Assignment: Epidemiology And Statistics
Introduction and Alignment
Lest you be left with the impression, after the previous two exercises, that you are learning a skill set you will never use, you are challenged in this exercise to write about how you would respond if an unexpected outbreak of disease or other health condition were to unexpectedly occur in the kind of workplace where you serve or expect to serve after earning your master's degree. You are expected to apply the principles learned in the previous exercise, and to avoid errors of interpretation of information in the setting you are describing.
Upon completion of this assignment, you should be able to:
• Avoid five of the most common methodologic errors and biases that would invalidate an epidemiologic study or investigation.
• Apply epidemiologic skills in your chosen area of specialization in the nursing profession.
Resources
• Textbook: Macha, K., & McDonough, J. P. (2012). Epidemiology for advanced nursing practice. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
o Chapter 1 Epidemiology and Its Progress
o Chapter 5 Emerging Infectious Diseases
o Chapter 6, Screening and Prevention of Diseases
• Textbook: Sullivan, L. M. (2018). Biostatistics in public health (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones
o Chapter 11 Survival Analysis
• Video: Week 4 PPT Video
• Video: Scaling up Awareness on Outbreak Investigation and Response
• MP3: Week 4 PPT Audio
• PowerPoint: Week 4 PPT
• File: Career Paper Rubric
• Website: Steps in Outbreak Investigation by Zach Moore
• Website: CDC Scientific Nomenclature
• Website: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Instructions
1. Review, as needed, any of the resources linked above.
2. In a formal paper, follow the rubric found in the resources and pasted below to describe:
1. your future career role: nurse practitioner, nurse educator, or nurse administrator, and
2. without repeating, yet another outbreak from history and how you would foresee functioning if a major outbreak of infectious disease affected your institution or community, including working with the media and public,
3. apply the 10-steps of outbreak investigation, and
4. one way in which this training in avoiding epidemiologic traps might come in handy in helping manage the outbreak.
5. Mention at least one specific epidemiologic trap.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.