Review the clinician provider guidelines and recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force A and B Recommendations.
For the MSN-prepared nurse, knowledge of epidemiology and its application to preventive screening guidelines is important in many clinical areas: administrative, 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 preventive 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 below. Your screening methodology must come from the United States Preventive Services Task Force guidelines.
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Breast Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Colon Cancer
Diabetes Mellitus II
Lung Cancer
Condition and Screening
Identify and define the condition and type of screening. Screening choice is one from the assignment directions.
Epidemiology of Condition
Include a correct definition of the condition and defines the epidemiology of the condition in the United States through three statistical terms.
Include the correct mortality and related morbidity statistics in numerical format.
Address trends using terms such as increasing, larger, or less. Includes related disparities and population rate comparison (i.e., racial, sex, age, etc.)
Methodology
Incorporate USPSTF guideline development methodology process into the methodology section of the paper.
Discuss the population for the guideline using age, sex, or related characteristic, for the screening.
Include information on two risk factors addressed in the guideline methodology.
Justify the screening based on these risks using statistical rationale.
Explain and support measures of the screening.
