Epidemiological Methods
Purpose:
Discriminate among various screening tools that may be used in the provision of care as an Advanced Practice Nurse
Requirements
1. Choose from one of the following topics to select a screening tool.
o Partner Abuse/Domestic Abuse Screening
o Family Violence Screening Tool
2. Next, choose a diagnostic or screening method (related to your choice from the list of health issues above). You may use one of the following web sites to locate a screening tool, a scholarly article, or a tool from a professional web site of your choice (for example, from the American Psychological Association).
o U.S. Preventative Services Task Force
https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/browse-tools-and-resources
o Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/guidelines-recommendations/guide/cpsguide.pdf
o SAMHSA-HRSA
https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/integrated-health-coe/
3. REPLY TO THE FOLLOWING PROMPT
o Describe the diagnostic or screening tool selected, its purpose, and what age group it targets.
o Has it been specifically tested in this age group?
o Next, discuss the predictive ability of the test. For instance, how do you know the test is reliable and valid? What are the reliability and validity values? What are the predictive values? Is it sensitive to measure what it has been developed to measure, for instance, HIV, or depression in older adults, or Lyme disease? Would you integrate this tool into your advanced practice based on the information you have read about the test, why or why not?
Please include a minimum of three (3) scholarly articles from the last five (5) years.
*Scholarly source: U.S. based peer reviewed journals geared for clinicians (MD/DO/NP/PA) published in the past five years of the latest edition of a clinical practice guideline.
All scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles must be current – within a 5-year time frame
Use APA 7 formatting for references
