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MSN6214 – Health Care Informatics and Technology

Unit 3 Assignment

Technology Needs Assessment

Professional Context

Nurse leaders play a key role in the decision-making processes associated with the purchase of a health information technology and any subsequent technology upgrades and improvements. A thorough and accurate needs assessment establishes a foundation for evaluating the overall value to an organization of the various technologies that can be used to support nursing and improve patient care.

The needs assessment you will conduct in this unit enables you to take a systematic approach to developing knowledge about a new or upgraded telehealth technology that would impact nursing practice. The needs assessment also identifies assessment work that may already have been completed and any gaps that still exist and must be addressed. The goals of completing the needs assessment are to:

Identify gaps in practice that must be addressed to improve patient care.

Understand the nature and scope of needed changes and identify associated opportunities and challenges.

Enable a thoughtful and systematic approach to change implementation and management.

This assignment provides an opportunity for you to work through the needs assessment process and present your findings in a way that will help you gain the support of executive leaders.

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

Competency 1: Evaluate technologies used to gather patient data; inform diagnoses; and enhance care quality, safety, and outcomes.

Explain the relevance and importance of a needs assessment.

Identify the safety requirements and regulatory considerations when using a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Competency 2: Develop a collaborative technology integration strategy.

Describe the potential impact of internal and external stakeholders and end users on the acquisition of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Competency 3: Develop a strategy for managing technology use that enhances patient care and organizational effectiveness.

Identify the key issues in nursing care affecting patient outcomes that a new or upgraded telehealth technology will address.

Competency 4: Promote effective technology use policies that protect patient confidentiality and privacy.

Identify the patient confidentiality and privacy protections that a new or upgraded telehealth technology must address.

Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

Support assertions, arguments, conclusions, and recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.

Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Scenario

Telehealth technology can be representative of many different scenarios. For example, the technology could be designed to assist nurses with providing care, such as chronic disease management, to rural patients. It could also be designed to enable physicians to access enhanced care strategies from other providers in another part of the U.S. or internationally. Such care strategies might include radiology readings or assistance in an operating room with a new procedure.

For this assignment and the remaining assignments in Units 5, 7, and 9, choose any new or upgraded telehealth technology that you would like to see implemented in your organization or practice setting. Be creative and imagine what it would be like to have any telehealth resources that would benefit your community. Then, imagine that executive leaders in your organization or practice setting are considering the purchase of those resources to improve the quality of care provided to patients and enable medical and nursing staff to extend coverage for patients in the region.

Finally, as a nurse leader with responsibilities in upper management, imagine that you have been asked to determine whether this purchase will adequately address key issues in patient care and lead to improved outcomes.

Instructions

Determine the need for the new or upgraded telehealth technology. Present your findings and recommendations in an executive summary. Include any available assessments and gap analyses that may have been conducted previously.

Note: If you have not already done so, complete the Vila Health: Preparing for a Technology Needs Assessment simulation, linked in the assignment resources.

The executive summary requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Technology Needs Assessment Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. The Guiding Questions: Technology Needs Assessment document, linked in the assignment resources, provides additional considerations that may be helpful in completing your assignment. In addition, be sure to note the requirements below for document format and length and for citing supporting evidence.

Explain the relevance and importance of a needs assessment.

Identify the key issues in nursing care affecting patient outcomes that the new or upgraded telehealth technology will address.

Identify the safety requirements and regulatory considerations when using this technology.

Identify the patient confidentiality and privacy protections that this technology must address.

Describe the potential impact of internal and external stakeholders and end users on the acquisition of this technology.

Support assertions, arguments, conclusions, and recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.

Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Document Format and Length

Format your executive summary using APA style.

Use the APA Style Paper Template, linked in the assignment resources. An APA Style Paper Tutorial is also provided to help you in writing and formatting your executive summary. Be sure to include:

A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.

A running head on all pages.

Appropriate level 1 section headings.

Your executive summary should be 3–4 pages in length, not including the title page and references page.

Supporting Evidence

Cite at least five credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your implementation plan.

Submission Requirements

Proofread your executive summary before you submit it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your analysis.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your executive summary to your ePortfolio.

MSN6214 – Health Care Informatics and Technology

Unit 5 Assignment

Stakeholder Meeting

Professional Context

As a nurse leader, you must be able to identify the key stakeholders in the adoption of a new or upgraded telehealth technology. In addition, you must be able to communicate the benefits and strategic value of the technology to obtain their support and ensure effective use of the technology. One method of communicating with stakeholders is to introduce them to the technology in a department meeting. In this meeting, it is important to discuss how this technology will enhance care and improve quality and safety outcomes.

This assignment provides an opportunity for you to consider how you would introduce, to stakeholders, the new or upgraded telehealth technology that was the focus of your previous assignment with the goal of obtaining their buy in and support.

