453x Assessment 3: Informatics Applications to Support Practice Project

453x Assessment 3: Informatics Applications to Support Practice Project

N453X Course Description:

• Utilize computer and information/decision science to support quality and safety in healthcare.
• Explore informatics issues and examine the healthcare worker’s role in healthcare technology.
• Opportunities to use and master various healthcare technologies and healthcare data will be given.

453x Course Competencies Addressed in this Assessment.

• Delineate the role of the health care worker in healthcare
• Describe how to manage data, information, knowledge, and technology to enhance and measure clinical practice, education, administration and research.
• Discuss healthcare informatics relationship to ethical, legal, political, social, cultural, economic and management issues that impact the delivery of quality and cost-effective
• Demonstrate mastery of select and current technology
• Evaluate healthcare forces, trends, and professional standards impacting healthcare

453x Program Competencies Addressed in this Assessment.

• Professionalism- Demonstrate accountability for the delivery of standard-based nursing care that is consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory, and humanistic principles.
• Informatics and Technology- Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making.
• Quality Improvement- Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.

Assessment 3 Description: Presentation to demonstrate how nurses and healthcare practitioners can use health information and communication technologies (HICT) to improve patient care.

How to complete this Assessment:

1. Familiarize yourself with the general guidelines for written work found in the Course Syllabus.
2. Carefully review the directions within this learning path for the assessment.
3. The scoring rubric for Assessment 3 is at the end of this learning path.
4. This assessment comprises 25% of the total grade for this course. You must complete this competency assessment with a grade of C or higher.
5. Please submit this assessment as a PowerPoint or Sway presentation. Include the required Academic Honesty statement and a final reference slide. Nursing students should use APA format; health sciences students may use AMA format.
6. When you complete this competency assessment, please upload it to Canvas in Assessment 3

Purpose of this assessment: The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate critical thinking in a discussion about the health professional’s role in using health information technologies and applications to support the delivery of safe, quality care; to facilitate continuity of care; and to promote patients’ participation in health care.

Directions: Please read the full set of directions below before beginning this assessment. For this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint or Sway presentation to demonstrate your understanding and knowledge, based on the literature, of how two health information and communication technologies (HICT) can be used by nurses and healthcare practitioners to improve patient care. Your presentation will use APA formatting (AMA format for non-nursing majors) for citations, references, etc.

1. Introduction. Explanation of Issues. Identify the purpose of the assessment and why the topic is important. Consider issues related to the increasing prevalence of HICTs in health care and the nurse’s role in the use of HICTs for both systems-based and individual applications.
2. Description of Two HICT Applications. Briefly describe two health information and communication technology (HICT) applications: one systems-based application and one individual patient application (cite references as appropriate).
3. HICT application 1 will be a systems-based application
   1. Choose one of the following applications from the list below
      1. Clinical information system (CIS) applications. Such as electronic care plans, electronic medical administration record (eMAR), Computerized provider order entry (CPOE), bar-coding, electronic health record (EHR), clinical decision support tools, computerized alerts, and reminders.
      2. Personal health record or patient portals such as EPIC, Cerner, MyChart, McKesson, etc.
      3. Community/ Public health surveillance systems such Wisconsin immunization data system, COVID-19 Data Tracker, Disability and health data system (DHDS), etc.
      4. Another HICT systems-based application of your choice or interest based on your professional experience.
   2. Discuss how the HICT applications selected can be used to help nurses meet specific aims and outcomes. How can nurses use HICT applications to meet the following? Provide an illustrative example from healthcare practice.
      1. Support safety and quality care
      2. Facilitate continuity of care and care coordination
      3. Partner with patients and families to participate in healthcare
   3. Provide rationale by using at least two pieces of evidence-based literature as a citation.
4. HICT application 2 will be an individual patient-use application
5. Choose one of the following applications from the list below
   1. Telehealth applications (such as home telemonitoring, medication management devices, remote/ virtual telehealth, etc.)
   2. Health-related applications (apps) for tablets and mobile phones (such as an app for sleep apnea, diabetes, and heart monitoring, etc.)
   3. Another HICT application of your choice or interest based on your professional experience.
   4. Discuss how the HICT applications selected can be used to help nurses meet specific aims and outcomes. How can nurses use HICT applications to meet the following? Provide an illustrative example from healthcare practice.
6. Support safety and quality care
7. Facilitate continuity of care and care coordination
8. Partner with patients and families to participate in healthcare
9. Provide rationale by using at least two pieces of evidence-based literature in the form of a citation.

• Reflection on Facilitators
  1. What are some facilitators that have helped promote using the two HICT applications you selected?
  2. Provide examples of facilitators that have increased use and/or compliance with HICT applications.
  3. What opportunities have been presented due to using HICT applications?
  4. Provide rationale using at least two pieces of evidence-based literature as a citation.

1. Reflection on Barriers
2. Discuss what might be some unexpected outcomes or unintended consequences from using the two HICT applications you selected.
   1. Reflect upon how each HICT application meets the intended purpose (deliver what is promised).
   2. What are some limitations to each HICT application?
   3. Explore equity, inclusion, and accessibility and how this may be a barrier to patient populations.
3. When discussing areas of concern, include context of use (situation), complexities of use, and assumptions to use (healthcare professionals and patients)
4. Provide realistic approaches to address these unexpected outcomes or unintended consequences.
5. Provide rationale by using at least two pieces of evidence-based literature as a citation.
6. Conclusion
7. Provide a summary of the presentation.
8. Conclude on the importance of HICT applications by healthcare professionals in practice.

The following Outline (below) is required for this presentation. 

Title Page [Slide 1]

Introduction [Slide 2]

• Purpose of Paper
• Importance of Topic – discussion is supported by evidence from at least one scholarly resource.

HICT Application 1: System’s-Based Application [Slide 3-5]

• Description of HICT Application 1: describe the selected HICT application.
• Through use of HICT applications, how can nurses use HICT applications to meet the following? Provide an illustrative example from healthcare practice.
  • Safety and Quality of Healthcare
  • Continuity of Care and Care Coordination
  • Patient and Family Participation in Health Care

HICT Application 2: Individual Patient Application [Slide 6-8]

• Description of HICT Application 2: describe the selected HICT application.
• Through the use of HICT applications, how can nurses use HICT applications to meet the following? Provide an illustrative example from healthcare practice.
  • Safety and Quality of Nursing
  • Continuity of Care and Care Coordination
  • Patient and Family Participation in Health Care

   Reflection on Facilitators & Barriers [Slide 9-10]

• Discuss facilitators and opportunities that present in using HICT applications.
• Discuss barriers such as unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences that are present from using HICT applications.

Conclusion [Slide 11-12]

• Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications of HICT Applications and the Nurse’s Role. Use at least one reference cited in the summary.
• Conclusions and Related Outcomes of HICT Use by Nurses.

References [Slide 13+]

• Use the most recent APA format or AMA format for non-nursing majors
• Evidence-based literature is 10 years old or less.