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Topic: Alleviate or correct Distracted Driving in Atlanta, GA.

Your Portfolio Project for this class is a Community Action Plan designed to alleviate or correct a public health issue in your community. Your community can be your business, school, neighborhood, town or city of residence or birth, or county.

For Option #1, your Community Action Plan will be a professional portfolio that includes a written report and a slide presentation.

Below are some useful sites where you can find examples of the elements of an action plan.
http://www.epa.gov/communityhealth/

http://www.cityofchicago.org/dam/city/depts/cdph/tobacco_alchohol_and_drug_abuse/LGBTCommunityActionPlanHC.pdf

http://assets.thehcn.net/content/sites/arizona/MC_CHA2012.pdf

Final Paper Instructions:

1. The final case study should include four sections (Symptoms, Diagnosis, Cure, and Prevention). Each section should be about 1 page in length. Your entire paper must be 4-5 pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages, which must be included.
2. You must cite and integrate at least 2 credible sources in each of the four sections of the paper. You may use readings other than the textbook to meet this requirement. The paper should be based on references to scholarly materials (rather than on introductory textbooks, popular website writings, or musings, for example) and should support your claims with evidence.
3. Incorporate into this final plan any classmates’ critiques that you found useful as well as your instructor’s feedback.
4. List the key community members or partners that you plan on contacting, with an explanation why these individuals or organizations make sense as potential partners. This could include your list of potential partners created in Week 4 Critical Thinking Assignment Option #1, or your interview of one key partner completed in Week 4 Critical Thinking Option #2.
5. Include a special emphasis on either the demographics of the affected population or the economic implications, depending on what Critical Thinking assignment you completed for Week 5.
6. Include a realistic timeline for your plan. Discuss the time needed for campaigning, education, funding, building, and implementation. Use ideas created during week 6 Critical Thinking Assignments, either the option for annotated bibliography or that for the brainstorming draft feedback.
7. Refer to the Portfolio Project rubric for grading criteria.

Final Instructions for Slide Presentation:

1. The slide presentation describes the problem in your community and your action plan.
2. Your presentation must be 8-10 slides in length, not counting the title and reference slides.
3. Your presentation must be supported by at least two scholarly articles.
4. You may use a web-based slide presentation software such as Prezi, for example, or you may use PowerPoint. If you use a web-based tool, include the URL to your presentation in a Word document and upload it with your presentation.
5. The audience for this presentation will be community members or organizations you wish to educate about the public health issue and your proposed plan.
6. The purpose of this slide presentation is to educate the audience about the issue. Keep in mind that in real life you will have limited time to convince people of the gravity of the situation and to come on board with their support, so you want to be persuasive and get to the key points quickly and effectively.

Note: Be sure to submit both your written report and your slide presentation for this assignment. Both files should be uploaded in a single submission to the assignment submission page.

The paper and preliminary deliverables must be well written and formatted in conformity with the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.

See Portfolio Milestone file for topic. Paper is 5 pages in length, powerpoint presentation should be 8 slides.

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Please do a paragraph about this post with this instruction .

post most have 4 or more sentences .

you also have to have a high quality post from a content perspective. This means it also needs to do more than agree with or praise a class mate. If you agree with a classmate, explain why, give an example, share what you learned in the readings

It appears there are currently five nurses who are currently serving in Congress. The very first nurse to be elected into Congress was Eddie Bernice Johnson. She is currently serving her 11th term representing the 30th Congressional District of Texas. She is originally from Texas and served as a Chief Psychiatric Nurse at the VA Hospital in Dallas before she was elected. Last year, Johnson was involved in reintroducing The National Nurse Act, which would appoint a nurse-leader position to work alongside of the Surgeon General. The person elected into this position would, “…collaborate with health care leaders to address health disparities, set goals to improve the health of Americans, and raise the profile of the entire U.S. Public Health Service” (Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, 2015). She believes this position is very important because the health care reform aims for health promotion and disease prevention, which is largely a part of the Public Health Service’s general goal and responsibility.

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson represents the 30thdistrict of Texas. Congresswoman studied nursing at St. Mary’s College at the University of Notre Dame. After advancing her education and receiving a master’s degree, Congresswoman Johnson is the first nurse to be elected to the United States Congress.

Specific bills that have been supported by Congresswoman Johnson are as follows:

H.R.5475-Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2016-although this bill was recently proposed, Congresswoman Johnson is interested in improving the health of minority individuals. This bill specifically targets many areas such as data collection and reporting, health workforce diversity, and improvement of health care services.

H.R.2646- Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015- this bill has created programs that are extended and training is available which will allow mental health education to expand. Additionally, evidenced based interventions and the best available science into systems of care are utilized. There is also liability protection for professional volunteers within the mental health work field

When you have nurses in leadership positions, such as in Congress, the ability for all nurses’ voices and concerns have a better chance of being heard. Johnson believes that since nurses make up the largest profession in healthcare, their concerns and ideas are valid as far as the improvement towards the health status of this country. “Health care professionals are poised to lead the national movement toward improving public health, and the National Nurse for Public Health would provide the uniting voice and leadership to do so” (Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, 2015). So far the National Nurse Act has only been introduced to the House. It still needs to pass the House, pass the Senate, and then be signed into law by the President.

Overall, having a nurse in an elected position creates opportunity for growth and further development of bills and advocacy for all involved.