(Answered) NR443 Week 8: Future Directions

This week’s graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO).

  • CO9: Examine future trends in community health nursing, including the impact of information systems and evidence-based practice. (PO8)

Review this week’s lesson and assigned reading on the nurses’ role in population health, and reflect on what you have learned in this course. Address the following questions.

  • What future concerns are likely to impact public health?
  • How do you see global health concerns impacting your community?
  • Identify one way that you can implement population health in your community or workplace.

Please share specific examples

Solution:

Various scholars have tried to demystify that there exists a plethora of future concerns that are likely to impact public health. One of such concerns is the growing numbers of elderly people in the country (Nies & McEwen, 2015). Precisely, in the next one decade, the number of citizens in the United States who are over 75 years will increase significantly from 17 million to 19 million (Stoddart & Evans, 2017). This is an implication that in the near future, there will be a drastic increase in funding for long-term care as well as the development of alternatives to nursing homes….Please click the icon below to purchase full solution at $5