NR 503 Week 5 Assignment: Infectious Disease Paper
Purpose
Infectious disease occurs worldwide and must be addressed just as chronic disease is approached. This assignment will offer the opportunity to explore the various communicable diseases, the epidemiological background data as well as the implications of these infections.
Requirements
Criteria for ContentApply the concepts of epidemiology to a communicable disease. Choose one communicable disease from the following list:
- Zeka
- Salmonella
- MRSA
- Clostridioides difficile infection
- Meningitis (Included in Download)
- Lyme Disease
- Borellia Burgdorferi
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Hantavirus
- Giardia
- Chickenpox (Included in Download)
- Tuberculosis (Included in Download)
- Influenza (Included in Download)
- Mononucleosis
- Hepatitis B (Included in Download)
- HIV
- Chlamydia (Included in Download)
- Gonorrhea
- Syphillis
- Measles (Included in Download)
- Pertussis
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STATUS
Include the following in your assignment:
- Description of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).
- Synthesize the determinants of health as related to the development of this disease.
- Identify and describe the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors.
- Synthesize the role of the primary care FNP to the management of infectious diseases (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up).
- A minimum of three scholarly references, research articles, is required. Web sites may be utilized but do not count towards the three scholarly references. Your course text maybe utilized but does not count towards the three scholarly references.
