Note: You are required to complete this discussion before submitting the unit assignment.

For this discussion, complete the following:

1. Describe the background of your study.

2. Demonstrate how answering your research question will advance scientific knowledge base.

3. Discuss the implications and contributions of your study to your specialization.

4. Be sure to include in-text citations from the academic literature on your chosen topic.

Once you have received feedback from other learners, complete the unit assignment based on your revised discussion post. 

Readings

Use your Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design text to complete the following:

Review Chapter 3, “Designing a Qualitative Study.” Focus on the subsection, “The Design Structures of a Plan or Proposal.”

Read Chapter 6, “Introducing and Focusing the Study,” pages 127–146. 

      a.  Focus on the following subsections:  

              1. “Introducing and Focusing the Study.”

              2. “The Research Problem Statement.”

Review Percy, Kostere, and Kostere’s 2015 article, “Generic Qualitative Research in Psychology,” from The Qualitative Report, volume 20, issue 2, pages 76–85.

Library Search

Use the library to conduct a brief literature review related to your chosen topic, in preparation for describing the background and addressing how the research  question will advance the scientific knowledge base. You will use this literature review in the unit discussion.

Read the Transcript –  Qualitative Research Proposal 

This illustration help to guide you as you develop the various components of your course project. Boxcars are added to the train as you progress through the course. Each boxcar provides information regarding the development of

individual components of a research proposal.

INTRODUCTION – Advancing Scientific Knowledge, Implications, and Contributions

When choosing a topic for the development of a qualitative study, it is essential that the topic meet the criteria of advancing scientific knowledge within the academic discipline. The issues that need to be addressed are the following:

Will the study advance the scientific knowledge base?

Is the study grounded in the discipline?

Does the study address something that is not known, something that is new or different from prior research, something that extends prior research, or something that fills a gap in the existing literature?

What are the theoretical and practical implications of the study?

How does the study contribute to the discipline?

OBJECTIVES

To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:

1. Identify components of scientific merit (advances the knowledge base, contributes to theories, and meets the hallmarks of good research).

2. Critically evaluate the individual components of scientific merit of research studies.

3. Demonstrate how answering a specific research question will advance scientific knowledge base.

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Question 1Points: 4.00

1. How does safety help contain costs as well as reduce illness and injury?
2. Which environmental hazards can pose risks to a person’s safety.
3. Which preventive actions are in place for motor vehicle accidents, poisoning, falls, fire, and disasters(Remember immunizations, hand washing etc…..)
4. How does the patient’s developmental stage create threats to safety?

Question 2Points: 4.00

1. Review what to assess to ensure the safe use of restraints.
2. What are the four categories of safety risks in a health care agency? 
3. Basing your answers on the four categories, what ways can, you as a new RN, can prevent accidents in your agency?
4. What are the blocks to safety in a health care setting?

Question 3Points: 4.00

1. What is the relationship between chain and transmission of infection
2. What factors place a patient in a health care setting at risk for infections?
3. What are the most common ports of entry and exit, What does an organism require to exist within a reservoir?
4. How does the human body defend against infection?

Question 4Points: 4.00

1. Discuss age, nutritional status, stress, and the current disease process as risk factors for infection.
2. What is the difference between a systemic and localized infection?
3. How do chronic diseases such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis affect the risk of infection?
4. Define and contrast surgical asepsis with medical asepsis.

Question 5Points: 4.00

1. Explain standard  precautions and give two examples of diseases transmitted via blood 
2. What is the difference between hand washing and hand hygiene?
3. Discuss laboratory tests that screen for infection
4. Describe the needed steps and precautions for applying a surgical mask, sterile gown, and sterile gloves.

Question 6Points: 4.00

1. Discuss isolation, isolation precautions, and associated procedures.
2. Review contact, droplet, and airborne precautions and protective environment.
3. For each type of isolation, what precautions should you take?
4. What are the psychological implications for isolation?

Question 7Points: 1.00

1. Describe occupational exposure and the situations and actions that put health care workers at risk.
2. What measures can you as a new RN take to avoid occupational exposure
3. Once a healthcare worker is exposed, describe the post exposure process 

1. What are your upcoming week’s specific learning goals and objectives as a Case Manager?
2. What is your upcoming week’s detailed schedule at your community practice experience placement?
3. Were there any placement items/issues that occurred this week that you feel your instructor should be aware of that are private in nature and are more appropriately shared here than in the discussion board with your classmates?
4. Give a brief description of an objective you worked on this week. Make sure to cite at least one reference showing how your objective relates to the public health knowledge you’ve studied during this course or the public health course. You may choose to reference your e-text, journal articles, or videos you’ve studied during these courses or you may find an outside reference on your own to further enhance your public health knowledge and practices.

