Week 5: Infectious Disease Short Paper

Purpose

Infectious disease occurs worldwide and must be addressed just as chronic disease is approached. This assignment will offer the opportunity to explore the various communicable diseases, the epidemiological background data as well as the implications of these infections.

Course Outcomes

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

CO 3:  Identify appropriate outcome measures and study designs applicable to epidemiological subfields such as infectious disease, chronic disease, environmental exposures, reproductive health, and genetics.

CO 6:  Identify important sources of epidemiological data.

Total Points Possible

This assessments is worth 100 points.

Due Date

Submit your file(s) by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT of Week 5.

Requirements

Criteria for Content

Week 5: Infectious Disease Short Paper

Apply the concepts of epidemiology to a communicable disease.

Choose one communicable disease from the following list:

• Zeka
• Salmonella
• MRSA
• Clostridioides difficile infection
• Meningitis
• Lyme Disease
• Borellia Burgdorferi
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• Hantavirus
• Giardia
• Chickenpox
• Tuberculosis
• Influenza
• Mononucleosis
• Hepatitis B
• HIV
• Chlamydia
• Gonorrhea
• Syphillis
• Measles
• Pertussis

Include the following in your assignment:

• Description of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).
• Synthesize the determinants of health as related to the development of this disease.
• Identify and describe the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors.
• Synthesize the role of the primary care FNP to the management of infectious diseases (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up).
• A minimum of three scholarly references, research articles, is required. Web sites may be utilized but do not count towards the three scholarly references.  Your course text may be utilized but does not count towards the three scholarly references.
  

  Week 5: Infectious Disease Short Paper

Preparing the paper

Submission Requirements

1. Application: Use Microsoft Word 2013™ to create the written assessment.
2. Length: The paper (excluding the title page and reference page) is a maximum three (3) pages.
3. 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.
4. APA format 6^th edition.
5. Include scholarly in-text references and a reference list.

6. Papers not adhering to the page length may be subject to the either (but not both) of the following at the discretion of the course faculty; 1. Your paper may be returned to you for editing to meet the length guidelines, or, 2. Your faculty may deduct up to five (5) points from the final grade.
7. Adhere to the Chamberlain College of Nursing academic policy on integrity as it pertains to the submission of original work for assignments.
8. Avoid writing in the first person (such as “me” “I”).
   

   Week 5: Infectious Disease Short Paper

      Best Practices in Preparing the Project

The following are best practices in preparing this project.

1. Review directions thoroughly.
2. Follow submission requirements.
3. Make sure all elements on the grading rubric are included.
4. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing.
5. Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th 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.
6. Ideas and information that come from scholarly literature must be cited and referenced correctly.
7. A minimum of three (3) scholarly literature references must be used. **See above section on “Preparing the Paper”.
8. Abide by CCN academic integrity policy.

Grading Criteria

Week 5: Infectious Disease Short Paper

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