Community-based resource partners

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Scenario

The preceptor wants to encourage senior nursing students to learn more about how public health nurse professionals collaborate with community-based resource partners. As a senior nursing student, you are asked to interview a public health nurse professional working in a community clinic, the health department, or a program that specifically deals with vulnerable populations.

You will need to prepare interview questions, contact a public health nurse professional to schedule the interview, perform the interview, and prepare a thank you email with a summary of the interview.

Instructions

Part One – Questions for Interview

Prepare six interview questions that identify:

  • The role of the public health nurse professional in the community.
  • The populations served by the organization.
  • The collaboration that occurs with community-based resource partners.
  • To address the needs of specific populations.
  • To disseminate relevant information to the community.

Part Two – Interview

Conduct an interview with a public health nurse professional by:

  • Scheduling the interview
  • Determine how the interview will take place (over the phone, in person, Skype, Google Hangout, or a web-conferencing tool).
  • Determine when the interview will be (date and time).
  • Documenting the responses to the interview questions and include the following contact information:
  • The full name of the public health nurse professional.
  • The name of the organization the public health nurse is employed.
  • Phone number of the organization.
  • Work email address of public health nurse professional.

Part Three – Thank You Email

Prepare a thank you email to the public health nurse professional that:

  • Provides the public health nurse professional with two suggested resources for information to support their community.
  • Concludes with a thank you statement and summary paragraph of the interview.
  • Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the interview questions, interview responses document, and thank you email.