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NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 1 Discussion

Exercise and Discussion Questions from Curley Text Book

Purpose:

This discussion board content is intended to facilitate learning for students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. 

The use of discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute graduate level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. 

Participation in the discussion generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. Discussions foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines

Assignment Requirements 

Choose one of the following to respond to in Week 1 Discussion Board;

Chapter 1, Exercise 1.5 or

Chapter 2, Exercise 2.1 or

Chapter 2, Exercise 2.4

Respond with a minimum of two (2) paragraphs of 4-5 sentences each.  

You should address each bullet point in the exercise you select. 

Your work should have in-text citations integrating at a minimum one scholarly article from this week’s readings and course textbook. 

APA format should be utilized to include a reference list. 

Correct grammar, spelling, and APA should be adhered to when writing, work should be scholarly without personalization or first person use.

Respond to a minimum of two (2) individuals, peer and/or faculty, with a scholarly and reflective post of a minimum of two (2) paragraphs of 4-5 sentences. A minimum of one (1) scholarly article should be utilized to support the post in addition to your textbook.

Posting Directions

Posts should be made on a minimum of 3 separate days/dates.

All faculty replies to students must be responded to directly in the discussion board.

Minimum posting is:Initial discussion board post to the weekly prompt, two peer posts (if there are no faculty postings), or one peer post and a faculty post.

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 2 Discussion

Epidemiological Methods

Purpose

This discussion board content is intended to facilitate learning for students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. 

The use of discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute graduate level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. 

Participation in the discussion generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. Discussions foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines

Activity Learning Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

Discriminate among various screening tools that may be used in the provision of care as an Advanced Practice Nurse (CO4) 

Your course faculty will provide you with topics for the Week 2 Discussion Board. You will need to check the NR503 course Announcements for the topics for the Week 2 Discussion Board regarding screening. The week’s topics were choosen from the following website:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?(Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

Reply to the following prompt: 

Describe the diagnostic or screening tool selected, its purpose, and what age group it targets. 

Has it been specifically tested in this age group? 

Next, discuss the predictive ability of the test. For instance, how do you know the test is reliable and valid? What are the reliability and validity values? What are the predictive values? Is it sensitive to measure what it has been developed to measure, for instance, HIV, or depression in older adults, or Lyme disease? Would you integrate this tool into your advanced practice based on the information you have read about the test, why or why not?

You should include a minimum of two (2) scholarly articles from the last five (5) years (3 is recommended). 

Respond to a minimum of two (2) individuals, peer and/or faculty, with a scholarly and reflective post of a minimum of two (2) paragraphs of 4-5 sentences. A minimum of one (1) scholarly article should be utilized to support the post in addition to your textbook. 

Your work should have in-text citations integrating at a minimum one scholarly article and the course textbook. APA format should be utilized to include a reference list. Correct grammar, spelling, and APA should be adhered to when writing, work should be scholarly without personalization or first – person use.

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 3 Discussion

Epidemiological Methods and Measurements

Purpose:

This discussion board content is intended to facilitate learning for students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. 

The use of discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute graduate level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. 

Participation in the discussion generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. Discussions foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.

Week 3:

This week we are comparing and contrasting epidemiological methods of research; case-control and cohort study methods. Select either the case-control or cohort study method and compare its features, the methodology, to a randomized controlled trial using the following questions. Please format, organize, your responses using each question below:

What is the fundamental difference between the method you have chosen (either the case-control or cohort method) and the randomized controlled trial?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the study method you chose (case-control or cohort study)?

What are the characteristics of a correlational study?

Where does the method you chose (case-control or cohort study) fall on the research pyramid? What does where it is on the research pyramid mean?

Post your response to the DB. Your analysis should have in-text citations and utilize a scholarly voice with APA formatting.

Respond to a total of two posts: Either two (2) peer posts or a peer and faculty post (all faculty posts require a response), with a minimum of one paragraph of 4-5 sentences, on two (2) different days of the week. Your reply post should be specific to this week’s topic of epidemiological research methods and should integrate in-text citation(s).

