Discuss your evidence-based quality improvement project chosen in conjunction with your preceptor & your course faculty. Your description should clearly identify the background leading to your choice of this project with literature support for your choice. Include a description of the organization & your role within the organization. Who are the key individuals for whom […]
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Discuss your achievement of two MSN Program Learning Outcomes that demonstrates one or two of the University Principles: Leadership, Scholarship, Citizenship, or Accountability. Be sure to include your explanation of how the outcomes relate to the principle and include two external scholarly resources to support your response. Relate what you’ve learned about your achievement of
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Overview Reflect upon the following questions: How will you apply the knowledge obtained in this course? What concept will you best remember from this course? As a result of the knowledge gained from this course, how will your practice change? In the current event of the COVID-19 pandemic or any similar disease outbreak, what policies/protocol
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For your discussion posting, present a post-discharge follow up for a client with the chosen disease or infection from a hospital and a public health perspective. Include how technology for example apps, telehealth etc. can be used in your follow up plan for the client. No two students can do the same communicable disease or infection,
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Select a communicable disease or infection from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website –Diseases and Conditions. For this discussion you will need to check the discussion board before posting so that the disease or infection that you choose has not already been chosen by someone else. Start a new thread with the name of
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Search the internet and/or the literature for a computerized data collection form or system that can be used for syndromic surveillance of the case below: On September 22, 2010, an Environmental Health Officer (EHO) from the local city council notified the Health Protection Unit that 11 children from a local swimming club were experiencing gastrointestinal
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Discuss at least two types of electronic databases available for collecting data based on what kind of data are collected and how useful the data is for surveillance of hospital infections or community acquired infections. Attach/upload a computerized data collection form that can be used for an outbreak infection that has emerged in the hospital
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The discussion this week will be a peer-to-peer activity. You will be randomly assigned in a group with your class colleagues and be required to respond to your group member’s posts. Your assigned colleagues will respond to your post. The instructor will create the groups based on the size of the class. Remember to respond
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Visit https://www.cdc.gov/labs/protecting-america.html. Compare and contrast the roles of the CDC laboratory, the hospital clinical microbiology laboratory, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in surveillance systems. Relate to the current pandemic of COVID-19. How do these surveillance activities integrate across health care settings (e. g. ambulatory, long-term care, acute care, etc.). How does your current
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Go to link: Syndromic Surveillance Stories, and select a National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) success story (preferably about your state of residence – if available). Discuss the purpose of the syndromic surveillance and the strategies used to address the issue that necessitated the surveillance. What strengths and area(s) of improvement can you identify? What recommendations would
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