Module 06 Deliverable

Competency

Analyze communicable diseases and their potential impact on public health.

Student Success Criteria

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Scenario

Your supervisor has asked each public health nurse to research a different vaccine-preventable communicable disease and prepare a communication document about the disease. These communication documents will be used to support your department in better understanding the public health issues, the potential consequences to the population, and the actions that public health nurses can take to educate and provide services for the population.

As the senior public health nurse in your department, your supervisor has requested that you select your communicable disease to research first, and then they will assign your coworkers their communicable disease topic.

Objectives

• Assess education strategies to prevent and control communicable diseases.
• Identify the public health nurse’s role in surveillance measures performed.
• Examine the public health nurse’s role in applying basic principles of epidemiology in interventions during a disease outbreak.

Instructions

Vaccine-Preventable Communicable Disease Management

• Develop a written report regarding one of the vaccine-preventable diseases below:
• Measles
• Pertussis
• Mpox
• Describe the disease from an epidemiologic perspective, including application of the epidemiologic triad.
• Describe the historical and current prevalence and incidence of the selected disease
• Compare the evidence regarding the outcomes of experiencing the disease with the side effects of vaccination.
• Describe the public health nurses role in surveillance, education for prevention, and applying basic principles of epidemiology through interventions during an outbreak of this disease.

Provide stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the report.

Resources

Library Databases

Surveillance Source Websites