Medical records belong to the patient and the healthcare facility in which they were created. This is why patients are allowed a copy of their medical record, but not the original document.

Please read the following article from American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) regarding the retention and destruction of health information, http://library.ahima.org/doc?oid=300217#.XXbKHzZKiM8, and then discuss:

• What are the different types of healthcare records and where are they often stored?
• What is considered an active record and an inactive record?
• What is the difference between purging records and destroying records?
• When are healthcare records allowed to be destroyed and what are some of the reason’s records would be destroyed?

Throughout this term, you have worked on writing an informative essay.

Your essay provides two sides of an argument to allow your reader to decide which viewpoint is more compelling. For this assignment, you get to make your case. Explain which side of the argument from your informative essay has the most compelling case, and argue why your readers should agree with this point of view. Then, in two to three sentences, discuss how the process of trying to persuade differs from the process of being informative.

topic is attached.

 

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

In your CLC group, create a PowerPoint presentation of 10-15 slides in which you compare the pros and cons of continuing nursing education related to the following:

1. Impact on competency.
2. Impact on knowledge and attitudes.
3. Relationship to professional certification.
4. Relationship to ANA Scope and Standards of Practice.
5. Relationship to ANA Code of Ethics.

Take a position with your CLC group: Should continuing nursing education be mandatory for all nurses? Support your position with rationale.

A minimum of three scholarly sources are required for this assignment.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

 

Students select one interest group from the following groups provided:(e.g., Children’s Health Fund, American Geriatric Society, AARP, National Rural Health

Association, Coalition for Health Services Research, Global AIDS Alliance, National Nurses United, National Breast Cancer Coalition) and investigate the group’s key

issues; what is their mission; what is their legislative agenda; how is the agenda developed; how is it communicated to members; how is their agenda pushed and

promoted (i.e., mechanisms used to engage/attract and influence policy makers); what are the group’s current lobbying efforts; key partner coalitions; do their partnerships

influence policies at the local, state or national level; key obstacles; and spending allocations (consult the Center for Responsible Politics, www.opensecrets.org).

In addition to investigating the interest group’s website and reviewing position statements and testimony, students should consult media reports to obtain more information

on the group’s current lobbying efforts. Students should summarize their findings in a 1-2 page, single-spaced memo. Students are also to submit a 15-20 slide

PowerPoint presentation that addresses all the key questions listed in the first section of this page. Presentation is to be done in APA format and to include reference page.

Both, presentations and written memos are to be submitted via BB. Each group is to submit ONLY one presentation and memo.

Comment 1

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is taken very serious at my organization, as I am sure it is taken serious at my fellow classmates facilities. CQI is a quality management process that encourages the health care team members to continuous ask “how are we doing” and “can we get better” (Moran, 2012). CQI is for the safety and education of the patients and staff members. We report out each morning about 30-day readmissions in house or patients at high risk for a 30-day readmit. We have a team that identifies the trends of the readmission predictors in order to identified patients currently in house at high risk for 30-day readmission. After the identification of the high risk patients, a structured discharge plan is put in place. Education on the disease process and discharge instructions is immediately started with the patient and care givers. Outside resources are immediately identified, such as home health and hospice, and the patient is given the patient choice form to pick the company that they would like to use on discharge. On discharge, the patient will know their disease process and how to manage at home. The patient will state what medications they are taking and what they are taking them for.
The patient will also state what time of day the medication is due. The patient will receive a phone call within forty eight hours after discharge from the hospital to make sure the patient continues to understand all discharge instructions and medications.

Comment 2

Continuous quality improvement, CQI, is a viewpoint or attitude for evaluating processes and improving them to attain customer satisfaction (Huber, 2014). CQI focus in healthcare is usually related to improving patient outcomes (Conner, 2014).

There is no delaying that hospitals need to deal a brand in today’s medical world. I can speak for the organization where our brand is high-quality care at low cost. A part of growing a brand that delivers high-quality care consistently it is vital to continue to maintain an emphasis/focus on identified quality improvement initiatives. To create a hospital culture supportive of quality improvement, respondents stressed the importance of hospital leadership being in the vanguard to engage nurses and other staff. As a representative of an accrediting organization said, “For any quality improvement project to be successful, the literature shows that support has to trickle down from the top (Draper, Felland, Liebhaber, & Melichar, 2008).

The chief nursing officer, CNO, is passionate about the delivery of high-quality care, she talks about it each month at nursing leadership, and it is a constant in my staff meeting minutes. It is vital that we empower the nurses who are delivering the care at the front line to buy into initiatives. We have encouraged staff to participate in hospital-wide performance improvement and report out our progress as a healthcare system in unit councils.

One example of how we are applying CQI in our current practice is through our CAUTI initiative. We have developed an education package for the staff which was accompanied by a nurse-driven protocol for patients that have a foley. If we have a patient who comes through the emergency department, they need to meet specific criteria before a foley can be inserted. We have seen great successes in this project, and the results have been extremely positive.