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IHP 501 Module Eight Activity Worksheet 

Complete this worksheet by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information. The purpose of this worksheet is to structure your submission to cover each of the relevant topics where the substance of your response is the focus instead of academic formatting. Your responses should be in paragraph format and comprehensively address all the directions and questions in the prompt.

Your Role: [Insert text.] 

United States of America 

Function

[Insert short response in one to two paragraphs.] 

Preparation

[Insert short response in one to two paragraphs.] 

Cultural Competence

[Insert short response in one to two paragraphs.] 

[Country A—Replace this heading with the name of your selected country.]
 

Function

[Insert short response in one to two paragraphs.] 

Preparation

[Insert short response in one to two paragraphs.] 

Cultural Competence

[Insert short response in one to two paragraphs.] 

[Country B—Replace this heading with the name of your selected country.]
 

Function

[Insert short response in one to two paragraphs.] 

Preparation

[Insert short response in one to two paragraphs.] 

Cultural Competence

[Insert short response in one to two paragraphs.]

Comparison

[Insert detailed response in several paragraphs.] 

References

  

[Cite sources according to APA style.] 

Through collaborative efforts with other healthcare professionals, interdisciplinary teams focus on improving individual, family, and community well-being. Therefore, your role within this interdisciplinary team becomes crucial. To be prepared to participate in a global setting, an understanding of your role as a healthcare provider functioning as a member of an interdisciplinary team is required.

By investigating the scholarly literature, you will answer the questions: What are the professional requirements and scope of practice of a person who fulfills your role on an interdisciplinary team in the specified country? What do you need to prepare to function in your role competently? What actions would be performed by your role on an interdisciplinary team? What is your role in an international context?

Prompt

To complete the provided worksheet, identify your role and compare your role on an interdisciplinary healthcare team in the United States to that same role in two other countries of your choice.

Note that you should cite at least three scholarly sources from your investigation. The evidence should not be older than five years. To access the Shapiro Library Guide: Nursing—Graduate, go to the Start Here section of the course.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1.
United States of America: Analyze your role in the United States in terms of its function and required preparation, as well as its importance in supporting a culturally competent, interdisciplinary healthcare team.

· Function: Describe the professional requirements and scope of practice of a person who fulfills your role on the interdisciplinary team in the specified country. In other words, what is the function of your role on the interdisciplinary team? What tasks can be anticipated, and how might those actions facilitate the function of the team?

· Preparation: Consider the preparation required to function in your role competently. In other words, what skills and supplies are required to perform the role appropriately in the specified culture?

· Cultural Competence: Assess your role as a culturally competent health worker on the interdisciplinary health team in the specified country. What is required for a person in your role to be culturally competent? For example, what are the unique cultural characteristics that should inform your practice? Describe the impact of a culturally competent interaction among healthcare workers on the team. How might a lack of cultural awareness or sensitivity negatively impact team function?

2.
Country A: Analyze your role in your selected country in terms of its function and required preparation, as well as its importance in supporting a culturally competent, interdisciplinary healthcare team. Be sure to address all the aspects indicated in the worksheet.

3.
Country B: Analyze your role in your selected country in terms of its function and required preparation, as well as its importance in supporting a culturally competent, interdisciplinary healthcare team. Be sure to address all the aspects indicated in the worksheet.

4.
Comparison: Compare your role in the United States to your two selected countries of interest. Provide evidence-based discussion about the similarities and differences between the role expressed in each country compared to the United States.

Module one Project Preparation Worksheet

Precious Teasley

Southern New Hampshire University

IHP-501-Q2461 Global Health and Diversity

22TW2

Professor Esther Johnstone

November 8,2022

Scenario

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2013 to 2015 was the worst ever seen; it mostly hit the three neighboring nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. In terms of cases reported, Sierra Leone was the nation most severely impacted. The current study examines the outbreak in Sierra Leone. The epidemic was deemed a “public health emergency of worldwide concern” by the WHO in August 2014. Ebola spread quickly as a result of early warning systems, and the nation’s health system was unable to handle the enormous number of Cases (Richards, et al. 2020). In total, 14,124 Ebola cases including 3,955 fatalities had been reported to the WHO by March 2016; this was surpassing any other nation.

