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Quiz 1
Question 1
A 20-year-old pregnant female gives birth to a stillborn
child. Autopsy reveals that the fetus has 92 chromosomes. What term may be on
the autopsy report to describe this condition?
Question 2
A group of prison inmates developed tuberculosis following
exposure to an infected inmate. On examination, tissues were soft and granular
(like clumped cheese). Which of the following is the most likely cause?
Question 3
A runner has depleted all the oxygen available for muscle
energy. Which of the following will facilitate his continued muscle
performance?
Question 4
The student is reviewing functions of the cell. The student
would be correct in identifying the primary function of the nerve cell as:
Question 5
Sodium and water accumulation in an injured cell are a
direct result of:
Question 6
A nurse is teaching a patient with diabetes how glucose is
transported from the blood to the cell. What type of transport system should
the nurse discuss with the patient?
Question 7
Why is potassium able to diffuse easily in and out of cells?
Question 8
A patient who has diarrhea receives a hypertonic saline
solution intravenously to replace the sodium and chloride lost in the stool.
What effect will this fluid replacement have on cells?
Question 9
The nurse would be correct in identifying the predominant
extracellular cation as:
Question 10
A newborn male is diagnosed with albinism based on skin,
eye, and hair appearance. Which finding will support this diagnosis?
Question 11
A nurse is reading a chart and sees the term oncotic
pressure. The nurse recalls that oncotic pressure (colloid osmotic pressure) is
determined by:
Question 12
A patient wants to know the risk factors for Down syndrome.
What is the nurse’s best response?
Question 13
Which of the following mutations have the most significant
effect on protein synthesis?
Question 14
What is the diagnosis of a 13-year-old female who has a
karyotype that reveals an absent homologous X chromosome with only a single X
chromosome present? Her features include a short stature, widely spaced
nipples, reduced carrying angle at the elbow, and sparse body hair.
Question 15
A 55-year-old male with a 30-year history of smoking is
examined for respiratory disturbance. Examination of his airway (bronchial)
reveals that stratified squamous epithelial cells have replaced the normal
columnar ciliated cells. This type of cellular adaptation is called:
 
Week 2 quiz
Question 1
The incidence of fractures of the pelvis is highest in:
Question 2
The nurse would expect the occurrence of scabies to occur
more commonly among children who:
Question 3
A 51-year-old male experienced severe acute gouty arthritis.
Which of the following is the most common trigger for the symptoms?
Question 4
A patient has chicken pox. How does the varicella replicate?
Question 5
A 70-year-old female presents with a hip fracture secondary
to osteoporosis. This condition is caused by an increase in bone:
Question 6
Researchers now believe that RA is:
Question 7
A 40-year-old female is diagnosed with SLE. Which of the
following findings would be considered a symptom of this disease?
Question 8
After studying about fungi, which information indicates a
correct understanding of fungi? Fungi causing deep or systemic infections:
Question 9
A 5-year-old female takes a hike through the woods during a
school field trip. Upon returning home, she hugs her father, and he later
develops poison ivy. Which of the following immune reactions is he
experiencing?
Question 10
A 76-year-old female was diagnosed with osteoporosis by
radiologic exam. She is at high risk for:
Question 11
A 4-month-old female develops white spots and shallow ulcers
in her mouth. Her pediatrician diagnoses her with thrush. This condition is
caused by:
Question 12
A 50-year-old male recently underwent a liver transplant and
is taking immunosuppressive drugs. He now has painful vesicular eruptions on
the face and trunk. He reports that he had chickenpox as a child. Which of the
following is the most likely diagnosis based on his chicken pox history?
Question 13
A 4-month-old female is diagnosed with atopic dermatitis
(AD). Which of the following assessment findings by the nurse will most likely
support this diagnosis?
Question 14
In discoid lupus erythematosus, skin lesions may be
accompanied by Raynaud phenomenon, which is manifested by:
Question 15
The nurse would be correct in identifying the duration of
rubella as:
 
 
Week 3 quiz
Question 1
A 69-year-old male with a history of alcohol abuse presents
to the emergency room (ER) after a month-long episode of headaches and
confusion. Based on his alcoholism, a likely cause of his neurologic symptoms
is:
Question 2
A 40-year-old male complains of uncontrolled excessive
movement and progressive dysfunction of intellectual and thought processes. He
is experiencing movement problems that begin in the face and arms that
eventually affect the entire body. The most likely diagnosis is:
Question 3
A 60-year-old female with a recent history of head trauma
and a long-term history of hypertension presents to the ER for changes in
mental status. MRI reveals that she had a hemorrhagic stroke. What does the
nurse suspect caused this type of stroke?
Question 4
A patient with an addiction to alcohol checked into a
rehabilitation center. He experiences delirium, inability to concentrate, and
is easily distracted. From which of the following is he most likely suffering?
Question 5
When planning care for a child in pain, which principle
should the nurse remember? The pain threshold in children is _____ that of
adults.
Question 6
The nursing student would correctly identify the most common
symptom of brain abscess as:
Question 7
A nurse should document on the chart that chronic pain is
occurring when the patient reports the pain has lasted longer than:
Question 8
A nurse thinks a patient may be experiencing dementia. Which
assessment finding will most help support this diagnosis?
Question 9
A 20-year-old male was brought to the emergency room (ER)
for severe burns. He requested something for the excruciating pain he was
experiencing. Blocking which of the following neurotransmitters would reduce
his pain?
Question 10
An older adult is admitted to the ER following a fall. The
patient complains of pain in the back. The patient has a history of
osteoporosis. The nurse would expect the patient’s injury and subsequent pain
is most likely due to:
Question 11
A child presents to his primary care provider with
disorientation, delirium, aggressiveness, and stupor. His parents report that he
was recently ill with an upper respiratory infection, which they treated with
aspirin. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
Question 12
A 15-month-old child from Pennsylvania was brought to the ER
for fever, seizure activity, cranial palsies, and paralysis. Which of the
following diagnosis will be documented in the chart?
Question 13
A 20-year-old male suffers a severe closed head injury in a
motor vehicle accident. He remains in a vegetative state (VS) 1 month after the
accident. Which of the following structures is most likely keeping the patient
alive?
Question 14
A 15-year-old male was struck by a motor vehicle and
suffered a traumatic brain injury. Paramedics found him unconscious at the
scene of the accident. During the ambulance ride, he regained consciousness and
was able to maintain a conversation with the medical staff. Upon arrival to
hospital, he was alert and oriented. Physical exam reveals confusion and
impaired responsiveness. What is the probable nature of his brain injury based
on this history?
Question 15
Parents of a 3-month-old infant bring him to the emergency
room (ER) after he has had a seizure. He has muscle rigidity, and the parents
report they are of Jewish ancestry. For what genetic disease should this infant
be screened?
 
 
Week 4 quiz
Question 1
Which of the following findings in the patient with Raynaud
disease would indicate a need for further teaching?
Question 2
A patient wants to know what causes atherosclerosis. How
should the nurse respond? In general, atherosclerosis is caused by:
Question 3
A 28-year-old female presents with severe chest pain and
shortness of breath. She is diagnosed with pulmonary embolism, which most
likely originated from the:
Question 4
Which characteristic changes should the nurse keep in mind
while caring for a patient with left heart failure? As left heart failure
progresses:
Question 5
A 50-year-old male visits the cardiologist for an EKG.
Results indicate that he has no PR interval and a variable QRS rate with rhythm
irregularity. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis to be
recorded on the chart?
Question 6
A 60-year-old male is diagnosed with cerebral aneurysm.
Where does the nurse suspect the cerebral aneurysm is located?
Question 7
A 50-year-old female received trauma to the chest that
caused severe impairment of the primary pacemaker cells of the heart. Which of
the following areas received the greatest damage?
Question 8
When a patient has a massive pulmonary embolism (PE), what
complications will the nurse monitor for?
Question 9
While planning care for a patient with superior vena cava
syndrome (SVCS), which principle should the nurse remember? SVCS is a
progressive _____ of the superior vena cava (SVC) that leads to venous
distention of the upper extremities and head.
Question 10
Which condition should cause the nurse to assess for
high-output failure in a patient?
Question 11
A 75-year-old female has been critically ill with multiple
organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) for longer than a week and has developed a
severe oxygen supply and demand imbalance. The statement that best describes
this imbalance is which of the following?
.
Question 12
A 50-year-old female presents with a low heart rate and low
blood pressure. She is given an intravenous (IV) infusion of fluids. The
increase in atrial distension results in:
Question 13
A 32-year-old female presents with lower leg pain, with
swelling and redness. While obtaining the patient’s history, which finding
could have caused her condition?
Question 14
A 50-year-old male with a 30-year history of smoking was
diagnosed with bronchogenic cancer. He developed edema and venous distention in
the upper extremities and face. Which of the following diagnosis will the nurse
observe on the chart?
Question 15
A 51-year-old male is at the health clinic for an annual
physical exam. After walking from the car to the clinic, he developed
substernal pain. He also reported discomfort in his left shoulder and his jaw,
lasting 2 to 3 minutes and then subsiding with rest. He indicates that this has
occurred frequently over the past few months with similar exertion. The nurse
suspects he is most likely experiencing:
 
 
Week 5 quiz
Question 1
A nurse is planning care for a patient in shock. Which
principle should the nurse remember? During shock states, glucose uptake is
usually:
Question 2
A 20-year-old male underwent an echocardiogram to assess
chest pain. Results revealed a congenital defect in papillary muscles. Which of
the following would the nurse expect to occur?
Question 3
A 75-year-old male has severe chest pain and dials 911. Lab
tests at the hospital reveal elevated levels of cardiac troponins I and T.
Based upon the lab findings, the nurse suspects which of the following has
occurred?
Question 4
A 67-year-old female was previously diagnosed with rheumatic
heart disease. Tests reveal lipoprotein deposition with chronic inflammation
that impairs blood flow from the left ventricle into the aorta. Which of the
following is the most likely diagnosis recorded on the chart?
Question 5
A 20-year-old female is being admitted to the hospital with
fever and septic shock. Which set of assessment findings would the nurse expect
the patient to exhibit?
Question 6
A newborn is diagnosed with congenital heart disease. Which
of the following intrauterine factors should the nurse focus on during the
history that could have caused this disorder?
Question 7
A 50-year-old male was admitted to the intensive care unit
with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (MI). He is being treated for
shock. His cardiopulmonary symptoms include low blood pressure, tachycardia,
and tachypnea. His skin is pale and cool. The primary cause of his shock is
most likely:
Question 8
A newborn is suspected of having coarctation of the aorta.
Which of the following assessments would aid in diagnosis?
Question 9
A 56-year-old male presents to his primary care provider for
a checkup. Physical exam reveals edema, hepatomegaly, and muffled heart sounds.
Which of the following is of greatest concern to the nurse?
Question 10
A 2-week-old infant presents with poor feeding, fatigue,
dyspnea, and a murmur. She is diagnosed with a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA).
A nurse recalls this condition results in a(n):
Question 11
When a person is in shock, a nurse remembers impairment in
cellular metabolism is cause by:
Question 12
When a patient asks the nurse what is the most common cause
of myocardial ischemia, which statement is the correct response? The most
common cause of myocardial ischemia is:
Question 13
While planning care, the nurse remembers which principle? In
valvular _____, the valve opening is constricted and narrowed because the valve
leaflets, or cusps, fail to open completely.
Question 14
What factors make a patient prone to neurogenic shock?
Neurogenic shock can be caused by any factor that inhibits the:
Question 15
A nurse is teaching a patient about anaphylactic shock.
Which information should the nurse include? The onset of anaphylactic shock is
usually:
 
