After studying Module 2: Lecture Materials & Resources, discuss the following:

• Describe and discuss the nurse’s role in health promotion and disease prevention in older adults. Share an example from your personal experience as a RN.
• Name and elaborate on at least three screening/preventive procedure that must be done in older adults.
• Define and discuss three common End-of-life documents that you as nurse must be familiar with to be able to educate older adults.

Submission Instructions:

• • Your initial post should be at least 600 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
  • You should respond to at least two peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts.
  • All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.
  • MATERIAL TO USE:
  • Meiner, S.E., Yeager, J.J. (2019)
    • Chapter 5
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    • Chapter 6
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    • Chapter 7
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    • Chapter 8
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Supplemental Materials & Resources

• • Visit the CINAHL Complete under the A-to-Z Databases on the University Library’s website and locate the articles below:
    • Newham, R. A. (2013). An internal morality of nursing: What it can and cannot do. Nursing Philosophy, 14(2), 109-116.
    • Hanssen, I. & Alpers, L. M. (2010). Utilitarian and common-sense morality discussions in intercultural nursing practice. Nursing Ethics, 17(2), 201-2011.
    • Epstein, B. & Turner, M. (2015). The Nursing Code of Ethics: Its value, its history. Online Journal of Nursing Issues, 20(2), 33-41.

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According to U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 46.3 million older adults in the United States, accounting for about 16.9 percent of the total U.S. population (U.S. Bureau, 2021). Indeed, the population of elderly people in the country is expected to grow in the future, where it is projected that the elderly population will reach 23.5 percent (98 million) by2060 (U.S. Bureau, 2021). Although elderly people live longer, they experience one or more chronic conditions, which reduces their quality of life.  The statics show that about 60 percent of this population

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