NUR3472CBE Section 01CBE Emerging Healthcare Technologies and Innovation (6 Months) – CBE – 2020 Winter Six Month 2

Deliverable 3 – Leveraging Quality and Safety Measures with Communication Technologies

Competency

Differentiate the impact of various communication technologies on safety and quality improvement

Scenario

You are a staff nurse voted as the nursing delegate to sit on the Emerging Innovations Steering Committee. In preparing for your first committee meeting you have read through the last year of meeting minutes and determined what the past nursing delegate had achieved and what future goals were set for this specific role. The meeting minutes from last month show the steering committee is currently looking at emerging communication technologies and how the hospital can leverage integration of cost effective healthcare technology. In preparation for the first meeting, you have created a list of best practices based on your scholarly research and create a list of action plans for leveraging these into practice. You have been tasked with creating a comparative analysis of two communication technologies and how they can be used to improve communication between healthcare teams and how it can influence patient outcomes. Before the next monthly committee meeting, they want you to send them a comparative analysis using a format of your choice (i.e. table) of two communication technologies that you feel best improve safety and quality healthcare.

Instructions

Write a comparative analysis table including the following:

• Discuss the two selected communication technologies you have chosen with support from scholarly research 
  • Describe the function of each technology
  • Analyze how it is used in the healthcare setting
• Examine how the two selected technologies can be used to improve communication among the healthcare team. 
  • Provide a specific practice example from the literature to support how each technology has been shown to improve communication among the healthcare team.
• Discuss how each type of communication technology has been shown to improve patient outcomes underneath the table. 
  • Identify evidence from the literature to support how each technology has been shown to impact patient outcomes

Deliverable 4 – Merging Ethics and Information Technology

Competency

Analyze ethical and nursing informatics practice standards within the context of healthcare delivery.

Scenario

You are a nursing manager of the education and innovations department at a large nonprofit academic medical center. You work at the flagship hospital and there are three additional campuses and several affiliated facilities throughout three additional states. Therefore, technology is heavily relied upon for consistent and reliable communication for interdisciplinary care. Recently, the CNO sent you a patient satisfaction survey highlighting how impressed this patient was with their nurse’s timeliness of answering their questions. The patient continued to share that the nurse used their personal cell phone to reach out to the patient’s provider to get clarification of the patient’s discharge instructions. The patient loved their quick response and wanted to highlight this as a best practice for all healthcare professionals.

You have just completed a technology usage assessment of the healthcare staff across departments and it has come to your attention that several nurses occasionally communicate with medical providers through text on their personal cell phones, using their phone’s messaging service. The nurses found that they are able to meet their patient needs more quickly. Your assessment also discovered that a nurse used their personal cell phone to take a picture of a patient’s foot ulcer. The picture was posted on social media as a reminder to diabetics the importance of managing their blood sugars. As the nursing education manager, it is your responsibility to ensure staff are following the hospital polices and your technology assessment has highlighted that the staff is in urgent need of HIPAA training and Smart Phone use.

Instructions

Use the scenario above to create a mandatory training for all staff using PowerPoint with voice over including the following:

• Examine personal Smart Phone use and its implications in Healthcare 
  • Identify and explain a minimum of 3 unethical uses of Smartphones in healthcare (including text messaging and pictures)
  • Discuss potential benefits to appropriate Smartphone use in healthcare
• Examine judicious use of Social Media and its implications in Healthcare 
  • Potential benefits to appropriate use of Social Media in healthcare
  • Identify a minimum of 3 unethical uses of Social Media  (as reviewed by NCSBN)
• Describe regulatory bodies and Ethical Frameworks used to protect Personal Health Information (PHI) 
  • Investigate the role of HIPAA, HITECH, and Nursing Code of Ethics
  • Present possible legal consequences associated with unethical or illegal Smart Phone and Social Media u

 

Part 1: Critical Appraisal of Research

• Identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
• Develop a PICOT question to address this clinical issue of interest.
• Using the keywords from the PICOT question, search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles at the systematic-reviews level.
• Conduct a critical appraisal of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected by completing the Critical Appraisal Worksheet.

