Category: Nursing

Write a formal paper on the (1) Kurt Lewin’s Change Theory and (2) Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory. Use essay format for your paper including: a running head, title page, and reference(s) according to APA format. The body of the paper should be a minimum of 2 pages. Refer to the grading rubric for specific details to be contained within the paper.

The purpose of this paper is to define, describe and explain your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about the four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm and their interrelationship to one another as they guide your current nursing practice. Select a nursing theorist that closely identifies with your philosophy (no more than 1 theorist). The final paper is to be typed according to APA 7th Edition format, references should be within 10 years. Primary sources only are acceptable in the theorist section. . The use of the Philosophy paper template with headings is required.

This assessment will give you the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of how technology can enhance quality and safety standards in nursing. You will prepare an annotated bibliography on technology in nursing. A well-prepared annotated bibliography is a comprehensive commentary on the content of scholarly publications and other sources of evidence about a selected nursing-related technology. A bibliography of this type provides a vehicle for workplace discussion to address gaps in nursing practice and to improve patient care outcomes. As nurses become more accountable in their practice, they are being called upon to expand their role of caregiver and advocate to include fostering research and scholarship to advance nursing practice. An annotated bibliography stimulates innovative thinking to find solutions and approaches to effectively and efficiently address these issues.

Professional Context

Rapid changes in information technology go hand-in-hand with progress in quality health care delivery, nursing practice, and interdisciplinary team collaboration. Technology is essential to the advancement of the nursing profession, maintaining quality care outcomes, patient safety, and research.

Preparation

Before you begin to develop the assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Annotated Bibliography Formative Assessment and select a Sentinel-U simulation to complete for practice. Completing these activities will help you succeed with the assessment. The Annotated Bibliography Formative Assessment will count towards engagement.

To successfully complete this assessment, perform the following preparatory activities:

• Before you begin to develop the assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Annotated Bibliography Formative Assessment and select a Sentinel-U simulation to complete for practice. Completing these activities will help you succeed with the assessment. The Annotated Bibliography Formative Assessment will count towards engagement.
• Direct patient care technologies require an interaction, or direct contact, between the nurse and patient. Nurses use direct patient care technologies every day when delivering care to patients. Electronic thermometers or pulse oximeters are examples of direct patient care technologies.
• Indirect patient care technologies, on the other hand, are those employed on behalf of the patient. They do not require interaction, or direct contact, between the nurse and patient. A handheld device for patient documentation is an example of an indirect patient care technology.
• Conduct a library search using the various electronic databases available through the Capella University Library.
• Consult the for help in identifying scholarly and/or authoritative sources.
• Access the NHS Learner Success Lab, linked in the courseroom navigation menu, for additional resources.
• Scan the search results related to your chosen technology.
• Select five peer-reviewed publications focused on your selected topic that are the most interesting to you.
• Evaluate the impact of patient care technologies on desired outcomes.
• Analyze current evidence on the impact of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team.
• Integrate current evidence about the impact of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team into a recommendation.
• Evaluate how your chosen technology can be integrated with Artificial Intelligence to improve patient safety, nurse workflow, or efficient healthcare delivery.

Notes

• Publications may be research studies or review articles from a professional source. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs are not considered professional sources.
• Your selections need to be currentwithin the last five years.

Instructions

Review the technologies presented in the Sentinel U: Telehealth Nursing Series Medical/Surgical: Lynn Tan activity. There are 3 patients listed under Cases. Pick one case and select ONE of the technology options used in the SIM to use as the focus for this assessment. The SIM report must demonstrate 100% complete. You will upload the completed SIM report with your assignment.