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

Competency 1: Evaluate technologies used to gather patient data; inform diagnoses; and enhance care quality, safety, and outcomes.

Explain how a new or upgraded telehealth technology will support enhanced patient outcomes and organizational effectiveness.

Competency 2: Develop a collaborative technology integration strategy.

Identify the key stakeholders who should attend a technology acquisition meeting.

Identify the steps and timeline needed to deploy a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Competency 3: Develop a strategy for managing technology use that enhances patient care and organizational effectiveness.

Identify the outcome measures an organization or patient care setting will use to determine the effectiveness of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Competency 4: Promote effective technology use policies that protect patient confidentiality and privacy.

Address patient confidentiality and privacy concerns associated with the use of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

Draft a meeting announcement and agenda.

Develop slides that augment a multimedia presentation.

Argue persuasively to obtain stakeholder agreement with, and support for, a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.

Scenario

You have completed your assessment of the need for a new or upgraded telehealth technology and presented your findings and recommendations to executive leaders. Their response to your assessment was positive, and they have asked that you introduce the proposed technology to other key stakeholders. Consequently, you have decided to host a stakeholders’ meeting to promote support and buy in for the new technology. Several people will be unable to attend the meeting, so you have decided to provide those individuals with a video recording of your presentation.

Instructions

Develop and record an audiovisual presentation for key stakeholders that focuses on the key aspects of a plan to adopt the proposed new or upgraded telehealth technology to support and enhance patient care.

Note: If you have not already done so, complete the Vila Health: Preparing for a Stakeholder Meeting simulation, linked in the Resources.

The meeting preparation and presentation requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Stakeholder Meeting Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. The Guiding Questions: Stakeholder Meeting document, linked in the resources, provides additional considerations that may be helpful in completing your assignment. In addition, be sure to note the requirements below for presentation format and length and for citing supporting evidence.

Prepare for the Meeting

Identify the key stakeholders who should attend the meeting.

Draft a meeting announcement and agenda.

Develop Your Presentation

Explain how the new or upgraded telehealth technology will support enhanced patient outcomes and organizational effectiveness.

Identify the outcome measures the organization or patient care setting will use to determine the effectiveness of the technology.

Address patient confidentiality and privacy concerns associated with the use of this technology.

Identify the steps and timeline needed to deploy the technology.

Develop slides that augment your presentation.

Argue persuasively to obtain stakeholder agreement with, and support for, the technology.

Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.

Presentation Format and Length

Remember, you may use Microsoft PowerPoint or other suitable presentation software to create your slides. If you decide to use an application other than PowerPoint, check with your instructor to avoid potential file compatibility issues.

Create 10–15 slides, including a title slide and a references slide.

Use the speaker’s notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and cite your sources, as appropriate

Supporting Evidence

Cite at least three credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your presentation.

List your sources on the references slide at the end of your presentation.

Submission Requirements

Upload your audiovisual presentation and attach the presentation slides, with speaker notes, to the assignment area. See the Using Kaltura document for more information about uploading media. You may submit the assignment only once, so be sure that the following assignment deliverables are included before submitting your assignment:

Meeting announcement and agenda.

Presentation recording.

Presentation slides.

Proofread your presentation before you submit it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your presentation.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your presentation to your ePortfolio.

Resources

MSN6214 – Health Care Informatics and Technology

Unit 7 Assignment

Implementation Plan

Professional Context

Technology continues to move at an accelerated pace, and the delivery of health care is shifting from office-based environments to the home. For this reason, health care organizations must be at technology’s cutting edge, in order to remain competitive in today’s environment. Integrating the daily activities of patients into the health care continuum will improve the quality of care that is provided and enable more holistic care.

This assignment provides an opportunity for you to develop an implementation plan that addresses the various factors critical to the successful deployment of the new or upgraded telehealth technology that was the focus of your previous assignments.

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

Competency 2: Develop a collaborative technology integration strategy.

Assess the adequacy of existing telehealth technology infrastructure in an organization or practice setting.

Assign tasks and responsibilities for deploying a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Develop an implementation schedule.

Develop a post-deployment telehealth technology evaluation and maintenance strategy.

Competency 3: Develop a strategy for managing technology use that enhances patient care and organizational effectiveness.

Determine staff training requirements and strategies.

Develop a strategy for collaborating with patients and other health care providers.

Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.

Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Scenario

Based on the positive reactions and feedback from stakeholders with regard to the proposed telehealth technology, executive leaders have decided to move forward with implementation of this telehealth solution and have asked you to develop the implementation plan.

Instructions

Develop a technology implementation plan that supports the vision for safe, high-quality health care in your organization or practice setting.

