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N335: Health Promotion with Children, Families, and Communities
Course Schedule & Activity Grid ~ Fall 2011
Date
Tues September 6
On-campus
Topic
Introduction & Overview
Readings
Syllabus, Activity Grid, & Blogging
Requirements
Learning Activities
CETL/BITS Training for blogs. Blog
groups pre-assigned- check D2L for
your group. Try to have at least one
person from your group bring a laptop
to the first class.
Thurs September 8
On-campus
Community/Aggregate as Client
Population-focused Practice
History of PHN
Nies & McEwen: Chaps 1 -4
D2L Online Discussion: Description of
your childhood community. Complete
this online assignment prior to class.
Tues September 13
On-campus
Nursing Process in the
N & M: Chaps 6-7
Community
Public Health Intervention Wheel Article: Public Health Intervention
Wheel (posted in D2L)
PPT: posted in D2L
Nursing Process (cont)
Same as above
Thurs September 15
On-line
Blog: Teaching-learning project w/PHN
Intervention Wheel. Using the T-L
project completed last semester in
N240, every student will respond to the
following items:
1.Identify how one intervention from
the PH Wheel could be applied to the
T-L project;
2. Discuss what would be required to
implement this PH intervention;
3. Use one article from public health
nursing to support your identified
intervention and provide the citation
using APA format.
Small group work: Time for groups to
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work on Windshield survey project
Tues September 20
On-campus
Epidemiology
Communicable Diseases
Thurs September 22
On-campus
Epidemiology (cont)
Communicable Diseases
N & M: Chap 5 and 25 (pgs 489497)
PPT: posted in D2L
N & M: Chap 4 and 25 (pgs 489497)
Tues September 27
On-campus
U.S. Health Economics & Policy
Policy, Politics & Legislation
N & M: Chaps 10-12
PPT: posted in D2L
Thurs September 29
On-line
U.S & Global Health Policy
Comparisons
Articles: TR Reid
S Bezruchka
(posted in D2L)
DVD: Rx for Survival (in-class)
Blog: After reading the articles blog
leaders will respond to the following:
1.) Discuss two myths that you believed
prior to reading Reid’s article & what
informed your thinking;
2.) Discuss two policies in other
countries that improve access to care,
reduce costs, or in general, improve the
health care system for the population;
3.) Could these two policies be enacted
in the US? If yes, how? If no, what are
the barriers? How could PHNs assist to
overcome these barriers?
4.) According to the article by
Bezruchka, how could the US improve
its social safety net during economic
recessions?
Small group work: Time for groups to
work on Windshield survey project
Tues October 4
On-campus
Environmental Health: Guest
Speakers
N & M: Chap 14
PPT: posted in D2L
Due: Windshield Survey Group Paper
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Thurs October 6
On-line
Environmental Hazard
N & M: Chap 14
Blog: Blog leaders will respond to the
following: Describe 1 environmental
hazard identified through the group
windshield survey. Answer the
following questions:
1.) Who is most at risk from this
hazard?
2.) What specific health consequences
exist related to this hazard?
3.) What can PHNs do to reduce this
type of environmental hazard?
Upload 1 photo of the environmental
hazard to support your discussion.
Location of the photo should not be
identifiable while blogging discussion
should not contain any identifiable
information.
Tues October 11
On-campus
Thurs October 13
Online
Exam 1
American Red Cross: Guest
Speakers
PPT: posted in D2L
Family Theory
N & M: Chap 20
Blog: Blog leaders will respond to the
following: Connect family content to
personal family:
1. Complete either an ecomap or
genogram for your family of
origin or your current family (if
married w/children) and blog
about what you learned
2. Choose one family theory &
apply it to your own family
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3. Do not use family names or any
identifiable information in
postings.
Tues October 18
On-campus
Thurs October 20
Online
Family Theory: Guest Speaker
N & M: Chap 20
Vulnerable families: Poverty
Article: L. Gottleib, MD (posted n
D2L)
and
Article: D. Bornstein (link below)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.co
m/2011/07/28/treating-the-causenot-the-illness/
Tues October 25
On-campus
Child & Adolescent Health
Overview
Communication
Screening
Children and Adolescents:
Disasters
Hazards
Hockenberry & Wilson (9th Edition)
Pages 117-138
Nies and McEwen Chapter 16
Thurs October 27
Online
1) Baldwin,S. Robinson, A.,
Barlow P. and Fargason, C.A.
(2006) Moving hospitalized children
all over the Southeast: Interstate
transfer of pediatric patients during
Hurricane Katrina.
Pediatrics, 117: S416 –S4120.
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0099O
Blog: Blog leaders will respond to the
following: After reading the articles,
blog about your initial response to the
family’s situation & the physician’s
efforts to “treat” her young patient, as
well as efforts outlined in the NY Times
piece to address poverty.
In addition, answer the following
questions:
1.) Identify 2 specific ways poverty
affects individual/family health
2.) Identify 2 specific ways poverty
affects a community’s health
3.) Identify 2 specific interventions
from the PH Wheel that PHNs can
employ to address poverty
Blog: Blog leaders will respond to the
following:
Read the article by Baldwin,
Robinson, Barlow & Fargason.
Blog: Answer the following questions
in the blog:
1) What was one thing that struck you
from the article?
