NR503

According to the Centers for Disease Control (2019), Hepatitis B is a liver infection that is transferred by direct contact by an infected person's bodily fluid, such as semen or blood. There are several forms of Hepatitis B, however, this form is transmitted through the sharing of needles, syringes, or other drugs related injection equipment.

Pneumonia can be manifested in the patient from many different manners such as ventilator acquired, community acquired, and aspiration amongst many other forms. The focus of this paper is to assess the prevalence of pneumonia in geriatric patients and how poor oral health can increase geriatric risk of pneumonia. Next an epidemiological analysis of oral health and pneumonia in that population will be done and then the topic will be applied to Healthy People 2020 goals. Finally, population level...

Study guide Autumn 2020, questions and answers

Submitted on 4th December 2020 this paper evaluate Diabetes as an epidemiological problem (submitted to Devry for Week 6 assignment of NR503 - Scored an A)

Relative Risk Calculation Worksheet with All Questions, Answers and Calculations

The preventable differences that “socially disadvantaged populations” have related to injury, violence, the burden of disease, or even the achievement of an ideal level of health are known as health disparities (HD) (CDC, 2018). Several factors define a population (CDC, 2018). These factors include: education, gender, income, disability, race, geographic location, sexual orientation, and/or ethnicity (CDC, 2018). HDs are unjust and are associated with the imbalanced disbursement of resources...

Week 4: Emerging Infectious Disease and Risk Management TD1: Disease Causation Steve, a 54-year-old Caucasian male, presents for a first time visit to your clinic. His history includes five sexual partners in the last 25 years, two of those within the last twelve months, lack of physical activity of any kind as he is an over-the-road truck driver, 25-year history of smoking 1 pack per day, and no immunizations of any kind that he can recall since high school. His father died of a myocardial i...

NR503: Population Health, Epidemiology, & Statistical Principles Week 2: Epidemiology and Biostatistics to Inform Advanced Practice Nursing TD3: Please provide a summary of the case or information you have discussed this week The ability to classify individuals into the correct disease status depends on the quality, and accuracy of the screening or the diagnostic test. Ideally, a good screening test will be able to tell us which subjects have the disease and vice versa, which will lead to ea...

Dr. Bethel & Class Answered the prompt below: Risk and Cohort Study Design As an Advanced Practice Nurse, you will care for patients who are at risk for specific diseases. Please pick one chronic or infectious disease specific to a population in your geographic area and provide evidence of risk, relative risk, and odds ratio in relation to that disease, and specific risks in the population you identified.