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Assignment
Topic: RN Advocacy: Vulnerable Populations and Social Justice
Social Justice: "right to fair and equitable treatment regardless of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) factors".
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH): Factors that influence health.
Choose two of the SDoH list below to talk on your two separate original post discussion. Three paragraph each discussion
1. Income and Income Distribution
2. Education
3. Unemployment and Job Security
4. Employment and Working Conditions
5. Early Childhood Development
6. Food Insecurity
7. Housing
8. Social Exclusion
9. Social Safety Network
10. Health Services
11. Indigenous Status
12. Gender
13. Race
14. Disability
Healthy Public Policy: Governments choose what to pay for, subsidize and incentivize (i.e., medication, dental, hospital, incarceration, rehabilitation programs, childcare). Decisions are political and may change with each government elected. Variation across provinces and municipalities exists.
Advocacy examples:
1. Climate and environment impact on health
2. Reduce marketing of unhealthy foods to kids
3. Alcohol excise tax
4. HPV and STIs-vaccines, access to condoms, education
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Prompt
There are many factors that influence patient and population health. There are also many factors that influence how nurses are able to support a healthy population.
1. Reflect on the RN role in social justice by connecting the social determinants of health to both the patient and nurse experience.
2. Identify one issue in your practice, examine why it is occurring, and propose recommendations for change that are supported by public policy and the literature.
For example:
3. Reflect on your patient population characteristics and demographics by assessing the key SDoH that are impacting patient health.
4. How does this have an impact on health?
5. What strategies/supports are currently in place to address this (at the organizational, community or government level)?
6. What else needs to be done or is being done? Get the instant assignment help.
7. How can nurses (individually) or more collectively advocate for change?
8. From the nursing perspective, how can nurses be better prepared or supported so that they can actually support patients? What are the barriers?