Prevention and Early Treatment for Influenza

ASSESSMENT: Written report - Research assignment
S/NS result given. Must attain a satisfactory result.
Assignment INSTRUCTIONS – Topic 1
 Use the template provided.
 You must submit your posters/flyers at the same time you submit the two research topics
on Blackboard. Label each poster/flyer clearly so your name can be identified by the
educator.
o E.g. CHCPOL003 Surname_Poster1
 Word count: no more than 2,000 words per assignment.
 Read topic 1 at the end of the first class.
 You will be assessed individually, for your submission of the topic. Each student to submit
their assessment via Blackboard.
 Do not wait until the last minute to complete the assessment as this is a time-consuming
assessment – you should start as early as possible.
 You may use the PowerPoints for this unit and the learning activities to help you complete
the assessment.
 You are required to communicate verbally and/or in writing with your educator
throughout the assessment to ensure you understand the process and to clarify any areas
of uncertainty.
 You are required to apply your Professional Standards of Practice throughout the
assessment, the framework for which included:
o NMBA Enrolled Nurse Standards for Practice
o NMBA Code of Ethics for Nurses
o NMBA Code of Professional Conduct for nurses
o Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act (National Law)
o Scope of Nursing Practice Decision Making Framework
 You are also required to apply an appropriate research approach to nursing practice within
the scope of the Enrolled Nurse and use nursing research methodologies and resources
appropriately.
 You will need to provide the exact number of words used at the end of the proposal.
o Word count does NOT include: The pre-existing templates, instructions and
questions.
 You must use analytical processes throughout the assessment including: comparing,
contrasting, challenging and reflecting.

Research Topic 1
Prevention and early treatment for Influenza [flu]
Topic 1 – Background
Read before starting your assignment
You are a new enrolled nurse working in a clinic located in a remote area. The clinic building is an older
structure and lacks the use of clinical and client information, such as posters. It has been identified that many
of the staff are efficient in their roles but have some out-of-date ideas in their nursing practice.
The clinic manager has asked you to research the most current information about a specific topic, such as:
Prevention and early treatment for Influenza [flu]
Plan the research activity
1. In order to complete this assessment, you need to identify TWO (2) areas related to the topic,
where research can help support and improve your own practice as an EN.
Every nurse has the duty to cure the patients from different diseases. The disease influenza or
flu is a respiratory illness and is highly contagious (Appiah et al., 2016). This disease spreads
from one person to another through the coughs and sneezes. (D’Mello et al., 2015). A person if
touch an influenza infected person, the infection spreads, for example shaking of hands. The
two areas related to the topic which can help the nurse and improve the practice as a
registered nurse are the ‘prevention’ and ‘treatment’ of the disease
2. Identify the reason(s) for undertaking your research from the list below.
This research study has been conducted for strengthening or improving the quality of my practice and
also for the reason of increasing my knowledge. By doing this research work, my knowledge about the
different methods of preventing the disease pneumonia has increased (Appiah et al., 2015). Normally
people become unaware regarding very small things which they do not even know can affect the well-
being of people. So if people become aware about the different causes, prevention and also the early
treatment of a disease, then a healthy state of life can be maintained (Havers et al., 2015). People do

not need to visit to the doctors in the early stages of the disease, they can treat the disease by taking
medicines prepared from medicinal plants at home. (Tapia et al., 2016).
3. Write a clear statement highlighting your research question or hypothesis, e.g. “Is there a
difference between hand washing protocols and actual practice”.
My research hypothesis is the ‘different prevention methods and early treatment of influenza (flu). The
nursing interventions obviously are applicable to this topic. The nursing interventions includes the care plan
prepared by the nurse for the cure of the disease. For curing the patients suffering from pneumonia, this
research study will help me a lot. This study will help me a lot in knowing about the different scientific terms
associated with the disease pneumonia. The infrastructure of the hospital where I am working at present is
not good, the hygiene is not maintained at all times which hampers the nurses rom preventing the
reoccurrences of the diseases. So I can apply the knowledge I am gaining through this research in the
hospitals and also in the different residential areas so that pneumonia can be prevented and also people can
take care of themselves at the early stages of the disease.
4. Establish and define the general research objective.
The research objectives are – (a) To know about the different prevention methods of the disease
pneumonia (b) To know about the different early curing methods of pneumonia. (c) To find about the
patients reaction to the prevention methods of pneumonia and also the reaction to the early treatment of
influenza. (d) Whether people can cure themselves at home during the early stages of the disease.
5. Identify ONE (1) other discipline that could be connected to this research activity.
The other discipline which is very much connected to this research activity is the scientific research
purposes. So many research work are already there regarding the prevention of influenza but
researches are still going on regarding the early treatments of influenza. Researchers are very much
interested in this disease as worldwide many people are suffering from pneumonia. Even in serious

cases, a patient may die because of this disease. (Oboho et al., 2016). After considering all these
circumstances, the researchers are doing researchers are doing continuous researches on different
medicinal herbs so that new medicines can be invented for curing this disease (Bale, 2015). The
researchers are doing researches on how the food habits of normal people can be changed so that
the human body can fight against the infections and cannot acquire the disease (Sandhu, Gill & Sood,
2016).
6. In order to gather information about the research topic, you will need to access credible
sources of data and evidence.
For gathering information about the topic, the two research areas from where the information was
collected are PubMed and CINAHL.
HINT: This is a good time to contact your educator and discuss your research topic and verbally
gain confirmation that you and your partner are still on track.
Gather information for your research
7. Evaluate and select a maximum of two (2) methods of gathering information you think would
be most appropriate to answer your research question.
The two ways of gathering detail information about any research topic are by searching the research
topic by using the key words of the topic and the other method by doing different surveys (Davlin,
2016). Arranging surveys for the purpose of collecting information is a much better approach of
information collection than by searching the topic by using the key words. Surveys provide the
researches with accurate information as it involves original information about the people. The surveys
serve as the primary data collected directly from the people while by searching through the key words
provide the researchers with the information only related with those words. Searching by using key
words serves as the secondary method of collecting data as the data are not directly available (Baden
et al., 2016).