Your reply post/s should integrate course content (such as course terminology) related to the study method as well as an integration of in-text citations along with a scholarly voice and APA formatting. The textbook may be utilized as a resource.

Posting Directions

Posts should be made on a minimum of 3 separate days/dates.

All faculty replies to students must be responded to directly in the discussion board.

Minimum posting is:

Initial discussion board post to the weekly prompt, two peer posts (if there are no faculty postings), or one peer post and a faculty post.

 

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 4 Discussion

Purpose

The ideas and beliefs underpinning the discussions guide students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. The use of discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. Participation in the discussion generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. Discussions foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.

Course Outcomes

CO#6 – Identify important sources of epidemiological data. (PO 2)

Preparing the Assignment

All students are required to make one post. You are not required to provide reply posts.

You can use this time to have a non-structured conversation about the web site exploration links below. Provide one fact or element from the web site exploration that applies to the topics from the first four modules.  Please remember to provide a reference for all sources included in your post.

 

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 5 Discussion

Purpose

The ideas and beliefs underpinning the discussions guide students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. The use of discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. Participation in the discussion generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. Discussions foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.

Course Outcomes

CO#6 – Identify important sources of epidemiological data. (PO 2)

Preparing the Assignment

All students are required to make one post. You are not required to provide reply posts.

You can use this time to have a non-structured conversation from the Podcast and web site links below. Provide one fact or element from the web site exploration that applies to this module’s topic of populations as risk. Everyone should review the AETCMC Self-Assessment link. Please be sure to provide a reference for all sources cited within your post.

 

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 6 Discussion

Purpose

The ideas and beliefs underpinning the discussions guide students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. The use of discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. Participation in the discussion generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. Discussions foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.

 

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 7 Discussion

Global and Environmental Health

the myPurpose:

This discussion board content is intended to facilitate learning for students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. 

The use of discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute graduate level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. 

Participation in the discussion generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. Discussions foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.

Activity Learning Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

Inspect the relationship between environment and global health (CO7).

Appraise global health problems considering WHO SDG’s as well as related epidemiological data (CO7).

Assignment Requirements

1. Locate a lay press article from a national newspaper, for example, from The New York Times, The Washington Post, or other national publication. The article should be no more than three (3) years old.

Locate an article on one of the following topics:

Sex trafficking

Environmental global health issue: For example, but not limited to: Safe water, sanitation, disasters, or oral health.

2. Read over your chosen article and respond to the following:

Provide a summary of your article. Include the name of the newspaper and author, as well as date of publication.

Include data that supports the significance of the topic. For example, related deaths, health care costs, demographic information.

During NR503, we have discussed the determinants of health, at-risk groups, social justice theory, outcomes, inter-professional collaboration, advocacy, and other concepts related to epidemiology and population health. How do the concepts addressed in NR503 relate to your article’s topic? Provide definitions and examples in your writing.

Integrate information from the World Health Organization and the SDG’s.

Your initial post should be a minimum of two (2) paragraphs with 4-5 sentences per paragraph.?

Your initial post should speak about your chosen article and use supporting scholarly evidence that supports your analysis.?You may use your textbook to support your writing.

Reply posts should include a minimum of one scholarly reference and be a minimum of one (1) paragraph, 4-5 sentences. The reply post should build upon the post to which you are responding.

A scholarly tone should be maintained throughout all posts.?For reply posts, this includes the name of the person to whom you are responding as well as closure with your name.

A link to the article should be included as well as a reference list using current APA.

Resources: (If links do not work, please search using related terms/names below).

U.S. Office on Trafficking in Persons: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip (Links to an external site.)

Partners for Vulnerable Youth: Founded by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: https://www.napnappartners.org/content/provider-education (Links to an external site.)

WHO and SDG: https://www.who.int/health-topics/sustainable-development-goals#tab=tab_1 (Links to an external site.)

Kaiser Global Health Policy: https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/ (Links to an external site.)

CDC and Global Health: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/index.html (Links to an external site.)

