Thank you for your insight response and positions on nursing education requirements. I see a little confusion however when you say that having the associate degree and bachelor degrees are assets and needed, but then stated you support the bachelor degree as the minimum requirement for licensure. We can’t have both. If the BSN was to be required to sit for licensure, the associate degree would go away. OR maybe the associate degree would replace the LPN requirement. That remains to be seen. Don’t forget to use your textbbook in initial responses (Black, 2020)! Please attach the pdfs of your articles so we can read them.

 one paragraph with intext citation and reference follow up discussion for the above discussion. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification. Provide feedback on whether you agree or disagree with their criticism. Explain why. Build on their posts by providing additional insight of your own   

1. Summarize the concepts of floating that were addressed in the attached articles.

• This week’s provided articles discussed the entirety of nurses floating and the concerns, benefits, cost, stress, emotions regarding floating. To summarize, many nurses may feel overwhelmed or frustrated when being told to float to a unit other than their home unit. Most importantly, the plan of action regarding a floating nurse must be safe for all parties involved: the patient, all staff, the floating nurse. One article mentioned a nurse’s current procedure where floating nurses are only assigned “stable, easy patients” with full access to the charge nurse if needed (Magrath, 2016). This is a great tool that most units should follow to promote overall safety and ease of transitioning for all staff and the floating nurse.

2. What steps would you take in this scenario to ensure a safe transition into the unfamiliar unit?

• Safe transitions for floating nurses involve open communication between charge nurse of the unit and the floating nurse as well as involvement of other nurses working alongside the floating nurse. What must occur is appropriate planning from the charge nurse and the floating nurse by discussing the types of patients the nurse is certified and qualified to take care of. In this example, if the nurse is not certified to administer chemotherapy drugs or a patient undergoing radiating, then this nurse cannot care for a patient who is undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment.
• Other staff members will need to share the weight of the workload by caring for patients who the floater nurse is unable to care for. Should these discussions and planning take place and there ends up being an incident where the floating nurse has orders for a task that is inappropriate, the floating nurse must NOT complete the order and instead notify the charge nurse for reassignment.

3. Why are these steps important?

• These steps are important for the safety and protection of both the nurse’s license and of the patient.
• Secondly, the concept of planning is really important for clinical managers, charge nurses and staff nurses to master. This week’s discussion mentioned different types of planning involved in healthcare.

4. What are some of the legal ramifications that can occur if you accept an assigned that is out of your scope of practice?

• Medical malpractice can result from a nurse operating outside his or her scope of practice (Legal Rights and Responsibilities: NCLEX-RN2020). Patients can be injured, disabled, or die from improper care from an uncertified nurse if they operate outside of their scope. Those involved (i.e. charge nurse) could also be subpoenaed to court and may face legal ramifications as well if they had any involvement or awareness of a situation resulting in patient injury as well.

-LaurenReferences

Writers, R. N. S. (2020, August 23). Legal Rights and Responsibilities: NCLEX-RN. https://www.registerednursing.org/nclex/legal-rights-responsibilities/ (Links to an external site.).

Magrath, P. (2016, August 30). Nurses Are Talking About: Floating and Rapid Response Duty. http://blog.diversitynursing.com/blog/nurses-are-talking-about-floating-and-rapid-response-duty.

 TOPIC: Benchmark – Epidemiologic Profile Assignment

An epidemiologic profile is a summary of a significant public health issue, or issues, in your community, county, state, or country. An epidemiological profile helps to coordinate activities and policies from various agencies and organizations to improve health.

Review the available data, reports, and documents for your locale. Assess how the methods of epidemiology (study designs, data collection, measures of association, etc.) are used to determine who needs what services, where the services are needed, and how those services should be delivered. Define your community as your city, metropolitan area, or county and write a 2,000-2,250 word epidemiological profile (word limit excludes references and title page).The profile can be a general profile that provides a landscape picture of several significant chronic and infectious diseases in your defined community, or it can be a specific profile that targets one health issue, such as diabetes, asthma, STDs, flu, heart disease, obesity, alcohol abuse, or other drug use. Include the following:

Executive Summary

1. Describe the purpose of the epidemiologic profile and the health issue(s) it addresses. Discuss its importance to the community and how it will be utilized.
2. Summarize the key findings from your review of available data, reports, and documents for the community.

Introduction

1. Describe the defined community and population using demographic and socio-economic information and data.
2. Briefly describe the history and cultural background of the community.
3. Explain any unique contextual information that pertains to the public health of the defined community.
4. Describe any key public health projects, grants, or existing epidemiology-related working groups or committees in the community/county.

Description of Available Data

Identify at least two different data sources relevant to your profile. Discuss data from these sources and their relation to the issue or community.