Note: If you have not already done so, complete the Vila Health: Preparing to Develop an Implementation Plan simulation, linked in the resources.

The implementation plan requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Implementation Plan Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. The Guiding Questions: Implementation Plan document, linked in the resources, provides additional considerations that may be helpful in completing your assignment. In addition, be sure to note the requirements below for document format and length and for citing supporting evidence.

Assess the adequacy of existing telehealth technology infrastructure in your organization or practice setting.

Assign tasks and responsibilities for deploying the new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Develop an implementation schedule.

Determine staff training requirements and strategies.

Develop a strategy for collaborating with patients and other health care providers.

Develop a post-deployment telehealth technology evaluation and maintenance strategy.

Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.

Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Document Format and Length

Format your implementation plan using APA style.

Use the APA Style Paper Template, linked in the resources. An APA Style Paper Tutorial is also provided to help you in writing and formatting your implementation plan. Be sure to include:

A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.

A running head on all pages.

Appropriate level 1 section headings.

Your implementation plan should be 5–7 pages in length, not including the title page and references page.

Supporting Evidence

Cite at least five credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your implementation plan.

Submission Requirements

Proofread your implementation plan before you submit it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your analysis.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your implementation plan to your ePortfolio.

MSN6214 – Health Care Informatics and Technology

Unit 9 Assignment

Staff Training Session

Professional Context

Successful deployment of a new health care technology requires that your team be well trained in its use. Nurse leaders have many options to choose from when considering an effective training strategy, among which is the use of Web conferencing technologies, such as webinars, used to deliver training remotely to a geographically dispersed audience.

This assignment provides an opportunity for you to develop a presentation to introduce staff personnel to the new or upgraded telehealth technology that was the focus of your previous assignments.

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

Competency 1: Evaluate technologies used to gather patient data; inform diagnoses; and enhance care quality, safety, and outcomes.

Describe the purpose and use of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Explain the potential risks and benefits of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Competency 2: Develop a collaborative technology integration strategy.

Identify the requirements for successful deployment of a new or upgraded telehealth technology, including appropriate training for providers, patients, and the patients’ families.

Competency 3: Develop a strategy for managing technology use that enhances patient care and organizational effectiveness.

Explain how an organization will assess the effectiveness of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Describe the type of ongoing training and technical support that will be available to a nursing staff.

Competency 4: Promote effective technology use policies that protect patient confidentiality and privacy.

Address patient confidentiality and privacy safeguards associated with a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

Support assertions and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.

Develop slides that augment a multimedia presentation.

Communicate effectively with staff to support the implementation and use of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Scenario

Successful deployment of new or upgraded telehealth technology requires that your team be well trained in its use. One key element of your overall training strategy is to orient your staff to the new technology. Consequently, you have decided to develop an orientation webinar, which can be used to deliver the training remotely using Web conferencing technologies.

Instructions

Develop and record an audiovisual presentation for staff personnel to support the implementation and use of the new or upgraded telehealth technology. Create 10–15 slides to support your presentation, including a title slide and a references slide. Ensure that your presentation includes any guidelines and standards developed by your organization for the specific setting or population.

Note: If you have not already done so, complete the Vila Health: Preparing for a Staff Training Session simulation, linked in the Resources.

The presentation requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the Staff Training Session Scoring Guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. The Guiding Questions: Staff Training Session document, linked in the Resources, provides additional considerations that may be helpful in completing your assignment. In addition, be sure to note the requirements below for presentation format and length and for citing supporting evidence.

Describe the purpose and use of the technology.

Explain the potential risks and benefits of the technology.

Identify the requirements for successful deployment of the technology, including appropriate training for providers, patients, and the patients’ families.

Discuss patient confidentiality and privacy safeguards associated with the technology.

Explain how the organization will assess the effectiveness of the technology.

Describe the type of ongoing training and technical support that will be available to the nursing staff.

Support assertions and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.

Develop slides that augment your presentation.

Communicate effectively with staff to support the implementation and use of the technology.

Presentation Format and Length

Remember, you may use Microsoft PowerPoint or other suitable presentation software to create your slides. If you decide to use an application other than PowerPoint, check with your instructor to avoid potential file compatibility issues.

Create 10–15 slides, including a title slide and a references slide.

Use the speaker’s notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and cite your sources, as appropriate.

Supporting Evidence

Cite 3–5 credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your presentation.

List your sources on the references slide at the end of your presentation.

Submission Requirements

Upload your audiovisual presentation and attach the presentation slides, with speaker notes, to the assignment area. See the Using Kaltura document for more information about uploading media. You may submit the assignment only once, so be sure that both assignment deliverables are included before submitting your assignment.

Proofread your presentation before you submit it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your presentation.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your presentation to your ePortfolio.