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Chapter 1: The Selection of a Research Approach 1.Discuss the importance of the inductive approach in qualitative research. How does this approach differ from the deductive approach in quantitative research? 2.How does your philosophical worldview influence the types of research you are interested in conducting? 3.Of the four philosophical worldviews, which do you think is more appropriate for your field or discipline and why? 4.Identify a program or intervention in your work. What type of research design would be appropriate to evaluate its effectiveness. Justify your response?

Exercises:  Complete the ShadowHealth© Respiratory and Cardiovascular and both corresponding Concept Labs assignments After you have achieved at least 80% on the assignment(s) download, save and upload your LabPass document to the dropbox. Professional Development Write a 500-word APA reflection essay of your experience with the Shadow Health virtual assignment(s). At least two scholarly sources in addition to your textbook should be utilized. Answers to the following questions may be included in your reflective essay: What went well in your assessment? What did not go so well? What will you change for your next assessment? What findings did you uncover? What questions yielded the most information? Why do you think these were effective? What diagnostic tests would you order based on your findings? What differential diagnoses are you currently considering? What patient teaching were you able to complete? What additional patient teaching is needed? Would you prescribe any medications at this point? Why or why not? If so, what? How did your assessment demonstrate sound critical thinking and clinical decision making?

You have recently been assigned Health Promotion as a new priority for the upcoming year.  Review the C-Span Health Promotion  (Links to an external site.)  video and determine how you can use this information to promote health within your community.  Explain the importance of health promotion and the impact on the nation and the world.  How much should the government play a role in our health?  How much should the individual take control of his or her own health?  Would it be a more effective strategy to invest in preventive healthcare rather than treating sickness and disease?  Provide an argument for and against health promotion.

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.

vaccines are a critical part of public health world wide. Choose one vaccine and disease, the vaccine must currently be approved by FDA and in use (or previously used). Explain the vaccine, the type, the schedule, protection guaranteed , reduction in disease burden, risks and side effects. Are there any myths regarding the vaccine if so why are they wrong. is this disease reserving or has it been eliminated?

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:

No Plagiarism  Library Assignment Critique a Research Article A critique is a method of displaying a logical and organized analysis of a written or oral piece. Critique can provide the readers with both positive and negative outcomes depending on the author. The purpose of this assignment is for the student to perform a critique on a research article that deals with today’s health issues. In this paper the student must be diligent at what the author are claiming, taking into account the research methods being utilized and look for pros and cons of the researcher’s outcomes.  The assignment must be a minimal of five pages, excluding title page and references. The assignment must be strictly following APA guidelines, points will be deducted if otherwise. Do not use first person throughout the paper until the section called evaluate the paper.  It will be divided in the following manner: ?Title page: Give the name of the article, the authors name(s) and your name. Following APA ?Introduction: • Provide an overview of the author’s research problem, research questions and main point including how the author supports his or her point.  • Explain what the author initial ?objectives (hypothesis) and results including the process he or she used to arrive at such conclusion.    Evaluate the Research Methods: in paragraph form answer the following: • Does the author provide a literature review?  • Is the research current and relevant to today existing health issues? • Describe the research type utilized?– experimental, non-experimental, quasi experimental, etc.  • Evaluate the sample (size, composition, or in the way the sample was selected in relation to the purpose of the study? Was the sample appropriate for the research or was it bias?  • How practical does this work seem to you? How does the author suggest research results could be applied and how do you believe they could be applied?  • Could the study have been improved in your opinion? If so provide how you think it could have improved.  • Is the writing in the article clear straightforward? • Can further research be conducted on this subject? Explain   Conclusion: In your conclusion, try to synthesize the pieces of your critique to emphasize your own main points about the author’s work, relating the researcher’s work to your own knowledge or to topics being discussed in your course.   Reference Page: APA style, see rubric below

Please be sure to write the question with the answer below and number the questions.  1.  Why is “Our Bodies Ourselves” considered to be the beginning of the women’s health movement? 2.  Of what value is the case of Sherri Finkbine to the women’s health movement? 3.  Why is Planned Parenthood important to the history of women’s health? 4.  Why is Barbie considered both a positive and a negative force in the women’s health movement? 5.  How did “The Pill” revolutionize the lives of women? 6.  Of what value was Griswold vs Connecticut to the women’s health movement?

Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 (from the Assessment Topic Areas | Transcript media piece) and provide details about it.

Using the PICOT question” In young adults with newly diagnosed hypertension, how does the addition of a walking program compared with pharmacologial interventions alone affect blood pressure within 6 months?”   apply steps 1–3 of the EBP as described by Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt in Chapter 1. Step 1: Formulate the Burning Clinical PICOT Question Step 2: Search for the Best Evidence Use each of the keywords from the PICOT question to perform a systematic search  Discuss how you performed your search, including search terms and process. Step 3: Critical Appraisal of Evidence (Initial Thoughts)  Create an annotated bibliography on a minimum of five empirical research studies that resulted from this search. Include the following for each article: Reference for each study using APA 7th edition format and style Purpose of the study Research question(s)/hypotheses Research design/evidence rating Summary of how findings contribute to the PICOT questions Additionally complete a literature search on the PICOT question “In young adults with newly diagnosed hypertension, how does the addition of a walking program compared with pharmacologial interventions alone affect blood pressue within 6 months?” .  one quantitative and one qualitative research study for approval.