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1. Assignment: Pandemic Readiness in The Acute Health Care Setting
Assignment: Pandemic Readiness in The Acute Health Care Setting ON Assignment:
Pandemic Readiness in The Acute Health Care SettingChapter 1- IntroductionIn the first
chapter, clearly state what the Background and Purpose of the study is and explain the
study’s Significance and rationale.The significance is addressed by discussing how the study
adds to nursing’s body of knowledge in the field and the study’s practical significance for
communication among professionals in the field.Without a clearly defined introduction,
purpose and strong theoretical grounding, the project is fundamentally flawed from the
outset.Chapter 1 will be approximately, 5 pages in length.Use first level headings to clearly
separate the Background, Purpose and Significance – This will help organize your thoughts
and help the reader to follow you.APA Formatmenglandproposaln599.edited.Unformatted
Attachment PreviewRunning head: CAPSTONE PROPOSAL 1 Capstone Proposal Mariann
England Aspen University Nursing Capstone Dr. Julie Kolde June 15, 2020 CAPSTONE
PROPOSAL 2 Capstone Proposal Project Title Pandemic readiness in the acute health care
setting Project description A pandemic is a global spread of a new ailment, one which
traverses transnational borders and eventually affects a large proportion of the population.
A is an unforeseen and unavoidable event, characterized by its indeterminate scope, length,
and consequence. Besides posing a high morbidity and mortality rate threat, pandemics can
overwhelm medical care structures and substantial societal and monetary disturbance (Bali
et al., 2017). Pandemics result from the surfacing of an antigenically new microbe for which
there is no erstwhile body resistance, usually with a reassortment of previously humanoid
or animal microbial genomes. Readiness to pandemics comprises of planning and
organization, monitoring and evaluation of circumstances, communication, continuity of
medical care delivery, and curbing the spread of the disease. Assignment: Pandemic
Readiness in The Acute Health Care SettingPandemics, and their resultant effects, may
persist for months to years. Therefore, a multidisciplinary approach is imperative in the
disease response strategies, particularly at the state and sub-state levels. The threat of a
pandemic or contagious illness vastly spreading skulks inaudibly beneath the surface of
routine hospital operations and at the population in general. Instants of alarm instigate
waves of preparedness as novel microbes and transmutations pose evanescent threats.
Pandemic-preparedness should be founded on generic alacrity programs, resources,
mechanisms, and approaches for crisis and disaster management (Shearer et al., 2020).
Pandemic-preparedness is fundamental in ensuring that health and other indispensable
structures CAPSTONE PROPOSAL 3 continue to function during a pandemic, thereby

2. decreasing the economic and social effects of the pandemic. Project rationale Pandemics are
a significant challenge to policymakers, medical care professionals, legislators, and public
health leaders. Any form of readiness plan ought to incorporate both local and transnational
harmonization to operate more proficiently with the limited means accessible. Whenever a
significant fraction of the population is disease-ridden, the overall figure of the acute
incidents can undoubtedly overwhelm the medical care systems available (Tsamakis et al.,
2020). Consequently, the delivery of critical care is faced with numerous challenges in
terms of preparedness and readiness, surge capacity, management systems, contagion
control, and clinical guidance. This study will help policymakers and ground-level clinicians
point out the gaps and insufficiency in the pandemic or crisis management protocols
already in place. This study will outline the need for the integral involvement of nurses, in
collaboration with other professional teams towards pandemic preparedness. This study
will also shed more light on the expanding role of nurses in the response and management
of pandemics, which will significantly help advance nursing science. Personal/ professional
expectations Finding clues on the possible causes of the ailment by observing a specific
group of people and recording the group’s exposure to certain risk factors is one of the
significant expectations of this CAPSTONE PROPOSAL 4 study. This includes identifying
possible links concerning the occurrence of the disease and other secondary factors.
