Module 1 – SLP

INTRODUCTION TO BACTERIA AND VIRUSES

Part I

Read the following chapters in the Microbiology etext available at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/trident-boundless-microbiology

Introduction to Microbiology

• Introduction to Microbiology
• Microbes and the World
• The Science of Microbiology

1. Describe Koch’s Postulates and briefly summarize his contributions to the field of Microbiology.

Part II 

Read the following chapters in the Microbiology etext available at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/trident-boundless-microbiology

Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryote Cell Structure

• Overview of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
• Cell Walls of Prokaryotes

Choose a resident microbe from the article The Nature of Bacterial Host-Parasite Relationships in Humans.

1. Describe the symbiotic role of your chosen microbe within our microbiome.
2. Do a little independent research to determine whether this microbe can become pathogenic. If so, describe the conditions under which this microbe assumes this opportunistic role. Be sure to cite articles used in your research and include a references section.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Page Length: 2 to 3 pages

Format            

TUI encourages all students to comply with APA style and format guidelines for proper citation of references.  Use the formatting in your Background page as a model.

Scholarly Content                   

Your case assignments are considered scholarly works. Your final work should include peer reviewed (scholarly) sources.  Please use the formatting demonstrated in your Background section to cite the tutorials and readings from the Module Overview. You should not cut and paste the questions posed and answer them like a “Question and Answer” session.  Your finished paper should read like an academic paper.

Please keep in mind that you should not use sources such as “Answers.com” or “Wikipedia” or “Wikianswers.”  None of these are scholarly sources and they can be “modified” by any registered user which makes them unreliable. You will post your final essay as a word document to the SLP assignment dropbox.

•Review the four recommendations in the IOM report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health and find your state’s action coalition. Discuss your state’s action coalition’s work as it aligns with these four recommendations. Is each recommendation being addressed? Based on your analysis of the website, how would you describe your state’s progress toward meeting the IOM recommendations?

Provide a preliminary literature review and an action item checklist

The subject for this study is family discharge arrangement in NICU. Discharge arrangement can be portrayed as ‘the improvement of an individualized discharge strategy for the patient preceding leaving health care facility, with the point of containing costs as well as enhancing patient outcomes’ (Spence & Casey, 2015). It is thought to be a crucial component in making the change from the intensive care setting towards the home. This progress has been portrayed as ‘a passage from conditions that might make a time of vulnerability related to changes in role relations, desires, or capacities.’ A medical placement on a NICU excited the researcher’s enthusiasm with respect towards whether families are by and large adequately prepared for as well as bolstered all through discharge and also how discharge arrangement  is being done, rousing the researcher to investigate this subject further.

This assignment  will require:

1.  a minimum of 10 scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles.
2. Each article needs to be thoroughly summarized. The summary must describe the relevance of the article, and how the research findings support the action you are proposing in your capstone project.
3. Each article summary needs to include a research design and methods section.

Comment 1

Popular sampling strategies in qualitative research:

Convenience sampling – participants are readily available, but members of the sample may not be best respondents.

Purposive sampling – deliberately selects those who are likely to have most to say.

Snowball sampling – allows selection of likely candidates from difficult to reach groups.

Generalizability: The aim of qualitative research is not to generalize, it still remains a limitation of the approach. We cannot take a group of people’s views and apply them to another context, another place or another group of people. We may read them and think ‘Yes! This sounds familiar to me!’ or ‘I am surprised at these findings!’ but we cannot, then, extrapolate from them and decide that we have hard evidence that can be applied in other contexts

Comment 2

“Sampling involves selecting a group of people, events, objects, or other elements with which to conduct a study… Sampling theory was developed to determine the most effective way to acquire a sample that accurately reflects the population under study. Key concepts of sampling theory include populations, target population, sampling or eligibility criteria, accessible population, elements, representativeness, sampling frames, and sampling methods or plans. ” (Grove, Gray, & Burns, 2015, pp. 249-250). An example of this might the study of the effect of diabetes on the body’s vital organs. With millions of diabetics in the United States it would be impossible to study the entire target population (all diabetics); researchers must therefore use a smaller and more manageable sample to represent the population as a whole. Obviously the goal in obtaining this sample is for it to be as much like the entire population as possible. This is of course of the utmost importance to the generalizability of the study.

Generalization means that the results of the research performed on the sample can then be assumed or applied to the whole target population. This can be done to with varying degrees of accuracy and extensiveness. Grove, Gray, & Burns (2015, pp. 250-251) state that research quality and consistency with other research findings can alter the degree of generalizability; meaning that with high quality research, findings can be generalized from the sample to the accessible population, and then to the target population.