What is generating the most visits to the emergency room or hospital admission in your community?

Approved Topic List: Choosing Your Field Project Topic with a Primary Prevention Focus

 

Note: You may not log any work on your field project until you are enrolled in Community

Health and Population-Focused Nursing Field Experience/Community Health and Population-

Focused Nursing Clinical and have selected your topic.

 

What is a Primary Prevention?

The Community Health Nursing practicum requires a field project. The project focuses on

primary prevention. Primary prevention is the prevention of disease, injury, disability or

premature death before they occur.

 

First Steps in Choosing a Field Project Topic

First, consider what might be an issue of public health concern in your own community. The

pertinent questions to consider are:

ï‚· What is the biggest contributor to disease (morbidity) and premature death

(mortality) in your community?

ï‚· What are the controversial community health concerns discussed in your local

newspaper?

ï‚· What do you believe people in your community are most concerned about related to

health?

ï‚· What is generating the most visits to the emergency room or hospital admission in

your community?

ï‚· What do you believe is reducing the quality of life in your community?

 

Possible Topic Areas to Choose for Field Project

Access to Healthcare

ï‚· access to mental health services

ï‚· access to dental health services

ï‚· access to health services

ï‚· promotion of health literacy

Alcohol and Drug Use

ï‚· responsible alcohol consumption

ï‚· prevention of drug abuse, including

– IV drug use

– prescription drug use

Child Health

ï‚· prevention of neonatal mortality

ï‚· prevention of unintentional childhood injuries, including:

– sudden unexpected infant death (SUID)

– poisoning

– drowning

– motor vehicle related (child safety seat and seat belt use)

– sports related

– pedestrian related

ï‚· prevention of child abuse

ï‚· promotion of vaccination

Disabled

ï‚· promotion of health and well-being, including

– access to disability related services and devices,

 

 

– limit barriers to participating in home, work, school, or community activities

Disaster Preparedness

ï‚· prevention of adverse health consequences caused by natural and human caused

disasters

HIV/AIDS

ï‚· prevention of HIV/AIDS, including

– sexual transmission

– prenatal transmission

– IV drug use transmission

Oral Health

ï‚· prevention of dental caries

Obesity/Nutrition

ï‚· prevention of overweight and obesity through healthy nutrition and physical activity

ï‚· prevention of food deserts

Physical Environment

ï‚· promotion of healthy physical environment, including

– air quality

– land quality

– water quality

Seniors

ï‚· prevention of falls

ï‚· prevention of social isolation

ï‚· promotion of vaccination

Sexual Health

ï‚· Prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

Social Environment

ï‚· safe, affordable, quality housing (prevention of homelessness)

Tobacco

ï‚· prevention of tobacco use

ï‚· prevention of smoking

Unintentional Injuries

ï‚· prevention of workplace injuries

ï‚· prevention of motor vehicle related death/injuries

– prevention of pedestrian injury and death (includes bicyclists)

Violence

ï‚· prevention of domestic violence/intimate partner violence

ï‚· prevention of dating violence

ï‚· prevention of gang violence

ï‚· prevention of community violence

ï‚· prevention of bullying/cyber-bullying

ï‚· prevention of suicide/depression

ï‚· Prevention of human/sex trafficking

Women’s and Maternal Health

ï‚· prevention of unintended pregnancies

ï‚· lack of breastfeeding/promotion of breastfeeding

ï‚· promotion of vaccination

 

Resources to Start Your Topic Choice Process

ï‚· Healthy People 2020

 

 

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