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Hai-Duong Nguyen
Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (2008), a document providing nine
Essentials, a curricular framework that outlines the expected outcomes of graduates of baccalaureate
nursing programs. (AACN, 2008, p. 3) The Essentials includes necessary requirements and
recommendations for the core knowledge required of all healthcare professionals (AACN, 2008, p.
3).This passage will focus on Essential VII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health. Upon meeting
Essential VII, the baccalaureate graduate nurse will obtain knowledge and skills in health promotion
and disease prevention at the individual and population level (AACN, 2008, p. 3). For this paper, I will
discuss how my Community Assessment project (Nguyen, 2016) meets the Essential VII -
Exemplar
The piece of work I selected from the LEADERSHIP COURSE is the Congressional Letter (Nguyen,
2017. It is a letter written to a Congressman Cummings, an elected official who is an active member on
the Health Care Reform. The letter focuses on a selected population's health issue with
statistical/scientific support about the issue, and suggestive solutions. The community selected was
Langley Park, Maryland. The community was researched using different research methods including a
windshield survey. Healthy People 2020 was used as a guide for possible health concerns and three
Reflection
This example relates to Essential VII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health because the
assignment illustrated I can assess protective and predictive factors which influence the health of
communities, use evidence-based practices to guide health teaching, and using information
technologies in preventative care as mentioned in Essential VII (AACN, Pg. 24, 2008). By addressing
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health related needs I will increase my understanding of population health, which includes the areas of
health, illness, disease, disability, and mortality (AACN, Pg. 23, 2008). This project displays the my
ability to analyze a community and its population data to identify health concerns while making
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