Individual Screening Directions
Review the clinician provider guidelines and recommendations found at: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ]. (2014).
Guide to clinical preventive services
Recommendations of the U.S. preventive services task force.
For the MSN prepared nurse, knowledge of epidemiology and its application to preventive screening guidelines is important in many clinical areas; administrative, informatics, education and nurse practitioner fields. Consider you are working in a clinic and need to order a preventive screening on a patient for one of the conditions listed below. (While this is a preventative measure, it also can be a diagnostic tool in other circumstances. For this Assignment the screening is a secondary prevention measure.)
Please select one screening. Your screening methodology must come from the National Clearinghouse guidelines.
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Breast Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Colon Cancer
Diabetes Mellitus II.
Lung Cancer
Explain the guideline, the correct application of the screening, and the epidemiology behind the guidance. Content required should include epidemiologic data such as statistical information as available ex. morbidity, mortality, incidence and prevalence of condition.
Identify risk factors, risk assessment, testing interval, description of the patient population, screening test recommendations and other factors relative to the guideline.
This paper should be 2-3 pages, excluding your title page, and references.
This paper should adhere to appropriate 6th edition APA format.
Please between Breast cancer, lung canceror cervical Cancer