Question Description: The name of the course is NUR 4115 AT WALDEN UNIVERSITY. Epidemiologic surveillance is used in public and global health. For this Assignment, begin by locating a recent article about an outbreak of an infectious or communicable disease. The article can come from a newspaper or other source but your paper must be supported with at least three scholarly sources of evidence in the literature which may include your text or course readings.
For this Assignment, review the following:
AWE Checklist (Level 4000)
Walden paper template (no abstract or running head required)
Write a 3- to 4-page paper that includes the following:
A summary of the article, including the title and author
Identify the title of the article with in-text citation and corresponding reference in reference list
The relationship among causal agents, susceptible persons, and environmental factors (epidemiological triangle)
The role of the nurse in addressing the outbreak
Possible health promotion/health protection strategies that could have been implemented by nurses to mitigate the outbreak
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According to Tsui et al. (2020), the factors that affect the transmission of COVID-19 can be understood in three ways: hospital, community, and performing aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs). As the community awaits the vaccines’ development, the first effective intervention is agent-host interrupting factors (Ifs). The intervention involves the reduction of contact of coronavirus with the persons. Secondly, the environment-hosts IFs include interventions such as social distance, avoiding physical contact with the infected persons, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), sanitizing, and handwashing. Agent-environment Ifs include mask-wearing, confinement, isolation rooms for COVID-19 treatments. For example, according to Mervosh et al. (2020), the coronavirus was expected to rise due to people’s interaction during Thanksgiving. It implies that as people interact more, the virus transmits from one person to the other increases.
