Infectious Disease

Infectious Disease Paper

Assignment Guidelines and Grading Rubric

Purpose

Infectious disease occurs worldwide and must be addressed just as chronic disease is approached. Thisassignment will offer the opportunity to explore the various communicable diseases, the epidemiological background data, as well as, the implications of these infections.

Course Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to: CO 3:  Identify appropriate outcome measures and study designs applicable to epidemiological subfields such as infectious disease, chronic disease, environmental exposures, reproductive health, and genetics. CO 6:Identify important sources of epidemiological data.

Requirements

Criteria for Content Apply the concepts of epidemiology to a communicable disease. Choose one communicable disease from the following list:

• Chickenpox
• Tuberculosis
• Influenza
• Mononucleosis
• Hepatitis B
• HIV
• Chlamydia
• Gonorrhea
• Syphillis
• Measles
• Pertussis

  Include the following in your assignment:

• Description of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).
• Describe the determinants of health and explain how those factors contribute to the development of this disease.
• Discuss the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors.
• Explain the role of the community health FNP (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up).
• A minimum of three (3) scholarly literature references is required.

Preparing the paper

Submission Requirements

1. Application: Use Microsoft Word 2013™ to create the written assessment.
2. Length: The paper (excluding the title page and reference page) is at maximum two pages.
3. A minimum of three (3) scholarly literature references must be used.

  Best Practices in Preparing the Project The following are best practices in preparing this project.

1. Review directions thoroughly.
2. Follow submission requirements.
3. Make sure all elements on the grading rubric are included.
4. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing.
5. Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used.
6. Ideas and information that come from scholarly literature must be cited and referenced correctly.
7. A minimum of three (3)scholarly literature references must be used.
8. Abide by CCN academic integrity policy.

 

Grading Criteria

Category	Points	Description
Introduction of Communicable Disease	20	Description of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).
Detriments of Health	20	Describe the determinants of health and explain how those factors contribute to the development of this disease.
Host Factors	20	Discuss the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors.
Role of FNP	20	Explain the role of the community health FNP (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up).
APA Format / Writing Mechanics	20	Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section or topic of the paper (one deduction for each type of APA style error). Ideas and information that come from scholarly sources must be cited and referenced correctly.  A minimum of three (3) scholarly references are used. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal written work as found in the 6th edition of the APA manual. For this assignment first person may be used.
Total	100	A quality assessment will meet or exceed all the above requirements.

Grading Rubric

Assignment Criteria	Exceptional Outstanding or highest level of performance		Exceeds Very good or high level of performance		Meets Competent or satisfactory level of performance	Needs Improvement Poor or failing level of performance	Developing Unsatisfactory level of performance
Introduction of Communicable Disease	20 Points		18 Points		16 Points	8 Points	0 Points
	Comprehensively describes the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).		Adequately identifies the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).		Limited description of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).	Unclear description of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence).	Description of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence) is absent.
Detriments of Health	20 Points		18 Points		16 Points	8 Points	0 Points
	Describe the determinants of health and explain how those factors contribute to the development of this disease.Evidence supports background.		Detriments is complete, presents risk factors, disease impact and at least one set of incidence and prevalence statistics are presented and supported by evidence.		Description of detriments is missing one or more key points.Limited presentation of the contributing factors. Lack of evidence to support.	Detriments missing more than one key point and lack of contributing factors. There is no supported evidence.	Detriments and contributing factors of the disease is not provided.
Host Factors	20 Points		18 Points		16 Points	8 Points	0 Points
	Comprehensive review of the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors.		Adequate review of the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors.		Limited review of the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors.	Minimal or unclear review of the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors.	Review of the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors not provided.
Role of FNP	20 Points		18 Points		16 Points	8 Points	0 Points
	A comprehensive review of the role of the community health FNP (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up).		An adequate, but not fully comprehensive, review of the role of the community health FNP (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up).		A limited review of the role of the community health FNP (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up).The role is presented with limited or little evidence.	The FNP role (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up) is minimal or unclear and is not supported directly by evidence.	The FNP role (case finding, reporting, data collecting, data analysis, and follow-up) is not provided.
APA Format / Writing Mechanics Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section or topic of the paper (one deduction for each type of APA style error). Ideas and information that come from scholarly sources must be cited and referenced correctly.  A minimum of three (3) scholarly references are used. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal written work as found in the 6th edition of the APA manual. For this assignment first person may be used.	10 Points		9 Points		8 Points	4 Points	0 Points
	APA format, grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation are accurate, or with zero to one errors.		Two to four errors in APA format, grammar, spelling, and syntax noted.		Five to seven errors in APA format, grammar, spelling, and syntax noted.	Eight to nine errors in APA format, grammar, spelling, and syntax noted.	Greater than ten errors in APA format, grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation noted or repeatedly makes the same errors after faculty feedback.
				Total Points Possible =          100 points