Assignment: Emerging Technologies

DNP 805 Topic 2 Emerging Technologies

Details:
From the electronic health record (EHR) to nanotechnology to 3-D printers and beyond, there are an increasing number of useful and innovative technologies being used in health care settings that have an important role in linking and organizing care and information. For this assignment, you will create a slide presentation to present to administrators and nurses providing direct patient care.

Topic 2 DQ 1

Discuss the usefulness of the electronic health record (EHR) and its impact on patient safety and quality outcomes. Describe strengths and limitations that might apply to its usage.

EHR, otherwise recognized as health recorded within the digital format, serves as a digitalized variant concerning patients’ paper charts (McCarthy et al., 2019). EHRs are patient-focused records recorded in real-time, ensuring informational availability safely and efficiently to authorization users (McCarthy et al., 2019). Likewise, EHR enables access to tools based on evidence to provide strategically based patient care decisions (McCarthy et al., 2019). Furthermore, EHR as a digitalized patient file is kept under maintenance via health care providers as time progresses (McCarthy et al., 2019). It may include all critical administrative, clinical data relevant to that person’s care under a particular provider, including demographics, progress notes, problems, and medications (McCarthy et al., 2019). EHRs can potentially introduce safety problems when they occur, helping providers avoid more severe consequences for patients and better patient outcomes (McCarthy et al., 2019). In addition, EHRs can help providers quickly and systematically identify and correct operational problems (McCarthy et al., 2019). Effective and efficient development of the eHealth system faces many challenges (McCarthy et al., 2019). The most critical issues are lack of commitment by healthcare authorities and missing interoperability among different health information systems (McCarthy et al., 2019).

Strengths – The main advantages of using eHealth services are the improvement of accessibility to health, the opportunity to tailor the interventions, user empowerment, and cost-effectiveness (Kataria & Ravindran, 2020). There are concerns about quality, intelligible information, the digital divide, and the risk of potential harm in the literature (Kataria & Ravindran, 2020). Alongside its opportunity for health information exchange, EHR offers the ability towards efficacy within heightened health and safety quality for patients accompanied by sufficient organizational augmentations (Kataria & Ravindran, 2020).

Limitations – Despite these benefits, studies in the literature highlight drawbacks associated with EHRs, including the high upfront acquisition costs, ongoing maintenance costs, and disruptions to workflows that contribute to temporary losses in productivity resulting from learning a new system (Kataria & Ravindran, 2020).

Electronic medical records also have limitations, such as Potential Privacy and Security issues such as EHRs Being at Risk of Cyber Attacks (Kataria & Ravindran, 2020). Like almost a multitude of computer networks, systems of EHR are susceptible to hacking, signifying potential discreet patient records complications (Kataria & Ravindran, 2020).

References

Kataria, S., & Ravindran, V. (2020). Electronic health records: a critical appraisal of strengths and limitations. JR C ll Physicians Edinb, 50(3), 262-8.

McCarthy, B., Fitzgerald, S., O’Shea, M., Condon, C., Hartnett‐Collins, G., Clancy, M., … & Savage, E. (2019). Electronic nursing documentation interventions to promote or improve patient safety and quality care: A systematic review. Journal of nursing management, 27(3), 491-501.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
Use primary sources published within the last 5 years. Provide citations and references for all sources used.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Directions:

Your presentation must include the following elements:

Identify and provide a brief description of a clinical problem.
Identify a technology that can improve patient outcomes for that clinical problem.
Select a theory to guide the presentation and discuss why this theory is applicable.
Address how the technology you have identified will assist in resolving the clinical problem.
Potential strengths and limitations of the technology selected.
Use PowerPoint to create your slide presentation. Your slide presentation must contain a title slide, 12-15 slides of content, and a References slide. Use evidence to support your claims. A minimum of five references using APA style must be used. Speaker’s notes must be included for each individual slide (add a speaker notes section to demonstrate the verbal speech you would give along with each slide).

Presentation Tips:

Text slides are not meant to be read by the speaker, but by the audience. Lettering should generally be limited to four lines and should never be more than seven, including the title.

It is advisable not to use more than eight words per line.
Avoid too much detail and resist the temptation to overload the presentation with information.
Avoid jargon and abbreviations, unless they are clear to all the audience.
Aim at the average person in the audience.
Use plain English.
Portfolio Practice Hours:

It may be possible to earn portfolio practice hours for this case report. Enter the following after the references section of your paper:

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DNP 805 Topic 3 Using CPOE and CDSS

Details:
For this assignment, select one clinical practice issue that involves a specific medication. Using a Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) system, design a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) that would be embedded in the EHR at your site of practice. Your CDSS must connect with CPOE to include a medication. You must link these two applications within the design.

