Ebola virus and health care preparedness in The US
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS: EPIDEMIOLOGY CLASS
***Assignment:
- Discuss about Ebola Virus and the importance of healthcare preparedness
- Nurses and health care providers need to be prepared for unanticipated public health emergencies
- preparedness recommendations and infection prevention collaboration
- Briefly discuss the role of the DNP nurse to be aware of health threats and to be prepare on how to respond to these possible emerging threats
- see articles and CDC website link below, The article Uploaded by Leonhardt 2016 is good!
- Remember reference must be scholarly, peer reviewed article. Please include DOI numbers on the reference page (It’s required in APA). References should be scholarly journal articles (Nothing from conferences, goggle, .com).
- This assignment is for the DNP class and the grading is rigorous including grammar and APA style.
Thank you and let me know if you have any questions
Please don’t start with sentences that start with “this, these, it…etc” this is vague and not use in formal writing. Need to specify what we are talking about. Also don’t use citations in the middle of the sentence. Avoid “as well as” as much as possible.
Thank you!
CITATIONS:
-CDC (2018). Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in U.S. Hospitals. Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/clinicians/evd/infection-control.html
-Leonhardt, K. K., Keuler, M., Safdar, N., & Hunter, P. (2016). Ebola preparedness planning and collaboration by two health systems in wisconsin, september to december 2014. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 10(4), 691-697. DOI:10.1017/dmp.2015.103
-Varma, J. K., Prezant, D. J., Wilson, R., Quinn, C., Asaeda, G., Cagliuso,Nicholas V.,,Sr, . . . Raphael, M. (2017). Preparing the health system to respond to ebola virus disease in new york city, 2014. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 11(3), 370-374. DOI:10.1017/dmp.2016.132
-C, H. W., Stern, S., & Mitchell, S. H. (2016). Survey of ebola preparedness in washington state emergency departments. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 10(4), 662-668. DOI:10.1017/dmp.2016.2
-Ganguli, I., Chang, Y., Weissman, A., Armstrong, K., & Metlay, J. P. (2016). Ebola risk and preparedness: A national survey of internists. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 31(3), 276-281. DOI:10.1007/s11606-015-3493-1
