To prepare you for the public health nurse’s role in preventing communicable disease outbreaks in the community, complete this assignment’s simulations.
Follow these steps to complete the simulations and take notes about what errors in decision-making you make as you complete the scenarios:
Access the Solve the Outbreak page on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
Select the Level 1 section on the simulation screen and complete 10 interactive outbreaks of your choice using the information and questions provided in it. Use the right and left scroll feature to access all of the simulation options listed.
Select the home button on the upper left corner of the simulation screen.
When you have completed all 10 outbreaks, select the Scores tab on the bottom of the home screen.
Take a screenshot of your scores screen that shows all of the outbreaks you have completed and the score received for each. This may require more than 1 screenshot.
Think about why you chose your answers and how the hints provided in the simulations showed you why another choice was more accurate.
Rationality in the past was more reflective of ‘substantive’ value as an ‘ideal state’ of health but the modern ‘trend’ moved towards ‘formal’ methods that were effectively applied to ‘increase vitality’ and ‘enhance life expectancy’ in society (Cockerham, Abel & Luschen, 1993, Weber, 1904). This signifies that contemporary society has more control over their health as essentially more knowledgable in recognizing ‘consumption versus production’; ‘choices versus life-chances’; class similarities versus distinctions’; and ‘self-control versus conformity’ that shapes real operationalization healthy lifestyles I postmodern western society (Cockerham, Abel & Luschen, 1993, Weber, 1904).
In the West ‘formal rationality’ society applied practical experiments to dispute beliefs therefore making it possible to improve rather than abstract from worldly knowledge by challenging ‘religious dogma’, customs and traditions (Kennedy 1987 p.30, Cockerham, Abel & Luschen, 1993) and not just follow beliefs without questioning whether they are true or false, for example, whether God exists – can be or not be believed due to lack evidence and facts to prove there is a god (Cobern, 2000). Human thought during the enlightenment era believed what they were taught by religious leaders was not questioned, for example, the Calvinists’ belief was that life after death existed, however, no facts and information confirmed or denied this belief (Weber, 1904). However, knowledge in society provided science as a way to view information and facts to be true or false with consistency and evidence to confirm society’s reasoning and knowledge of whether it is a ‘reality’ or ‘belief’, for example, so you can feel, smell, taste or see it, therefore, the brain interprets whether it is ‘real’ or just a ‘belief’ (Cobern, 2000).