Health Improvement Proposal

NURS 459 – Primary Care    

Purpose of Assignment:

The purpose of this assignment is to develop a plan using RNs in an expanded role to improve the quality of care in a primary care clinic.  Leadership, professionalism.

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Student Approach to Assignment:

I had a personal approach to this assignment because I have family members close to me that have had complications from preventable diseases. This assignment was fun and informative to work on because I do eventually want to work in the primary health care setting, this assignment helped solidify the idea that primary care is where I feel I can do my best work on helping with preventable diseases.

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Reason for Inclusion of this Assignment in the Portfolio: 

            I included this assignment in my portfolio because I believe it adds diversity. Many times we think of nursing at the bedside in a hospital, but nurses can play a large role outside of the hospital and this assignment sheds light on that fact. This assignment represents me as a nurse because I believe in prevention and proactive health care rather than reactive healthcare.

 

• Nursing practice

  • Implements nursing care practices as appropriate to provide holistic health care to diverse populations across the lifespan

    • In this assignment I discuss the care for obesity and how to prevent it. While the main focus is on adults it is true that this can be applied throughout the lifespan, to include childhood obesity as well. Promoting health habits in children can lead to healthy habits in adults which in turn can reduce the occurrence of childhood and adult obesity. The approach is because I state that outside resources for prevention also can include support groups, personal trainers, dieticians, gym partnerships, in addition to help from medical professionals.