 
Week 6 quiz
Question 1
While planning care for a child with asthma, which of the
following is characteristic of asthma?
Question 2
Which patient would the nurse assess for paroxysmal
nocturnal dyspnea (PND)? A patient with:
Question 3
A 42-year-old female presents with dyspnea; rapid, shallow
breathing; inspiratory crackles; decreased lung compliance; and hypoxemia.
Tests reveal a fulminant form of respiratory failure characterized by acute
lung inflammation and diffuse alveolocapillary injury. Which of the following
is the most likely diagnosis the nurse will observe on the chart?
Question 4
A 65-year-old male recently had a cerebrovascular accident
that resulted in dysphagia. He now has aspiration of gastric contents. The
nurse assesses the patient for which complication?
Question 5
A nurse recalls asthma is classified by:
Question 6
While reviewing lab results, to help confirm a diagnosis of
cystic fibrosis in a 1-year-old child which substance will be present in the
child’s sweat?
Question 7
A geneticist is discussing cystic fibrosis (CF). Which
information should be included? CF is an _____ disease.
Question 8
When the nurse observes a diagnosis of nosocomial pneumonia,
the patient generally acquires this pneumonia:
Question 9
A 14-year-old male is experiencing an asthma exacerbation.
When reviewing the lab results, which of the following cells in the submucosa
promote this inflammatory response and will be elevated?
Question 10
A 50-year-old male with a 30-year history of smoking was diagnosed
with lung cancer. He was previously exposed to air pollution, asbestos, and
radiation at his job. Which of the following should the nurse realize had the
greatest impact on the development of his cancer?
Question 11
A 13-year-old female is diagnosed with asthma. Which of the
following should the nurse teach the patient to recognize as part of an
asthmatic attack?
Question 12
A 50-year-old diabetic male did not take his medication and
is now in metabolic acidosis. He is experiencing Kussmaul respirations. What
type of breathing will the nurse observe upon assessment?
Question 13
An 11-year-old female presents with a low-grade fever and
cough. She is diagnosed with atypical pneumonia. What type of pneumonia does
the nurse suspect the patient is experiencing?
Question 14
A 6-month-old female presents with rhinorrhea, cough, poor
feeding, lethargy, and fever. She is diagnosed with bronchiolitis. Which of the
following will the nurse most likely observe on the culture report?
Question 15
A 60-year-old female with emphysema is having difficulty
expiring a given volume of air. When giving report, the nurse will relay that
the patient is most likely experiencing _____ pulmonary disease.
 
 
Week 7 quiz
Question 1
A nurse is caring for a patient who cannot clot. Which end
product of the clotting cascade is this patient unable to make?
Question 2
A 25-year-old female has a heavy menses during which she
loses a profuse amount of blood. Which of the following adaptations should the
nurse expect?
Question 3
A staff member wants to know where the greatest proportion
of iron is located. How should the nurse respond? The greatest proportion of
total body iron is located in the:
Question 4
A 65-year-old male experienced loss of appetite, weight
loss, lemon-yellow skin, liver enlargement, and a beefy red tongue shortly
before his death. Autopsy suggested pernicious anemia, and the cause of death
would most likely reveal:
Question 5
While reviewing lab results, the nurse recalls the most
abundant cells in the blood are:
Question 6
A nurse is teaching the staff about platelets. Which
information should the nurse include? In addition to playing a role in
hemostasis, platelets have the ability to:
Question 7
A 45-year-old male is diagnosed with macrocytic,
normochromic anemia. The nurse suspects the most likely cause of this condition
is:
Question 8
A 34-year-old male presents in the emergency room with
extreme fatigue and shortness of breath. His skin and sclera appear to have a
yellowish discoloration. These assessment findings are consistent with which
type of anemia?
Question 9
A group of cells isolated in the laboratory have
membrane-bound granules in their cytoplasm and they show phagocytic activity.
Which of the following cells is most similar?
Question 10
A 10-year-old male presents with abdominal swelling, night
sweats, fever, and weight loss. He is diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma. Upon
obtaining the history, which of the following is the most likely cause?
Question 11
A 10-year-old male is diagnosed with sickle cell anemia.
When the parents ask who is responsible for this disease, what is the nurse’s
best response? He most likely inherited it from:
Question 12
For a patient experiencing hypersplenism, the nurse expects
the erythrocytes to be:
Question 13
Thrombocytopenia may be:
Question 14
In disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), the nurse
assesses for active bleeding after intravascular clotting because:
Question 15
A 10-year-old male is diagnosed with leukemia. The nurse
assesses for which other condition that could be associated with his disease?
 
 
Week 8 quiz
Question 1
For the patient experiencing esophageal reflux, the nurse
would expect which sphincter to be malfunctioning?
Question 2
The most common disorder associated with upper GI bleeding
is:
Question 3
A 27-year-old male presents with fever, GI bleeding,
hepatomegaly, and transient joint pain. He reports that as a child he received
blood transfusions following a motor vehicle accident. He also indicates he was
vaccinated against hepatitis B. Which of the following types of hepatitis does
the clinician think he most likely has?
Question 4
A 55-year-old male died in a motor vehicle accident. Autopsy
revealed an enlarged liver caused by fatty infiltration, testicular atrophy,
and mild jaundice secondary to cirrhosis. The most likely cause of his
condition is:
Question 5
Acute pancreatitis often manifests with pain to which of the
following regions?
Question 6
The primary complication of enterocolitis associated with
Hirschsprung disease is related to which finding?
Question 7
The most common clinical manifestation of portal
hypertension is _____ bleeding.
Question 8
The exocrine portion of the pancreas contains:
Question 9
The cardinal signs of small bowel obstruction are:
Question 10
Reflux esophagitis is defined as a(n):
Question 11
Marasmus is most common in children of which age group?
Question 12
Manifestations associated with hepatic encephalopathy from
chronic liver disease are the result of:
Question 13
A 50-year-old male is experiencing reflux of chyme from the
stomach. He is diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux. This condition is caused
by:
Question 14
Kwashiorkor is a severe dietary deficiency of:
Question 15
A 40-year-old male develops an intestinal obstruction
related to protrusion of the intestine through the inguinal ring. This
condition is referred to as:
 
Week 9 quiz
Question 1
A patient has high levels of hormones. To adapt to the high
hormone concentrations, the patient’s target cells have the capacity for:
Question 2
A patient has researched lipid-soluble hormones on the
Internet. Which information indicates the patient has a good understanding?
Lipid-soluble hormone receptors cross the plasma membrane by:
Question 3
A 50-year-old female presents with lightheadedness and
overall abnormal feelings. Hyperaldosteronism is diagnosed. Which of the
following symptoms would the nurse expect?
Question 4
A 12-year-old female is newly diagnosed with type 1 DM. When
the parents ask what causes this, what is the nurse’s best response?
Question 5
0 out of 1 points
A 30-year-old male was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Synthesis
of which of the following would decrease in this patient?
Question 6
A 22-year-old male is admitted to the intensive care unit
with a closed head injury sustained in a motorcycle accident. The injury has
caused severe damage to the posterior pituitary. Which of the following
complications should the nurse anticipate?
Question 7
If the patient has a problem with the pineal gland, which
substance would the nurse monitor?
Question 8
0 out of 1 points
A 50-year-old male patient is deficient in ADH production.
Which of the following assessment findings would the nurse expect to find?
Question 9
A 54-year-old patient with pulmonary tuberculosis (lung
infection) is evaluated for syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH).
Which of the following electrolyte imbalances would be expected in this
patient?
Question 10
When catecholamines are released in a patient, what should
the nurse assess for?
Question 11
An endocrinologist isolated a new hormone and found it to be
a water-soluble amine. Which of the following is most like this new hormone?
Question 12
A 30-year-old male is diagnosed with a hormone-secreting
tumor of the pancreas alpha cells. Which of the following would the nurse
expect to be most likely increased in this patient?
Question 13
A 25-year-old male presents with fatigue, constipation, and
sexual dysfunction. Tests reveal all pituitary hormones are normal and no
masses are present. The nurse suspects the most likely cause of his symptoms is
a dysfunction in the:
Question 14
A 25-year-old female with Graves disease is admitted to a
medical-surgical unit. Palpation of her neck would most likely reveal:
Question 15
A 12-year-old male is newly diagnosed with type 1 DM. Which
of the following tests should the nurse prepare the patient to best confirm the
diagnosis?
 
