Reference no: EM133730366

Assignment: Nursing- The Study of Communicable Diseases Project

I. Within Sentinel City you will notice a camera icon. Use the camera to take pictures within the simulation. Use the "enter text" feature to add your observations to the pictures. Submit a PDF of your action report from Sentinel City that includes the following completed activities from Industrial Heights, Casper Park District, Acer Tech Center, and Nightingale Square:

1) Interfaith Church
2) Sentinel City School District
3) Sentinel City Department of Transportation
4) Better Health Clinic
5) ABC Daycare
6) Sentinel City Affordable Housing Project
7) City Hall
8) Radio Buzz 96.5FM
9) Sentinel City Healthcare System
10) Lilly's
11) Joe's Grocery
12) Sentinel City Department of Parks and Recreation

II. Complete a needs-assessment summary to determine the health needs and risks of the virtual community in Sentinel City by using each of the following tools:

Note: These tools can be found either in the web links section or as an attachment to this task.

1) Demographics Assessment
2) Neighborhood/Community Safety Inventory
3) Windshield Survey
4) Population Health Scavenger Hunt

Note: The name of each of the four tools should be identified in the needs-assessment summary, along with a brief summary of how each of the four tools was used in the needs assessment.

A. Analyze the collected data using concepts of epidemiology and health determinants.

Note: Refer to these three sections of your COS for additional information: Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Epidemiological Data, and Application of Epidemiology.

III. Formulate a community diagnosis for Sentinel City by doing the following:

A. Discuss the three problems for Sentinel City based on the Healthy People goals.

B. Discuss community resources (e.g., Sentinel City Affordable Housing Project, Better Health Clinic) that are available to address one of the problems identified in part IIIA.

C. Identify a primary prevention topic based on the problem you selected in part IIIB.

Note: See the attached "Primary Prevention Topics List" for guidance in formulating your topic.

IV. Discuss how you will apply the assessment strategies you have learned from the simulation environment to your community assessment strategies in your community.

V. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

VI. Demonstrate Professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Part I. Select one of the following communicable diseases that has had an outbreak across international borders:

1) influenza
2) measles
3) respiratory syndrome coronavirus
4) meningococcal disease
5) HIV/AIDS
6) Ebola virus
7) hepatitis B
8) hepatitis C
9) tuberculosis
10) Zika virus

Part II. Describe the outbreak of the disease selected in part I, including each of the following:

1) name of the disease
2) the countries involved
3) the date the outbreak was discovered
4) the dates the disease reached each involved country

A. Analyze the epidemiological determinants and risk factors associated with the outbreak.

B. Discuss the route of transmission of the selected disease.

C. Discuss how an outbreak of the selected disease would impact your community at a systems level (e.g., the functioning of schools, local government, businesses, hospitals) if an outbreak were to occur in your community.

D. Explain what the reporting protocol would be if an outbreak of the selected disease were to occur in your community.

E. Discuss two strategies (e.g., patient education strategies, community education strategies) that you would recommend to prevent an outbreak of the selected disease in your community.

Part III. Submit a PDF of your score summary from Bentonville that includes each of the following completed activities:

1) Influenza in Bentonville
2) Community Advocacy
3) Emergency Response
4) Communicable Disease.