Health & Medical

Prep Assignment for Part 1: Epidemiology Due: Tuesday, 9/22 by 10:15am on Canvas   Overview The overall goal of this assignment is to apply the concepts learned regarding epidemiological study types by having you design your own studies. You will use this worksheet to write a short paper on epidemiology for Part 1 of your Cancer Portfolio.   Step 1: Do a little research online to find out what lifestyle factors or environmental exposures, if any, are thought to be linked with your assigned cancer type.  List them below, and note your sources. Note: age and genes are NOT lifestyle/environmental exposures.   Cancer type: Colon Cancer (Colorectal cancer)     Lifestyle Factors or Exposures:     Source(s):   Step 2: Using the questions below, design two epidemiological studies to test the link between one of these lifestyle/environmental factors and your cancer type. If your cancer type does not have any known or suspected lifestyle or environmental exposures, think of something that might be a risk factor (there doesn’t need to be any prior evidence supporting a link; jut use logical reasoning) and design your studies to investigate it.   What lifestyle factor or environmental exposure will you be investigating?       What is your predicted correlation?       Design a Prospective Cohort Study to answer your question  Be specific and precise and answer each part of the questions. You may write a short paragraph or use bullet points to answer each question.   How will you recruit people to be in your cohort study? How many people will you need to recruit?  How do you ascertain this?  (Hint:  You will need to know what your cancer incidence rate is- *see below – in order to reasonably answer this question. Use your incidence rate to explain your reasoning.       What factors will you track within your cohort?  Hint:  a good study would attempt to account for obvious confounding variables.       How long will your study last? Explain your reasoning.         Design a Prospective Case-Control Study to answer your question Be specific and precise. You may write a short paragraph or use bullet points to answer each question.   Who will you recruit to be in your case-control study and how will you go about it? How many people will you need to recruit (again, think about incidence rate)?       For a case-control study, what types of retrospective questions will you ask the participants in the study? Hint:  a good study would attempt to account for obvious confounding variables.            How might the issue of recall bias affect your interpretation of your results?  In your answer, be sure to clearly illustrate your understanding of recall bias.             Comparing study design (cohort or case control) pros and cons How will Recruitment and Retention differ between your prospective cohort and your retrospective case-control study? Discuss the pros and cons for your two types of studies.     Will one type of study have less Potential Biases than the other? Why?     Will one type of study have a higher cost than the other? Do a brief Cost Comparison taking into account sample size and length of study, and discuss whether either or both seem logistically doable or not.         *Incidence rates are a measure of how rare a disease is within a population. They are usually expressed as some number per 100,000 people, or sometimes as a percentage of the population. If your cancer type is very rare, then you will need to have a very large sample size. For example, if your cancer type occurs in 4 out of 100,000 people, you’ll need a sample size of at least 1 million people to follow, in order to see 40 cases. You’ll also need to tailor your sample size to the population from which you will be recruiting subjects; some countries have higher incidence rates for certain types of cancers. If you are recruiting from the US population, use the US incidence rate; if you are recruiting from a different country, use the incidence rate specific to that country.

Health  Policy Analysis Paper on a local, state, or federal policy that you have explored along with recommendations based upon the analysis.1- Analyze and evaluate the Health Policy2- Identify application of health policy into clinical practice.The paper must have an Introduction and a conclusion, 6 pages ( not including Title and reference page). APA format and at least 5 references within 5 years.

Complete the previous individual assignments associated with this project (i.e., Part 1: Strategic Audit Project, Part 2: Strategic Audit Project, and Part 3: Strategic Audit Project). Using the information you gathered from your organization and healthcare professional, identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to your organization. Write a 2 page paper that identifies the strengths of, weaknesses of, opportunities of, and threats to your organization. Provide sufficient reasoning on why you believe a particular item is a strength, weakness, opportunity, or threat. Your final paper must follow APA guidelines, and include:

Directions for Powerpoint: The group will select a cultural health organization and provide facts: mission/ purpose; specific focus with examples of which health needs/ diseases they address. a. What services do they provide (is it more advisory or hand-on; is it educational; emergency relief or long-term projects?) Give at least three examples of services provided. b. Explain their success (or lack of) regarding their identified purpose/ focus- provide statistics indicating effectiveness and/or the numbers of untreated/ unresolved cases. c. Describe their resources in terms of people (medical and non-medical); supplies; funding sources. d. Identify which vulnerable populations and which global areas they work in- what is their identified rationale for selecting this population. Describe unmet needs and gaps. e. How can nurses connect with this organization/ what roles can nurses play? Identify three specific actions. Ten to twenty slides Title and references APA format (see writing grading rubric in the Help & Resource and Module tab). An outline must accompany the assignment listing group member’s name and section completed. *I have question E. for my part (3 powerpoint slides with bullet format)*

1. Examine the origins and the evolution of the US healthcare quality movement. – Provide a timeline – Give examples of key developments 2. Explain some of the elements involved in successful healthcare quality improvement efforts. – What has been most successful? – What has required legislative and regulatory support? – What have been the impacts on cost and access? 3. Examine the elements needed in a good strategic plan for a facility. Show how any quality improvement programs will be included and align with that plan.  – What are some of the key parts of an organization’s strategic plan? -Which parts should include measurable quality improvement elements?

