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Step 1. Critical:  all else depends on your finding a Randomized Controlled (Clinical) Trial Peer-Reviewed Journal Article (Level II Evidence)  Review Figure 1.1,~ p. 13 of your textbook for the Level of Evidence Pyramid, which shows an RCT is at Level II. When you communicate with physicians about an article, they respect the article more when it is at least on the Level II evidence pyramid, which suggests more credibility and possibly better input regarding outcomes of care.  Find your peer-reviewed Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) article related to your area of interest.  If you are not sure of how to find articles using our DCN Databases,do the following:

1. Go to the DCN Home Page
2. Notice that there are 3 columns and 3 rows, each with a green heading category.  Go to the second row, first column, and click on Databases. Once your see the top heading, Database Access, look below and see “For DCN Students: Database Use Tutorial (MP4 Recording). Study the tutorial, and it will assist you in finding a Randomized Controlled (Clinical) Trial article
3. If you need further assistance with finding an article after you review the tutorial, email Mr. Madsen, Director of the LRC. He has a Masters of Library Services degree, and can assist you in finding articles that you may not be able to access. If you find an article that charges a fee, e-mail Mr. Madsen the article you need, and he can usually get the full text article for you at no charge. His email address is [email protected].

Step 2.  Once you have your article, read it, and then look at the CONSORT Checklist, and write the page number in the article that has the information the checklist requires. (FYI, researchers who publish their research use this checklist to be sure they have everything in their article, or it is often not accepted by premier scholarly publishers). The checklist is worth 25 points, as it takes time and discernment to do it correctly.

Step 3:  Once your fill out the CONSORT CHECKLIST (25 points), you must then write a formal summary of the Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses (worth 8 points) that you will notice is on the CONSORT checklist. The following steps are to assist you in distilling the specifics for what is required in the Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses for the CONSORT checklist. .

Step 4  Specifics of the ANALYSIS OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES.  Review ~p. 9 of your research textbook, and then note how to write
 

1. Introduction  (1 point)

                   + Purpose of the RCT (discuss)

1. Overall Strengths and Weaknesses  (1 point) 

                  +  Research Design (Discuss)

                  +  Important Findings

1. Reliability and Validity  (2 points) (Check the

     methods, instruments, measurements or

     procedures sections of article); statistics; Level of Evidence and

     implications; cause-effect measurement; any threats to internal

     or external validity

1. Ethics (1 point)

                  +  IRB? +Conflict of Interest +Informed Consent Signed

1. Topic/Summary  (2 points)

                 + Implications

                 + Limitations

                 + Recommendation(s)

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to investigate informatics in healthcare and to apply professional, ethical, and legal principles to its appropriate use in healthcare technology.

Course outcomes: This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

CO 4: Investigate safeguards and decision‐making support tools embedded in patient care technologies and information systems to support a safe practice environment for both patients and healthcare workers. (PO 4)

CO 6: Discuss the principles of data integrity, professional ethics, and legal requirements related to data security, regulatory requirements, confidentiality, and client’s right to privacy. (PO 6)

CO 8: Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force to institute change in the delivery of nursing care. (PO 8)

Due date: Your faculty member will inform you when this assignment is due. The Late Assignment Policy applies to this assignment.

Total points possible: 200 points

Preparing the assignment

Your faculty member will provide a scenario for you to address in your paper. Choose an ending to the scenario, and construct your paper based on those reflections. Choose one of the following outcomes for the end of the scenario:

1. A HIPAA violation occurs, and client data is exposed to the media.

2. A medication error has harmed a client.

3. A technology downtime that impacts patient care occurs, and an error is made.

4. A ransomware attack has occurred, and the organization must contemplate paying the ransom or lose access to patient data.

Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions. Include the following sections:

a. Introduction – 20 points/10%

· Presents a clearly designed thesis statement or argument.

· Provides a clear and concise overview of the content.

· Offers a compelling argument to elicit the readers attention and generate interest.

b. HIPAA, Legal, and Regulatory Discussion – 20 points/10%

· Identify client privacy and HIPPAA standards as they relate to the impact of technology on nursing care.

· Review healthcare regulations as they relate to the impact of technology on nursing care.

· Describe legal guidelines on appropriate use of technology.

c. Scenario Ending and Recommendations – 50 points/25%

· Presents the selected or assigned scenario ending as the focus of the assignment.

· Evaluates the actions taken by healthcare providers selected or assigned scenario evolves.

· Recommends actions to mitigate the injury sustained in the selected scenario ending.

· Supports recommendations with evidence from recent scholarly publications.

d. Advantages and Disadvantages – 50 points/25%

· Presents at least two advantages of using the specified technology in healthcare.

· Presents at least two risks of using the specified technology in healthcare.

· Describes professional and ethical principles guiding the appropriate use of technology in healthcare.

· Support advantages and risks with evidence from recent scholarly publications.

e. Conclusion and Reflections – 40 points/20%

· Summarizes the selected or assigned scenarios ending including the recommendations.

