Interpret epidemiologic data on morbidity and mortality related to acute and chronic disease states.

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.