NR360 : Information Systems in Healthcare

Type: Essay

Subject: Information Systems in Healthcare

Subject area: Nursing

Education Level: Undergraduate

Length: 4 pages

Referencing style: APA

Preferred English: US English

Spacing Option: Double

Title: We Can, but Dare We?

Instructions: see attached rubric and follow

School: Chamberlain University

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Required Uniform Assignment: We Can, but Dare We? 

PURPOSE 

The purpose of this assignment is to investigate smartphone and social media use in healthcare and to 

apply professional, ethical, and legal principles to their appropriate use in healthcare technology. 

Course Outcomes  

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.  

• CO #4: Investigate safeguards and decision‐making support tools embedded in patient 

care technologies and information systems to support a safe practice environment for 

both patients and healthcare workers. (PO 4) 

• CO #6: Discuss the principles of data integrity, professional ethics, and legal 

requirements related to data security, regulatory requirements, confidentiality, and 

client’s right to privacy. (PO 6) 

• CO #8: Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force to institute change in the  

delivery of nursing care (PO 8) 

DUE DATE 

See Course Schedule in Syllabus. The college’s Late Assignment Policy applies to this activity. 

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TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE 

This assignment is worth a total of 240 points. 

Requirements 

1. Research, compose, and type a scholarly paper based on the scenario described below, and 

choose a conclusion scenario to discuss within the body of your paper. Reflect on lessons 

learned in this class about technology, privacy concerns, and legal and ethical issues and 

addressed each of these concepts in the paper, reflecting on the use of smartphones and social 

media in healthcare. Consider the consequences of such a scenario. Do not limit your review of 

the literature to the nursing discipline only because other health professionals are using the 

technology, and you may need to apply critical thinking skills to its applications in this scenario. 

2. Use Microsoft Word and APA formatting. Consult your copy of the Publication Manual of the  

American Psychological Association, sixth edition, as well as the resources in Doc Sharing if you 

have questions (e.g., margin size, font type and size (point), use of third person, etc.). Take

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advantage of the writing service SmartThinking, which is accessed by clicking on the link called the Tutor Source, found under the Course Home area. 

3. The length of the paper should be four to five pages, excluding the title page and the reference page. Limit the references to a few key sources (minimum of three required). 

4. The paper will contain an introduction that catches the attention of the reader, states the purpose of the paper, and provides a narrative outline of what will follow (i.e., the assignment criteria).  

5. In the body of the paper, discuss the scenario in relation to HIPAA, legal, and other regulatory requirements that apply to the scenario and the ending you chose. Demonstrate support from sources of evidence (references) included as in‐text citations. 

6. Choose and identify one of the four possible endings provided for the scenario, and construct your paper based on its implications to the scenario. Make recommendations about what should have been done and what could be done to correct or mitigate the problems caused by the scenario and the ending you chose. Demonstrate support from sources of evidence (references) included as in‐text citations. 

7. Present the advantages and disadvantages of using smartphones and social media in healthcare and describe professional and ethical principles to the appropriate use of this technology, based on facts from supporting sources of evidence, which must be included as in‐text citations.  

8. The paper’s conclusion should summarize what you learned and make reflections about them to your practice. 

9. Use the “Directions and Assignment Criteria” and “Grading Rubric” below to guide your writing and ensure that all components are complete. 

10. Review the section on Academic Honesty found in the Chamberlain Course Policies. All work must be original (in your own words). Papers will automatically be submitted to TurnItIn when submitted to the Dropbox. 

11. Submit the completed paper to the “We Can, but Dare We?” Dropbox by the end of Week 3. Please refer to the Syllabus for due dates for this assignment. For online students, please post questions about this assignment to the weekly Q & A Forums so that the entire class may view the answers.  

Preparing for the Assignment  

BACKGROUND 

Healthcare is readily embracing any technology to improve patient outcomes, streamline operations, and lower costs, but we must also consider the impact of such technology on privacy and patient care. This technology includes the use of social media applications, such as Facebook, Instagram, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn on smartphones. 

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In healthcare today, smartphones are widely used for communication, efficiency, and care. Obviously, a variety of issues (ethical, professional, and legal) from both the personal and hospital perspectives must be considered. SCENARIO 

You are a nurse in the emergency room, working the Friday 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, and your evening has been filled with the usual mix of drunken belligerent teens, wailing babies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, falls, fractures, and the routine, regular congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. Your best friend is texting you from the concert that you had to miss tonight because you were scheduled to work, and you respond to her between care of patients, jealous that she is there and you are not. “What a jerk to torture me like this!” you think to yourself. 