List of Newspapers in the US: https://www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/journalism-literature/top-100-newspapers-united-states

 

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 8 Discussion

Health Policy and Ethics

Purpose:

This discussion board content is intended to facilitate learning for students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. 

The use of discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute graduate level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. 

Participation in the discussion generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. Discussions foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.

Activity Learning Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

Synthesize knowledge of population to the role of political advocacy as an Advanced Practice Nurse. (CO 5, 7)

Appraise ethical and legal principles to the provision of care by the Advanced Practice Nurse (CO 5, 7)

Assignment Requirements 

Go to your state government web page. Find one health policy enacted within the last two (2) years at the state level.?Write down the bill number and the sponsors of the bill and include this information in your initial post.

Write a minimum of a one-page critical analysis summary of the policy. (250 words double spaced, APA). Your summary should integrate the concepts of?advocacy, population health, and the ANA ethical statements?(“The Code”), and course readings, to include a minimum of one course scholarly article (provided within the course). Be sure to speak to the role of advocacy and population health.

Respond to a minimum of two (2) peers/faculty posts with one (1) paragraph of 4-5 sentences integrating one scholarly source utilized in an in-text citation/APA.

Kaiser: Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity. (Links to an external site.)

Posting Directions

Posts should be made on a minimum of 3 separate days/dates.

All faculty replies to students must be responded to directly in the discussion board.

Minimum posting is:

Initial discussion board post to the weekly prompt, two peer posts (if there are no faculty postings), or one peer post and a faculty post.

 

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 2 Assignment

Healthy People 2020 Impact Paper

Purpose

The concepts of epidemiology provide the framework for the study of infectious and chronic health issues/diseases, which provides a rich source of data for the analysis of trends in disease and health.This assignment will offer the learner the opportunity to explore the population health effects of a topic which will be assigned by your course faculty.

As an example, you may be asked to identify populations at risk for oral health issues or, for instance, issues related to the frail living at home, and design a population health focused educational intervention for your target population.

In addition, you will look at what outcomes will be addressed to determine if your interventions are effective.  This paper should integrate HP2020 and CDC information into your paper.

Activity Learning Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

Identify appropriate outcome measures and study designs applicable to epidemiological sub-fields such as infectious disease, chronic disease, environmental exposures, reproductive health, and genetics. (CO3)

Identify important sources of epidemiological data. (CO6)

Requirements

Research Topic:  Your course faculty will provide you with topic/s for this assignment. Please check the NR503 Course Announcements.

Identify your target population (for instance, age or other demographic, aggregate population); this must be in your city or state.

Discuss population-based health education interventions for your target population that is aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality for the problem. Be sure to review the research literature and HP2020 for interventions.

Identify how and what data for interventions is being tracked.

In a four (4) page paper, address the following. Refer to rubric for expanded details related to grading expectations.

Identify the problem in the introduction section. 

Provide an overview of the problem in your state/national.

Review of descriptive epidemiological and demographic data on mortality/morbidity and risk.

HP2020:  Present the goal, overview and objectives of Healthy People 2020 for the paper topic.

Population level prevention and health promotion review. Describe population and/or primary health care focused interventions. Use of scholarly literature and HP2020 is required.  There should be direct correlation to evidence for all strategies.

Best Practices in Preparing the Project

Review directions and rubric through carefully.

Follow submission requirements.

Make sure all elements on the grading rubric are included.  Organize the paper using the rubric sections and appropriate headings to match the sections.

Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing.

Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the current edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used.

Ideas and information that come from scholarly literature must be cited and referenced correctly.

A minimum of three (3) scholarly literature references must be used.  Not all references should be from scholarly web sites.  You may use your textbook, but this will not count towards the three (3) scholarly literature references.

Length:  Papers not adhering to the page length may be returned to you for editing to meet the length guidelines. 

Adhere to the Chamberlain College of Nursing academic policy on integrity as it pertains to the submission of your own original work for assignments. 

