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NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 1 Discussion

Windshield Tour

Take a walk or drive around the geographic area of the population you are interested in. This may be around the hospital or clinic where you work, or in an area you are interested in serving. For instance, when you go into the poorest areas of Chicago, you see:

General socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions

A disproportionate amount bill boards for alcohol and tobacco products,

A dearth of fresh food stores

Social and Community Networks

Some poorly and some well-maintained neighborhoods

Police “blue light” cameras to try to deter gang activity

Individual lifestyle factors

Few gyms

Many pay day loan stores

Hint: Look at the project requirements in Week 02 Assignment - Public Health. It will be helpful to evaluate the area in terms of your topic of interest.

Question(s):

Post a video, or power point or some other easily accessible presentation with pictures of the area you toured (See Resources > Student Handbook > Discussions > How to Access, Record a Video in Discussion for help).

Identify and discuss three risk factors that affect the population in this area. These might be good or disconcerting. Try to identify one in each of the Dahlgren-Whitehead rainbow models.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 2 Discussion

Visit the CDC Public Health Law News Archives, and choose one of the reports.

In no more than 300 words, discuss:

Why did you choose your report?

Why is this particular report important to society and how it fits in the Dahlgren-Whitehead model?

Using what you have learned through your nursing education, what are your thoughts about how you might affect legislation around this issue at the local level or above?

Visit: NCSL. (2021, April, 26). State Action on Coronavirus (COVID-19). National Conference of State Legislatures. Choose one state that passed a piece of legislation regarding health care and Covid-19.

Why did you choose this legislation?

What does the legislation provide for?

For participation details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions. Your Activity Completion box will be checked when you receive a grade for this discussion. Please check your gradebook for actual grade.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 3 Discussion

Read: Kolifarhood, G., Aghaali,M., Saadati, H.M., Taherpour, N., Rahimi, S., Izadi, M., & Nazari, S.S.H. (2020, April). Epidemiological and Clinical Aspects of COVID-19; a Narrative Review (PDF). Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 8(1): e41.

Use this article to apply some of the concepts about incidence and prevalence to COVID-19. Be sure to read the entire article (don't just do a search) and discuss the following:

What do we know about the statistics around the mean incubation periods?

What about the median infectivity, pathogenicity and incubation periods?

What is the range of incubation?

What information would be helpful to know that is missing?

For participation details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions. Your Activity Completion box will be checked when you receive a grade for this discussion. Please check your gradebook for actual grade.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 4 Discussion

Read: WHO. (2018).  Monitoring Health for the SDGs Sustainable Development Goals Annex A. WHO: World Health Statistics.

Then summarize the morbidity and mortality information across countries in this article and compare the US from other American Countries and nationalities in any one of the following measures.

Maternal Mortality

Child Mortality

HIV

Hep B

Non-communicable disease

Suicide

What surprised you (if anything)?

For participation details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions. Your Activity Completion box will be checked when you receive a grade for this discussion. Please check your gradebook for actual grade.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 5 Discussion

From the following study below, pick any category in the table at bottom of paper (Supplementary Material), such as HIV or maternal disorders, and discuss changes or trends in prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability.

Hint: Pick the topic consistent with your project. What are at least two relevant implications for prevention or intervention?

Vos, T., Abajobir, A., Abate, K., ... et. al. (2017). Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet. [Library Link]

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 6 Discussion

Identify and discuss a health problem of interest using the Healthy People 2030 data (no more than 600 words.) You can use the same public health problem you are choosing for your project paper if you wish.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 7 Discussion

Explain at least one positive and one negative impact of knowing the genetic propensity of a person to develop a disease.

How does one integrate genetic information into a health assessment impact?

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 8 Discussion

There are multiple measures for health-related quality of life. Do you think this can or cannot be adequately measured?

Cite at least two differing resources.

 

 

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 9 Discussion

Why do you think translational research is sometimes referred to as "the valley of death?” How has this assignment impacted your thoughts on this subject?

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 10 Discussion

Another field trip. If you have a local Dollar General, Dollar store or anything similar, go there and take a picture of the food sections. Drive around the area for a few miles to see other stores in which to purchase food. In two paragraphs discuss the pros and cons of each store in the community and what it has to offer.

Upload a picture with your discussion.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 11 Discussion

Now that you have submitted your elevator pitch assignment, please post it to your discussion forum and compare with the other members of your class. See your Student handbook on Uploading Video Discussion Forum for help with this.

To review the scenario: You are applying for funding for your project. You are given an opportunity to advocate for funding or acceptance of your program.