It is now 2 a.m., and the medics radio once again, notifying you of an incoming motor vehicle accident victim, ETA of 5 minutes. You sigh and opt to use the restroom, rather than getting that much‐needed cup of coffee, and prepare a room for your next patient. The medics roll in and begin to fill you in. The patient is a 28‐year‐old male, a passenger on a bus that was involved in a crash, leaving the vehicle 

overturned after rolling over an embankment. There were several fatalities among the bus passengers, and “this victim has remained unconscious, though his vitals are currently” . . . and as you start to focus on the patient, you take a second look. Can it be? It is! The lead singer, Jerod, from the band “Blue Lizards,” who you have adored since you first heard his voice! The band had just left the concert that you had missed last evening when the accident occurred. You quickly text your best friend . . . “Can you believe?” and she responds with “Yeah, right. PROVE IT.” So you quickly snap a picture with your smartphone, when alone with the patient, and send it to her. Can’t hurt, right? Celebrities are “public property,” and that’s a part of their life, right? Just for good measure, you snap a few more pictures of the unconscious singer in various stages of undress and then a shot of his home address, phone number, and demographic information from his electronic health record. You sit your phone down on the bedside table for a minute as you continue your assessment of the patient. 

At 7:00 a.m., you drag your tired body home and straight to bed after a long but eventful night.  

What happens next? Choose an ending to the scenario, and construct your paper based on those reflections: 

1. You are the following nurse on the day shift and discover the night nurse’s phone on the bedside table. While trying to figure out to whom it belongs, you open the phone and see the 

photographs taken the night before. Holy moly! What a find, and nobody could trace you to the photos. 

2. You receive a call from the gossip paper the Gossip Gazette, offering you $20,000 for the photos you have taken (courtesy of your best friend). Your identity would never be revealed, and you desperately need a new car and are behind on some bills. 

3. You go on Facebook, on your day off, and talk about the night you had at work and how you didn’t really feel as bad having to miss the concert, because you actually got to meet Jerod in person and even “Got his number!” You then post a picture of Jerod on Facebook and

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Instagram, figuring that most of your contacts would never recognize him anyway. It’s your day off and your personal time, so no harm, no foul, right? 

4. You receive a message the next morning from a peer at work that there is a big investigation being conducted at work due to a HIPAA violation and that it involved a celebrity who had been admitted to the hospital. The word is that legal action is being taken against the hospital due to some photos that were sold to the Gossip Gazette. Knowing that the photo you sent is safe with your best friend, you reach for your smartphone, but it is nowhere to be found.

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Directions and Assignment Criteria

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Assignment Criteria	Points	%	Description
Introduction 40   points	40	17%	Catches the attention of the reader States  the purpose of the paper  Provides a narrative outline of the paper (i.e., the  assignment criteria).
HIPAA, Legal, & Regulatory  Discussion   40 points	40	17%	Discussion the following as they apply to the use of cellphones and social media in healthcare: o  HIPAA/regulatory requirements  o Other legal requirements appropriate to the  use of this technology  Demonstrate support from sources of evidence  included as in‐text citations.
Scenario Ending &   Recommendations   50 points	50	21%	Choose and identify one of the four possible endings provided for the scenario.   Make recommendations about what should have been done and what could be done to correct or mitigate the problems caused by the scenario and the ending you chose.  Demonstrate support from sources of evidence  included as in‐text citations.
Advantages and   Disadvantages   50 points	50	21%	Discuss at least two (2) advantages and two (2)  disadvantages of using smartphones and social media in healthcare   Describe professional and ethical principles to the  appropriate use of this technology  Demonstrate support from sources of evidence  included as in‐text citations.
Conclusion and Reflections  30 points	30	12%	Summarize what you learned  Make reflections about lessons learned to your  practice.
Scholarly Writing and APA  Format   30 points	30	12%	Title page, running head, & page numbers are correct.  Use Microsoft Word and APA (6th ed.) formatting  Length is 4‐5 pages (excludes title & reference pages).  At least 3 references are used, listed in APA format  References match in text citations in APA format Spelling, grammar, & mechanics are correct.
Total	240	100%