 
Week 10 quiz
Question 1
A 15-year-old female presents with flank pain, irritability,
malaise, and fever. Tests reveal glomerulonephritis. When the parents ask what
could have caused this, how should the nurse respond?
Question 2
A 60-year-old male is diagnosed with renal failure. While
the nurse is reviewing lab results, which of the following lab values would be
most consistent with this diagnosis?
Question 3
A 7-year-old male presents to his primary care provider for
incontinence. His mother indicates that he has never been continent. Which of
the following is the most likely diagnosis the nurse will observe on the chart?
Question 4
If a nurse wants to obtain the best estimate of renal
function, which test should the nurse monitor?
Question 5
When a patient’s renal system secretes rennin, what effect
will that cause in the body? It causes the direct activation of:
Question 6
A 29-year-old female presents with cloudy urine, flank pain,
hematuria, and fever. Which of the following does the nurse suspect the patient
is most likely experiencing?
Question 7
A urologist is discussing the phagocytic cells that lie
between the layers of the renal corpuscle. What is the urologist describing?
Question 8
While turning a patient with chronic renal failure, which
principle should the nurse recall? Bone fractures are a risk factor in chronic
renal failure because:
Question 9
A 42-year-old male is involved in a motor vehicle accident
during which he loses a lot of blood. The nurse realizes he is in acute renal
failure caused by:
Question 10
A nurse is describing the trigone. Which information should
be included? The trigone is defined as:
Question 11
A 6-year-old male is experiencing urine reflux from the
urinary bladder into a grossly dilated ureter and calyces. He was diagnosed
with vesicoureteral reflux. This condition would be graded:
Question 12
When the nurse discusses the glomerulus and Bowman capsule
together, it is referred to as the renal:
Question 13
On average the kidneys receive approximately _____ of the
cardiac output.
Question 14
A 55-year-old male presents reporting urinary retention.
Tests reveal that he has a lower urinary tract obstruction. Which of the
following is of most concern to the nurse?
Question 15
A urologist is discussing a structure that supplies blood to
the medulla. What is the urologist describing?
 
 
Week 11 quiz
Question 1
A 68-year-old male presents complaining of difficulty having
sexual intercourse. He reports that his penis curves during erection. This
condition is referred to as:
Question 2
A 25-year-old sexually active female presents with
urethritis, dysuria, and cervical discharge. She is diagnosed with the most
common bacteria STI in the United States. The student would identify this
infection is due to:
Question 3
A middle-aged male speaks to his physician about benign BPH.
He reveals that his father was recently diagnosed with this condition, and he
wants to know if he could have it. The physician tells him that a common
complaint from men with mild to moderate BPH is:
Question 4
When a patient who is trying to get pregnant asks where the
usual site of fertilization is, how should the nurse respond? The:
Question 5
An example of a parasitic STI that is transmitted through
close skin-to-skin contact is:
Question 6
The nurse would anticipate the treatment for pelvic organ
prolapse to be:
Question 7
When a staff member asks the nurse what the thick middle
layer of the uterine wall is called, what is the nurse’s best response? The:
Question 8
Copy of The nurse would anticipate the treatment for pelvic
organ prolapse to be:
Question 9
When discussing the difference between male and female sex
hormones, which information should the nurse include? The major difference
between male and female sex hormone production is that:
Question 10
During a routine pelvic exam, a 34-year-old female is found
to have an ovarian cyst containing skin, hair, cartilage, and bone. This cyst
is classified as a _____ cyst.
Question 11
A 30-year-old male presents with penile tenderness and
discharge. Physical examination reveals that his foreskin cannot be retracted
back over the glans penis. He is suffering from:
Question 12
Which information indicates the nurse has a good
understanding of the menstrual cycle? When estrogen and progesterone levels
drop, the endometrium enters the _____ phase.
Question 13
Which of the following signs is usually the first clinical
manifestation of breast cancer?
Question 14
A nurse is discussing female anatomy. Which body structure
contains the openings to the vagina and urinary meatus?
Question 15
The patient’s medication has a side effect of gynecomastia.
The patient asks the nurse to define this term. The nurse would respond that
gynecomastia is:

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Week 1 discussion
The Effects of “To
Err Is Human” in Nursing Practice
The 1999 landmark study titled “To Err Is Human: Building a
Safer Health System” highlighted the unacceptably high incidence of U.S.
medical errors and put forth recommendations to improve patient safety. Since
its publication, the recommendations in “To Err Is Human’” have guided
significant changes in nursing practice in the United States.
In this Discussion, you will review these recommendations
and consider the role of health information technology in helping address
concerns presented in the report.
To prepare:
Review the summary of “To Err Is Human” presented in the
Plawecki and Amrhein article found in this week’s Learning Resources.
Consider the following statement:
“The most significant barrier to improving patient safety
identified in “To Err Is Human”is a “lack of awareness of the extent to which
errors occur daily in all health care settings and organizations (Wakefield,
2008).”
Review “The Quality Chasm Series: Implications for Nursing”
focusing on Table 3: “Simple Rules for the 21st Century Health Care System.”
Consider your current organization or one with which you are familiar. Reflect
on one of the rules where the “current rule” is still in operation in the
organization and consider another instance in which the organization has
effectively transitioned to the new rule.
By Day 3
Post your thoughts on how the development of information
technology has helped address the concerns about patient safety raised in the
“To Err Is Human” report. Summarize how informatics has assisted in improving
health care safety in your organization and areas where growth is still needed.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 2 discussion
Nursing Informatics
Competencies
Today’s fast-paced health care environment demands nurses to
be skilled not only in their clinical practice or specialty area but in the use
of technology tools that improve practice and lead to better patient care.
Basic and advanced technology competencies are required and expected as
technology increasingly touches and changes the job of every nurse. Numerous
organizations, including the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS), have developed nurse-specific technology
competencies. The challenge for nurses is to identify both needs and training
opportunities.
In this Discussion, you identify the role informatics plays
in your professional responsibilities. You pinpoint personal gaps in skills and
knowledge and then develop a plan for self-improvement.
To prepare:
Review Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice
in this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on the different functional areas
it describes. Consider which areas relate to your current nursing
responsibilities or to a position you held in the past. For this Discussion,
identify one or two of the most relevant functional areas.
Review the list of competencies recommended by the TIGER
Initiative. Identify at least one skill in each of the main areas (basic
computer competencies, information literacy competencies, and information
management competencies) that is pertinent to your functional area(s) and in
which you need to strengthen your abilities. Consider how you could improve
your skills in these areas and the resources within your organization that
might provide training and support.
By Day 3
Post the key functional area(s) of nursing informatics
relevant to your current position or to a position you recently held, and
briefly describe why this area(s) is relevant. Identify the TIGER competencies
you selected as essential to your functional area(s) in which you need
improvement. Describe why these competencies are necessary and outline a plan
for developing these competencies. Include any resources that are available to
you within your organization and the ways you might access those resources.
Assess how developing nursing informatics competencies would increase your
effectiveness as a nurse.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using the following approach: Assume the role of a consultant. Respond to
your colleagues as someone who can offer advice on improving their skills on
the competencies they identified as needing improvement.
Week 3 discussion
Standardized Coding
Systems
As a result of the fragmented nature of the health care
system, professionals in various specialty areas of medicine have developed
their own unique sets of terminology to communicate within that specialty. In
the past, limited attention has been given to codifying practices in order for
them to be understood and utilized across disciplines or through different
information technology systems. The implementation of a federally mandated
electronic medical records system, therefore, poses a challenge to nursing
professionals and others who must be prepared to utilize standardized codes for
the new system. Why are coding standards important for promoting consistent,
high-quality care?
According to Rutherford (2008, para. 15), “Improved
communication with other nurses, health care professionals, and administrators
of the institution in which nurses work is a key benefit of using a
standardized nursing language.” In this Discussion you consider the reasoning
behind and the value of standardized codification.
To prepare:
Review the information in Nursing Informatics: Scope and
Standards of Practice. Determine which set of terminologies are appropriate for
your specialty or area of expertise.
Reflect on the importance of continuity in terminology and
coding systems.
In the article, “Standardized Nursing Language: What Does It
Mean for Nursing Practice?” the author recounts a visit to a local hospital to
view its implementation of a new coding system. One of the nurses commented to
her, “We document our care using standardized nursing languages but we don’t
fully understand why we do” (Rutherford, 2008, para. 1). Consider how you would
inform this nurse (and others like her) of the importance of standardized
nursing terminologies.
Reflect on the value of using a standard language in nursing
practice. Consider if standardization can be limited to a specialty area or if
one standard language is needed across all nursing practice. Then, identify
examples of standardization in your own specialty or area of expertise. Conduct
additional research using the Walden Library that supports your thoughts on
standardization of nursing terminology.
By Day 3
Post an explanation of why nurses need to document care
using standardized nursing languages and whether this standardization can be
limited to specialty areas or if it should be across all nursing practice.
Support your response using specific examples from your own specialty or area
of expertise and using at least one additional resource from the Walden
Library.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 4 discussion
Current Information
and Communication Technologies
With so much attention focused on health care reform, it is
important that nurses be given the opportunity to use high-quality technology
tools. These tools can increase access to vital medical information, promote
effective communication among health care professionals, and improve the
patient experience. By actively seeking out and adopting these tools, nurses
can greatly enhance the quality and safety of care that they provide.
This Discussion focuses on identifying quality technology
tools that increase the ability of nurses to provide safe, effective care.
To prepare:
Review the various technology tools described in this week’s
Learning Resources.
Identify a recently adopted information, education, or
communication technology tool in your specialty area. Reflect on how it is used
and how its use impacts the quality of care.
Consider how your identified technology tool might impact
nursing practice if it were more widely used. What are some barriers preventing
increased usage? How could wider implementation be facilitated?
By Day 3
Post a description of a current or new information,
education, or communication technology tool that is being used in your
specialty area and assess its impact on the quality of care. Highlight the
effect that increased use of this technology would have on nursing practice and
discuss the barriers that are slowing or hindering its adoption. Summarize how
adoption of the technology tool could be facilitated.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 5 discussion
Electronic Health
Records
Electronic health records (EHRs) are at the center stage of
the effort to improve health care quality and control costs. In addition to
allowing medical practitioners to access and record clinical documentation at
much faster rates, EHRs are also positively influencing care delivery and
nurse-patient interaction. Yet despite the potential benefits of EHRs, their
implementation can be a formidable task that has broad-reaching implications
for an entire health care organization.
In this Discussion, you appraise strategies for obtaining
the benefits and overcoming the challenges of implementing and using electronic
health records.
To Prepare:
Review the Learning Resources focusing on the implementation
of EHRs in an organization. Reflect on the various approaches used.
If applicable, consider your own experiences with
implementing EHRs. What were some positive aspects of the implementation? What
suggestions would you make to improve the process?
Reflect on the reactions of others during the implementation
process. Were concerns handled effectively?
If you have not had any experiences with an EHR
implementation, talk to someone who has and get his or her feedback on the
experience.
Search the Walden Library for examples of effective and poor
implementation of EHRs.
By Day 3
Post an overview of at least three challenges in the
implementation of electronic health records and provide an example of each
challenge. Develop strategies for addressing each challenge based on what has
been demonstrated to be successful. Cite your resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 6 discussion
Successful
Implementation of Electronic Health Information Technology
Since the inception of the HITECH Act, health organizations
have faced increased pressure to update their health information technology
(HIT) resources. As discussed last week, many believe that the increased use of
electronic health records and the quick and efficient communication afforded by
HIT can lead to improved quality of patient care. Yet there are significant
costs associated with implementing such systems. What can organizations do to
ensure that the correct system is selected and that the system will be
appropriate for those required to use it? Who should be involved in those
decisions?
This week introduces the systems development life cycle and
discusses how it can guide an organization through the complexities of adopting
a new HIT system. In this Discussion, you are asked to consider the role of
nurses in the SDLC process.
To prepare:
Review the steps of the systems development life cycle.
Think about your own organization, or one with which you are
familiar, and the steps the organization goes through when purchasing and
implementing a new HIT system.
Consider what a nurse could contribute to decisions made at
each stage when planning for new health information technology. What might be
the consequences of not involving nurses?
Reflect on your own experiences with your organization
selecting and implementing new technology. As an end user, do you feel you had
any input in the selection or and planning of the new HIT system?
By Day 3
Post an analysis of
the ramifications of an organization not involving nurses in each stage of the
systems development life cycle when purchasing and implementing a new HIT
system. Give specific examples of potential issues at each stage and how the
inclusion of nurses could help avoid such issues.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 7 discussion
Understanding
Workflow Design
As you explored last week, the implementation of a new
technology can dramatically affect the workflow of an organization. Newly
implemented technologies can initially limit the productivity of users as they
adjust to their new tools. Such implementations tend to be so significant that
they often require workflows to be redesigned in order to achieve improvements
in safety and patient outcomes. However, before workflows can be redesigned,
they must first be analyzed. This analysis includes each step in completing a
certain process. Some systems duplicate efforts or contain unnecessary steps
that waste time and money and could even jeopardize patient health care. By
reviewing and modifying the workflow, you enable greater productivity. This
drive to implement new technologies has elevated the demand for nurses who can
perform workflow analysis.
In this Discussion you explore resources that have been
designed to help guide you through the process of workflow assessment.
To prepare:
Take a few minutes and peruse the information found in the
article “Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit” listed in this week’s
Learning Resources.
As you check out the information located on the different
tabs, identify key concepts that you could use to improve a workflow in your
own organization and consider how you could use them.
Go the Research tab and identify and read one article that
is of interest to you and relates to your specialty area.
By Day 3
Post a summary of three different concepts you found in
“Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit” that would help in redesigning a
workflow in the organization in which you work (or one with which you are
familiar) and describe how you would apply them. Next, summarize the article
you selected and assess how you could use the information to improve workflow
within your organization. Finally, evaluate the importance of monitoring the
effect of technology on workflow.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses. Focus
particularly on questions raised for which you can add comments based on your
experiences or situations. Consider how your colleagues’ postings reflect
and/or differ from your own perceptions and opinions. Review the Learning
Resources for any clarification needed before responding.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days
using one or more of the following approaches
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 8 discussion
Using Health
Information Technology as a Source of Evidence-Based Practice
Before the digital revolution, health information technology
supplied very limited support for evidence-based practice. If nurses wanted to
be informed about cutting-edge research, their best bet was to either subscribe
to leading journals or make periodic trips to the library. With the
establishment of research databases, however, nurses became empowered to learn
about and facilitate interdisciplinary and translational research. Databases
are just one example of how health information technology supports
evidence-based practice.
To prepare:
Read the following scenario from the text (McGonigle &
Mastrian, 2011, p. 482):
Twelve-hour shifts are problematic for patient and nurse
safety, and yet hospitals continue to keep the 12-hour shift schedule. In 2004,
the Institute of Medicine (Board on Health Care Services & Institute of
Medicine, 2004) published a report that referred to studies as early as 1988
that discussed the negative effects of rotating shifts on intervention accuracy.
Workers with 12-hour shifts realized more fatigue than workers on 8-hour
shifts. In another study done in Turkey by Ilhan, Durukan, Aras, Turkcuoglu,
and Aygun (2006), factors relating to increased risk for injury were age of 24
or less, less than 4 years of nursing experience, working in the surgical
intensive care units, and working for more than 8 hours.
Consider how the resources identified in the scenario above
could influence an organization’s practice.
Select an issue in your practice that is of concern to you.
Using health information technology, locate at least three evidence-based
practice resources that address your concern and that could possibly inform
further action.
By Day 3
Post a description of your practice concern. Outline how you
used health information technology to locate evidence-based practices that
address this concern. Cite and include insights from the resources. Analyze how
health information technology supports evidence-based practice.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses. Focus
particularly on those questions raised to which you can add comments based on
shared experiences or situations. Consider how your colleagues’ postings
reflect and/or differ from your own perceptions and opinions. Review the
Learning Resources for any clarification needed before responding.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 9 discussion
HITECH Legislation
In order for organizations to receive the incentives offered
through the HITECH legislation, they must be able to demonstrate that they are
using the technology in meaningful ways. The following criteria for meaningful
use must be evident to qualify for EHR incentives (U.S. Department of Health
& Human Services, 2012). The technology must:
Improve quality, safety, and efficiency, and reduce health
disparities
Engage patients and families
Improve care coordination
Improve population and public health
Ensure adequate privacy and security protections for
personal health information
For this Discussion you consider the impact of the
meaningful use criteria of the HITECH legislation on the adoption of health
information technology.
To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources on the HITECH legislation and
its primary goals.
Reflect on the positive and negative impact this legislation
has had on your organization or one with which you are familiar.
Consider the incentives to encourage the use of EHRs. Focus
on the definition of meaningful use and how it is measured.
Reflect on how the incentives and meaningful use impact the
quality of patient care.
Find an article in the Walden Library dealing with one of
the criteria to qualify for meaningful use and how it has been successfully
met.
By Day 3
Post a description of how HITECH legislation has positively
or negatively impacted your organization. Address how its related incentives
influence the adoption of health information technology in health care and
impact the quality of patient care. Provide a summary of the article you
identified and explain how it demonstrates the ability of health information
technology to meet the requirements of meaningful use.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background
information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 10 discussion
Security of Health
Care Records
With the increase of health information technology used to
store and access patient information, the likelihood of security breaches has
also risen. In fact, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal
(CMAJ):
In the United States, there was a whopping 97% increase in
the number of health records breached from 2010 to 2011… The number of patient
records accessed in each breach has also increased substantially, from 26,968
(in 2010) to 49,394 (in 2011). Since August 2009, when the US government
regulated that any breach affecting more than 500 patients be publicly
disclosed, a total of 385 breaches, involving more than 19 million records,
have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services.
A large portion of those breaches, 39%, occurred because of
a lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised portable electronic device—a problem
that will likely only get worse as iPads, smartphones, and other gadgets become
more common in hospitals. (CMAJ, 2012, p. E215).
Consider your own experiences. Does your organization use
portable electronic devices? What safeguards are in place to ensure the
security of data and patient information? For this Discussion you consider
ethical and security issues surrounding the protection of digital health
information.
To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources dealing with the security of
digital health care information. Reflect on your own organization or one with
which you are familiar, and think about how health information stored
electronically is protected.
Consider the nurse’s responsibility to ensure the protection
of patient information. What strategies can you use?
Reflect on ethical issues that are likely to arise with the
increased access to newer, smaller, and more powerful technology tools.
Consider strategies that can be implemented to ensure that
the use of HIT contributes to an overall culture of safety.
By Day 3
Post an analysis of the nurse’s responsibility to protect
patient information and the extent that HIT has made it easier or more
difficult to protect patient privacy. Comment on any security or ethical issues
related to the use of portable devices to store information. Assess the
strategies your organization uses to safeguard patient information and how
these promote a culture of safety. Describe an area where improvement is needed
and one strategy that could address the situation.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 11 discussion
Health Literacy
In order to effectively manage their own health, individuals
need to have competencies in two areas—basic literacy and basic health
literacy. What is the difference? Basic literacy refers to the ability to read,
even simple language. Health literacy is defined as, “the degree to which
individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health
information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (National
Coalition for Literacy, 2009). Unfortunately, according to a Department of
Education report on health literacy, only 12% of adults aged 16 and older are
considered to have a proficient level of health literacy (U.S. Department of
Education, 2006). Acquiring health literacy skills has become more complicated
with the explosion of online health information, some credible and some
misleading.
In this Discussion, you focus on how to help individuals
find credible information on the Internet and develop strategies nurses can use
to increase the health literacy of their patients.
To prepare:
Think about the nurse’s role in improving the health
literacy of patients.
Consider the many ways patients access health information,
including blogs, social media, patient portals, websites, etc.
Reflect on experiences you have had with patients who
self-diagnose using online medical sources.
Using the Internet, the Walden Library, or other trustworthy
sources, identify a resource that you could introduce to patients to help them
evaluate the credibility of health information found online.
What are some strategies you could employ to improve the
health literacy of patients?
By Day 3
Post your assessment of the nurse’s role in improving the
health literacy of patients. Then, identify the resource you would recommend to
patients for evaluating online health information and why it would be
beneficial. Describe additional strategies for assisting patients in becoming
informed consumers of online health information.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 4 assignment
Using the
Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum
Have you ever gone online to search for a journal article on
a specific topic? It is amazing to see the large number of journals that are
available in the health care field. When you view the library in its entirety,
you are viewing untapped data. Until you actually research for your particular
topic, there is little structure. Once you have narrowed it down, you have
information and once you apply the information, you have knowledge. Eventually,
after thoughtful research and diligent practice, you reach the level of
wisdom—knowledge applied in meaningful ways.
Are there areas in your practice that you believe should be
more fully explored? The central aims of nursing informatics are to manage and
communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. This continuum represents
the overarching structure of nursing informatics. In this Assignment, you
develop a research question relevant to your practice area and relate how you
would work through the progression from data to information, knowledge, and
wisdom.
To prepare:
Review the information in Figure 6–2 in Nursing Informatics
and the Foundation of Knowledge.
Develop a clinical question related to your area of practice
that you would like to explore.
Consider what you currently know about this topic. What
additional information would you need to answer the question?
Using the continuum of data, information, knowledge, and
wisdom, determine how you would go about researching your question.
Explore the available databases in the Walden Library.
Identify which of these databases you would use to find the information or data
you need.
Once you have identified useful databases, how would you go
about finding the most relevant articles and information?
Consider how you would extract the relevant information from
the articles.
How would you take the information and organize it in a way
that was useful? How could you take the step from simply having useful
knowledge to gaining wisdom?
By Day 7 of Week 4
Write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following:
Summarize the question you developed, and then relate how
you would work through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge,
wisdom continuum. Be specific.
Identify the databases and search words you would use.
Relate how you would take the information gleaned and turn
it into useable knowledge.
Can informatics be used to gain wisdom? Describe how you
would progress from simply having useful knowledge to the wisdom to make
decisions about the information you have found during your database search.
Your paper must also include a title page, an introduction,
a summary, and a reference page
Week 6 assignment
Assignment:
Application: Adoption of New Technology Systems
As a nurse, you can have a great impact on the success or
failure of the adoption of EHRs. It is important for nurses to understand their
role as change agents and the ways they can influence others when addressing
the challenges of changing to a drastically different way of doing things.
Everett Rogers, a pioneer in the field of the diffusion of
innovations, identified five qualities that determine individual attitudes
towards adopting new technology (2003). He theorized that individuals are
concerned with:
Relative advantage: The individual adopting the new
innovation must see how it will be an improvement over the old way of doing things.
Compatibility with existing values and practices: The
adopter must understand how the new innovation aligns with current practices.
Simplicity: The adopter must believe he or she can easily
master the new technology; the more difficult learning the new system appears,
the greater the resistance that will occur.
Trialability: The adopter should have the opportunity to
“play around’ with the new technology and explore its capabilities.
Observable results: The adopter must have evidence that the
proposed innovation has been successful in other situations.
Note: You are not required to purchase Rogers’ book or
pursue further information regarding his list of five qualities. The
information provided here is sufficient to complete this Assignment. The full
reference for Rogers’ work is provided below the due date on this page.
For this Assignment, you assume the role of a nurse
facilitator in a small hospital in upstate New York. You have been part of a
team preparing for the implementation of a new electronic health records
system. Decisions as to the program that will be used have been finalized, and
you are now tasked with preparing the nurses for the new system. There has been
an undercurrent of resistance expressed by nurses, and you must respond to their
concerns. You have a meeting scheduled with the nurses 1 week prior to the
training on the new EHR system. Consider how you can use the five qualities
outlined by Rogers (2003) to assist in preparing the nurses for the upcoming
implementation.
To prepare
Review the Learning Resources this week about successful
implementations of EHRs.
Consider how you would present the new EHR system to the
nurses to win their approval.
Reflect on the five qualities outlined by Rogers. How would
addressing each of those areas improve the likelihood of success?
By Day 7 of Week 6
Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:
Using Rogers’ (2003) theory as a foundation, outline how you
would approach the meeting with the nurses. Be specific as to the types of information
or activities you could provide to address each area and include how you would
respond to resistance.
Analyze the role of nurses as change agents in facilitating
the adoption of new technology.
Week 8 assignment
Assignment: Creating
a Flowchart
Workflow analysis aims to determine workflow patterns that
maximize the effective use of resources and minimize activities that do not add
value. There are a variety of tools that can be used to analyze the workflow of
processes and clarify potential avenues for eliminating waste. Flowcharts are a
basic and commonly used workflow analysis method that can help highlight areas
in need of streamlining.
In this Assignment, you select a common event that occurs
regularly in your organization and create a flowchart representing the
workflow. You analyze the process you have diagrammed and propose changes for
improvement.
To prepare:
Identify a common, simple event that frequently occurs in
your organization that you would like to evaluate.
Consider how you would design a flowchart to represent the
current workflow.
Consider what metrics you would use to determine the
effectiveness of the current workflow and identify areas of waste.
To complete:
Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:
Create a simple flowchart of the activity you selected.
(Review the Sample Workflow of Answering a Telephone in an Office document
found in this week’s Learning Resources for an example.)
Next, in your paper:
Explain the process you have diagrammed.
For each step or decision point in the process, identify the
following:
Who does this step? (It can be several people.)
What technology is used?
What policies and rules are involved in determining how,
when, why, or where the step is executed?
What information is needed for the execution of this step?
Describe the metric that is currently used to measure the
soundness of the workflow. Is it effective?
Describe any areas where improvements could occur and
propose changes that could bring about these improvements in the workflow.
Summarize why it is important to be aware of the flow of an
activity.
Remember to include a cover page, introduction, and summary
for your paper
Week 11 assignment
Assignment: Health
Information Patient Handout
One of the pivotal goals of consumer health literacy efforts
is to design educational materials that attract as well as educate users. In
this Assignment, you design a health information document on a topic that is of
interest to you.
To prepare:
Select a health issue of interest to you.
Identify the audience or population that you seek to educate
about this issue.
Search the Internet to find credible sites containing
information about your selected topic.
Review the two health literacy websites listed in this
week’s Learning Resources. Focus on strategies for presenting information.
To complete:
Design an educational handout on the health issue you
selected.
Include a cover page.
Include an introduction that provides:
An explanation of your issue and why you selected it
A description of the audience you are addressing
In the handout itself:
Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the
attention of the intended audience.
Include a description of the health issue and additional
content that will enhance your message (i.e., key terms and definitions,
graphics, illustrations, etc.).
Recommend four or five sites that provide clear, valuable,
and reliable information on the topic.
Note: Remember to keep the information in your health
handout and its design at the appropriate level for the audience you are
seeking to inform. Submit your Assignment as a Word document.
By Day 5
Submit the Assignment.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading,
do the following:
Please save your Assignment using the naming convention
“WK11Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 11 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading
Criteria for the Assignment.
Click the Week 11 Assignment link. You will also be able to
“View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My
Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK11Assgn+last name+first
initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox
for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.