Population

Even more expensive than it is for adults, the WHO corresponds with the description of the potential Ebola virus in youngsters. For admission, children under the age of five simply need to exhibit one qualifying symptom. In late November 2014, 13/39 (or 33%) of the children admitted to the main hospital for children came back positive for the Ebola virus disease. As ebola virus infection incidence declined, this proportion rose (Fitzgerald, et al. 2016). This means that children could potentially be exposed to the nosocomial ebola virus sickness, and the effect on mortality for frequent diseases like malaria or sepsis is still unknown.

A.
Geographic Region:

i.
Size: the nation’s 71,740 km2 total area is made up of 120 km2 of water and 71,620 km2 of land.

ii.
Location: Guinea borders Sierra Leone to the north and east, Liberia to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

iii.
Climate: The area has a tropical climate, with hot, muggy weather at the shore and more temperate weather inland. The mean annual temperature is 26.7°C, and there are 2,746 mm of rain on average per year.

B.
Socioeconomic Profile:

i.
Capital City: Freetown

ii.
Major Districts or Territories: there are Four provinces as well as a western area, which includes the capital Freetown, which makes up Sierra Leone. That is; Western Area, Eastern Province, Northern Province, North Western Province, and Southern Province. There are sixteen administrative districts in Sierra Leone.

iii.
Income Standard: Low-income economies with the least development

iv.
Common Occupations: The primary industry for employment is still mining, although numerous ancillary industries are expanding alongside it.

v.
GDP Estimate: statistics GDP at $4.082 billion, growing at a rate of 3.8% in 2017 and 3.5% in 2018, and a rate of 4.8% in 2019e and 4.9% in 2020f.

vi.
Source of Funding for the Education System: Education system in Sierra Leone is supported by households’ informal donations, taxes, and fees along with the official national budget including off-aid, even though providing access to education is a fundamental responsibility of the state.

vii.
Source of Funding for the Healthcare System: The Sierra Leone Superior Essential Health Care services, as well as the Systems Support Project, is supported by a $20 million financing from Global Financing Facility and a $40 million grant from the Global Development Association (IDA)

Demographic Profile:

Birth
Rate: 4.08 births per woman

ii.
Aging Trends: average annual aging rate is around 1.51%

iii.
Death Rates: 11.483

3.
Prevalent Health Concerns: prevalent health concern of the Ebola virus is the capital city of Sierra Leone, a free town. In addition to the presence

4.
Social Determinants:

The factors in the surroundings where individuals are born, reside, learn, work, play, religion, as well as the age that have an impact on a variety of health, functional, and quality-of-life consequences and hazards are known as social determinants of health (Houéto, 2019).

Education: The country’s efforts to control the population through education have been hampered by community opposition, which has several root reasons. Medical anthropologists have well-documented fears and misconceptions about foreign diseases, as well as addressing the causes of why many people did not accept the existence of Ebola

ii.
Healthcare: The lines between “hot” and “low-risk” zones become hazy whenever a city experiences strenuous and prevalent transmission, as first occurred in Monrovia and afterward later in Freetown

iii.
Economic Stability: Most of the transportation of agricultural products to consumer areas was hampered by the Ebola epidemic. When the outbreak was at its worst, workers shied away from visiting hazardous situations, as well as the number of businesses fell by 20%.

iv.
Inequity: Slums swiftly developed into Ebola hotspots and disease hubs. Shantytown residents who contracted Ebola infected three times as many individuals as those in wealthy neighborhoods.

References

Fitzgerald, F., Awonuga, W., Shah, T., & Youkee, D. (2016). Ebola response in Sierra Leone: The impact on children. 
Journal of Infection, 
72, S6-S12. DOI:  10.1016/j.jinf.2016.04.016

Richards, P., Mokuwa, G. A., Vandi, A., Mayhew, S. H., & Ebola Gbalo Research Team. (2020). Re-analysing Ebola spread in Sierra Leone: the importance of local social dynamics. 
PloS one, 
15(11), e0234823. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234823

Houéto, D. (2019). The social determinants of emerging infectious diseases in Africa. 
MOJ Public Health, 
8(2), 57-63