Healthy People 2020 Reflection

Our group has gone over multiple topics we thought would be appropriate for this project. Some of us agreed and some disagreed on certain topics. Our group ended up picking Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. Throughout this project, each member obtained a different influence on this assignment. One group member, this is his first nursing class so most material was new information. As we continue our education here at Bryant & Stratton we are continuing our professional development.

Our group was surprised with the fact that Healthy People 2020 is made of a group of people who want the state or nation as a whole to be healthier by 2020.

This website for more information you can attend upcoming event or even view missed webinars. Something as a group we were discussing and slightly disappointed by is the fact that more fields are not involved. The only time we’ve hear of Healthy People 2020 was at Bryant & Stratton. In EMS, Communities are starting to put paramedics out in to the area and created community paramedicine. Community paramedicine is trying to influence patients to be healthier. Sometimes being healthier is just taking their medications for diabetes, Medications for hypertension and even smoking cessation.

This project will help shape our future of practice in nursing by helping our patients become healthier no matter what area or nursing. As we stated in our PowerPoint, being a nurse is teaching patients the ways to control their risk factors. Another is assuring patients they’re capable of recovery and prevention. Sometimes a goal of nurse is just to provide patients with support.