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E-Folio Submission for Essential VII

LaDonna D. Henderson

Frostburg State University

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E-Folio Submission for Essential VII

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essential VII of The Essentials of

Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (2008) is Clinical Prevention and

Population Health. Nurses play an essential role in overall community health by promoting

healthy practices and encouraging prevention efforts. To be successful in the community setting,

nurses must be able to work with all members of the population as well as be aware of how each

member of the community interacts with the surrounding environment.

Exemplar

To illustrate Essential VII, I chose the Community Health Assessment completed in my

Population-Focused Nursing Practice/Practicum course. Essential VII recognizes that in

population-focused nursing, the aggregate, community, or population is the unit of care (2008).

As a baccalaureate graduate, I will need to be able to identify ways to determine the health of a

community, plan education and prevention strategies, and work in collaboration with other

healthcare professionals to ensure the best possible outcomes are reached.

Reflection

The main focus of Essential VII is on health promotion and disease prevention at the

individual and population level (AACN, 2008). The Community Health Assessment assignment

was a major project for my population-focused class. After choosing a small community within

my local area, I completed a community profile inventory, a community needs assessment using

a windshield survey, and then analyzed that data to identify the top health problems in that

community. Then, I formulated goals and objectives for each of the health problems and made

recommendations based on the Healthy People 2020 Initiatives. The culmination of my project

was an audiovisual presentation summarizing my findings.

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References

American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, & Dc. (2008). The essentials of

baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice. Retrieved from

http://www.aacn.nche.edu/education-resources/BaccEssentials08.pdf

Healthy People 2020. (2017). Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov