For this discussion board you are asked to engage an ‘Avatar Exercise’ – that is

For this discussion board you are asked to engage an ‘Avatar Exercise’ – that is to imagine that you or your ‘avatar’ are in a nursing role in which you are able to effectively address population health and health equity at either an upstream, midstream level (at the roots by addressing social and environmental determinants of health) or at a downstream level (see Fig 9.2 in our textbook).
Given that your avatar has unlimited possibilities – what is the nursing role you/your avatar will take on? How will you improve population health and health equity in this envisioned role.
What are your reasons for and inspirations for this role?
What challenges or barriers might you anticipate in accomplishing population health improvement in this role?
What facilitators or other supportive resources/conditions might you anticipate?
Does this thought exercise provide any insight into real possibilities in your nursing future? Please reflect on and contribute to the ideas of your peers when you respond to posts.