· Establishes a clear link between the discussion and the thesis statement or argument.

· Discusses thoughtful insights and implications based on the outcomes.

· Describes how new insights will impact future behavior as a healthcare professional.

f. APA Style and Organization – 20 points/10%

· References are submitted with assignment.

· Uses current APA format and is free of errors.

· Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.

· Paper is 4-5 pages, excluding title and reference pages.

· At least three (3) scholarly, primary sources from the last 5 years, excluding the textbook, are provided.

For writing assistance, visit the Writing Center.

Please note that your instructor may provide you with additional assessments in any form to determine that you fully understand the concepts learned in the review module.

· A scenario is to be used to complete the RUA: We Can But Dare We paper that is due at the end of week 4. Below is the scenario; please do not use any other scenario for this assignment. Logistics and details, including scenario ending choices, regarding the paper can be found in the RUA: We Can But Dare We grading rubric found in the Unit 4 module.

Scenario:

You are an emergency department nurse responding to a severe freeway accident. As a triage registered nurse determining the severity of each case and maintaining proper flow, it is your duty to review all patients impacted by this event. While reviewing patients coming in, you stumble across a familiar name, which happens to be the name of a famous actor, Governor Gru. Upon determining this, you happen to take a photo of the data and post about the finding on your social media account.

To complete this paper, please choose an appropriate scenario ending listed in the RUA We Can But Dare We rubric (which is also attached to this announcement).

 

THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT. Each of you will write your own paper.

This assignment will be submitted to Turn It In and will be screened for integrity violations. TRY NOT use quotes of any kind. (1 is acceptable). If you paraphrase and cite all content you will significantly reduce your similarity score.

 FOLLOW THE RUBRIC to receive full points! 

Please reach out to your assigned faculty member with questions!

NR360 Information Systems in Healthcare

We Can, But Dare We? Guidelines

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Grading Rubric Criteria are met when the student’s application of knowledge demonstrates achievement of the outcomes for this assignment.

Assignment Section and Required Criteria (Points possible/% of total points available)	Highest Level of Performance	High Level of Performance	Satisfactory Level of Performance	Unsatisfactory Level of Performance	Section not present
Introduction (20 points/10%)	20 points	10 points	5 points	0 points
Required criteria 1. Presents a clearly designed thesis statement or argument. 2. Provides a clear and concise overview of the content. 3. Offers a compelling argument to elicit the reader’s attention and generate interest.	Meets all requirements for section.	Includes no fewer than 2 requirements for section.	Includes no fewer than 1 requirement for section.	No requirements for this section presented.
HIPAA, Legal, and Regulatory Discussion (20 points/10%)	20 points	10 points	5 points	0 points
Required criteria 1. Identify client privacy and HIPPAA standards as they relate to the impact of technology on nursing care. 2. Review healthcare regulations as they relate to the impact of technology on nursing care. 3. Describe legal guidelines on appropriate use of technology.	Meets all requirements for section.	Includes no fewer than 2 requirements for section.	Includes no fewer than 1 requirement for section.	No requirements for this section presented.
Scenario Ending and Recommendations (50 points/25%)	50 points	43 points	38 points	19 points	0 points
Required criteria 1. Presents the selected or assigned scenario ending as the focus of the assignment. 2. Evaluates the actions taken by healthcare providers selected or assigned scenario evolves. 3. Recommends actions to mitigate the injury sustained in the selected scenario ending. 4. Supports recommendations with evidence from recent scholarly publications.	Meets all requirements for section.	Includes no fewer than 3 requirements for section.	Includes 2 requirements for section.	Includes 1 requirements for section.	No requirements for this section presented.
Advantages and Disadvantages (50 points/25%)	50 points	43 points	38 points	19 points	0 points
Required criteria 1. Presents at least two advantages of using the specified technology in healthcare. 2. Presents at least two risks of using the specified technology in healthcare. 3. Describes professional and ethical principles guiding the appropriate use of technology in healthcare. 4. Support advantages and risks with evidence from recent scholarly publications.	Meets all requirements for section.	Includes no fewer than 3 requirements for section.	Includes 2 requirements for section.	Includes 1 requirements for section.	No requirements for this section presented.
Conclusion and Reflections (40 points/20%)	40 points	34 points	30 points	15 points	0 points
Required criteria 1. Summarizes the selected or assigned scenarios ending including the recommendations. 2. Establishes a clear link between the discussion and the thesis statement or argument. 3. Discusses thoughtful insights and implications based on the outcomes. 4. Describes how new insights will impact future behavior as a healthcare professional.	Meets all requirements for section.	Includes no fewer than 3 requirements for section.	Includes 2 requirements for section.	Includes 1 requirements for section.	No requirements for this section presented.
APA Style and Organization (20 points/10%)	20 points	18 points	16 points	8 points	0 points
Required criteria 1. References are submitted with assignment. 2. Uses current APA format and is free of errors. 3. Grammar and mechanics are free of errors. 4. Paper is 4-5 pages, excluding title and reference pages. 5. At least three (3) scholarly, primary sources from the last 5 years, excluding the textbook, are provided.	Includes all requirements for section.	Includes 4 requirements for section.	Includes 3 requirements for section.	Includes 1-2 requirements for section.	No requirements for this section presented.
Total Points Possible = 200 points

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For this assessment, you will create an 8-12 slide PowerPoint presentation for one or more stakeholder or leadership groups to generate interest and buy-in for the plan proposal you developed for the third assessment.