General Guidelines:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
- Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
- Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

Rubric Criteria

Total70 points

Criterion	1. Unsatisfactory	2. Less Than Satisfactory	3. Satisfactory	4. Good	5. Excellent
Layout Layout	0 points The layout is cluttered, confusing, and does not use spacing, headings, and subheadings to enhance the readability. The text is extremely difficult to read with long blocks of text, small point size for fonts, and inappropriate contrasting colors. Poor use of headings, subheadings, indentations, or bold formatting is evident.	2.8 points The layout shows some structure, but appears cluttered and busy or distracting with large gaps of white space or a distracting background. Overall readability is difficult due to lengthy paragraphs, too many different fonts, dark or busy background, overuse of bold, or lack of appropriate indentations of text.	3.08 points The layout uses horizontal and vertical white space appropriately. Sometimes the fonts are easy to read, but in a few places the use of fonts, italics, bold, long paragraphs, color, or busy background detracts and does not enhance readability.	3.22 points The layout background and text complement each other and enable the content to be easily read. The fonts are easy to read and point size varies appropriately for headings and text.	3.5 points The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of headings, subheadings, and white space. Text is appropriate in length for the target audience and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of the text.
Presentation of Content Presentation of Content	0 points The content lacks a clear point of view and logical sequence of information. Includes little persuasive information. Sequencing of ideas is unclear.	2.8 points The content is vague in conveying a point of view and does not create a strong sense of purpose. Includes some persuasive information.	3.08 points The presentation slides are generally competent, but ideas may show some inconsistency in organization or in their relationships to each other.	3.22 points The content is written with a logical progression of ideas and supporting information exhibiting a unity, coherence, and cohesiveness. Includes persuasive information from reliable sources.	3.5 points The content is written clearly and concisely. Ideas universally progress and relate to each other. The project includes motivating questions and advanced organizers. The project gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea.
Discussion of Potential Strengths and Limitations of the Technology Discussion of Potential Strengths and Limitations of the Technology	0 points Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is not present.	5.6 points Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is present but incomplete.	6.16 points Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is present but done at a perfunctory level.	6.44 points Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.	7 points Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.
Documentation of Sources Documentation of Sources (citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, etc., as appropriate to assignment and style)	0 points Sources are not documented.	5.6 points Documentation of sources is inconsistent or incorrect, as appropriate to assignment and style, with numerous formatting errors.	6.16 points Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, although some formatting errors may be present.	6.44 points Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is mostly correct.	7 points Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.
Applicable Theory to Guide Presentation Applicable Theory to Guide Presentation	0 points Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is not present.	8.4 points Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is present but incomplete.	9.24 points Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is present but done at a perfunctory level.	9.66 points Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.	10.5 points Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.
How the Technology Will Assist in Resolving the Select Clinical Problem How the Technology Will Assist in Resolving the Select Clinical Problem	0 points Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is not present.	8.4 points Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is present but incomplete.	9.24 points Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is present but done at a perfunctory level.	9.66 points Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.	10.5 points Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.
Language Use and Audience Awareness (includes sentence construction, word choice, etc.) Language Use and Audience Awareness (includes sentence construction, word choice, etc.)	0 points Inappropriate word choice and lack of variety in language use are evident. Writer appears to be unaware of audience. Use of primer prose indicates writer either does not apply figures of speech or uses them inappropriately.	2.8 points Some distracting inconsistencies in language choice (register) or word choice are present. The writer exhibits some lack of control in using figures of speech appropriately.	3.08 points Language is appropriate to the targeted audience for the most part.	3.22 points The writer is clearly aware of audience, uses a variety of appropriate vocabulary for the targeted audience, and uses figures of speech to communicate clearly.	3.5 points The writer uses a variety of sentence constructions, figures of speech, and word choice in distinctive and creative ways that are appropriate to purpose, discipline, and scope.
Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use) Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)	0 points Slide errors are pervasive enough that they impede communication of meaning.	5.6 points Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the reader.	6.16 points Some mechanical errors or typos are present, but they are not overly distracting to the reader.	6.44 points Slides are largely free of mechanical errors, although a few may be present.	7 points Writer is clearly in control of standard, written, academic English.
Brief Description of Clinical Problem Brief Description of Clinical Problem	0 points Brief description of clinical problem is not present.	5.6 points Brief description of clinical problem is present but incomplete.	6.16 points Brief description of clinical problem is present but done at a perfunctory level.	6.44 points Brief description of clinical problem is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.	7 points Brief description of clinical problem is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.
Problem-Specific Technology to Improve Patient Outcomes Problem-Specific Technology to Improve Patient Outcomes	0 points Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is not present.	8.4 points Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is present but incomplete.	9.24 points Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is present but done at a perfunctory level.	9.66 points Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.	10.5 points Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.