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Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words. Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source. One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words. I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

• Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately. In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies. Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work). Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

• APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with the APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required). Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation. I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

• Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage over-utilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Master’s level and deduct points accordingly. As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content. It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

• LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to Lopes Write, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me. Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes. Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own? Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

• Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is a 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies. Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances. If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect. I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension. As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

• Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class. Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

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Wisdom Continuum

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Week 4 assignment
Using the
Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum
Have you ever gone online to search for a journal article on
a specific topic? It is amazing to see the large number of journals that are
available in the health care field. When you view the library in its entirety,
you are viewing untapped data. Until you actually research for your particular
topic, there is little structure. Once you have narrowed it down, you have
information and once you apply the information, you have knowledge. Eventually,
after thoughtful research and diligent practice, you reach the level of
wisdom—knowledge applied in meaningful ways.
Are there areas in your practice that you believe should be
more fully explored? The central aims of nursing informatics are to manage and
communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. This continuum represents
the overarching structure of nursing informatics. In this Assignment, you
develop a research question relevant to your practice area and relate how you
would work through the progression from data to information, knowledge, and
wisdom.
To prepare:
Review the information in Figure 6–2 in Nursing Informatics
and the Foundation of Knowledge.
Develop a clinical question related to your area of practice
that you would like to explore.
Consider what you currently know about this topic. What
additional information would you need to answer the question?
Using the continuum of data, information, knowledge, and
wisdom, determine how you would go about researching your question.
Explore the available databases in the Walden Library.
Identify which of these databases you would use to find the information or data
you need.
Once you have identified useful databases, how would you go
about finding the most relevant articles and information?
Consider how you would extract the relevant information from
the articles.
How would you take the information and organize it in a way
that was useful? How could you take the step from simply having useful
knowledge to gaining wisdom?
By Day 7 of Week 4
Write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following:
Summarize the question you developed, and then relate how
you would work through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge,
wisdom continuum. Be specific.
Identify the databases and search words you would use.
Relate how you would take the information gleaned and turn
it into useable knowledge.
Can informatics be used to gain wisdom? Describe how you
would progress from simply having useful knowledge to the wisdom to make
decisions about the information you have found during your database search.
Your paper must also include a title page, an introduction,
a summary, and a reference page
Week 6 assignment
Assignment:
Application: Adoption of New Technology Systems
As a nurse, you can have a great impact on the success or
failure of the adoption of EHRs. It is important for nurses to understand their
role as change agents and the ways they can influence others when addressing
the challenges of changing to a drastically different way of doing things.
Everett Rogers, a pioneer in the field of the diffusion of
innovations, identified five qualities that determine individual attitudes
towards adopting new technology (2003). He theorized that individuals are
concerned with:
Relative advantage: The individual adopting the new
innovation must see how it will be an improvement over the old way of doing things.
Compatibility with existing values and practices: The
adopter must understand how the new innovation aligns with current practices.
Simplicity: The adopter must believe he or she can easily
master the new technology; the more difficult learning the new system appears,
the greater the resistance that will occur.
Trialability: The adopter should have the opportunity to
“play around’ with the new technology and explore its capabilities.
Observable results: The adopter must have evidence that the
proposed innovation has been successful in other situations.
Note: You are not required to purchase Rogers’ book or
pursue further information regarding his list of five qualities. The
information provided here is sufficient to complete this Assignment. The full
reference for Rogers’ work is provided below the due date on this page.
For this Assignment, you assume the role of a nurse
facilitator in a small hospital in upstate New York. You have been part of a
team preparing for the implementation of a new electronic health records
system. Decisions as to the program that will be used have been finalized, and
you are now tasked with preparing the nurses for the new system. There has been
an undercurrent of resistance expressed by nurses, and you must respond to their
concerns. You have a meeting scheduled with the nurses 1 week prior to the
training on the new EHR system. Consider how you can use the five qualities
outlined by Rogers (2003) to assist in preparing the nurses for the upcoming
implementation.
To prepare
Review the Learning Resources this week about successful
implementations of EHRs.
Consider how you would present the new EHR system to the
nurses to win their approval.
Reflect on the five qualities outlined by Rogers. How would
addressing each of those areas improve the likelihood of success?
By Day 7 of Week 6
Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:
Using Rogers’ (2003) theory as a foundation, outline how you
would approach the meeting with the nurses. Be specific as to the types of information
or activities you could provide to address each area and include how you would
respond to resistance.
Analyze the role of nurses as change agents in facilitating
the adoption of new technology.
Week 8 assignment
Assignment: Creating
a Flowchart
Workflow analysis aims to determine workflow patterns that
maximize the effective use of resources and minimize activities that do not add
value. There are a variety of tools that can be used to analyze the workflow of
processes and clarify potential avenues for eliminating waste. Flowcharts are a
basic and commonly used workflow analysis method that can help highlight areas
in need of streamlining.
In this Assignment, you select a common event that occurs
regularly in your organization and create a flowchart representing the
workflow. You analyze the process you have diagrammed and propose changes for
improvement.
To prepare:
Identify a common, simple event that frequently occurs in
your organization that you would like to evaluate.
Consider how you would design a flowchart to represent the
current workflow.
Consider what metrics you would use to determine the
effectiveness of the current workflow and identify areas of waste.
To complete:
Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:
Create a simple flowchart of the activity you selected.
(Review the Sample Workflow of Answering a Telephone in an Office document
found in this week’s Learning Resources for an example.)
Next, in your paper:
Explain the process you have diagrammed.
For each step or decision point in the process, identify the
following:
Who does this step? (It can be several people.)
What technology is used?
What policies and rules are involved in determining how,
when, why, or where the step is executed?
What information is needed for the execution of this step?
Describe the metric that is currently used to measure the
soundness of the workflow. Is it effective?
Describe any areas where improvements could occur and
propose changes that could bring about these improvements in the workflow.
Summarize why it is important to be aware of the flow of an
activity.
Remember to include a cover page, introduction, and summary
for your paper
Week 11 assignment
Assignment: Health
Information Patient Handout
One of the pivotal goals of consumer health literacy efforts
is to design educational materials that attract as well as educate users. In
this Assignment, you design a health information document on a topic that is of
interest to you.
To prepare:
Select a health issue of interest to you.
Identify the audience or population that you seek to educate
about this issue.
Search the Internet to find credible sites containing
information about your selected topic.
Review the two health literacy websites listed in this
week’s Learning Resources. Focus on strategies for presenting information.
To complete:
Design an educational handout on the health issue you
selected.
Include a cover page.
Include an introduction that provides:
An explanation of your issue and why you selected it
A description of the audience you are addressing
In the handout itself:
Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the
attention of the intended audience.
Include a description of the health issue and additional
content that will enhance your message (i.e., key terms and definitions,
graphics, illustrations, etc.).
Recommend four or five sites that provide clear, valuable,
and reliable information on the topic.
Note: Remember to keep the information in your health
handout and its design at the appropriate level for the audience you are
seeking to inform. Submit your Assignment as a Word document.
By Day 5
Submit the Assignment.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading,
do the following:
Please save your Assignment using the naming convention
“WK11Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 11 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading
Criteria for the Assignment.
Click the Week 11 Assignment link. You will also be able to
“View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My
Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK11Assgn+last name+first
initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox
for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.

