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Access the following to complete this Assessment:

• Meeting Agenda Template
• Memo Template
• Email Template

In this assessment, you will create four different types of communication to ensure the protection of patient data and privacy: a meeting agenda, a staff memo, and two emails. Each of these will be in response to a short scenario. Read each scenario and first identify the issue that is being addressed related to patient privacy and confidentiality. Then, prepare a response using the specified method (agenda, memo, or email) that includes the following:

• Strategies for maintaining privacy of patient health information, and electronic health records, including the importance of safeguarding electronic health records (EHR)
• Identify technology resources that may be used to protect patient confidentiality and privacy
• Explain a nurse’s ethical duty when it comes to maintaining confidentiality of private patient information, and list possible implications of not maintaining patient confidentiality and privacy
• Explain the role of HIPAA in governing electronic health information and provide HIPAA guidelines for permitted use and disclosure of protected patient health information
• Evaluate the potential privacy, security, and confidentiality risks involved with using personal smartphones when providing nursing care
• List HIPAA guidelines that should be followed and possible technology used to help protect patient confidentiality and privacy

To complete this Assessment:

• Read the scenarios.
• Complete the templates to create a meeting agenda, a memo, and two emails of your own

Scenario 1:

A tragic car accident involving an A-list Hollywood actor happened near the hospital at which you work. A member of the care team at the hospital posted information about the actor on social media, which occurred prior to any public disclosure of information regarding the actor’s accident. In an attempt to avoid a similar episode at your hospital, you have decided to schedule a meeting with your staff to discuss the implications to patient privacy and confidentiality, including how these types of situations should be handled. You decided to draft an agenda in preparation.

The agenda should include a brief overview of the incident described above and the legal implications involved for the person who posted the information. The agenda should also include the following:

• A description of how a situation like this should be handled. Include any relevant laws or codes of ethics that apply.
• The importance of safeguarding patient information (no matter who it is).
• The technology or policy related to technology that could be used to protect patient privacy in this situation.
• Strategies you have used personally to protect patient health information.
• A list of resources for your staff to reference.

The agenda should be 1- to 2-pages in length.

Scenario 2:

A friend of yours has a family member who is a patient at the hospital where you work. Your friend approaches you and asks if you could obtain the latest lab results and physician notes for her family member. She explains that she cannot ask the family member directly because they have not spoken to each other in years, but the friend is concerned with her family member’s health nonetheless. You respond to your friend and explain to her why you cannot do this. After finishing your letter to your friend, you decide to draft a memo to your nursing staff to remind them of the importance of ethical use of electronic health records. Your memo should include the following:

• A statement on the nurse’s ethical duty to maintain patient confidentiality and protect private patient information
• A reminder of why it is important to maintain patient confidentially and privacy for both the patient and the medical practice
• A list of the possible implications of not maintaining patient confidentiality and privacy

Your memo should be 1- to 2-pages in length.

Scenario 3:

You are the managing nurse at Valley View Clinic where smartphones are part of the daily lives of nurses, doctors, and patients. You’ve noticed an increased use of smartphones by nurses and doctors and are concerned that this may be compromising the privacy of patient information. In fact, you overheard one of your nurses saying that she used her personal smartphone to schedule an appointment for a patient. You have decided to send an email to the staff outlining the following:

• The potential privacy, security, and confidentiality risks involved with using personal smartphones in the clinic
• Guidelines for using smartphones, including what to do and what not to do
• Technology or policy related to technology that could be used to protect patient confidentiality and privacy when using smartphones
• Strategies you have used personally to protect patient health information when using smartphones
• A list of resources that your staff can refer to

Your email should be one page.

Scenario 4:

You are the nurse manager at Cedar Grove Medical Clinic. You have recently hired a new nurse and have taken her under your wing to help her get acquainted with her new workplace. She sent you an email this morning asking you for help regarding a request she received from another clinic to release patient information for a patient that was recently treated at Cedar Grove Medical Clinic. She is unsure how to respond and has asked you for guidance. Write an email to her with the following:

• HIPAA guidelines for permitted use and disclosure of protected health information
• An explanation of whether she should or should not release this information and why

Your email should be one page.

Cultural competency means to be respectful and responsive to the health beliefs and practices—and cultural and linguistic needs—of diverse population groups. Discuss strategies to provide care to patients who are from different cultures and may have different cultural beliefs. For example, what might the APN do if the patient refuses a high-quality, evidence-based treatment meant to cure the illness because of cultural beliefs? How can the APN respect cultural beliefs while still providing quality care? In what ways can the nurse do more than simply “do no harm?”

Expectations

Initial Post:

• Length: A minimum of 250 words, not including references
• Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years

• Select a current financial or economic issue in the health care industry. 
• Analyze the financial impact of this issue on the health care industry.
• Consider the following:
• What are the economic trends of the health care payment system?
• What are the supply and demand challenges for health care services?
• Why are costs increasing in the health care system?
• What regulatory issues are affecting, or will affect, the health care industry?
• Provide recommendations for mitigating the problem. 
• Consider current strategies being used or presented for improving the issue. 
• Discuss what you believe would be the outcome of these recommendations if implemented. 

