NR 360: Nursing Informatics Paper

NR 360: Nursing Informatics Paper

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 See Course Schedule in Syllabus. The college’s Late Assignment Policy applies to this activity.

TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE This assignment is worth a total of 240 points.

Requirements 1. Research, compose, and type a scholarly paper based on the scenario described below, and

choose a conclusion scenario to discuss within the body of your paper. Reflect on lessons

learned in this class about technology, privacy concerns, and legal and ethical issues and

addressed each of these concepts in the paper, reflecting on the use of smartphones and social

media in healthcare. Consider the consequences of such a scenario. Do not limit your review of

the literature to the nursing discipline only because other health professionals are using the

technology, and you may need to apply critical thinking skills to its applications in this scenario.

2. Use Microsoft Word and APA formatting. Consult your copy of the Publication Manual of the

American Psychological Association, sixth edition, as well as the resources in Doc Sharing if you

have questions (e.g., margin size, font type and size (point), use of third person, etc.). Take

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advantage of the writing service SmartThinking, which is accessed by clicking on the link called

the Tutor Source, found under the Course Home area. NR 360: Nursing Informatics Paper

3. The length of the paper should be four to five pages, excluding the title page and the reference

page. Limit the references to a few key sources (minimum of three required).

4. The paper will contain an introduction that catches the attention of the reader, states the

purpose of the paper, and provides a narrative outline of what will follow (i.e., the assignment

criteria).

5. In the body of the paper, discuss the scenario in relation to HIPAA, legal, and other regulatory

requirements that apply to the scenario and the ending you chose. Demonstrate support from sources of evidence (references) included as in‐text citations.

6. Choose and identify one of the four possible endings provided for the scenario, and construct

your paper based on its implications to the scenario. Make recommendations about what should

have been done and what could be done to correct or mitigate the problems caused by the

scenario and the ending you chose. Demonstrate support from sources of evidence (references)

included as in‐text citations.

7. Present the advantages and disadvantages of using smartphones and social media in healthcare

and describe professional and ethical principles to the appropriate use of this technology, based

on facts from supporting sources of evidence, which must be included as in‐text citations.

8. The paper’s conclusion should summarize what you learned and make reflections about them to

your practice.

9. Use the “Directions and Assignment Criteria” and “Grading Rubric” below to guide your writing

and ensure that all components are complete.

10. Review the section on Academic Honesty found in the Chamberlain Course Policies. All work

must be original (in your own words). Papers will automatically be submitted to TurnItIn when

submitted to the Dropbox.

11. Submit the completed paper to the “We Can, but Dare We?” Dropbox by the end of Week 3.

Please refer to the Syllabus for due dates for this assignment. For online students, please post

questions about this assignment to the weekly Q & A Forums so that the entire class may view

the answers.

Preparing for the Assignment

BACKGROUND Healthcare is readily embracing any technology to improve patient outcomes, streamline operations,

and lower costs, but we must also consider the impact of such technology on privacy and patient care.

This technology includes the use of social media applications, such as Facebook, Instagram, MySpace,

Twitter, and LinkedIn on smartphones.

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In healthcare today, smartphones are widely used for communication, efficiency, and care. Obviously, a

variety of issues (ethical, professional, and legal) from both the personal and hospital perspectives

must be considered. SCENARIO

You are a nurse in the emergency room, working the Friday 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, and your evening has

been filled with the usual mix of drunken belligerent teens, wailing babies, chronic obstructive

pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, falls, fractures, and the routine, regular congestive heart

failure (CHF) patients. Your best friend is texting you from the concert that you had to miss tonight

because you were scheduled to work, and you respond to her between care of patients, jealous that she

is there and you are not.