2) What were the authors comments
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2) Trials and Tribulations of
Protecting Children from
Environmental Hazards
Bruce P. Lanphear, Jerome Paulson
and Sandra Beirne
Environmental Health Perspectives
Vol. 114, No. 10 (Oct., 2006), pp.
1609-1612 Published by: Brogan &
Partners Article Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3838189
regarding pediatric resources on S419?
3) What are the implications for nurses
related to pediatric resources during a
disaster?
Application
4) Identify what nurses can do to
improve disaster preparedness for
hospitalized children in relation to the
public health wheel.
Small Group Work: Disaster Paper
Interview community contact this week
if not done previously
Tues November 1
On-campus
Thurs November 3
Online
Children and unintentional
injuries
Health Deviations in Childhood:
Fears, Coping, and Play
Health Deviations in Childhood:
Fears, Coping, and Play
Injury Statistics:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/duip/duip.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/Leading
Causes.html
Injuries: Hockenberry & Wilson (9th
Edition) pages 509-520
Stress and Fear: p 480, p 569, p600,
p 664, p 854, p 855
Stress and Fear: p 480, p 569, p600,
p 664, p 854, p 855
Blog: Model Representing Childhood
Fears Related to Age based on the
Hockenberry & Wilson text reading
for this week. Blog leaders will
respond to the following:
1) Upload to blog
2) Describe age group model represents
3) Describe fear
4) Describe what model represents
5) Do not base on individual experience
6) Do not use any personally
identifiable information
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Small Group Work: Meet with group
on disaster paper Small Group Work:
Meet with group on disaster paper
Tues November 8
On-campus
Thurs November 10
On-campus
Tues November 15
On-campus
Thurs November 17
On-campus
Physical & Developmental
Assessment
Physical & Developmental
Assessment continues
Caring for a Child with an Acute
Illness
Communicable Diseases
Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Types of Immunity
Hockenberry & Wilson (9th Edition)
pages 138-178
Hockenberry & Wilson (9th Edition)
Pages 8 – 9 (illness), 138-178
(assessment), and 1014-1017
(illness).
Hockenberry & Wilson (9th Edition)
Pages 495-509.
Due: Disaster group paper
Exam 2
CHN Panel: Roles &
Responsibilities (Pam &
Melyssa)
Tues November 22
Online
Children in the Community
Setting
Health Promotion
Choose one of the following issues
and read about the issue:
1. Obesity
http://www.healthiergeneration.or
g/teens.aspx?id=3411
2. Bullying
http://www.getreadyforflu.org/natio
nshealthyyou/pdfs/HealthyYouBully
ing.pdf
3. Infections
http://www.getreadyforflu.org/natio
nshealthyyou/pdfs/HealthyYouTatto
osPiercings.pdf
4.Oral health
http://www.getreadyforflu.org/natio
Blog: Choose one health issue. Blog
leaders will respond to the following:
Describe a health promotion activity
to address this issue
1. Describe the scope of the issue – such
as how many children are affected by
the issue (Incidence or Prevalence)
2. Describe why you chose this issue
(such as number of people impacted,
costs associated with condition, severity
of issue, improved quality of life)
3. Describe two effective methods to
promote health and the age range this
method is effective for
4. Provide one link to an additional
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nshealthyyou/pdfs/HealthyYouOral quality resource you found online
Health.pdf
related to this issue
5. Eating disorder
http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?
Section=By_Illness&template=/Con
tentManagement/ContentDisplay.cf
m&ContentID=102975
6. Noise Induced Hearing Loss
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/teenwor
kers/hazards_noise_hearingloss.htm
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7. Concussion
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubme
dhealth/PMH0001802/
Thurs November 24
NO CLASS: Thanksgiving Day
Tues November 29
On-campus
Pediatric Health Issues in the
Community: Home & School
Nies and McEwen Chapter 29
Thurs December 1
On-campus
Hydration and Dehydration
Pain Assessment & Management
Hockenberry & Wilson (9th
Edition) pages 1052-1053
Pages 1089-1100
"My child can't keep anything
down!" Interviewing parents who
bring their preschoolers to the
emergency department for diarrhea,
vomiting, and dehydration.
Graham JM; Fitzpatrick EA; Black
KJ
Pediatric Emergency Care.
26(4):251-6, 2010 Apr.
Tues December 6
Respiratory
Hockenberry & Wilson (9th
Blog: Blog leaders will respond to the
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Edition) pages 1181 – 1201
Online
Thurs December 8
On-campus
Tues December 13
Online
Child with Allergies
Child with Asthma
Child with Allergies
Child with Asthma
Final Exam
Monday December 19
5-7 pm
following:
Access the air quality at:
http://www.airnow.gov/
Go to airnow.gov and find today’s air
quality forecast
Click on Wisconsin
Blog about the air conditions found the
day you looked at Wisconsin
Discuss the following on the blog:
1) What are the categories of alerts and
what do the categories mean?
2) How would a
parent/caregiver/daycare with a child
with respiratory issues or child with
respiratory issues use this site?
Hockenberry & Wilson (9th
Edition) pages 1263-1280
Blog:
1) This is the end of the course.
The blog this week is a
Reflection Blog. Every student
will take 15 minutes to reflect on
what you have learned and
respond to the following.
2) Describe what you have learned
in this course regarding the role
of the nurse in collaboration
with children, families, health
care professionals, and
community agencies.
3) You may choose one health
issue to reflect upon or look at
the issues broadly.
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