Week 1: Epidemiology and Advanced Practice Nursing Paper
TD1
Discuss one historical epidemiological event or accomplishment that has left an impact on healthcare as we know it. Clearly identify, describe, and define key points or people in the event or accomplishment.
TD 2
How might such an event have an impact on the goals and objectives of Healthy People 2020?
TD 3
Please provide a summary of the case or information you have discussed this week
Week 2: Epidemiology and Biostatistics to Inform Advanced Practice Nursing
TD1
Shelby is a 32-year-old mother of two, who has smoked 1 pack-per-day for the last 15 years, and who comes to see you today for her yearly well-woman exam in your family practice clinic. She has a family history, in a single paternal grandmother of breast cancer at age 52. She also has a history of an abnormal cervical cancer screening three years ago requiring colposcopy. Given her history please consider the following:
Choose one screening test that might be considered either now or in the next few years of Shelby’s care. Define the test, its positive predictive value, reliability and validity.
Epidemiology and Advanced Practice Nursing Paper
TD2
Upon the course of your history you find out that Shelby has a great aunt on her mother’s side who died of ‘some woman cancer in her stomach’ and an uncle on her father’s side who died of pancreatic cancer. Her mother and older sisters are all in good health.
TD3
Please provide a summary of the case or information you have discussed this week
week 3
Risk and Cohort Study Design
As an Advanced Practice Nurse, you will care for patients who are at risk for specific diseases. Please pick one chronic or infectious disease specific to a population in your geographic area and provide evidence of risk, relative risk, and odds ratio in relation to that disease, and specific risks in the population you identified.