Discuss the methods used in the data collection process (data source and organization providing the data; how often the data are collected; data limitations including response rates, missing data, selection of participants, etc.). Potential data sources and databases might include the following depending on what is available for your community or county:

1. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data
2. Youth risk behavioral survey
3. Surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER)      program data
4. CDC Wonder (multiple data sources)
5. County health rankings data (multiple data sources)
6. Alcohol-related disease impact data
7. Demographic health survey data (international)
8. Global school-based student health survey (international)
9. Local evaluation reports from the department/ministry of health or other nonprofit organizations

Interpretation of Results Regarding Key Health Issue

1. Size and magnitude of the measures
2. Trends and comparisons
3. Economic costs

Discussion of Problems and Strategies

1. Discuss disparities, limitations, and gaps in the information available regarding the health issue(s).
2. Describe potential public health strategies to address these gaps.
3. Use graphs and tables where appropriate.

Conclusion

You are required to cite to at least five sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and public health content.

General Requirements

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. 

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competency:

MPH

2.1 Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.

MSN Public Health Nursing

6.2 Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.

STUDY MATERIALS

Read Chapters 17, 19, and 20 in Gordis Epidemiology.

CDC. (2014). Integrated Guidance for Developing Epidemiologic Profiles. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/guidelines_developing_epidemiologic_profiles.pdf

Read “Health Inequalities Among British Civil Servants: The Whitehall II Study,” by Marmot and Smith, from The Lancet (1991). URL:https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hch&AN=9107080526&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read “The Role of Epidemiology in Disaster Response Policy Development,” by Thorpe et al., from Science Direct (2015). URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S1047279714003184?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb

Read “Prescription Drug Abuse: From Epidemiology to Public Policy,” by McHugh, Nielsen, and Weiss, from Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (2015). URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0740547214001871?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb&ccp=y

Read “The Role Epidemiology in Evidence-Based Policy Making: A Case Study of Tobacco Use in Youth,” by Aldrich et al., from Annals of Epidemiology (2015). URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S1047279714001495?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb

Read “Epidemiology, Policy, and Racial/Ethnic Minority Health Disparities,” by Carter-Pokras et al., from Annals of Epidemiology (2012). URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3724931/

Read “Epidemiology and Public Policies,” by Barata, from Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia (2013). URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1415-790X2013000100003&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en

Read “Ethical Issues in Epidemiologic Research and Public Health Practice,” by Coughlin, from Emerging Themes Epidemiology (2006). URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1594564/

Explore the “Viral Hepatitis Epidemiologic Profiles” map, located on the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) website, to assist with topic assignment.URL: https://www.astho.org/Viral-Hepatitis-Epi-Profiles/Map/

Use the “BRFSS Web Enabled Analysis Tool,” located on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, to complete the topic assignment. URL: https://nccd.cdc.gov/weat/#/

Review the “Belmont Report,” by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1979), located on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Office for Human Research Protections website. URL: https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report/index.html

Explore the resources on “Health Data Tools and Statistics,” located on the PHPartners website. URL: https://phpartners.org/health_stats.html

Explore “Surveillance, Epidemiology and the End Results Program,” from the National Cancer Institute.URL: https://seer.cancer.gov/

Explore the STEPwise Approach to Surveillance (STEPS) page of the World Health Organization (WHO) website. URL: http://www.who.int/chp/steps/en/

The field of nursing has changed over time. In a 750‐1,000 word paper, discuss nursing practice today by addressing the following:

1. Explain how nursing practice has changed over time and how this evolution has changed the scope of practice and the approach to treating the individual.
2. Compare and contrast the differentiated practice competencies between an associate and baccalaureate education in nursing. Explain how scope of practice changes between an associate and baccalaureate nurse.
3. Identify a patient care situation and describe how nursing care, or approaches to decision‐making, differ between the BSN‐prepared nurse and the ADN nurse.
4. Discuss the significance of applying evidence‐based practice to nursing care and explain how the academic preparation of the RN‐BSN nurse supports its application.
5. Discuss how nurses today communicate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and how this supports safer and more effective patient outcomes.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance. 

Find a media article (NOT a scientific study) pertaining to epidemiology or public health and prepare a 5-minute oral presentation based on its content.

1) Give a reference of the article you used at the top of the first page. The reference must be in correct APA format.

Write your answers to the questions using full sentences (minimum 250 words) and upload the document to Moodle. The document does not have to be in APA format, aside from the reference at the top of the page.

3) Answer the assigned questions in your presentation and be prepared to answer additional questions after your presentation.

Presentations will take place in Weeks 4-8. There will be sign-ups for presentation dates in Moodle.

Submit in either Microsoft Word or as a PDF. Do not use Pages or turn in handwritten work. Any assignment not submitted in either Microsoft Word or PDF format will not be accepted.

Assigned Questions

1. What is the problem? Is it an epidemic? Why or why not?

2. Who is affected?

3. What is/are the risk factor(s)?

4. What regulatory or public health bodies are involved?

5. What control measures have been taken (disease control, risk control, prevention)?

6. What obstacles to control are there, if any?

7. What kind of testing, if any, was done?

8. What research questions and study designs might be applicable to this situation and why?