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Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words. Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source. One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words. I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

• Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately. In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies. Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work). Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

• APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with the APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required). Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation. I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

• Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage over-utilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Master’s level and deduct points accordingly. As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content. It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

• LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to Lopes Write, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me. Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes. Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own? Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

• Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is a 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies. Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances. If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect. I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension. As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

• Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class. Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

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Adoption of New Technology

Week 6 assignment Assignment:
Application: Adoption of New Technology Systems
As a nurse, you can have a great impact on the success or
failure of the adoption of EHRs. It is important for nurses to understand their
role as change agents and the ways they can influence others when addressing
the challenges of changing to a drastically different way of doing things.
Everett Rogers, a pioneer in the field of the diffusion of
innovations, identified five qualities that determine individual attitudes
towards adopting new technology (2003). He theorized that individuals are
concerned with:
Relative advantage: The individual adopting the new
innovation must see how it will be an improvement over the old way of doing things.
Compatibility with existing values and practices: The
adopter must understand how the new innovation aligns with current practices.
Simplicity: The adopter must believe he or she can easily
master the new technology; the more difficult learning the new system appears,
the greater the resistance that will occur.
Trialability: The adopter should have the opportunity to
“play around’ with the new technology and explore its capabilities.
Observable results: The adopter must have evidence that the
proposed innovation has been successful in other situations.
Note: You are not required to purchase Rogers’ book or
pursue further information regarding his list of five qualities. The
information provided here is sufficient to complete this Assignment. The full
reference for Rogers’ work is provided below the due date on this page.
For this Assignment, you assume the role of a nurse
facilitator in a small hospital in upstate New York. You have been part of a
team preparing for the implementation of a new electronic health records
system. Decisions as to the program that will be used have been finalized, and
you are now tasked with preparing the nurses for the new system. There has been
an undercurrent of resistance expressed by nurses, and you must respond to their
concerns. You have a meeting scheduled with the nurses 1 week prior to the
training on the new EHR system. Consider how you can use the five qualities
outlined by Rogers (2003) to assist in preparing the nurses for the upcoming
implementation.
To prepare
Review the Learning Resources this week about successful
implementations of EHRs.
Consider how you would present the new EHR system to the
nurses to win their approval.
Reflect on the five qualities outlined by Rogers. How would
addressing each of those areas improve the likelihood of success?
By Day 7 of Week 6
Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:
Using Rogers’ (2003) theory as a foundation, outline how you
would approach the meeting with the nurses. Be specific as to the types of information
or activities you could provide to address each area and include how you would
respond to resistance.
Analyze the role of nurses as change agents in facilitating
the adoption of new technology.

Data Information

Week 4 assignment
Using the
Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum
Have you ever gone online to search for a journal article on
a specific topic? It is amazing to see the large number of journals that are
available in the health care field. When you view the library in its entirety,
you are viewing untapped data. Until you actually research for your particular
topic, there is little structure. Once you have narrowed it down, you have
information and once you apply the information, you have knowledge. Eventually,
after thoughtful research and diligent practice, you reach the level of
wisdom—knowledge applied in meaningful ways.
Are there areas in your practice that you believe should be
more fully explored? The central aims of nursing informatics are to manage and
communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. This continuum represents
the overarching structure of nursing informatics. In this Assignment, you
develop a research question relevant to your practice area and relate how you
would work through the progression from data to information, knowledge, and
wisdom.
To prepare:
Review the information in Figure 6–2 in Nursing Informatics
and the Foundation of Knowledge.
Develop a clinical question related to your area of practice
that you would like to explore.
Consider what you currently know about this topic. What
additional information would you need to answer the question?
Using the continuum of data, information, knowledge, and
wisdom, determine how you would go about researching your question.
Explore the available databases in the Walden Library.
Identify which of these databases you would use to find the information or data
you need.
Once you have identified useful databases, how would you go
about finding the most relevant articles and information?
Consider how you would extract the relevant information from
the articles.
How would you take the information and organize it in a way
that was useful? How could you take the step from simply having useful
knowledge to gaining wisdom?
By Day 7 of Week 4
Write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following:
Summarize the question you developed, and then relate how
you would work through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge,
wisdom continuum. Be specific.
Identify the databases and search words you would use.
Relate how you would take the information gleaned and turn
it into useable knowledge.
Can informatics be used to gain wisdom? Describe how you
would progress from simply having useful knowledge to the wisdom to make
decisions about the information you have found during your database search.
Your paper must also include a title page, an introduction,
a summary, and a reference page

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• Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words. Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source. One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words. I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

• Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately. In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies. Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work). Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

• APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with the APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required). Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation. I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

• Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage over-utilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Master’s level and deduct points accordingly. As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content. It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