Your pitch should be 90 seconds or less

You can use props but no PowerPoint slides.

Your pitch should address:

The title of your project.

A description of the problem you are trying to solve including supporting facts and figures.

An explanation about why this is relevant.

The proposed intervention.

Your evaluation plan.

 

 

 

 

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 2 Project

Public Health

Review the John Snow 'First Public Health Act' scenario in this weeks lesson as review of what goes into public health research.

Identify an area of public health that interests you. Areas to consider include reproductive justice, access to fresh foods, access to mammography, vaccinations, avoiding diabetes in certain population or anything else that interests you. Write no more than 300 words about what that problem is and why it is important.

For more information refer to the Overview of Project Paper that covers all parts of your final paper for this class.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 5 Project

Literature Review

Identify the target population you will focus on. For instance, if your interest is in access to mammography, this is your chance to become more specific, such as access to mammography among black women (a vulnerable group) in rural areas of Vermont.

Write a paragraph about why this specific population is of concern regarding this particular health problem.

Review the literature. Discuss the medical literature but also include information pertaining to applicable law and regulation, statistics (include attendant data sources) as it pertains to your topic, and synthesize the information to describe the extent of the problem.

There are many locations on-line that talk about literature reviews, but if you need some help, try:

McCombes, S. (2019 - upd. 2021). How to write a literature review. Scribbr.com.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 6 Project

SMART Goals

What do you want to accomplish with your Project Paper? Write at least 3 measurable goals (but don’t boil the ocean).

For example:

"Increase the national vaccination rate for all children in the US" is a bit ambitious.

BUT

"Improving the vaccination rate among preschoolers seen in a free clinic by 1%" may be more doable, unless the vaccination rate is already quite high. But before you can get to an outcome goal such as an increased vaccination rate, you probably should address some process goals. A process goal maybe something like "Improving knowledge about immunization among newly hired nurses as evidenced by successfully completing a novel course on immunizations within the first three months of hire.".

Try to write your goals in SMART format, although that isn’t always possible. If you can’t write them as SMART goals, include a sentence or two as to why not. One way to approach this is to write a goal, then identify all of the SMART elements for that goal, revising the goal as needed for the elements.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 8 Project

Planned Interventions

In the last paper, you set your goals. Now, identify at least two interventions you will institute as part of the program you are developing to address the problem.

Maybe its presenting a 30 min in-service to the nursing staff addressing fears and misconceptions about diabetes among your target group. For whatever it is, please describe:

What each intervention will entail.

Timeline for implementation.

Assignment of duties and responsibilities.

Potential funding source(s)?

Communications plan.

Key organizations and individuals to include in planning. Discuss why you selected these groups or individuals

Critique each of the identified prevention or promotion services and report as a SWOT analysis.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 9 Project

Linguistic or Cultural Challenges

Part I

In one page, identify potential linguistic or cultural challenges your population of interest may have and how you addressed these issues.

Part II

Submit professional education materials you will use to augment the program you are designing. Submit at least one professional and one public facing educational piece. No resource should exceed 2 pages long.

For more information refer to the Overview of Project Paper that covers all parts of your final paper for this class.

 

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 10 Project

Finished Project Plan

Use all the different assignments and discussion content to create your finished Project Plan paper. This needs to include your Public Health area of interest the problem(s) with this area and its affected population, the literature around that population, your SMART goals, your planned interventions, the challenges (linguistic/cultural/other) with the interventions and the population, along with your evaluation plan (see below). This paper should be 5-10 pages in APA style including an abstract and references.

include in your finished Project Plan an evaluation plan with at least one data driven outcome measure for each goal you specified and include the data source. Identify who will evaluate the program and why they where selected.

 

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 11 Project

Elevator Pitch

Have you ever heard of an elevator pitch? The idea is that you can summarize the salient points of your project or argument so concisely that you could convince someone in a 90 second elevator ride to adopt your point of view.

Here is the scenario: You are applying for funding for your project. This could be with an outside investor or asking for a budget from your employer. You are given an opportunity to advocate for funding or acceptance of your program at the next board meeting.

Record your pitch and then submit two files: your recording and a Word document of your script. (You don’t actually have to record it in an elevator.)

Your pitch should be 90 seconds or less.

Your pitch should address:

The title of your project.

A description of the problem you are trying to solve including supporting facts and figures.

An explanation about why this is relevant.

The proposed intervention.

Your evaluation plan.

See your Student Handbook (under Resources at top of page) on How to Access, Record and Upload a Video Using Microsoft Stream for Video Assignments for help with this.