Week 7 Assignment – Managing an Outbreak

Overview

In this assignment, you will be tasked with developing a data-driven plan to improve patient outcomes from a transmissible disease outbreak scenario in a typical health care facility.

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Instructions

To complete this assignment, remember to reference the resources you found in your Week 6 activity. In addition, you may also use the Internet and Strayer databases as well as refer to your readings in the textbooks.Write a 5–6 page paper in which you do the following:

1. Evaluate three possible epidemiological approaches you might utilize to manage the chosen outbreak.
   • Be sure to compare and contrast your chosen approaches.
2. Recommend at least six steps in a plan that may be presented to an audience of interest to prevent the proliferation of this particular disease.
   • Be sure to include support for recommendations.
3. Use at least six peer-reviewed academic resources (this may include the three sources from your Week 6 activity) in this assignment.
   • Use at least six sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. These sources must be less than 5 years old. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the Strayer Library or review Strayer Library Guides.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your faculty for any additional instructions.

Resources

From Managerial Epidemiology: 

• Chapters 1.9, 3.11, 7.7–7.8, 10, 11.14, 14, 15.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Develop a data-driven plan that uses epidemiologic principles to improve patient outcomes in a transmissible disease outbreak in a health care setting.

Cover and Reference page does not count towards the page length. 

This  assignment will require you to take the PICO, 5 research articles and place them in a table for analysis.  You will critique each article and identify the most important parts of the research, analysis, and findings.

Then  you will summarize the articles by grading the research, and identifying gaps in the literature as well as possible interventions (see grading rubric and examples).

Instructions:

1. Identify your PICO or research question of interest

2. Gather 5 research articles on your topic: be sure to save them and submit them along with the matrix;  please make sure they are PDF documents.

3. Do not use clinical guidelines or Cochran Reviews, abstracts, future research reports or  poster presentations.  You can search for research only by indicating “research” when you do an advanced search.  If you can’t answer a lot of the questions, it is probably not a research article.

4. We do not recommend that you use more than one  qualitative research article or systematic review or meta analysis.  These are harder to evaluate because they have so much more information in them.  Remember it is not individuals in these studies- it is the articles.  Use the reference list in the systematic reviews or meta analyses to find individual studies that may be easier to understand and use.

5. Review sample matrices and summaries ATTACHED

6. Use matrix table- one for each article and critique the parts of the article using the rubric-(RUBRIC IS ATTACHED)

7.  Be sure to identify the evaluation tool used to grade the evidence such as (See below for grading the evidence tools)

8. Identify where there are issues with the articles and what gaps were not addressed with the research; be prepared this may change the way you look at your topic or may result in a slightly different direction for your area of interest. This is ok- that is what you want to accomplish with this assignment. It will really assist you as you move forward with your project.

9. For this assignment you will turn in the matrix tables, summary, references and pdf copies of your 5 articles.

10. Key definitions:

1. Level of evidence:  the process used to evaluate the level of evidence of your articles- such as Jones Hopkins,  Cincinnati Children’s evaluation etc,

2. Evaluation tool: use the method and describe how you arrived at the scoring or knowing that the article included all content it needed to- such as CASP;

3. Instrument: What type of instrument or tool was used in the article?  This could be  a depression screening tool, Nurse satisfaction tool etc.  Describe the instrument- how many questions, reliability- consistency with test-retest, Cronbach Alpha, inter-rater reliablity; validity with content validity, face validity

Links to critical appraisal tools to evaluate research quality: Joanna Briggs Institute (joannabriggs.org) https://jbi.global/critical-appraisal-tools

CASP checklists https://casp-uk.net/casp-tools-checklists/

Mixed Method appraisal checklist McGill:  http://mixedmethodsappraisaltoolpublic.pbworks.com/w/page/24607821/FrontPage

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Legend tools- very helpful: https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/research/divisions/j/anderson-center/evidence-based-care/legend

Johns Hopkins EBP Models and Tools:  https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/evidence-based-practice/ijhn_2017_ebp.html

1. PICO Format

• P = Nurses in an inpatient hospital experiencing burnout

• I = Using a mindfulness-based program

• C = no intervention at all

• O = To reduce nurse burnout

• T = within a 6-month period

MY PICOT QUESTION: For nurses in an inpatient hospital experiencing burnout, does the introduction and usage of a mindfulness-based program versus no intervention at all reduce their burnout within 6 months?

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ARTICLES

Please use 5 out the following articles: all the articles are attached.

1. The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Stress and Burnout in Nurses

Alyssa A. Green, BSN, RN Elizabeth V. Kinchen, PhD, RN, AHN-BC

2. Exploring a social work lead mindfulness-based intervention to address burnout among inpatient psychiatric nurses: a pilot study

Donna M. Wampole DSWa and Sara Bressi PhD, LSW

3. The Mediating Roles of Affect and Coping Strategy in the Relationship Between Trait Mindfulness and Burnout Among French Healthcare Professionals. 

Mathilde Sauvain-Sabé, Anne Congard, Jean-Luc Kop, Catherine Weismann-Arcache, and Arnaud Villieux Online First Publication, February 10, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000312

4. Does self-compassion mitigate the relationship between burnout and barriers to compassion? A cross-sectional quantitative study of 799 nurses 

Vinayak Deva , Antonio T. Fernando IIIa , Anecita Gigi Limb , Nathan S. Consedine

5. The relationship between workload and burnout among nurses: The buffering role of personal, social and organisational resources 

Elisabeth Diehl, Sandra Rieger, Stephan Letzel, Anja Schablon, Albert Nienhaus, Luis Carlos Escobar Pinzon, Pavel DietzID

6. COMPASSION-ORIENTED MINDFULNESS-BASED PROGRAM AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS A Single-Centered Pilot Study on Burnout

ANNA MARCONI, MARIA ANTONIETTA BÀLZOLA, RAMONA GATTO, ANNALISA SORESINI, DIANA MABILIA & STEFANO POLETTI*

7. The importance of formal versus informal mindfulness practice for enhancing psychological wellbeing and study engagement in a medical student cohort with a 5-week mindfulness-based lifestyle program 

Naomi Kakoschke, Craig Hassed, Richard Chambers, Kevin Lee

8. The Effects of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction on Nurse Stress and Burnout A Qualitative and Quantitative Study, Part III 

• Joanne Cohen-Katz, PhD • Susan Wiley, MD • Terry Capuano, MSN, MBA • Debra M. Baker, MA • Lynn Deitrick, PhD U Shauna Shapiro, PhD

2000 words 6 full double spaced page

research paper 4 sources at least, 2 from physical book at least

argument thesis below

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Case Study: Salesforce cut hundreds of employees

Briefly

Summarize the issue,

Analyze it,

How is Salesforce being social responsibility and ethics about the situation

and Propose a solution/additional ideas.

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500 Words or more

Try to tie in the pdf file as references if possible

if you could divide into sub titles for each require section , that would be appreciate