ITS IMPORTANT TO MEET THE COMPETENCES (That’s how they evaluate the work).

Nursing within an organization is a critical component of health care delivery and is an essential ingredient in patient outcomes (Kelly & Tazbir, 2014). The concern for quality care that flows from evidence-based practice generates a desired outcome. Without these factors, a nurse cannot be an effective leader. It is important to lead not only from this position but from knowledge and expertise.

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

• Competency 2: Explain the accountability of the nurse leader for decisions that affect health care delivery and patient outcomes.       
  • (IMPORTANT) -Describe accountability tools and procedures used to measure effectiveness.
• Competency 3: Apply management strategies and best practices for health care finance, human resources, and materials allocation decisions to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes.       
  • (IMPORTANT) -Develop an evidence-based plan for health care delivery.
• Competency 4: Apply professional standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct in professional practice.       
  • (IMPORTANT) -Apply professional and legal standards in support of a care plan.
• Competency 5: Communicate in manner that is consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.       
  • (IMPORTANT) -Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and current APA style.

Preparation

Refer to the Capella library and the Internet for supplemental resources to help you complete this assessment.

Instructions

Deliverable: Develop an evidence-based plan for health care delivery.

Scenario:

The hospital where you work has an issue with increased readmissions within 30 days of discharge. After examining the core measures, it was found that heart failure was the most common core measure disease process experiencing the highest rate of readmissions. The leadership team has given your team the charge of developing a nurse-run outpatient heart failure clinic. The purpose of this clinic is to ensure that discharge education is presented to the patient in an orderly, consistent manner and complies with evidence-based practice protocols. Since these patients may be discharged from a variety of areas in the facility, having the heart failure clinic staff take ownership of the process will improve both consistency and compliance. There are cardiologists that interact with the staff and patients, but the day-to-day operations of the clinic are designed and supported by the nurses as they interact with appropriate members of the other health care team disciplines promoting the best care for the heart failure patients.

As a member of the nurse team, you have been asked to develop one component of the clinic.

The hospital leadership established these objectives for the clinic services:

• Evaluate and maximize proper medication therapy.
• Conduct regular diet, exercise, and stress management classes for the patients.
• Monitor physiological indicators for the patients (lab work, weights, vital signs, ECGs).
• Provide a case management system for patients in the program post-discharge.

The overall goals for the heart failure clinic are to:

• Enroll greater than 90 percent of the patients with a primary or secondary diagnosis of HF prior to discharge.
• Facilitate discharge planning to achieve 100 percent compliance with patient education prior to discharge (discharge planning).
• Decrease readmission rates in this population by 5 percent over the next year.

The leadership team has asked you to provide them with an evidence-based plan for one of the components of the clinic. You may use any combination of documents (for example, a spreadsheet or a table) in addition to explanatory information to convey information clearly and succinctly.

Develop one: an Orientation Course Plan, a Discharge Education Plan, or a Care Coordination Plan.

An Orientation Course Plan:

• Develop an evidence-based plan for health care delivery.
• Include a comprehensive schedule of topics, objectives, key points, and patient resources for the orientation course.      
  • What are the components of an evidence-based education plan?
  • How will you know that patients will understand what to do?
  • What modalities will you use to deliver information?
  • How will you adapt the plan to meet the needs of patients from diverse cultural and language backgrounds?
  • Identify specialized and supplementary material needs.
• Apply professional and legal standards in support of a care plan.      
  • Explain the alignment to the most recent Heart Failure Guidelines and specific professional standards.
  • Describe the accountability tools and procedures used to measure effectiveness.
  • How will you know if the patient education plan is successful?
  • What are the indicators of success or effectiveness?

A Discharge Education Plan:

• Develop an evidence-based plan for health care delivery.      
  • Develop a discharge plan with objectives and resources, and tools for patients to monitor their progress.
  • How will you know that patients understand what to do?
  • What modalities will you use to deliver information?
  • How will you adapt the plan to meet the needs of patients from diverse cultural and language backgrounds?
• Apply professional and legal standards in support of a care plan.      
  • Explain the alignment to the most recent Heart Failure Guidelines and specific professional standards.
  • Describe accountability tools and procedures used to measure effectiveness.
  • How will you know if the discharge plan is successful?
  • What are the indicators of success or effectiveness?

Care Coordination Plan:

• Develop an evidence-based plan for health care delivery.      
  • Develop a procedure for coordinating services.        
    • Consider the needs of “outliers.” For example, someone with lung disease may need extra resources.
    • Who should be on the team?
    • When would the team be activated?
    • How would it be activated?
    • What is the time frame required to coordinate services?
    • How would the intervention plan be monitored for effectiveness?
• Apply professional standards in support of a care plan.      
  • Explain the alignment to the most recent heart failure guidelines and specific professional standards.
  • Describe accountability tools and procedures used to measure effectiveness.        
    • How will you know if the care coordination plan is successful?
    • What are the indicators of success or effectiveness?
    • How will information be collected or communicated?

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
• Length: The report should be 3-4 pages in content length, double-spaced.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• Number of resources: Support your plan with a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources, in addition to professional standards.