What should I do to help my community understand the risks of potential pandemics without arousing unnecessary concerns?

Module 3 Discussion Topic 2

What Should the NP do? Evidence-based Practice

Review assigned readings in McLaughlin and McLaughlin (2019).

According to McLaughlin and McLaughlin (2019), the policy analysis process involves 6 activities (pages 7-8). In the discussion forum pretend that you are a nurse practitioner with a private practice. Explain how you might use these steps to analyze one of the following problems that you are facing in your practice:

• What should I do to help my community understand the risks of potential pandemics without arousing unnecessary concerns?
• Should I join a large group with ties to a dominant delivery network (hospital, health maintenance organization, or pharmacy chain)?

In the forum answer the following questions: What evidence would you use to support your decision? How could a nurse practitioner use the three categories for rating the strength of evidence on page 136 to make his/her decision? Since evidence-based medicine strives to ensure that patients and stakeholders are part of the decision-making process how can you take into account biases in evidence gathering? How could information technology be used to support dissemination of decision aids for patients and caregivers?

• All discussions are set in post first mode, which means you must create your primary post before being allowed to view your classmates’ work.
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Must use book HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH THRID EDITION by Curtis mclaughlin and Craig mclaughlin