NURS 8310 Week 11 Discussion: Infectious Disease and Natural Disaster The earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010 was one of the worst natural disasters in history. According to Peranteau et al. (2010): Immediately after the earthquake the need so vastly outstripped the resources that patients generally lacked basic identifiers and medical records […] Treatment plans…

NURS 8310 Week 10 Assignment: Applying Epidemiology to Program Design for Chronic Disease logy to Program Design for Chronic Disease Roughly 28.5 million Americans were still uninsured as of 2017, and 133 million Americans […] suffer from at least one chronic condition. —Nash et al. (2021, p. 5)As you know, promoting positive social change is…

NURS 8310 Week 9 Discussion: Eradication of Smallpox, Polio, and how they may help in Approaching Covid-19 Some of the most notable epidemics include the bubonic plague in the 14th century, smallpox in the 18th century, influenza in the 20th century, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in the 21st century. It is estimated that the bubonic plague…

NURS 8310 Week 8 Discussion: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Systematic reviews are an umbrella term for a number of different review designs, all with specific goals (e.g., identify scope of available research or gaps, reduce bias, statistically combine and analyze results from multiple studies). They differ from basic literature review articles that qualitatively summarize the…

NURS 8310 Week 7 Discussion: Epidemiological Study Designs in the Media Nearly every day, population health studies appear in the media. The studies often include epidemiological research. The type of study design used can have a profound impact on how the study results are analyzed, interpreted, and reported. Common study designs include case control, cohort,…

NURS 8310 Week 6: Blog: Critiquing Sources of Error in Population Research to Address Gaps in Nursing Practice As a DNP-educated nurse, part of your role will be to identify the differences, or gaps, between current knowledge and practice and opportunities for improvement leading to an ideal state of practice. Being able to recognize and…

NURS 8310 Week 4 Discussion: Randomized Trials in Epidemiology Imagine that researchers are conducting a randomized controlled trial of a high-fiber supplement as a preventive measure in persons at increased risk of type 2 diabetes. People enrolled in the study are disease free at the time they agree to participate in the trial, but they…

NURS 8310 Week 3 Discussion: Observational Study Designs A clinical pediatric nurse has noticed a rise in childhood asthma diagnoses among the Hispanic population served by the local clinic. The nurse is concerned about this increase in asthma incidence in the patient population and turns to the literature to explore current research on this topic.…

NURS 8310 Week 2 Assignment: Strengths and Limitations of Secondary Data Sources In this information age, where data are readily accessible and there is both a great demand for accelerated research projects and strict limitations on research funding, using existing data makes sense. Data used in this way are called secondary data; they come in…