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Introduction

As a current or future nurse leader, you may be called upon to present to stakeholders and leadership about projects that you have been involved in or wish to implement. The ability to communicate a plan—and potential implications of not pursuing such a plan—to stakeholders effectively can be critically important in creating awareness and buy-in, as well as building your personal and professional brand in your organization. It is equally important that you know how to create compelling presentations for others’ delivery and ensure that they convey the same content you would deliver if you were the presenter.

You are encouraged to complete the Evidence-Based Practice: Basics and Guidelines activity before you develop the presentation. This activity consists of six questions that will create the opportunity to check your understanding of the fundamentals of evidence-based practice as well as ways to identify EBP in practice. The information gained from completing this formative will help promote success in the Stakeholder Presentation and demonstrate courseroom engagement—it requires just a few minutes of your time and is not graded.

Demonstration of Proficiency

• Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
  • Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.

Professional Context

This assessment will provide you with an opportunity to sharpen your ability to create a professional presentation to stakeholders. In this presentation, you will explain the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle and how it can be used to introduce the plan (P), implement the plan (D), study the effectiveness of the plan (S), and act on what is learned (A) to drive continuous improvement. By using this cycle, the stakeholders will have a tool and a proposal to expand on these ideas to drive workplace change and create improved processes to solve an interprofessional collaboration problem.

Scenario

In addition to summarizing the key points of Assessments 2 and 3, you will provide stakeholders and/or leadership with an overview of project specifics as well as how success would be evaluated—you will essentially be presenting a discussion of the Plan, Do, and Study parts of the PDSA cycle. Again, you will not be expected to execute the project, so you will not have any results to study. However, by carefully examining the ways in which your plan could be carried out and evaluated, you will get some of the experience of the thinking required for PDSA.

When creating your PowerPoint for this assessment, it is important to keep in mind the target audience: your interviewee’s organizational leadership. The overall goal of this assessment is to create a presentation that your interviewee could potentially give in his or her organization.

Instructions

Please follow the Capella Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX]. If you need technical information on using PowerPoint, refer to Capella University Library: PowerPoint Presentations.

Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

• Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.
• Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.
• Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.
• Propose evidence-based criteria that could be used to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.
• Communicate the PowerPoint presentation of the interdisciplinary improvement plan to stakeholders in a professional manner, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and respectful with correct grammar and spelling using current APA style.

There are various ways to structure your presentation; following is one example:

• Part 1: Organizational or Patient Issue.
  • What is the issue that you are trying to solve or improve?
  • Why should the audience care about solving it?
• Part 2: Relevance of an Interdisciplinary Team Approach.
  • Why is using an interdisciplinary team relevant, or the best approach, to addressing the issue?
  • How will it help to achieve improved outcomes or reach a goal?
• Part 3: Interdisciplinary Plan Summary.
  • What is the objective?
  • How likely is it to work?
  • What will the interdisciplinary team do?
• Part 4: Implementation and Resource Management.
  • How could the plan be implemented to ensure effective use of resources?
  • How could the plan be managed to ensure that resources were not wasted?
  • How does the plan justify the resource expenditure?
• Part 5: Evaluation.
  • What would a successful outcome of the project look like?
  • What are the criteria that could be used to measure that success?
    • How could this be used to show the degree of success?

Again, keep in mind that your audience for this presentation is a specific group (or groups) at your interviewee’s organization and tailor your language and messaging accordingly. Remember, also, that another person will ultimately be giving the presentation. Include thorough speaker’s notes that flesh out the bullet points on each slide.

Additional Requirements

• Number of slides: Plan on using one or two slides for each part of your presentation as needed, so the content of your presentation will be 8–12 slides in length. Remember that slides should contain concise talking points, and you will use presenter’s notes to go into detail. Be sure to include a reference slide as the last slide of your presentation.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than five years old.
• APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations on your slides and in your notes pages and reference slide reflect current APA Style and Format.

Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
  • Explain how the interdisciplinary plan could be implemented and how the human and financial resources would be managed.
• Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
  • Explain an organizational or patient issue for which a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach would help achieve a specific improvement goal.
• Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an interdisciplinary team.
  • Summarize an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to address an organizational or patient issue.
  • Propose evidence-based criteria to evaluate the degree to which the project was successful in achieving the improvement goal.
• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
  • Slides are easy to read and error free. Detailed speaker notes are provided.
  • Organize content with clear purpose /goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years) with an APA formatted reference list with few errors.