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Grading Rubric

Assignment   Criteria	Outstanding or Highest Level  of Performance      A (92–100%)	Very Good or High Level of  Performance   B (84–91%)	Competent or Satisfactory  Level of Performance      C (76–83%)	Poor, Failing or   Unsatisfactory Level of   Performance F   (0–75%)
Introduction 40   points	The student catches the reader’s attention, states the paper’s  purpose, and provides a narrative outline of the paper’s body.  35–40 points	One of the following is missing or inadequate: attention‐catching statement(s), paper’s purpose, or a narrative outline of the paper’s body.  30–34 points	Two of the following are missing or inadequate: attention‐catching statement(s), paper’s purpose, or a narrative outline of the paper’s body.  26–29 points	Three of the following are missing or inadequate: attention‐catching statement(s), paper’s purpose, or a narrative outline of the paper’s body.  0–25 points
HIPAA, Legal, &   Regulatory   Discussion   40 points	The discussion of the following as they apply to the use of cellphones and social media in healthcare, is thoroughly addressed:  • HIPAA/regulatory  requirements  • Other legal requirements appropriate to the use of  this technology  Demonstrated support from  sources of evidence included as intext citations.  35–40 points	The discussion of the following as they apply to the use of cellphones and social media in healthcare, is lacking in one or more component: • HIPAA/regulatory  requirements  • Other legal requirements appropriate to the use of  this technology  or   Support is not demonstrated  adequately from sources of  evidence included as in‐text  citations.  30–34 points	The discussion of the following as they apply to the use of cellphones and social media in healthcare, is lacking in one or more component: • HIPAA/regulatory  requirements  • Other legal requirements appropriate to the use of  this technology  and   Support is not demonstrated  adequately from sources of  evidence included as in‐text  citations.  26–29 points	The discussion of the following as they apply to the use of cellphones and social media in healthcare, is lacking both components: •  HIPAA/regulatory requirements • Other legal requirements  appropriate to the use of this technology  and   Support is not demonstrated  adequately from sources of  evidence included as in‐text  citations.  0–25 points

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Scenario Ending &   Included all of the following  Included all of the following  Included all of the following  Did not included the following  elements sufficiently:  elements but did not develop at  elements substantively :  Recommendations   elements but did not develop at  • Identify one of the four possible  least one area substantively :  • Identify one of the four possible  50 points   two or more area substantively : •  • Identify one of the four possible  endings provided for the scenario.   endings provided for the scenario.  Identify one of the four possible  endings provided for the scenario.   endings provided for the scenario.

• Made recommendations about what should have been done. • Made recommendations about what could be done to correct or mitigate the problems caused by the scenario and the ending chosen. • Demonstrated support from sources of evidence included as intext citations.  45‐50 points

• Made recommendations about what should have been done. • Made recommendations about what could be done to correct or mitigate the problems caused by the scenario and the ending  chosen.  Or   • Did not demonstrated support from sources of evidence included  as in‐text citations.  40‐44 points

• Made recommendations about what should have been done. • Made recommendations about what could be done to correct or mitigate the problems caused by the scenario and the ending  chosen.  Or   • Did not demonstrated support from sources of evidence included  as in‐text citations.  36‐39 points

• Made recommendations about what should have been done. • Made recommendations about what could be done to correct or mitigate the problems caused by the scenario and the ending  chosen.  Or   • Did not demonstrated support from sources of evidence included  as in‐text citations.  0‐35 points

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Advantages and   Disadvantages   50 points	Met all of the following criteria: • Discussed at least two (2)  advantages and two (2)  disadvantages of using  smartphones and social media in healthcare   • Described professional and ethical principles to the appropriate use of this technology  • Demonstrated support from sources of evidence included as intext citations.  45‐50 points	Did not meet one of the following criteria:  • Discussed at least two (2) advantages and two (2) disadvantages of using smartphones and social media in healthcare   • Described professional and ethical principles to the appropriate use of this technology  • Demonstrated support from sources of evidence included as intext citations.  40‐44 points	Did not meet two or more of the following criteria:  • Discussed at least two (2) advantages and two (2) disadvantages of using smartphones and social media in healthcare   • Described professional and ethical principles to the appropriate use of this technology  • Demonstrated support from sources of evidence included as intext citations.  36—39 points	Did not meet Three or more of the following criteria:  • Discussed at least two (2) advantages and two (2)  disadvantages of using smartphones and social media in healthcare  • Described professional and ethical principles to the appropriate use of this technology  • Demonstrated support from sources of evidence included as intext citations.  0‐35 points
Conclusion and   Reflections   30 points	Met the following criteria  substantively:  • Summarized what you learned • Made reflections about lessons learned to your practice.  25‐30 points	Did not meet at least one of the  following criteria substantively: • Summarize what you learned • Make reflections about lessons learned to your practice.  20‐24 points	Did not meet either of the   following criteria substantively: • Summarize what you learned • Make reflections about lessons learned to your practice.  16‐19 points	Did not include a formal conclusion paragraph  0–15 points

Scholarly Writing  and APA Format  30 points  

The following  points 

• 6 points 

are achieved by successful implementation of each scholarly writing/APA element: Title page, running head, & page numbers are correct.  

• 4 points Use Microsoft Word and APA (6th ed.) formatting • 2 point Length is 4‐5 pages (excludes title & reference pages).  • 6 points At least 3 references are used, listed in APA format • 6 points References match in text citations in APA format

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• 4 points Spelling/mechanics & grammar are correct. 
• 2 point Scholarly writing style is used 

Total Points Possible = /240 Points 

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