NURS-FPX4040

Assessment 1 Instructions: Nursing Informatics in Health Care

Write a 4-5 page evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.

Introduction

As you begin to prepare this assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Team Perspectives of the Nurse Informaticist activity. Completion of this will help you succeed with the assessment as you explore the nurse informaticist's role from the different perspectives of the health care team. Completing activities is also a way to demonstrate engagement.

Nurses at the baccalaureate level in all practice areas are involved in nursing informatics through interaction with information management and patient care technologies. Nurses must not only demonstrate knowledge of and skills in health information and patient care technologies, but also how to use these tools at the bedside and organizational levels. Moreover, nurses need to recognize how information gathered from various health information sources can impact decision making at the national and state regulatory levels.

Your Online ePortfolio

Creating an ePortfolio is not required in the BSN program, but you may find it helpful to create one to attach to your professional resume while job hunting. Online ePortfolios serve two key purposes: 1) to support learning and reflection, and 2) to be used as a showcase tool. Your learning journey can be documented, and ePortfolios contribute to lifelong learning and growth through reflection and sharing. Online ePortfolios can also be shared with employers and peers to present artifacts that demonstrate your accomplishments at Capella.

Using ePortfolio to Build Your Career

As you are preparing to tell your story in the professional world, leverage your ePortfolio artifacts to demonstrate the knowledge and competencies you have gained through your program in professional conversations, performance reviews, and interviews. To do that, reflect on the knowledge and skills you have gained from your courses and the elements you have put in your portfolio, along with how you have already applied these things to your professional life or how you might apply them in the future. Next, create your story or talking points to tell your professional story.

Privacy Statement

Capella complies with privacy laws designed to protect the privacy of personal information. While you may voluntarily share your own information publicly, you are obligated to protect the personal information of others that may be associated with your academic or professional development. Before sharing information and material in any ePortfolio that is set up to be shared externally to your program at Capella, please consider privacy obligations in relation to protected populations who may be included or referenced in your academic or clinical work. Refer to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and/or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) if you have specific questions or concerns about your choices.

Scenario

For this assessment, assume you are a nurse attending a meeting of your state’s nurses association. A nurse informaticist conducted a presentation on her role and its impact on positive patient and organizational outcomes in her workplace. You realize that your organization is undergoing many technological changes. You believe this type of role could provide many benefits to your organization.

You decide to pursue proposing a nurse informaticist role in your organization. You speak to your chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager, who ask you to prepare a 4–5 page evidence-based proposal to support the new role. In this way, they can make an informed decision as to whether the addition of such a role could justify the return on investment (ROI). They need your proposal before an upcoming fiscal meeting. This is not an essay, but instead, it is a proposal to create a new Nurse Informaticist position.

One important part of this assessment is the justification of the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization and references from relevant and timely scholarly or professional resources to support the justification for creating this nurse informaticist position. The term justify means to show or prove that the nurse informaticist position brings value to the organization. This justification must include evidence from the literature to support that this position will provide a return on investment for the organization.

Preparation

To successfully prepare for this assessment, you will need to complete these preparatory activities:

- Review assessment resources and activities.

- Conduct independent research on the nursing knowledge and skills necessary to interact with health information and patient care technology.
- Focus your research on current resources available through peer-reviewed articles, professional websites, government websites, professional blogs, wikis, job boards, and so on.
- Consult the BSN Program Library Research Guide for help in identifying scholarly and authoritative sources.
- Interview peers in your network who are considered information technology experts.
- Ask them about how information technology advances are impacting patient care at the bedside, at the organizational level, and beyond.

Proposal Format

The chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager have asked you to include the following headings in your proposal and to be sure to address the bullets following each heading:

Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist

- What is nursing informatics?
- What is the role of the nurse informaticist?

Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations

- What is the experience of other health care organizations with nurse informaticists?
- How do these nurse informaticists interact with the rest of the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team?

Impact of Full Nurse Engagement in Health Care Technology

- How does fully engaging nurses in health care technology impact:

- Patient care?
- Protected health information (security, privacy, and confidentiality)?

- In this section, you will explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse informaticist and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients' protected health information, particularly privacy, security, and confidentiality. Evidence-based means that they are supported by evidence from scholarly sources.
- Workflow?
- Costs and return on investment?

Opportunities and Challenges

- What are the opportunities and challenges for nurses and the interdisciplinary team with the addition of a nurse informaticist role?
- How can the interdisciplinary team collaborate to improve quality care outcomes through technology?

Summary of Recommendations

- What are 3–4 key takeaways from your proposal about the recommended nurse informaticist role that you want the CNO and the HR manager to remember?
- This is the section where the justification for the implementation of the nursing informaticist role is addressed. Remember to include evidence from the literature to support your recommendation.