• LopesWrite Policy

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Human” in Nursing Practice

Week 1 discussion
The Effects of “To
Err Is Human” in Nursing Practice
The 1999 landmark study titled “To Err Is Human: Building a
Safer Health System” highlighted the unacceptably high incidence of U.S.
medical errors and put forth recommendations to improve patient safety. Since
its publication, the recommendations in “To Err Is Human’” have guided
significant changes in nursing practice in the United States.
In this Discussion, you will review these recommendations
and consider the role of health information technology in helping address
concerns presented in the report.
To prepare:
Review the summary of “To Err Is Human” presented in the
Plawecki and Amrhein article found in this week’s Learning Resources.
Consider the following statement:
“The most significant barrier to improving patient safety
identified in “To Err Is Human”is a “lack of awareness of the extent to which
errors occur daily in all health care settings and organizations (Wakefield,
2008).”
Review “The Quality Chasm Series: Implications for Nursing”
focusing on Table 3: “Simple Rules for the 21st Century Health Care System.”
Consider your current organization or one with which you are familiar. Reflect
on one of the rules where the “current rule” is still in operation in the
organization and consider another instance in which the organization has
effectively transitioned to the new rule.
By Day 3
Post your thoughts on how the development of information
technology has helped address the concerns about patient safety raised in the
“To Err Is Human” report. Summarize how informatics has assisted in improving
health care safety in your organization and areas where growth is still needed.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 2 discussion
Nursing Informatics
Competencies
Today’s fast-paced health care environment demands nurses to
be skilled not only in their clinical practice or specialty area but in the use
of technology tools that improve practice and lead to better patient care.
Basic and advanced technology competencies are required and expected as
technology increasingly touches and changes the job of every nurse. Numerous
organizations, including the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS), have developed nurse-specific technology
competencies. The challenge for nurses is to identify both needs and training
opportunities.
In this Discussion, you identify the role informatics plays
in your professional responsibilities. You pinpoint personal gaps in skills and
knowledge and then develop a plan for self-improvement.
To prepare:
Review Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice
in this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on the different functional areas
it describes. Consider which areas relate to your current nursing
responsibilities or to a position you held in the past. For this Discussion,
identify one or two of the most relevant functional areas.
Review the list of competencies recommended by the TIGER
Initiative. Identify at least one skill in each of the main areas (basic
computer competencies, information literacy competencies, and information
management competencies) that is pertinent to your functional area(s) and in
which you need to strengthen your abilities. Consider how you could improve
your skills in these areas and the resources within your organization that
might provide training and support.
By Day 3
Post the key functional area(s) of nursing informatics
relevant to your current position or to a position you recently held, and
briefly describe why this area(s) is relevant. Identify the TIGER competencies
you selected as essential to your functional area(s) in which you need
improvement. Describe why these competencies are necessary and outline a plan
for developing these competencies. Include any resources that are available to
you within your organization and the ways you might access those resources.
Assess how developing nursing informatics competencies would increase your
effectiveness as a nurse.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using the following approach: Assume the role of a consultant. Respond to
your colleagues as someone who can offer advice on improving their skills on
the competencies they identified as needing improvement.
Week 3 discussion
Standardized Coding
Systems
As a result of the fragmented nature of the health care
system, professionals in various specialty areas of medicine have developed
their own unique sets of terminology to communicate within that specialty. In
the past, limited attention has been given to codifying practices in order for
them to be understood and utilized across disciplines or through different
information technology systems. The implementation of a federally mandated
electronic medical records system, therefore, poses a challenge to nursing
professionals and others who must be prepared to utilize standardized codes for
the new system. Why are coding standards important for promoting consistent,
high-quality care?
According to Rutherford (2008, para. 15), “Improved
communication with other nurses, health care professionals, and administrators
of the institution in which nurses work is a key benefit of using a
standardized nursing language.” In this Discussion you consider the reasoning
behind and the value of standardized codification.
To prepare:
Review the information in Nursing Informatics: Scope and
Standards of Practice. Determine which set of terminologies are appropriate for
your specialty or area of expertise.
Reflect on the importance of continuity in terminology and
coding systems.
In the article, “Standardized Nursing Language: What Does It
Mean for Nursing Practice?” the author recounts a visit to a local hospital to
view its implementation of a new coding system. One of the nurses commented to
her, “We document our care using standardized nursing languages but we don’t
fully understand why we do” (Rutherford, 2008, para. 1). Consider how you would
inform this nurse (and others like her) of the importance of standardized
nursing terminologies.
Reflect on the value of using a standard language in nursing
practice. Consider if standardization can be limited to a specialty area or if
one standard language is needed across all nursing practice. Then, identify
examples of standardization in your own specialty or area of expertise. Conduct
additional research using the Walden Library that supports your thoughts on
standardization of nursing terminology.
By Day 3
Post an explanation of why nurses need to document care
using standardized nursing languages and whether this standardization can be
limited to specialty areas or if it should be across all nursing practice.
Support your response using specific examples from your own specialty or area
of expertise and using at least one additional resource from the Walden
Library.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 4 discussion
Current Information
and Communication Technologies
With so much attention focused on health care reform, it is
important that nurses be given the opportunity to use high-quality technology
tools. These tools can increase access to vital medical information, promote
effective communication among health care professionals, and improve the
patient experience. By actively seeking out and adopting these tools, nurses
can greatly enhance the quality and safety of care that they provide.
This Discussion focuses on identifying quality technology
tools that increase the ability of nurses to provide safe, effective care.
To prepare:
Review the various technology tools described in this week’s
Learning Resources.
Identify a recently adopted information, education, or
communication technology tool in your specialty area. Reflect on how it is used
and how its use impacts the quality of care.
Consider how your identified technology tool might impact
nursing practice if it were more widely used. What are some barriers preventing
increased usage? How could wider implementation be facilitated?
By Day 3
Post a description of a current or new information,
education, or communication technology tool that is being used in your
specialty area and assess its impact on the quality of care. Highlight the
effect that increased use of this technology would have on nursing practice and
discuss the barriers that are slowing or hindering its adoption. Summarize how
adoption of the technology tool could be facilitated.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 5 discussion
Electronic Health
Records
Electronic health records (EHRs) are at the center stage of
the effort to improve health care quality and control costs. In addition to
allowing medical practitioners to access and record clinical documentation at
much faster rates, EHRs are also positively influencing care delivery and
nurse-patient interaction. Yet despite the potential benefits of EHRs, their
implementation can be a formidable task that has broad-reaching implications
for an entire health care organization.
In this Discussion, you appraise strategies for obtaining
the benefits and overcoming the challenges of implementing and using electronic
health records.
To Prepare:
Review the Learning Resources focusing on the implementation
of EHRs in an organization. Reflect on the various approaches used.
If applicable, consider your own experiences with
implementing EHRs. What were some positive aspects of the implementation? What
suggestions would you make to improve the process?
Reflect on the reactions of others during the implementation
process. Were concerns handled effectively?
If you have not had any experiences with an EHR
implementation, talk to someone who has and get his or her feedback on the
experience.
Search the Walden Library for examples of effective and poor
implementation of EHRs.
By Day 3
Post an overview of at least three challenges in the
implementation of electronic health records and provide an example of each
challenge. Develop strategies for addressing each challenge based on what has
been demonstrated to be successful. Cite your resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 6 discussion
Successful
Implementation of Electronic Health Information Technology
Since the inception of the HITECH Act, health organizations
have faced increased pressure to update their health information technology
(HIT) resources. As discussed last week, many believe that the increased use of
electronic health records and the quick and efficient communication afforded by
HIT can lead to improved quality of patient care. Yet there are significant
costs associated with implementing such systems. What can organizations do to
ensure that the correct system is selected and that the system will be
appropriate for those required to use it? Who should be involved in those
decisions?
This week introduces the systems development life cycle and
discusses how it can guide an organization through the complexities of adopting
a new HIT system. In this Discussion, you are asked to consider the role of
nurses in the SDLC process.
To prepare:
Review the steps of the systems development life cycle.
Think about your own organization, or one with which you are
familiar, and the steps the organization goes through when purchasing and
implementing a new HIT system.
Consider what a nurse could contribute to decisions made at
each stage when planning for new health information technology. What might be
the consequences of not involving nurses?
Reflect on your own experiences with your organization
selecting and implementing new technology. As an end user, do you feel you had
any input in the selection or and planning of the new HIT system?
By Day 3
Post an analysis of
the ramifications of an organization not involving nurses in each stage of the
systems development life cycle when purchasing and implementing a new HIT
system. Give specific examples of potential issues at each stage and how the
inclusion of nurses could help avoid such issues.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 7 discussion
Understanding
Workflow Design
As you explored last week, the implementation of a new
technology can dramatically affect the workflow of an organization. Newly
implemented technologies can initially limit the productivity of users as they
adjust to their new tools. Such implementations tend to be so significant that
they often require workflows to be redesigned in order to achieve improvements
in safety and patient outcomes. However, before workflows can be redesigned,
they must first be analyzed. This analysis includes each step in completing a
certain process. Some systems duplicate efforts or contain unnecessary steps
that waste time and money and could even jeopardize patient health care. By
reviewing and modifying the workflow, you enable greater productivity. This
drive to implement new technologies has elevated the demand for nurses who can
perform workflow analysis.
In this Discussion you explore resources that have been
designed to help guide you through the process of workflow assessment.
To prepare:
Take a few minutes and peruse the information found in the
article “Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit” listed in this week’s
Learning Resources.
As you check out the information located on the different
tabs, identify key concepts that you could use to improve a workflow in your
own organization and consider how you could use them.
Go the Research tab and identify and read one article that
is of interest to you and relates to your specialty area.
By Day 3
Post a summary of three different concepts you found in
“Workflow Assessment for Health IT Toolkit” that would help in redesigning a
workflow in the organization in which you work (or one with which you are
familiar) and describe how you would apply them. Next, summarize the article
you selected and assess how you could use the information to improve workflow
within your organization. Finally, evaluate the importance of monitoring the
effect of technology on workflow.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses. Focus
particularly on questions raised for which you can add comments based on your
experiences or situations. Consider how your colleagues’ postings reflect
and/or differ from your own perceptions and opinions. Review the Learning
Resources for any clarification needed before responding.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days
using one or more of the following approaches
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 8 discussion
Using Health
Information Technology as a Source of Evidence-Based Practice
Before the digital revolution, health information technology
supplied very limited support for evidence-based practice. If nurses wanted to
be informed about cutting-edge research, their best bet was to either subscribe
to leading journals or make periodic trips to the library. With the
establishment of research databases, however, nurses became empowered to learn
about and facilitate interdisciplinary and translational research. Databases
are just one example of how health information technology supports
evidence-based practice.
To prepare:
Read the following scenario from the text (McGonigle &
Mastrian, 2011, p. 482):
Twelve-hour shifts are problematic for patient and nurse
safety, and yet hospitals continue to keep the 12-hour shift schedule. In 2004,
the Institute of Medicine (Board on Health Care Services & Institute of
Medicine, 2004) published a report that referred to studies as early as 1988
that discussed the negative effects of rotating shifts on intervention accuracy.
Workers with 12-hour shifts realized more fatigue than workers on 8-hour
shifts. In another study done in Turkey by Ilhan, Durukan, Aras, Turkcuoglu,
and Aygun (2006), factors relating to increased risk for injury were age of 24
or less, less than 4 years of nursing experience, working in the surgical
intensive care units, and working for more than 8 hours.
Consider how the resources identified in the scenario above
could influence an organization’s practice.
Select an issue in your practice that is of concern to you.
Using health information technology, locate at least three evidence-based
practice resources that address your concern and that could possibly inform
further action.
By Day 3
Post a description of your practice concern. Outline how you
used health information technology to locate evidence-based practices that
address this concern. Cite and include insights from the resources. Analyze how
health information technology supports evidence-based practice.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses. Focus
particularly on those questions raised to which you can add comments based on
shared experiences or situations. Consider how your colleagues’ postings
reflect and/or differ from your own perceptions and opinions. Review the
Learning Resources for any clarification needed before responding.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 9 discussion
HITECH Legislation
In order for organizations to receive the incentives offered
through the HITECH legislation, they must be able to demonstrate that they are
using the technology in meaningful ways. The following criteria for meaningful
use must be evident to qualify for EHR incentives (U.S. Department of Health
& Human Services, 2012). The technology must:
Improve quality, safety, and efficiency, and reduce health
disparities
Engage patients and families
Improve care coordination
Improve population and public health
Ensure adequate privacy and security protections for
personal health information
For this Discussion you consider the impact of the
meaningful use criteria of the HITECH legislation on the adoption of health
information technology.
To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources on the HITECH legislation and
its primary goals.
Reflect on the positive and negative impact this legislation
has had on your organization or one with which you are familiar.
Consider the incentives to encourage the use of EHRs. Focus
on the definition of meaningful use and how it is measured.
Reflect on how the incentives and meaningful use impact the
quality of patient care.
Find an article in the Walden Library dealing with one of
the criteria to qualify for meaningful use and how it has been successfully
met.
By Day 3
Post a description of how HITECH legislation has positively
or negatively impacted your organization. Address how its related incentives
influence the adoption of health information technology in health care and
impact the quality of patient care. Provide a summary of the article you
identified and explain how it demonstrates the ability of health information
technology to meet the requirements of meaningful use.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background
information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 10 discussion
Security of Health
Care Records
With the increase of health information technology used to
store and access patient information, the likelihood of security breaches has
also risen. In fact, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal
(CMAJ):
In the United States, there was a whopping 97% increase in
the number of health records breached from 2010 to 2011… The number of patient
records accessed in each breach has also increased substantially, from 26,968
(in 2010) to 49,394 (in 2011). Since August 2009, when the US government
regulated that any breach affecting more than 500 patients be publicly
disclosed, a total of 385 breaches, involving more than 19 million records,
have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services.
A large portion of those breaches, 39%, occurred because of
a lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised portable electronic device—a problem
that will likely only get worse as iPads, smartphones, and other gadgets become
more common in hospitals. (CMAJ, 2012, p. E215).
Consider your own experiences. Does your organization use
portable electronic devices? What safeguards are in place to ensure the
security of data and patient information? For this Discussion you consider
ethical and security issues surrounding the protection of digital health
information.
To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources dealing with the security of
digital health care information. Reflect on your own organization or one with
which you are familiar, and think about how health information stored
electronically is protected.
Consider the nurse’s responsibility to ensure the protection
of patient information. What strategies can you use?
Reflect on ethical issues that are likely to arise with the
increased access to newer, smaller, and more powerful technology tools.
Consider strategies that can be implemented to ensure that
the use of HIT contributes to an overall culture of safety.
By Day 3
Post an analysis of the nurse’s responsibility to protect
patient information and the extent that HIT has made it easier or more
difficult to protect patient privacy. Comment on any security or ethical issues
related to the use of portable devices to store information. Assess the
strategies your organization uses to safeguard patient information and how
these promote a culture of safety. Describe an area where improvement is needed
and one strategy that could address the situation.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Week 11 discussion
Health Literacy
In order to effectively manage their own health, individuals
need to have competencies in two areas—basic literacy and basic health
literacy. What is the difference? Basic literacy refers to the ability to read,
even simple language. Health literacy is defined as, “the degree to which
individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health
information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (National
Coalition for Literacy, 2009). Unfortunately, according to a Department of
Education report on health literacy, only 12% of adults aged 16 and older are
considered to have a proficient level of health literacy (U.S. Department of
Education, 2006). Acquiring health literacy skills has become more complicated
with the explosion of online health information, some credible and some
misleading.
In this Discussion, you focus on how to help individuals
find credible information on the Internet and develop strategies nurses can use
to increase the health literacy of their patients.
To prepare:
Think about the nurse’s role in improving the health
literacy of patients.
Consider the many ways patients access health information,
including blogs, social media, patient portals, websites, etc.
Reflect on experiences you have had with patients who
self-diagnose using online medical sources.
Using the Internet, the Walden Library, or other trustworthy
sources, identify a resource that you could introduce to patients to help them
evaluate the credibility of health information found online.
What are some strategies you could employ to improve the
health literacy of patients?
By Day 3
Post your assessment of the nurse’s role in improving the
health literacy of patients. Then, identify the resource you would recommend to
patients for evaluating online health information and why it would be
beneficial. Describe additional strategies for assisting patients in becoming
informed consumers of online health information.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

