Agency Also Provides Home Public Health Epidemiol

Assignment: Make sure to review the Module Overview on the Module 1 home page before responding to the Discussion question. Outline the first three things/steps you will do as you begin your
investigation. For example, will you begin by doing some research about
the disease? Or would you begin by interviewing Sara? Would you
interview someone at the agency? If so, who? Or would you do something
else? Please explain your rationale.

• Home Page:Throughout the course, you will be expected to incorporate several
  information resources from different media (such as professional and
  scholarly sources, educational videos, news broadcasts and articles,
  consumer information sources, and interviews with health professionals)
  to this project and to evaluate the relative merits of competing
  resources with respect to the expectations of this project.
  Foundation for this Project
  Congratulations! You have been hired as Assistant Manager of a Home
  Health Care Agency. The agency offers a wide range of skilled medical
  services such as nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy
  from qualified medical professionals. The agency also provides home
  health aide services including assistance with activities of daily
  living, such as bathing and eating.
  Your supervisor told you that she recently received a call from an
  advocate whom an employee consulted via the Employee Assistance Program
  because the employee felt that she had been treated unfairly after
  contracting an illness. She explained that a few months ago, one of your
  agency’s home health aides, Sara, became ill. Sara had been coughing
  for approximately six weeks, lost weight without trying, had no
  appetite, was having difficulty sleeping, and had an intermittent fever.
  She became concerned and went to see a healthcare professional who
  diagnosed her with active tuberculosis (TB).
  Sara missed a lot of time from work while completing treatment for
  TB. Her physician cleared her to return to work after she was no longer
  contagious. Upon returning to work, Sara felt isolated because her boss
  and co-workers refused to spend time with her. She heard that someone
  from the agency’s Human Resources Department told her co-workers her
  diagnosis. The stressful circumstances at work became even worse when
  another home health aide started to display the same symptoms Sara had.
  Your supervisor has asked you to review the entire situation and how
  it was handled by the agency. Each module includes information about
  epidemiology, health statistics, public health, health communication and
  advocacy, health literacy, healthcare delivery systems, the Affordable
  Care Act, ethical considerations, human resources management, legal
  aspects, cultural and global perspectives, and financial considerations
  for the organization.
  Your methodology over the next few weeks will be to arrange
  interviews with the relevant individuals, departments, and agencies, in
  addition to researching professional and scholarly sources, educational
  videos, and news articles. You will evaluate the information you gather
  throughout the course of your investigation in order to determine the
  best course of action. Ultimately, the information will be used to
  formulate policies and create an employee education presentation. Expectations: 1 page, 3 cited sources from required reading.

  Required Reading

  Byron, P. (2016, July 11). History of tuberculosis in the United States to be explored in unprecedented depth. Virginia Tech. Retrieved from https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/07/clahs-tuber…
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2016). Tuberculosis (TB). Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Accessed at http://www.cdc.gov/tb/
  Miramontes, R., Hill, A. N., Woodruff, R. S. Y., Lambert, L. A.,
  Navin, T. R., Castro, K. G., & LoBue, P. A. (2015). Tuberculosis
  infection in the United States: Prevalence estimates from the national
  health and nutrition examination survey, 2011-2012. PLoS One, 10(11) doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140881
  Yuen, C. M., Kammerer, J. S., Marks, K., Navin, T. R., & France,
  A. M. (2016). Recent transmission of tuberculosis — United States,
  2011-2014. PLoS One, 11(4) doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153728