Assignment: Re-emerging Diseases

Assignment: Re-emerging Diseases Fact-Sheet

Question Description
Assignment: Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases Fact Sheet
Sir Francis Bacon said, “Knowledge is power.” This is most definitely true when it comes to diseases and how to prevent and treat them. As a nurse, you are charged with teaching patients how to prevent infectious diseases and what to do if they become infected. A powerful tool in your arsenal is the Fact Sheet. Usually comprised of one page of easy-to-read content, these leaflets can be distributed easily and can effectively inform your practice.

To prepare for this Assignment:

Select one disease that is either emerging or re-emerging in the world today.
Research the disease using both scholarly and non-scholarly resources.
Determine your audience (patients, other nurses, schools, etc.) that you would want to share the Fact Sheet with.
Select pieces of information that are appropriate for your audience.
BY DAY 7
Submit: A 1- to 2-page Fact Sheet.

Indicate the audience on the Fact Sheet.
Give a brief history of the disease.
What are the implications of the spread of the disease?
How does one detect and prevent the spread of this disease?
How is this disease treated?
Your Fact Sheet should be visually stimulating, appropriate for your audience, and formatted with bullet points for easy reading.

Support your “facts” with references.

Note: Your Fact Sheet must be supported with at least three scholarly sources of evidence in the literature.

Writing Resources and Program Success Tools

AWE Checklist (Level 4000)
This checklist will help you self-assess your writing to see if it meets academic writing standards for this course.
Walden University. (n.d.). Walden templates: General templates: APA course paper template with advice (6th ed.). Retrieved May 31, 2019, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ld.php?content_id=45326751
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AWE Checklist (Level 4000)
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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.