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Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words. Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source. One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words. I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

• Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately. In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies. Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work). Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

• APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with the APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required). Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation. I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

• Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage over-utilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Master’s level and deduct points accordingly. As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content. It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

• LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to Lopes Write, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me. Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes. Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own? Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

• Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is a 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies. Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances. If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect. I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension. As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

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Health Literacy

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Week 11 discussion
Health Literacy
In order to effectively manage their own health, individuals
need to have competencies in two areas—basic literacy and basic health
literacy. What is the difference? Basic literacy refers to the ability to read,
even simple language. Health literacy is defined as, “the degree to which
individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health
information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (National
Coalition for Literacy, 2009). Unfortunately, according to a Department of
Education report on health literacy, only 12% of adults aged 16 and older are
considered to have a proficient level of health literacy (U.S. Department of
Education, 2006). Acquiring health literacy skills has become more complicated
with the explosion of online health information, some credible and some
misleading.
In this Discussion, you focus on how to help individuals
find credible information on the Internet and develop strategies nurses can use
to increase the health literacy of their patients.
To prepare:
Think about the nurse’s role in improving the health
literacy of patients.
Consider the many ways patients access health information,
including blogs, social media, patient portals, websites, etc.
Reflect on experiences you have had with patients who
self-diagnose using online medical sources.
Using the Internet, the Walden Library, or other trustworthy
sources, identify a resource that you could introduce to patients to help them
evaluate the credibility of health information found online.
What are some strategies you could employ to improve the
health literacy of patients?
By Day 3
Post your assessment of the nurse’s role in improving the
health literacy of patients. Then, identify the resource you would recommend to
patients for evaluating online health information and why it would be
beneficial. Describe additional strategies for assisting patients in becoming
informed consumers of online health information.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

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Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words. Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source. One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words. I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

• Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately. In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies. Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work). Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

• APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with the APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required). Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation. I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

• Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage over-utilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Master’s level and deduct points accordingly. As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content. It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

• LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to Lopes Write, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me. Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes. Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own? Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

• Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is a 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies. Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances. If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect. I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension. As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

• Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class. Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

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Security of Health records

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Week 10 discussion
Security of Health
Care Records
With the increase of health information technology used to
store and access patient information, the likelihood of security breaches has
also risen. In fact, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal
(CMAJ):
In the United States, there was a whopping 97% increase in
the number of health records breached from 2010 to 2011… The number of patient
records accessed in each breach has also increased substantially, from 26,968
(in 2010) to 49,394 (in 2011). Since August 2009, when the US government
regulated that any breach affecting more than 500 patients be publicly
disclosed, a total of 385 breaches, involving more than 19 million records,
have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services.
A large portion of those breaches, 39%, occurred because of
a lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised portable electronic device—a problem
that will likely only get worse as iPads, smartphones, and other gadgets become
more common in hospitals. (CMAJ, 2012, p. E215).
Consider your own experiences. Does your organization use
portable electronic devices? What safeguards are in place to ensure the
security of data and patient information? For this Discussion you consider
ethical and security issues surrounding the protection of digital health
information.
To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources dealing with the security of
digital health care information. Reflect on your own organization or one with
which you are familiar, and think about how health information stored
electronically is protected.
Consider the nurse’s responsibility to ensure the protection
of patient information. What strategies can you use?
Reflect on ethical issues that are likely to arise with the
increased access to newer, smaller, and more powerful technology tools.
Consider strategies that can be implemented to ensure that
the use of HIT contributes to an overall culture of safety.
By Day 3
Post an analysis of the nurse’s responsibility to protect
patient information and the extent that HIT has made it easier or more
difficult to protect patient privacy. Comment on any security or ethical issues
related to the use of portable devices to store information. Assess the
strategies your organization uses to safeguard patient information and how
these promote a culture of safety. Describe an area where improvement is needed
and one strategy that could address the situation.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

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Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words. Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source. One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words. I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

• Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately. In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies. Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work). Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

• APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with the APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required). Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation. I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

• Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage over-utilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Master’s level and deduct points accordingly. As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content. It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

• LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to Lopes Write, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me. Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes. Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own? Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

• Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is a 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies. Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances. If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect. I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension. As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

• Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class. Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

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HITECH Legislation

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Week 9 discussion
HITECH Legislation
In order for organizations to receive the incentives offered
through the HITECH legislation, they must be able to demonstrate that they are
using the technology in meaningful ways. The following criteria for meaningful
use must be evident to qualify for EHR incentives (U.S. Department of Health
& Human Services, 2012). The technology must:
Improve quality, safety, and efficiency, and reduce health
disparities
Engage patients and families
Improve care coordination
Improve population and public health
Ensure adequate privacy and security protections for
personal health information
For this Discussion you consider the impact of the
meaningful use criteria of the HITECH legislation on the adoption of health
information technology.
To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources on the HITECH legislation and
its primary goals.
Reflect on the positive and negative impact this legislation
has had on your organization or one with which you are familiar.
Consider the incentives to encourage the use of EHRs. Focus
on the definition of meaningful use and how it is measured.
Reflect on how the incentives and meaningful use impact the
quality of patient care.
Find an article in the Walden Library dealing with one of
the criteria to qualify for meaningful use and how it has been successfully
met.
By Day 3
Post a description of how HITECH legislation has positively
or negatively impacted your organization. Address how its related incentives
influence the adoption of health information technology in health care and
impact the quality of patient care. Provide a summary of the article you
identified and explain how it demonstrates the ability of health information
technology to meet the requirements of meaningful use.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background
information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

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Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words. Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source. One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words. I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

• Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately. In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies. Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work). Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

• APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with the APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required). Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation. I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

• Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage over-utilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Master’s level and deduct points accordingly. As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content. It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

• LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to Lopes Write, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me. Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes. Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own? Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

• Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is a 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies. Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances. If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect. I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension. As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

• Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class. Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

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Using Health Information Technology

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Week 8 discussion
Using Health
Information Technology as a Source of Evidence-Based Practice
Before the digital revolution, health information technology
supplied very limited support for evidence-based practice. If nurses wanted to
be informed about cutting-edge research, their best bet was to either subscribe
to leading journals or make periodic trips to the library. With the
establishment of research databases, however, nurses became empowered to learn
about and facilitate interdisciplinary and translational research. Databases
are just one example of how health information technology supports
evidence-based practice.
To prepare:
Read the following scenario from the text (McGonigle &
Mastrian, 2011, p. 482):
Twelve-hour shifts are problematic for patient and nurse
safety, and yet hospitals continue to keep the 12-hour shift schedule. In 2004,
the Institute of Medicine (Board on Health Care Services & Institute of
Medicine, 2004) published a report that referred to studies as early as 1988
that discussed the negative effects of rotating shifts on intervention accuracy.
Workers with 12-hour shifts realized more fatigue than workers on 8-hour
shifts. In another study done in Turkey by Ilhan, Durukan, Aras, Turkcuoglu,
and Aygun (2006), factors relating to increased risk for injury were age of 24
or less, less than 4 years of nursing experience, working in the surgical
intensive care units, and working for more than 8 hours.
Consider how the resources identified in the scenario above
could influence an organization’s practice.
Select an issue in your practice that is of concern to you.
Using health information technology, locate at least three evidence-based
practice resources that address your concern and that could possibly inform
further action.
By Day 3
Post a description of your practice concern. Outline how you
used health information technology to locate evidence-based practices that
address this concern. Cite and include insights from the resources. Analyze how
health information technology supports evidence-based practice.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses. Focus
particularly on those questions raised to which you can add comments based on
shared experiences or situations. Consider how your colleagues’ postings
reflect and/or differ from your own perceptions and opinions. Review the
Learning Resources for any clarification needed before responding.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

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• Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words. Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source. One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words. I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

• Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately. In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies. Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work). Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

• APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with the APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required). Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation. I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

• Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage over-utilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Master’s level and deduct points accordingly. As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content. It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

• LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to Lopes Write, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me. Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes. Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own? Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in Loud-cloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

• Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is a 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies. Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances. If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect. I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension. As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

• Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class. Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

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• Essay paper writing
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