Part 2: Evidence-Based Best Practices

Based on your appraisal, recommend a best practice that emerges from the research you reviewed. In a 1- to 2-page narrative, address the following:

• Explain the best practice that emerged, justifying your proposal with APA citations for the evidenced-based research that you reviewed.

  

•Martos-Cabrera, M. B., Mota-Romero, E., Martos-García, R., Gómez-Urquiza, J. L., Suleiman-Martos, N., & Albendín-García, L. (2019). Hand Hygiene Teaching Strategies among Nursing Staff: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and public health, 16(17), 3039.

•Price, L., MacDonald, J., Gozdzielewska, L., Howe, T., Flowers, P., Shepherd, L., … & Reilly, J. (2018). Interventions to improve healthcare workers’ hand hygiene compliance: a systematic review of systematic reviews. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 39(12), 1449-1456.

•Seo, H. J., Sohng, K. Y., Chang, S. O., Chaung, S. K., Won, J., & Choi, M. J. (2019). Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in emergency departments: a systematic review. Journal of Hospital Infection.

•Schweizer, M. L., Reisinger, H. S., Ohl, M., Formanek, M. B., Blevins, A., Ward, M. A., & Perencevich, E. N. (2014). Searching for an optimal hand hygiene bundle: a meta-analysis. Clinical infectious diseases, 58(2), 248-259.

Use APA 6th Edition Format,  at least 3 peer-reviewed references within 5 years of publication. The work must have a cover page and a reference page. All paragraphs need to be cited properly. All responses must be in a narrative format and each paragraph must have at least 4 sentences. It must have at least 2 pages of content, no greater than 3 pages, excluding cover page and reference page. 

Case Study

L.L. is a 67-year-old male who has been diagnosed with BPH. He is having difficulty with urination. He is currently on Cozaar 100 mg for HTN and his BP is well controlled. He is taking no other medications. The doctor has recommended medication for his BPH, but he would like to try a herbal supplement before taking a prescription medication.

1. Would you recommend a herbal supplement in L.L’s case?

2. If so, what herbal supplement would he take?

3. What is the recommended dosage?

4. What are possible side effects of the herbal supplement?

5. What warnings should you give L.L. before he starts the herbal supplement.

Tuberculosis

M. tuberculosis can be transmitted in virtually any setting. Clinicians should be aware that transmission has been documented in healthcare settings where healthcare workers and patients come in contact with persons with infection.

• Describe the factors that determine the infectiousness of a tuberculosis (TB) patient;

• Explain the main goals of a TB infection control program;

• Discuss the three levels of an effective TB infection control program;

• Explain the purpose and the characteristics of a TB airborne infection isolation room; and

• Describe the circumstances when respirators and surgical masks should be used.

2 pages not including title and reference page

 

Learning styles represent the different approaches to learning based on preferences, weaknesses, and strengths. For learners to best achieve the desired educational outcome, learning styles must be considered when creating a plan. Complete “The VARK Questionnaire,”( http://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/ ) located on the VARK website, and then complete the following:

1. Click “OK” to receive your questionnaire scores.
2. Once you have determined your preferred learning style, review the corresponding link to view your learning preference.
3. Review the other learning styles: visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic, and multimodal (listed on the VARK Questionnaire Results page).
4. Compare your current preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.
5. Examine how awareness of learning styles has influenced your perceptions of teaching and learning.

In a paper (750‐1,000 words), summarize your analysis of this exercise and discuss the overall value of learning styles. Include the following:

1. Provide a summary of your learning style according the VARK questionnaire.
2. Describe your preferred learning strategies. Compare your current preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.
3. Describe how individual learning styles affect the degree to which a learner can understand or perform educational activities. Discuss the importance of an educator identifying individual learning styles and preferences when working with learners.
4. Discuss why understanding the learning styles of individuals participating in health promotion is important to achieving the desired outcome. How do learning styles ultimately affect the possibility for a behavioral change? How would different learning styles be accommodated in health promotion?

Cite to at least three peer‐reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

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