Next prepare a 46 page paper in which you introduce your selected technology and describe at least five peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of your selected technology to enhance quality and safety standards in nursing. You will conclude your paper by summarizing why you recommend a particular technology by underscoring the evidence-based resources you presented. Be sure that your paper includes all of the following elements:

• Introduction to the Selected Technology Topic
• What is your rationale for selecting this particular technology topic? What is interesting about it?
• What research process did you employ?
• Which databases did you use?
• Which search terms did you use?
• Note: In this section of your bibliography, you may use first-person since you are asked to describe your rationale for selecting the topic and the research strategies you employed. Use third person in the rest of the bibliography, however.
• Annotation Elements
• For each resource, include the full reference followed by the annotation.
• Explain the focus of the research or review article you chose.
• Provide a summary overview of the publication.
• According to this source, what is the impact of this technology on patient safety and quality of care?
• According to this source, what is the relevance of this technology to nursing practice and the work of the interdisciplinary health care team?
• Why did you select this publication to write about out of the many possible options? In other words, make the case as to why this resource is important for health care practitioners to read.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• How can AI be used with your chosen technology to improve patient care, nursing workflow, or efficient healthcare delivery. Be sure one of your journal articles supports this.
• Summary of Recommendation
• How would you tie together, or integrate, the key learnings from each of the five publications you examined?
• Describe which organizational factors influence the selection of a technology in a health care setting? Consider such factors as organizational policies, resources, culture/social norms, commitment, training programs, and/or employee empowerment.
• How would you justify the implementation and use of the technology in a health care setting? This is the section where you will justify (prove) that the implementation of the
• patient care technology is appropriate or not. The evidence should be cited from the literature that was noted in the annotated bibliography.
• Consider the impact of the technology on the health care organization, patientcare/satisfaction, and interdisciplinary team productivity, satisfaction, and retention.

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

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Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Length: 46-typed, double-spaced pages.
• Upload: You must upload the completed SIM report from Sentinel U: Telehealth Nursing Series Medical/Surgical: Lynn Tan with your annotated bibliography.
• Number of resources: Cite a minimum of five peer-reviewed publications, not websites. At least four for the annotation elements and at least one for your justification of AI.
• Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12 point.
• APA: Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for all bibliographic entries. Refer to as needed.

Competencies Measured

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

• Competency 3: Evaluate the impact of patient care technologies on desired outcomes.
• Describe one’s rationale for selecting a technology topic, including the process used to identify it.
• Describe current evidence on the impact and relevance of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team.
• Integrate current evidence about the impact of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team into a recommendation.
• Competency 4: Recommend the use of a technology to enhance quality and safety standards for patients.
• Describe organizational factors influencing the selection of a technology in the health care setting.
• Justify the implementation and use of a selected technology in a health care setting.
• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.
• Create a clear, well-organized, and professional, annotated bibliography that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
• Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for all bibliographic entries.

Identify a screening tool and briefly describe its purpose and target population. For example, the PHQ-9 screens for depression screening, and the Modified Centor Criteria determines if rapid strep testing is indicated. The tool identified must be unique. If another student has already identified the tool, then you must pick another tool. Do not select tools related to DEIB, SDOH, or cultural competence because those tools were detailed in the Week 3 discussion. Share a specific example of how this tool has improved your practice or patient outcomes in one of the following ways: enhanced assessment accuracy, streamlined workflow, improved patient education and engagement, and assistance with better decision-making. Cite the reference/link to the tool in APA Style (7th ed.) format.

Introduction

Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of social media in health care.

This assessment will require you to develop a staff update for an interprofessional team to encourage team members to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient information.

Professional Context

Health professionals today are increasingly accountable for the use of protected health information (PHI). Various government and regulatory agencies promote and support privacy and security through a variety of activities. Examples include:

• Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR).
• Provision of EHR incentive programs through Medicare and Medicaid.
• Enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules.
• Release of educational resources and tools to help providers and hospitals address privacy, security, and confidentiality risks in their practices.

Technological advances, such as the use of social media platforms and applications for patient progress tracking and communication, have provided more access to health information and improved communication between care providers and patients.

At the same time, advances such as these have resulted in more risk for protecting PHI. Nurses typically receive annual training on protecting patient information in their everyday practice. This training usually emphasizes privacy, security, and confidentiality best practices such as:

• Keeping passwords secure.
• Logging out of public computers.
• Sharing patient information only with those directly providing care or who have been granted permission to receive this information.

