For the MSN-prepared nurse, knowledge of epidemiology and its application to preventive screening guidelines is important in many clinical areas: administrative, education, and nurse practitioner fields. Consider you are working in a clinic and need to order a preventive screening on a patient for one of the conditions listed below. While this is a preventive measure, it also can be a diagnostic tool in other circumstances. For this assignment, the screening is a secondary prevention measure.
Condition and Screening
- Identify and define the condition and type of screening. Screening choice is one from the assignment directions.
Epidemiology of Condition
- Include a correct definition of the condition and defines the epidemiology of the condition in the United States through three statistical terms.
- Include the correct mortality and related morbidity statistics in numerical format.
- Address trends using terms such as increasing, larger, or less. Includes related disparities and population rate comparison (i.e., racial, sex, age, etc.)
Methodology
- Incorporate USPSTF guideline development methodology process into the methodology section of the paper.
- Discuss the population for the guideline using age, sex, or related characteristic, for the screening.
- Include information on two risk factors addressed in the guideline methodology.
- Justify the screening based on these risks using statistical rationale.
- Explain and support measures of the screening.
Guideline
- Provide a summation of the USPSTF guideline recommendation.
- Include population characteristic/s, screening type, and interval.
- Include most current recommendations.
Critical Analysis
- Conduct a literature review of support used in the guideline. May include alternative studies found in more recent literature that supports or offers alternative views.
- Cite four studies in the analysis.
Summary
Provide a summary conclusion of the screening guideline, general benefit to the individual and why it is important.
Format expectations:
- Follows all assignment directions.
- Introduction and conclusion are included.
- Information in paragraphs and paper organized to convey the content to the reader.
- Paper length paper should be 3–4 pages of content.
- Follows APA in paper format, reference page, in-text citations, or headings.
- Uses four or more credible peer-reviewed sources.
Master’s-prepared nurse educators, leaders, nurse practitioners, and all specialty nursing fields contribute to health promotion in populations across the life span. You will demonstrate understanding and correct interpretations of preventive screening guidelines. You should be able to apply this knowledge to your specialty focus related to health promotion and epidemiology.
Minimum Submission Requirements
- This assessment should be a Microsoft Word minimum 3- to 4-page document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
- Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your submission should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
- Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
- Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
- Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
- A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
- Be sure to include references for all sources and to cite them using in-text citations where appropriate. Your sources and content should follow current APA citation style. Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.
- Your submission should:
- include a title page;
- be double-spaced;
- be typed in Times New Roman, 12-point font; and
- be free of spelling or punctuation errors.