene, what aspects of disorders of pain are important to understand?

2. How would you effectively manage Darlene's pain at this time?

Part 6: Next, identify ineffective teaching-learning strategies presented in the video, and discuss effective strategies the instructor could have implemented instead to avoid learning difficulties and promote critical thinking and active learning.

Incivility and bullying occur in the classroom as well as the clinical environment in a number of ways:

1) Student to student

2) Student to faculty

3) Faculty to faculty

4) Faculty to student

Incivility and bullying not only affect the well-being of the people involved, but it also puts patient safety at risk. Post your thoughts on some of the causes of incivility and bullying in the classroom and clinical environments, and suggest approaches that can be used to avoid this type of behavior.

Part 7: After viewing the video on classroom management, discuss the student behavior issues that were presented.

1. How could the instructor have managed those issues and the classroom environment in a way that would positively contribute to learning and proactively respond to student misconduct?