Provide a brief introduction of yourself and your family
Week 1 Discussion
This week’s threaded discussion pertains to the topic of Community and Public Health Nursing. After completing your assigned readings, Stanhope & Lancaster Chapters 1, 2, 28, reviewing the PowerPoint handout, and reading the poem below, “The Fence or The Ambulance,” answer the following questions according to the online discussion guidelines/instructions and rubric from the syllabus.
The Fence or The Ambulance
Joseph Malines
‘Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed,
Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant:
But over its terrible edge there had slipped
A duke and many a peasant;
So the people said something would have to be done.
But their projects did not at all tally:
Some said, “Put a fence around the edge of the cliff”
Some, “An ambulance down in the valley.”
But the cry for the ambulance carried the day.
For it spread to the neighboring city:
A fence may be useful or not, it is true,
But each heart became brimful of pity
For those who had slipped o’er that dangerous cliff,
And the dwellers in highway and alley
Gave pounds or gave pence, not to put up a fence,
But an ambulance down in the valley.
“For the cliff is alright if you’re careful,” they said,
“and if folks even slip or are dropping,
it isn’t the slipping that hurts them so much
as the shock down below-when they’re stopping,”
So day after day when these mishaps occurred,
Quick forth would the rescuers sally
To pick up the victims who fell off the cliff,
With their ambulance down in the valley.
Then an old man remarked, “it’s a marvel to me
that people give far more attention
to repairing results than to stopping the cause,
when they’d much better aim at prevention.
Let us stop at its source all this mischief, cried he.
“Come neighbors and friends, let us rally :
If the cliff we will fence, we might almost dispense
with the ambulance down in the valley.”
“Oh, he’s a fanatic.” the others rejoined:
“dispense with the ambulance Never!
He’d dispense with all charities, too, if he could:
no, no! We’ll support them forever.
Aren’t we picking up folks just as fast as they fall?
And shall this man dictate to us? Shall he?
Why would people of sense stop to put up a fence?
While their ambulance works in the valley?”
But a sensible few who are practical too,
Will not bear with such nonsense much longer
They believe that prevention is better than cure
And their party will soon be the stronger
Encourage them, then with your purse, voice and pen
And (while other philanthropists dally)
They will scorn all pretense and put up a stout fence
On the cliff that hangs over the valley.
The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Compiled by Hazel Felleman
Published by Doubleday, 1936
1) Provide a brief introduction of yourself and your family, your previous degree and work settings, your specialty, and what you hope to learn from this class. And please post a picture of yourself.
2) The following questions pertain to the poem above, “The Fence or The Ambulance.”
a. How does this poem relate to community and public health overall?
b. How does this poem relate specifically to health promotion, an important concept of community and public health?
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