Additional Requirements

- Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- Submission length: 4–5 double-spaced pages, in addition to title and references pages.
- Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
- Citations and References: Cite a minimum of three current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your ideas. In addition, cite a minimum of one current professional blog or website to support your central ideas. Current means no more than five years old.
- APA formatting: Be sure to follow APA formatting and style guidelines for citations and references. For an APA refresher, consult the Evidence and APA page on Campus.

Competencies Measured

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

- Competency 1: Describe nurses' and the interdisciplinary team's role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.

- Define nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist.
- Explain how the nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, including technologists, to improve the quality of patient care.
- Justify the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization.
- Competency 2: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information.

- Explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality).
- Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.

- Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
- Create a clear, well-organized, and professional proposal that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
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Which two theories of Laughter/Humor (posted on BB) best describe the ridiculous in Lysistrata? In order to answer this question first briefly discuss the two theories of laughter of your choice, and then explain how two characters in Lysistrata (one male and one female) are ridiculous.Write about 5-7 lines to explain/discuss each of the two theories of laughter. Make sure to include precise title of the theory of laughter you are referring to, and to include quotes and pg #.

No matter your views, make sure to support them with evidence from the text of your analysis.Evidence can be in the form of quotations, or reference to a character, or episode.All quotes need to be in quotation marks ("…").All evidence must be followed by its source in parentheses (book title, pg# and line #, if available).Make sure to discuss your evidence and to show it connects to the central idea of your discussion. Avoid colloquial expressions, or abbreviations.

Your overall response to this topic should be 4 paragraphs long, about 8 lines each.
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Many companies and their employees use social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook every day. For this discussion, you will find an example of social media use by a company or employee, and then follow these steps to prepare your initial discussion post: Conduct an online search using the phrase, “company social media fail” or “good use of social media by a company.” Select an example of either a good or a bad use of social media. Describe in a paragraph or less the example you selected. Provide a link to the story or example if possible. Include your responses to the following questions in your initial discussion post: What was the impact of the incident you selected on the company or employee? Did the company gain new customers? Did an employee get fired? What lessons can be learned from your example about how to use or not use social media in the workplace? How can your example be used to support employees having access to social media in the workplace? Explain your response.
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You will personally observe, research, and analyze one painting, sculpture, or a work of architecture from an approved museum such as the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology or the Philadelphia Museum of Art and write a formal research paper of a minimum of five to eight pages or more of text.

You must stay within the chapters covered during the semester, that is, find a work of art within the time frame from the Paleolithic Period up to the Late Gothic and not beyond (25,000 BCE up to 1300 CE). Write only on a subject you have studied in this class. If you have any doubts about this assignment, please contact your instructor. Choosing an artwork from the wrong era will result in a zero grade.

Policy: Visiting a local museum in person is a required activity for this course. Ignoring this requirement and submiting a paper on an artwork taken from your textbook or the internet will result in an automatic zero grade for this assignment.

Refer to the Guidelines document for complete instructions.

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Primary sources are what historians and other scholars study when they try to make sense of the past. But interpreting such sources is rarely as straightforward as we would like, and the sources are not mere mirrors of the world that historians want to understand. We are obliged, therefore, to use our critical thinking skills, particularly our interpretive skills. To interpret primary sources we ask questions of the them, considering the contexts of their production and uncovering the their inherent biases to decipher what they do and don’t reveal to us about the past. Finally, we employ our skills at logical argumentation to convince others of the validity of our interpretations.

Start by reading or viewing the primary source you chose and beginning the analysis of its meaning by making notes on your answers to the questions below:

What kind of primary source is it?Who is the author or creator (if known)?Can you tell why was it written or created?Can you tell who the intended audience was?What is the primary source's tone? What words and phrases (and/or scenes and visual perspectives) convey it?What are the author's or creator's values and assumptions? Is there visible bias?What information does it relate? Did the author or creator have first-hand knowledge of the subject or did s/he report what others saw and heard?What issues does it address?What is your overall assessment of the primary source and its usefulness/significance for the historical study of your topic?Note that some questions may not be answerable, some may be relatively unimportant, and others will be central to your analysis. It all depends on the document and the kind of analysis you wish to make.

ESSAY COMPOSITION

Once you have begun analyzing the primary source by answering the questions above, use your answers to those questions to help determine how to interpret the primary source. Your task is not to argue with or endorse its ideas. Try to maintain an impartial tone. To complete the assignment successfully you need to read the source carefully and analyze its contents. We will practice these analytical skills in the discussion boards and here are some steps to follow as you put your ideas into writing this essay.