Remember, your journal entries are an important aspect of clinical learning as they serve to help you reflect upon and get the most out of your community practice experience. Therefore, your journal entry should include the who, what, where, and when of your community practice experience. Remember, this should simulate a dialogue that would normally take place face-to-face with your community practice experience instructor.

DUE 6/24 5P.M EST

TOPIC: HIV/AIDS IN LOWER INCOME COMMUNITIES

 

his week, you explore annotated bibliographies, which are part of a larger systematic review of literature. The main purpose of the annotated bibliography is to delve into the current knowledge base surrounding a chosen problem. Reviewing the literature and discovering the current state of the research will help to identify gaps in the knowledge or questions not yet answered about the problem. An annotated bibliography is usually your “first look” at the published literature relating to a problem of interest. Annotated bibliographies help identify the all-important research question that needs to be addressed related to that problem. According to the Walden Library, an annotated bibliography combines “a set of notes, comments, or critiques” with “a list of references that helps a reader identify sources of information” 

What type of information should be included in these notes, comments, and critiques? The annotations should summarize the key information in the article or resource without merely paraphrasing the content. The intent is to provide a succinct analysis of the “why” behind the study you read in the published material. It should be based on your opinion of why the author(s) believed the study was necessary and chose the particular methods of investigation used. Annotations might also include theories and conclusions postulated by the authors. An effective annotation includes the strengths of an article, but even better, the weaknesses or deficiencies as well.

 

The Assignment: INCLUDE THIS IN PAPER

Paper (2pages)

Section I

• Summarize the health problem related to the particular community you identified for your Final Project.
• Develop a research question related to a problem.
• Provide a rationale for your selection of this question, along with supporting data.

Section II

Create an annotated bibliography of research related to this problem. In your annotated bibliography, include the following:

• Six to eight resources on the identified public health problem related to the research question.
• For each source, write a brief summary of the key points of the study. Include the problem, main research question, study type, and an analysis of the major findings. You may also include any information or notes that you believe are relevant and would be useful to you as you revisit your bibliography later.
• An explanation of the problem areas and gaps in the existing research revealed by the annotated bibliography.

The majority of the resources should be primary research. Annotations should describe relevancy and timeliness and should indicate whether the research is primary or secondary.

comment 1

Mucor is a fungus found in soil, decaying fruit, vegetables and other plants (Doctor Fungus, 2018). Mucor progresses from an infection into pneumonia by entering the lungs during inhalation of spores, mucor can also enter the body through a cut or opening in the body (Mandanas, 2017). The infection most commonly occurs in immunocompromised patients, and is not contagious (Mandanas, 2017). Nursing interventions that would be helpful in treating a patient with a mucor infection revolve largely around respiratory function. The nurse should monitor the patient’s respiratory function very carefully, ensuring proper oxygen saturation is maintained. Ensuring that there is suction available and working properly at the bedside is an important safety intervention that the nurse can provide. The patient’s lung sounds should be monitored, and the respiratory rate should be performed by the nurse. The nurse can also teach the patient about proper use of the incentive spirometer if patient is awake and able to use it as prescribed. The nurse should also ensure that proper fluid intake is maintained in the patient as long as it is not contraindicated.

comment2

The Centers for Disease Control defines Mucormycosis as “a serious but rare fungal infection caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes. These molds live throughout the environment and mainly affect people with weakened immune systems. It can occur in nearly any part of the body but most commonly affects the sinuses or the lungs after inhaling fungal spores from the air, or the skin after the fungus enters the skin through a cut, scrape, burn, or other type of skin trauma” (Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, nd).

            Because of an already weakened immune system, pneumonia is not uncommon after Mucormycosis. The Mucormycosis triggers the immune system to respond by sending WBC’s to attack the organism. The neutrophils engulf and kill the organism, however it releases cytokines which cause a general activation of the immune system, typically leading to pneumonia. Two medical interventions that would be helpful include stating antibiotics for antifungal treatments and a more recent discovery is recommending the use of hyperbaric chambers because, “ It is hypothesized that hyperbaric oxygen might be useful for treating Mucormycosis in conjunction with standard therapy because higher oxygen pressure improves the ability of neutrophils to kill the organism” (Edwards, Ibrahim, & Spellberg, 2005, para 57).

            In evaluating the laboratory results, it is noted that the patient is in Respiratory Alkalosis. The fasting blood glucose is elevated, along with elevated WBC’s. This is all indicative of raspatory infection. A common risk factor for Mucormycosis Pneumonia is diabetes. Studies show that of 86 case reviews, 56% of the patients were diabetic (Igbal, Irfan, Jabeen, Kazmi, & Tariq, 2017). The elevated WBC is in relation to the fungal infection. The ABG shows a respiratory imbalance in relation to the infection.