Nursing Informatics - NUR 353 by Amanda Scheetz https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth Community Health Risk Assessment & Using Feedback to Improve Responses and Promote Readiness en-us 2020-02-02 21:12:49 UTC 2020-02-06 21:27:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3ed.png Community Health Risk Assessment ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439367611 Community Health Risk Assessments are evaluations of a community to find out what health risks they are prone to. They are used in public health programs (McGonigle& Mastrian 2018). Data can be collected about communities either from existing data, focus groups, statistics, health records, and making observations just from driving around the community. ]]> 2020-02-02 21:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439367611 Goals of community health risk assessments. ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439369120
  • What are  needs or issues in the community? 
  • Collaborations with multiple agencies in the community are vital. 
  • get resources 
  • get community to have increased awareness of the identified issues
  • take a proactive approach.
    • ]]>     2020-02-02 21:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439369120     Effective ways to identify community needs or risks. ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439370172 Just driving around the community can help bring better understanding of needs. 
    • demographics
    • close proximity to health facilities
    • grocery stores (how close and what kind)
    • transportation
    • violence 
    • mental health 
    • housing  
    ]]>     2020-02-02 21:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439370172     Role of nursing in relation to community health risk assessments. ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439371140 As nurses, we are always assessing our patients. We are constantly documenting risk assessments such fall and suicide risks. Nurses play a vital role in community health risk assessments also. Nurses can help identify certain needs of the community or risks that the community. At the very least, nursing documentation will help when data is being collected to identify risks and needs. When a plan is in place to provide education or share resources, nurses can help in implementing that plan. Nurses also can collaborate with other community agencies to provide input and feedback. ]]> 2020-02-02 21:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439371140 Here is an article on population health and an action plan for nursing. ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439372345 2020-02-02 22:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439372345 Action plan and implementation for Blue Island Community through collaboration between community and agencies in the community. ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439373377 2020-02-02 22:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439373377 Nursing and Community Health Risk Assessments ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439374386 2020-02-02 22:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439374386 Importance of Population Health data in Regional HIE and Future National HIN. ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439381587 Seamless shared data from not only health data, but also all hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, clinics, poison control, and environmental agencies are imperative to effectively and swiftly identify and implement action plans when assessing needs and emergencies. For this to happen, it has to start at the regional health information exchanges and eventually national health information network (McGonigle & Mastrian 2018). ]]> 2020-02-02 22:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439381587 Data mining and Social Media ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439383173 Data mining from internet searches related to illness and even social media posts from the population can be extremely helpful in predicting an outbreak or emergency situation at real time. As McGonigle & Mastrian (2018) state, great care and discernment must be used because not internet searches or social media is accurate. ]]> 2020-02-02 23:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439383173 And article on employee risk assessment with feedback. ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439384301 2020-02-02 23:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439384301 CDC tools for Patient Health Information Network Vocabulary Access and Distribution System (PHIN VADS) is a directory of standard vocabulary use to better share data. This would help greatly in providing quick feedback. ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439384445 2020-02-02 23:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439384445 Goal of HIE to promote readiness in the medical community ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439385819 2020-02-02 23:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439385819 CalRedi collects data rapidly to look out for disease outbreaks. They collect data from state and local levels in California. ascheetz86 https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439386449 2020-02-02 23:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ascheetz86/communityhealth/wish/439386449