 

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 5 Assignment

Infectious Disease Paper

Purpose

Infectious disease occurs worldwide and must be addressed just as chronic disease is approached. This assignment will present the learner an opportunity to explore a communicable disease, to apply the epidemiological triad, and to discern the demographic and at-risk background data for a specific infectious disease agent .

Activity Learning Outcomes

Through this assessment, the student will meet the following Course Outcomes.

Identify appropriate outcome measures and study designs applicable to epidemiological sub-fields such as infectious disease, chronic disease, environmental exposures, reproductive health, and genetics. (CO3)

Identify important sources of epidemiological data. (CO6)

Requirement

Choose a topic from the list provided to you by your course faculty.  Apply the concepts of population health and epidemiology to the topic.

Synthesize Course content from Weeks 1-5 according to the following sections:  

Introduction:  Analysis of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) to include demographic break down that includes age, gender, race, or other at-risk indicators (da ta per demographics should include mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).

Determinants of Health:  Define, identify and synthesize the determinants of health as related to the development of the infection.   Utilize HP2020. 

Epidemiological Triad:  Identify and describe all elements of the epidemiological triad: Host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors. Utilize the demographic break down to fur ther describe the triad.  

Role of the NP:  Succinctly define the role of the nurse practitioner according to a national nurse practitioner organization ( National Board of Nursing or AANP, for example) and synthesize the role to the?management of infectious diseases (surveillance, primary/secondary/tertiary interventions, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up). This includes the integration of a model of practice which supports the implementation of an evidence-based practice.? Refer to your course textbook for models of practice examples.

Preparing the paper

Submission Requirements

Application: Use Microsoft Word™ to create the written assessment.

Length: The paper (excluding the title page and reference page) should be limited to a maximum of four (4) pages.   Papers not adhering to the page length may be returned to you for editing to meet the length guidelines . 

A minimum of three (3) scholarly research/literature references must be used. CDC or other web sources may be utilized but are not counted towards the three minimum references required.  Your course text may be used as an additional resource but is not included in the three minimum scholarly references.

APA format current edition.

Include scholarly in-text references and a reference list.

Adhere to the Chamberlain College of Nursing academic policy on integrity as it pertains to the submission of student created original work for assignments .

Do not write in the first person (such as “me” “I”)

Best Practices in Preparing the Project

The following are best practices in preparing this project:

Review directions and rubric thoroughly.

Follow submission requirements.

Make sure all elements on the grading rubric are included.  Organize the paper using the rubric sections and appropriate headings to match the sections.

Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing.

Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the current edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used.

Ideas and information that come from scholarly literature must be cited and referenced correctly.

A minimum of three (3) scholarly literature references must be used. **See above section on “Preparing the Paper”.

Abide by Chamberlain College of Nursing academic integrity policy.

 

NR503 Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles

Week 6 Assignment

Epidemiological Analysis: Chronic Health Problem

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is:

Integrate knowledge and skills learned throughout NR503 course

Direct application of course objectives utilizing epidemiological analysis of a chronic health problem, along with state and national level data.

Activity Learning Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

Requirements:

This paper should clearly and comprehensively discuss a chronic health disease.  Select a topic from the list provided by your course faculty.

The paper should be organized into the following sections:

Introduction (Identification of the problem) with a clear presentation of the problem as well as the significance and a scholarly overview of the paper’s content. No heading is used for the Introduction per APA current edition.

Background and Significance of the disease, to include:  Definition, description, signs and symptoms.  Incidence and prevalence of statistics by state with a comparison to national statistics pertaining to the disease.  If after a search of the library and scholarly data bases, you are unable to find statistics for your home state, or other states, consider this a gap in the data and state as much in the body of the paper. For instance, you may state something like, “After an exhausting search of the scholarly data bases, this writer is unable to locate incidence and/or prevalence data for the state of ….  This indicates a gap in surveillance that will be included in the “Plan” section of this paper. 

Surveillance and Reporting: Current surveillance methods and mandated reporting processes as related to the chronic health condition chosen should be specific.

Epidemiological Analysis:  Conduct a descriptive epidemiology analysis of

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