Students applying for admission to the Generic track of the Professional Nursing program at Jersey College must complete a reflective essay. The reflective essay involves interviewing a Registered Nurse and presenting the interview in an essay form. If you do not know a Registered Nurse your admission representative will assist you with identifying an interviewee. Students should use the questions below for the interview in developing the essay. Students may ask questions in addition to the ones below but should keep the interview limited to no more than one hour. The essay must include responses to the following questions: 1. Why did you choose nursing as a profession? 2. What was nursing school like for him or her? Ask them: o.How they managed and balanced work, family and life and the difficulties o·  The level of commitment to school required to be successful (hrs. required for studying, social life, workload, etc.) o .What their clinical and lab experiences were like o·  How they prepared for examinations and the NCLEX 3. Describe their top three patient memories and why they are memorable 4. What does the phrase “NurseLife” mean to this nurse? 5. What is the hardest thing about being a nurse? 6. Reflect and discuss what your thoughts are about the interview. Did the interview change your perspective on nursing, on nursing school or life? In asking the questions above, be sure to ask your nurse to be specific and provide examples and stories. Please do not use any identifying information (i.e., names, relatives, etc.) about any patients discussed during the interview in your essay. For each question limit your answers to no more than 2,000 characters (per question). The essay must be TYPED and should be singled spaced.

We’ve touched upon the importance of history in the field of public health. Do a bit of internet research on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. What similarities can you identify between the 1918 event and the current COVID-19 pandemic. What differences can you identify? What lessons are we learning during the current pandemic that public health could apply to future pandemic events (name at least two). Write approximately 300 words.

Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following: Do laws and regulations protect patients or do health professionals protect patients? Thinking about laws and regulations, how would the events that led to the discovery and experimentation with HeLa cells have been different if they occurred today?

Answer each of the following discussion questions in 250 words each and include two reference sources for each. Select two examples of intangible value. Propose one or more approaches that an organization might use to measure each of those values.  Discuss with your classmates. Chapter 5 is on Measuring Community Benefit.  Is Community Benefit important?  What is the best way (in your opinion) to measure community benefit?

The ACA was meant to provide quality health care coverage for all yet a coverage gap for some populations especially in states that oppose Medicaid expansion. Based on what you have learned so far in this course, create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the coverage gap problem, who is impacted by the coverage gap, the role the ACA plays in the coverage gap, why the coverage gap should be closed, and solutions/ recommendations for closing the gap. Address the following in your PowerPoint: Select one state opposed to Medicaid expansion and describe why. Then, consider your own state. What are the benefits and drawbacks to Medicaid expansion in your state? Define what the coverage gap is (problem/issue) Discuss how the coverage gap impact low income healthcare consumers population. What role does the ACA have in widening or closing the coverage gap? Why is it important to close the gap (implications for positive social change)? What are some solutions to closing the coverage gap and how can healthcare equity help close the gap? Include recommendations and/or solutions. Your PowerPoint presentation should include/address: Title Slide (1 slide) Objectives Slide (1 slide) Medicaid expansion (1-2 slides) Coverage gap – define/problem/issue (1-2 slides) Coverage gap impact on low income healthcare consumers (2-3 slides) Role ACA has in widening or closing the coverage gap (1-2 slides) Close the gap (1-2 slides) Solutions to closing the coverage gap and how can healthcare equity help close the gap? (2-3 slides) Reference slide (1-2 slides). Assignment Expectations Length: 9-14 slides (in addition to the title slide and reference slides) Structure: Include a title slide and reference slide in APA format.  These do not count towards the minimum slide count for this assignment.  Your presentation must include an objectives slide.  Be sure to fully explain all slides in the Speaker Notes. References: Use the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of three (3) scholarly sources are required for this assignment. Format: Save your assignment as a Microsoft PowerPoint document (.pptx) or a PDF document (.pdf). File name: Name your saved file according to your first initial, last name, and the module number (for example, “RHall Module 1.docx”) Submission: Submit to the D2L dropbox for grading