Criterion

1. Unsatisfactory

2. Less Than Satisfactory

3. Satisfactory

4. Good

5. Excellent

Layout

0 points

The layout is cluttered, confusing, and does not use spacing, headings, and subheadings to enhance the readability. The text is extremely difficult to read with long blocks of text, small point size for fonts, and inappropriate contrasting colors. Poor use of headings, subheadings, indentations, or bold formatting is evident.

2.8 points

The layout shows some structure, but appears cluttered and busy or distracting with large gaps of white space or a distracting background. Overall readability is difficult due to lengthy paragraphs, too many different fonts, dark or busy background, overuse of bold, or lack of appropriate indentations of text.

3.08 points

The layout uses horizontal and vertical white space appropriately. Sometimes the fonts are easy to read, but in a few places the use of fonts, italics, bold, long paragraphs, color, or busy background detracts and does not enhance readability.

3.22 points

The layout background and text complement each other and enable the content to be easily read. The fonts are easy to read and point size varies appropriately for headings and text.

3.5 points

The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of headings, subheadings, and white space. Text is appropriate in length for the target audience and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of the text.

Presentation of Content

0 points

The content lacks a clear point of view and logical sequence of information. Includes little persuasive information. Sequencing of ideas is unclear.

2.8 points

The content is vague in conveying a point of view and does not create a strong sense of purpose. Includes some persuasive information.

3.08 points

The presentation slides are generally competent, but ideas may show some inconsistency in organization or in their relationships to each other.

3.22 points

The content is written with a logical progression of ideas and supporting information exhibiting a unity, coherence, and cohesiveness. Includes persuasive information from reliable sources.

3.5 points

The content is written clearly and concisely. Ideas universally progress and relate to each other. The project includes motivating questions and advanced organizers. The project gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea.

Discussion of Potential Strengths and Limitations of the Technology

0 points

Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is not present.

5.6 points

Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is present but incomplete.

6.16 points

Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is present but done at a perfunctory level.

6.44 points

Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.

7 points

Discussion of the potential strengths and limitations of the technology is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.

Documentation of Sources

Documentation of Sources (citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, etc., as appropriate to assignment and style)

0 points

Sources are not documented.

5.6 points

Documentation of sources is inconsistent or incorrect, as appropriate to assignment and style, with numerous formatting errors.

6.16 points

Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, although some formatting errors may be present.

6.44 points

Sources are documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is mostly correct.

7 points

Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.

Applicable Theory to Guide Presentation

0 points

Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is not present.

8.4 points

Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is present but incomplete.

9.24 points

Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is present but done at a perfunctory level.

9.66 points

Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.

10.5 points

Discussion of applicable theory to guide presentation is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.

How the Technology Will Assist in Resolving the Select Clinical Problem

0 points

Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is not present.

8.4 points

Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is present but incomplete.

9.24 points

Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is present but done at a perfunctory level.

9.66 points

Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.

10.5 points

Discussion of how the technology will assist in resolving the select clinical problem is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.

Language Use and Audience Awareness (includes sentence construction, word choice, etc.)

0 points

Inappropriate word choice and lack of variety in language use are evident. Writer appears to be unaware of audience. Use of primer prose indicates writer either does not apply figures of speech or uses them inappropriately.

2.8 points

Some distracting inconsistencies in language choice (register) or word choice are present. The writer exhibits some lack of control in using figures of speech appropriately.

3.08 points

Language is appropriate to the targeted audience for the most part.

3.22 points

The writer is clearly aware of audience, uses a variety of appropriate vocabulary for the targeted audience, and uses figures of speech to communicate clearly.

3.5 points

The writer uses a variety of sentence constructions, figures of speech, and word choice in distinctive and creative ways that are appropriate to purpose, discipline, and scope.

Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)

0 points

Slide errors are pervasive enough that they impede communication of meaning.

5.6 points

Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the reader.

6.16 points

Some mechanical errors or typos are present, but they are not overly distracting to the reader.

6.44 points

Slides are largely free of mechanical errors, although a few may be present.

7 points

Writer is clearly in control of standard, written, academic English.

Brief Description of Clinical Problem

0 points

Brief description of clinical problem is not present.

5.6 points

Brief description of clinical problem is present but incomplete.

6.16 points

Brief description of clinical problem is present but done at a perfunctory level.

6.44 points

Brief description of clinical problem is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.

7 points

Brief description of clinical problem is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.

Problem-Specific Technology to Improve Patient Outcomes

0 points

Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is not present.

8.4 points

Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is present but incomplete.

9.24 points

Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is present but done at a perfunctory level.

9.66 points

Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is convincing. Information presented is from scholarly though dated sources.

10.5 points

Discussion of a problem-specific technology to improve patient outcomes is insightful and forward-thinking. Information presented is from current scholarly sources.

Assignment: Emerging Technologies

Assignment: Emerging Technologies

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