Assignment: Pandemic Readiness in The Acute Health Care SettingThis study is expected to
identify the factors that influence health in the general population. Project Goals Short term
goal This study aims at investigating the levels of pandemic preparedness in acute care
settings by focusing on the personal-protective equipment conservation measures,
availability and efficiency of testing sites, and the feasibility of the education protocols put
in place. Long term goals This study also proposes considering the levels of pandemic
preparedness in acute care settings, with an emphasis on policy, planning and management
efforts, and the ensuing modifications put in place to counteract future pandemics. Analysis
of Literature The objective of planning and organization efforts is to offer direction and
harmonization across all sectors involved in the management of pandemics. A collapse in
disaster-response lags national and local efforts towards the control of a pandemic. As yet,
exertions to boost testing has been directed on operational matters: adequacy of the testing
capacity, the pervasive scarcities and supply-chain failures, and strategies to scale-up
testing to the vast figures necessitated to ease the pandemic (Madhav et al., 2017). Availing
additional tests is not an approach in and of itself. CAPSTONE PROPOSAL 5 If sufficient tests
were achieved, this question would still linger in our minds: What resolves are the
outcomes intended to inform? Testing has numerous rationales other than diagnosis and
ensuring safety for health care staff. Testing data is necessary for the management of all the
features of a pandemic. For example, this data is the keystone of pandemic extrapolative
models. That makes known the future demand for attention, the timing of surges, and the
scale of the necessary emergency amenities. Devoid of reliable testing data, analysts depend
on presumption and assumptions. The protocols of education in a pandemic aim at
shrinking the contact and transmission rates of the infectious disease (Schneider, 2020).
Educational strategies include encouraging respiratory propriety, basic hygiene, suitable
aeration, social distancing, and the dissemination of appropriate and accurate health

3. messages. Personal protective equipment, such as masks, gloves, and isolation gowns, help
reduce the risk of exposure to an infectious pathogen for health care providers. The hastily
flagging supply of such equipment, paired with challenges with the supply chain, has
triggered a high alarm and could significantly encumber the capability to ensure the safety
to the care providers (WHO, 2020). Assignment: Pandemic Readiness in The Acute Health
Care SettingThis calls conservative approaches such as reducing access into the isolation
settings, reducing the demand for personal protective equipment by temporarily doing
away with elective surgical procedures and other unnecessary encounters, and reusing the
material, which encompasses prolonging their use, decontamination with ultraviolet light
and reusing some of the equipment up to several times. CAPSTONE PROPOSAL 6 Procedure
This study will adopt a cohort study design to establish the cause of the ailment and identify
links between risk factors. Local hospitals with an operational intensive care unit and
emergency department will be recognized and contacted via telephone to help identify the
emergency management coordinators in charge of emergency management, planning, and
operations. A structured questionnaire will be prepared based on an existing pandemic
management plan. The survey will have its main sections as facility planning data,
workforce glitches and structure, and surge capacity. The questionnaire will be piloted
using a representative number of individuals. Data will be collected and computed for
univariate and bivariate analysis. A qualitative approach will be used for text responses.
Evaluation Community evaluation will be used to assess this project. The review includes
reassessing the state of affairs, amassing evidence, scrutinizing the evidence, making use of
accessible resources, and sharing the outcomes. Assignment: Pandemic Readiness in The
Acute Health Care SettingThe process will be organized in collaboration with the
community to establish its significance, and the attainment of the project’s objectives makes
it a success. CAPSTONE PROPOSAL 7 References Bali, S., Lahariya, C., Pillinger, M., Suzuki, E.,
Rakesue, R., & Tang, K. (2017). Pandemonium : Risk Factors for Future Pandemics. June.
Madhav, N., Oppenheim, B., Gallivan, M., Mulembakani, P., Rubin, E., & Wolfe, N. (2017).
Pandemics: Risks, Impacts, and Mitigation. In Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition
(Volume 9): Improving Health and Reducing Poverty (pp. 315–345). The World Bank.
https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0527-1_ch17 Schneider, E. C. (2020). Failing the Test
— The Tragic Data Gap Undermining the U.S. Pandemic Response. New England Journal of
Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp2014836 Shearer, F. M., Moss, R., McVernon, J.,
Ross, J. V., & McCaw, J. M. (2020). Infectious disease pandemic planning and response:
Incorporating decision analysis. PLoS Medicine, 17(1), 1– 12.
https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PMED.1003018 Tsamakis, K., Rizos, E., Manolis, A.,
Chaidou, S., Kympouropoulos, S., Spartalis, E., Spandidos, D., Tsiptsios, D., & Triantafyllis, A.
(2020). [Comment] COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the mental health of healthcare
professionals. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 19(6), 3451.
https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.8646 WHO. (2020). Hospital-Readiness-Checklist.
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