Overview
• Prepare two educational handouts (two pages each), one for community members and patients and one for health care providers, that provide information about common bacteria or viruses and how to reduce the risk of infection.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 1: Evaluate scholarly nursing literature that supports evidence-based nursing practice.
o Identify timely evidence-based data needed to explain a potential health threat.
o Apply evidence-based research to a health care initiative.
Competency 2: Explain ways to promote safe, quality, evidence-based care to populations and communities in health care environments.
o Apply evidence-based research to a health care initiative.
o Explain the factors that can adversely affect the health of individuals.
o Describe evidence-based preventative measures to increase safety.
Competency 3: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with expectations of nursing professionals.
Questions to Consider - To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.
• What nursing organizations are responsible for ensuring safe, quality care?
• Why is it important to identify causative agents and modes of transmission?
• What identified key nursing interventions protect the public against food-borne bacteria and viruses?