Today, one of the major risks associated with privacy and confidentiality of patient identity and data relates to social media. Many nurses and other health care providers place themselves at risk when they use social media or other electronic communication systems inappropriately. For example, a Texas nurse was recently terminated for posting patient vaccination information on Facebook. In another case, a New York nurse was terminated for posting an insensitive emergency department photo on her Instagram account.

Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of social media in health care.

This assessment requires you to develop a staff update for an inter-professional team to encourage team members to protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient information. Technology has become so commonplace in our lives that organizations are now using it to reach their workforce. Gone are the days of paper flyers on the breakroom wall. Organizations are using intranets, workplace social media, or communications systems like Workplace, Slack, or Teams.

Preparation

As you begin to consider the assessment, it would be an excellent choice to complete the Breach of Protected Health Information (PHI) activity. The activity will support your success with the assessment by creating the opportunity for you to test your knowledge of potential privacy, security, and confidentiality violations of protected health information. The activity is not graded and counts towards course engagement.

To successfully prepare to complete this assessment, complete the following:

• Review the settings presented in the
• resource and select one to use as the focus for this assessment.
• Search the Internet for infographics about protecting PHI. These infographics should serve as examples of how to succinctly summarize evidence-based information about protecting the security, privacy, and confidentiality of patient data. Some examples of infographics are provided for you in the reading list .
• Analyze these infographics and distill them into five or six principles of what makes them effective. As you design your interprofessional staff update, apply these principles. Note: In a staff update, you will not have all the images and graphics that an infographic might contain. Instead, focus your analysis on what makes the messaging effective.
• Select from any of the following options, or a combination of options, as the focus of your interprofessional staff update:
• Social media best practices.
• What not to do: social media.
• Social media risks to patient information.
• Steps to take if a breach occurs.
• Conduct independent research on the topic you have selected in addition to reviewing the suggested resources for this assessment. This information will serve as the source(s) of the information contained in your interprofessional staff update. Consult the for help in identifying scholarly and/or authoritative sources.

Scenario

In this assessment, imagine you are a nurse in one of the health care settings described in the following resource:

Before your shift begins, you scroll through Facebook and notice that a coworker has posted a photo of herself and a patient on Facebook and described how happy she is that her patient is making great progress. You have recently completed your annual continuing education requirements at work and realize this is a breach of your organization’s social media policy. Your organization requires employees to immediately report such breaches to the privacy officer to ensure the post is removed immediately and that the nurse responsible receives appropriate corrective action.

You follow appropriate organizational protocols and report the breach to the privacy officer. The privacy officer takes swift action to remove the post. Due to the severity of the breach, the organization terminates the nurse.

Based on this incident’s severity, your organization has established a task force with two main goals:

• Educate staff on HIPAA and appropriate social media use in health care.
• Prevent confidentiality, security, and privacy breaches.

The task force has been charged with creating a series of interprofessional staff updates on the following topics:

• Social media best practices.
• What not to do: Social media.
• Social media risks to patient information.
• Steps to take if a breach occurs.

Technology has become so commonplace in our lives that organizations are now using it to reach their workforce. Gone are the days of paper flyers on the breakroom wall. Organizations are using intranets, workplace social media, or communications systems like Workplace, Slack, or Teams.

Instructions

First, select one of the health care settings described in the following resource:

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As a nurse in this setting, you are asked to create the content for a staff update. This staff update will be delivered using your organization’s internal communication platform and should be in the form of a social media post and should address one or more of these topics:

• Social media best practices.
• What not. to do: social media.
• Social media risks to patient information.
• Steps to take if a breach occurs.

This assessment is not a traditional essay. It is a staff educational update about PHI. Staff are frequently overwhelmed with required trainings and often click through without learning. To catch the attention of your audience be creative. Create a social media post that delivers the information required in an easy-to-read fashion like an infographic, or a short (under 3 minute) narrated presentation or video where you use your creativity to make the staff update fun and engaging.

