NR586NP-68141 Week 4: Collaboration Café

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Infectious Disease Outbreak

Preparing the Collaboration Café

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

Include the following sections:

  1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
    1. Select a recent infectious disease outbreak, such as Ebola, Covid-19, H1N1 influenza, measles, or a foodborne illness outbreak. Identify a reliable source of epidemiological information to review the outbreak.  
    2. What was the level of threat (outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic?) 
    3. What were the key strengths of the public health response? Consider communication strategies, containment measures, and coordination between stakeholders. 
    4. Identify lessons learned from the response that could inform future outbreak management and response efforts.
  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice:
    1. Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Respond to a second peer post.
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the Collaboration Café topic (not a response to a peer) by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.
  3. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic and two to student peers) on two different days during the week.