This competency assessment assesses the following Outcome(s):
MN505M1-1: Interpret epidemiologic data on morbidity and mortality related to acute and chronic disease states.
Individual Screening
Directions
Individual Screening
Review the clinician provider guidelines and recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force A and B Recommendations. https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Name/uspstf-a-and-b-recommendations/
For the MSN-prepared nurse, knowledge of epidemiology and its application to preventive screening guidelines is important in many clinical areas: administrative, education, and nurse practitioner fields. Consider you are working in a clinic and need to order a preventive screening on a patient for one of the conditions listed below. While this is a preventive measure, it also can be a diagnostic tool in other circumstances. For this assignment, the screening is a secondary prevention measure.
Please select one screening below. Your screening methodology must come from the United States Preventive Services Task Force guidelines.
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Breast Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Colon Cancer
Diabetes Mellitus II
Lung Cancer
Condition and Screening
Identify and define the condition and type of screening. Screening choice is one from the assignment directions.
Epidemiology of Condition
Include a correct definition of the condition and defines the epidemiology of the condition in the United States through three statistical terms.
Include the correct mortality and related morbidity statistics in numerical format.
Address trends using terms such as increasing, larger, or less. Includes related disparities and population rate comparison (i.e., racial, sex, age, etc.)
Methodology
Incorporate USPSTF guideline development methodology process into the methodology section of the paper.
Discuss the population for the guideline using age, sex, or related characteristic, for the screening.
Include information on two risk factors addressed in the guideline methodology.
Justify the screening based on these risks using statistical rationale.
Explain and support measures of the screening.
Guideline
Provide a summation of the USPSTF guideline recommendation.
Include population characteristic/s, screening type, and interval.
Include most current recommendations.
Critical Analysis
Conduct a literature review of support used in the guideline. May include alternative studies found in more recent literature that supports or offers alternative views.
Cite four studies in the analysis.
Summary
Provide a summary conclusion of the screening guideline, general benefit to the individual and why it is important.
Format expectations:
Follows all assignment directions.
Introduction and conclusion are included.
Information in paragraphs and paper organized to convey the content to the reader.
Paper length paper should be 34 pages of content.
Follows APA in paper format, reference page, in-text citations, or headings.
Uses four or more credible peer-reviewed sources.
Masters-prepared nurse educators, leaders, nurse practitioners, and all specialty nursing fields contribute to health promotion in populations across the life span. You will demonstrate understanding and correct interpretations of preventive screening guidelines. You should be able to apply this knowledge to your specialty focus related to health promotion and epidemiology.