Start your essay with an explanation of the task before you. Tell the reader what kind of source it is (image, legal code, literary text, travelogue, memoir, architecture, etc.). Express its stated or implied thesis or main point and try to surmise from clues in the text (tone, topics, values, etc.) the source’s purpose. Provide a historical context for the document. Your goal is to present an accurate and concise sketch that places the primary source in its historical context and gives an appropriate factual and thematic background to the specific points you will discuss in the next part of the essay.

That explanation of the source and its historical context might be handled in a few concise sentences or it might require a couple of paragraphs. Either way, the bulk of the paper should center on what you take to be the main takeaway from the document. What key issue does the document raise? What kind of information does it provide? Your explanation about what we can learn from the artifact is your thesis, and your job is to demonstrate the validity of that thesis with specific references to the source.

Analyze the values and assumptions the source contains. You will have to make some inferences from the source since values and assumptions are more often hidden and implicit rather than open and explicit. They are the unspoken foundations on which a source rests, and they often give it its meaning. Be sure to present those pieces of evidence upon which you make your assessment.

Note that what we can learn from a document is often not what the document purports to be about. A tax record might reveal much about a given culture’s social structure. A travelogue might reveal more about the traveler’s culture than it does about the land he or she is visiting. A description of factory workers might reveal attitudes toward education or marriage or technology or gender or any number of other topics. You will have to use your interpretive skills to find meaning in documents that may be implicit rather than explicit.

Be sure to give specific examples to support your claims. Express your ideas as clearly and forcefully as possible and be sure that similar ideas are grouped together around a central issue for each paragraph. Just as each paper should center on a single main point or thesis, so should each paragraph develop a single idea or topic. Make sure that your ideas flow easily from one paragraph to another in a logical, sequential manner, and make that logic apparent by means of clear transitions.

Your conclusion should pull your ideas together and flow naturally from the body of the essay. At the end of the essay, summarize your main points, underscore your thesis, explain the significance of the primary source, and leave the reader with an idea to ponder.

Remember, always keep the coherence of your essay in mind. Every statement should have a clear relationship to what came before it and what comes after it. Proofread carefully for spelling and grammatical errors and try to leave the reader with a striking final image or impression.

Your essay will receive a grade based on how well it follows the assignment, how thoroughly it accounts for the relevant questions above, how well it identifies and differentiates the various elements of the primary source (e.g., tone from value and value from assumption, etc.), how clearly it expresses your ideas, and how well it is written and organized. Please see the Syllabus and the Student Resources section in our course template for the Analytic Essay Assessment Rubric.

Of course, I am willing to answer any questions you may have about the assignment or read through rough drafts.

FORMAT

Your draft essay should be no less than 2 and your final essay no less than 4 double-spaced typed pages in 12-point Times New Roman font with 1-inch margins on all sides. It can be longer. However, Title, Bibliography, and Works Cited pages are not part of the required page count.

For the formatting of the essay and all citations, historians are obliged to follow the Chicago Manual of Style format. You may use either humanities or author-date citation styles but use only one of these styles in your work.

The author-date citation style is very close to MLA and APA styles. Since this is a General Education course, many of you are surely not history or social science majors. For that reason, a modified MLA or APA format that provides page numbers may be allowed. Check with your instructor. The NU Library provides helpful information on MLA and APA as well as Chicago/Turabian style guides.

Your essay should focus on your interpretation of the primary source you have chosen. If you rely on information from the textbook, a documentary, posted lecture, or other assigned material, you are obliged to cite it appropriately, but you can only use sources from the course. No sources from outside the course are allowed. Make sure that the ideas and words in your essay are your own. All paraphrases and quotations must have full citations. Refer to the Course Syllabus for information on Plagiarism.
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Watch the following TEDx talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o97fVGTjE4wConflict—Use It, Don’t’ Defuse It (Links to an external site.)

This talk begins with two very personal stories before going into the discussion using good conflict management techniques.

This talk also reflects back to the discussion of vulnerability in the section on building trust in teams. After watching the video, answer the following:

What is your most frequent method for handling conflict?

How could vulnerability and curiosity improve your attitude towards conflict?

How can a team use conflict as an energy source?
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Sustainability in the Supply Chain: (focus on the green supply chain, the social supplychain, and the ethical supply chain.)The papers will be 5 pages in length (not including cover page or reference page) and will be in properacademic (APA) format. There should be at least 12 relatively current (within the past 3 years) academic/professional references and related citations. This is not an opinion paper or position paper. It is a shortresearch paper that cover the pertinent aspects of the subject. Assume the reader has no understanding of thetopic at all. Use real examples as appropriate.
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