Critically appraise existing knowledge and understanding of infection prevention and control.
Critically analyse the need for strict infection prevention and control within any care environment.
Examine current and future issues and debates around infectious diseases, epidemiology, prevalence and morbidity.
Assignment Title: The prevalence and the consequences of childhood obesity in the UK
Assignment Criteria and guideline
Identify a health condition or health issue and state a title for your summative assignment. The prevalence and the consequences of childhood obesity in the UK
Introduce your assignment, signposting the purposes and contents of your assignment (250-300 words) 2 to 4 references
Describe background and explain rationale of health condition / health issue including definitions; (200-250 words) 2 to 4 references.
Discuss the epidemiology of your health condition, including risk factors,who is at risk, how it presents, prevalence or incidence in specific area; population group (200-250 words) 2 to 3 references.
Explain an assessment of the health condition, including assessment tools (if applicable); or literature evidence (200-250 words) 2 to 3 references.
Introduce and describe a health promotion model(s) and which approaches you would apply (200-300 words) 3-4 references.
Describe 2 to 3 health promotion goals that you would like to achieve, ensuring SMART objectives (200-300 words) 2 to 3 references.
Critically discuss interventions for your health promotion goals, including roles of the individual, relations, groups, communities, multi and inter disciplinary teams, organisations, departments, etc.
Remember to give interventions for each health promotion goal you would like to achieve. (700-800 words) 5 to 7 references.
Critically discuss the evaluation of your health promotion care planning, especially your interventions, including effectiveness, what works or not work, alternatives, justification, and recommendations. (500-600 words) 4 to 6 references.
Conclusion Reinforce the key elements of your assignment do not any anything new here. (200-300 words) 2 references
Define an individual athlete, sport and level of participation, type of injury/illness, and mechanism of injury/illness. (10% 325 words)
Critically evaluate the epidemiology of the specific injury/illness (incidence and severity), injury/illness risk factors, and mechanisms of injury/illness. (10% 325 words)
Critically evaluate appropriate interventions in acute injury/illness management and rehabilitation of the athlete. (25% 800 words)
Demonstrate a critical awareness of return to competition decision making. (25% 800 words)
Demonstrate a critical awareness of periodic medical assessment and pre- participation screening and critically evaluate the value of screening in identifying risk factors for the athlete’s injury. (25% 800 words)
Conclusion including: succinct summary of essay key points, quality of evidence base and highlight knowns, unknowns, future areas of investigation (5% 160 words)
Application of Epidemiology in Community Health Nursing |
The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate utilization of epidemiology research related to the health of the community.
Assignment Guidelines
Determine a specific population that you would like to have more information about, this should be the same population chosen for assignment 1 and the one you anticipate to use for assignment 3 and 4).
Use the University Library Databases to search the epidemiology literature. Students will:
Find an applicable research article on your chosen topic.
Summarize and critique your chosen research article.
Consider how this research could be integrated into nursing practice.
Your work will achieve the maximum value/grade if it is succinct and insightful and clearly shows how you have applied the theory learned to a practical situation.
Your critique should include, but is not limited to the following:
What type of study design is it? Provide rationale.
Are the findings reported consistent with information/knowledge that you have? Do the reported relationships make sense?
If reported, how strong is the observed association?
Would you incorporate the findings of this study into your community health nursing practice (i.e., the health promotion program that you are planning) or recommend this study to others? Provide rationale.
What further research question(s) would you develop in relation to this study and/or your observations?
When submitting in the assignment dropbox include a copy of the article in PDF along with your completed assignment.
Marking Criteria
Each element of the assignment guidelines is addressed.
Ability to analyze, evaluate, create, and engage in critical inquiry is evident throughout.
Adheres to APA current addition scholarly format – limit of 5 pages (excluding title, reference, and appendix pages).
Submit your completed assignment and PDF copy research article
