Policy/Regulation Fact Sheet

As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise.
With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders.
In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate.

To Prepare:
    Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.
    Consider the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to a healthcare organizations compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
    Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.

The Assignment: (1 page)
Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:
    Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
    Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
    Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
    Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.

Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references.

The Role of the Nurse Informaticist in Systems Development and Implementation

Assume you are a nurse manager on a unit where a new nursing documentation system is to be implemented. You want to ensure that the system will be usable and acceptable for the nurses impacted. You realize a nurse leader must be on the implementation team.
To Prepare:
    Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and reflect on the scenario presented.
    Consider the benefits and challenges associated with involving a nurse leader on an implementation team for health information technology.
The Assignment: (1-2 pages)
In preparation of filling this role, develop a 1- to 2-page role description for a graduate-level nurse to guide his/her participation on the implementation team. The role description should be based on the SDLC stages and tasks and should clearly define how this individual will participate in and impact each of the following steps:
    Planning and requirements definition
    Analysis
    Design of the new system
    Implementation
    Post-implementation support

Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references.

Literature Review: The Use of Clinical Systems to Improve Outcomes and Efficiencies

New technologyand the application of existing technologyonly appears in healthcare settings after careful and significant research. The stakes are high, and new clinical systems need to offer evidence of positive impact on outcomes or efficiencies.
Nurse informaticists and healthcare leaders formulate clinical system strategies. As these strategies are often based on technology trends, informaticists and others have then benefited from consulting existing research to inform their thinking.
In this Assignment, you will review existing research focused on the application of clinical systems. After reviewing, you will summarize your findings.

To Prepare:
    Review the Resources and reflect on the impact of clinical systems on outcomes and efficiencies within the context of nursing practice and healthcare delivery.
    Conduct a search for recent (within the last 5 years) research focused on the application of clinical systems. The research should provide evidence to support the use of one type of clinical system to improve outcomes and/or efficiencies, such as the use of personal health records or portals to support patients newly diagnosed with diabetes.
    Identify and select 4 peer-reviewed research articles from your research.

The Assignment: (2-3 pages)

In a 2-3 page paper, synthesize the peer-reviewed research you reviewed. Format your Assignment as an Annotated Bibliography. Be sure to address the following:
    Identify the 4 peer-reviewed research articles you reviewed, citing each in APA format.
    Summarize each study, explaining the improvement to outcomes, efficiencies, and lessons learned from the application of the clinical system each peer-reviewed article described. Be specific and provide examples.
    In your conclusion, synthesize the findings from the 4 peer-reviewed research articles

Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references. The sample paper provided at the Walden Writing Center provides an example of those required elements (available at https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates). All papers submitted must use this formatting.

Class: Managing Human Resources

Discussion: Creating Psychologically Safe Healthcare Teams

Background:
As you consider necessary qualities for a nurse executive, where do you place the capacity to persuade? Although the position may come with authority to make decisions and give orders, the ability to establish an environment where employees feel free to disagree may be as important, if not more so, than the power invested in your position.
Creating psychologically safe environments within a healthcare setting is one such example.

Environments are generally fashioned by the people in charge and changing how people react and respond is not as simple as flipping a switchor even issuing a directive. It often requires providing strong evidence that encourages a change in behavior.
For this Discussion, you will explore the process of creating psychologically safe healthcare teams by considering how you would educate others about the necessity of providing psychological safety and, specifically, how to achieve it.

ASSIGNMENT: (ALL components must be covered)
    Review the Learning Resources on psychological safety. In particular, review the video resources featuring Amy Edmondson, a Harvard professor and expert on psychological safety in the workplace.
    Consider the role of team leaders in creating psychologically safe environments, and based on the resources provided, the specific benefits for healthcare organizations.
    Reflect on your role as a nurse executive and how you would explain to team leaders and other managers in a healthcare setting their roles in creating psychologically safe environments for team members, including benefits for teams and the organization. Consider possible types of resistance from team leaders and others, and how you would respond.

Include minimum 3 in text citations

RUBRIC:
Answers all parts of the discussion question(s) expectations with reflective critical analysis and synthesis of knowledge gained from the course readings for the module and current credible sources. Supported by at least three current (no more than 5yrs old; preferably from the resources attached), credible sources. Written clearly and concisely with no grammatical or spelling errors and fully adheres to current APA manual writing rules and style.

Resources:
Edmondson, A., & Roloff, K. (2009, September). Leveraging diversity through psychological safety. Rotman Management Magazine, 4751.

Gallup. (2017). State of the American workplace. Retrieved from https://www.gallup.com/workplace/238085/state-american-workplace-report-2017.aspx

ODonovan, R., Ward, M., De Brn, A., & McAuliffe, E. (2019). Safety culture in health care teams: A narrative review of the literature. Journal of Nursing Management, 27(5), 871883. doi:10.1111/jonm.12740   

Terry, P. E. (2019). Fearless health promotion and an interview with Dr. Amy Edmondson. American Journal of Health Promotion, 33(4), 493497. doi:10.1177/0890117119841697       

Walden University (Producer). (2012f). Team building [Video file]. Minneapolis, MN: Author.

Benedictine University Center for Values-Driven Leadership [benedictineCVDL]. (2018, July 6). Creating psychological safety at work in a knowledge economyAmy Edmondson, Harvard [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUo1QwVcCv0

TEDx Talks. (2014, May 4). Building a psychologically safe workplaceAmy EdmondsonTEDxHGSE [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhoLuui9gX8

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 11 minutes.