Obtain an Infection Control Professional’s evaluation of your final project. In your initial post, discuss the evaluator’s comments. What were the strengths and weaknesses of your project as noted by the evaluator? How can you improve the identified weak areas? How can your new knowledge of advanced technology for disease surveillance be applied to your […]
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Using the decision instrument in Annex 2 (Blazes text – Chapter 2), create a scenario using one of the listed infections on the chart or the COVID-19 pandemic. Describe the process used in the algorithm for determining the threat of the infection as a public health emergency with the potential for international spread. You may use one
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Select a bacterium, which shows antibiotic resistance in your hospital or your preceptor site or one you have found in the literature. Take on the personality of the bacterium and write your discussion from the perspective of the bacterium to give the historical trend of your life. Include the following in your post: When did
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Conduct a risk assessment (using the Infection Control Risk Assessment Excel document provided in this module) in the precepted setting or your unit. Adapt the risk assessment by choosing the items on the document applicable to your area of practice. Post the risk assessment worksheet as an attachment in the Discussion Forum for discussion of the following:
Discuss the value of a specific electronic surveillance system of your choice from the perspective of real-time data surveillance and interoperability with the NHSN for reporting. How do you think John Snow would have appreciated a geographical (geospatial) information system (GIS) in the 1854 cholera outbreak in London? (Consult the Blazes text for information on the
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From the page, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) Case Definitions select one of the diseases listed. Develop a case scenario describing a confirmed case of the disease you selected. Focus on your area of nursing practice in creating the case scenario and include details of the disease you have chosen and the process of confirming the case.
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Instructions Respond to one question to match your area of nursing practice Evaluate the effectiveness of your state’s systematic surveillance data based upon the state’s quality report card or Healthcare-associate infections (HAIs) reported to your state department of health. In your evaluation include the criteria and purpose of the report as described in your readings. (a) How will this
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The Public Health Department in Sentinel City is requesting assistance from IPC nurses to develop an organizational plan to address the influx of patients with your chosen communicable disease. Click on Map View to visit one of the following areas: Industrial Heights, Casper Park, Acer Tech, or Nightingale Square and review the demographic data to
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Post your risk assessment draft in this discussion forum. Then, review the posted assessment drafts of at least 2 of your fellow students from the standpoint of the Joint Commission standards. Provide suggestions in your response to your peer’s drafts regarding concerns you have with their risk assessments, or affirming that they have addressed all
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Read the following statement: ”Infection preventionists must undertake preparedness activities to ensure that they and their healthcare facilities and communities are better prepared to effectively recognize and respond to an infectious disease disaster” (Rebmann, 2020). Bearing in mind that biological agents can create an infectious disease disaster when used as weapons of bioterrorism in any
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