The task force has asked team members assigned to the topics to include the following content in their updates in addition to content on their selected topics:

• What is protected health information (PHI)?
• Be sure to include essential HIPAA information.
• What are privacy, security, and confidentiality?
• Describe and provide examples of privacy, security, and confidentiality concerns related to the use of technology in health care.
• Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic health information.
• What evidence relating to social media usage and PHI do interprofessional team members need to be aware of? For example:
• What are some examples of nurses being terminated for inappropriate social media use in the United States?
• What types of sanctions have health care organizations imposed on interdisciplinary team members who have violated social media policies?
• What have been the financial penalties assessed against health care organizations for inappropriate social media use?
• What evidence-based strategies have health care organizations employed to prevent or reduce confidentiality, privacy, and security breaches, particularly related to social media usage?

Notes

• Be selective about the content you choose to include. Include need-to-know information. Omit nice-to-know information.
• Many times, people do not read staff updates, do not read them carefully, or do not read them to the end. Ensure your staff update piques staff members’ interest, highlights key points, and is easy to read/view. Avoid overcrowding the update with too much content.
• Also, supply a separate reference page that includes two or three peer-reviewed and one or two non-peer-reviewed resources (for a total of 35 resources) to support the staff update content.

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Ensure the staff update is free from errors that detract from the overall message.
• Submission length: Maximum of two double-spaced content pages or a video under 3 minutes.
• Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point.
• Citations and references: Provide a separate reference page that includes 23 current, peer-reviewed and 12 current, non-peer-reviewed in-text citations and references (total of 35 resources) that support the staff update’s content. Current means no older than 5 years.
• APA format: Be sure your citations and references adhere to APA format. Consult the page for an APA refresher.

Competencies Measured

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

• Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.
• Describe the security, privacy, and confidentially laws related to protecting sensitive electronic health information that govern the interdisciplinary team.
• Explain the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to safeguard sensitive electronic health information.
• Competency 2: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information.
• Identify evidence-based approaches to mitigate risks to patients and health care staff related to sensitive electronic health information.
• Develop a professional, effective staff update that educates interprofessional team members about protecting the security, privacy, and confidentiality of patient data, particularly as it pertains to social media usage.
• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.
• Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
• Create a clear, concise, well-organized, and professional staff update that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audience of your safety improvement plan to understand or implement to ensure the success of the plan. Example Google Site: You may use the example Google Site found in Assessment 4: (ATTACHED EXAMPLE) Improved Heparin Infusion Safety to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the rubric would look like for this assessment but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with the quality issue you selected in Assessment 1.

For this assessment, you will develop an 814 slide PowerPoint presentation with thorough speaker’s notes designed for a hypothetical in-service session related to the improvement plan you developed in Assessment 2. Instructions attached. Thank you.

&q=nurse%20shortage%20male &q=nurse%20shortage%20male For this assignment, you will submit a rough draft of the research essay you have been working on. Your essay should make an argument about a topic, issue, or problem related to your field of study or work. Before you begin, be sure you have reviewed the sample research paper walk-through lecture video from Module 4. Instructions Your research essay should be thesis-based and should develop an argument related to your topic. Your essay should be 4 to 5 pages in length and should include 4 to 5 scholarly sources from the Excelsior University Library. Although the structure of your research essay should follow a traditional organization with an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion, APA format should be used for the general page set up (cover page, line spacing, font, etc.) and for source documentation (in-text citations and references). For this rough draft only, you will add MEAL plan notes to one of your body paragraphs. For the first or one of the first body paragraphs in your rough draft of your research essay, you will label each section of your MEAL plan paragraph with an M for Main idea, E for Evidence, A for Analysis, and L for Lead out. You should put the letters in parentheses AFTER the corresponding section. Please see the sample. Download sample. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you upload it.

When preparing for the discharge of acutely ill older adults, how should APRNs navigate the distinction between treating the family as a client versus recognizing the family as a system of care? Which enduring family caregiving functions still support successful transitions from hospital to home or post-acute care facilities?

Reflect on how changing family landscapessuch as increased caregiver burden or limited family availabilityhave shaped your discharge planning practices and patient outcomes.

In all posts referencing personal experiences, be sure to respect and maintain patient and colleague confidentiality.