NURS659 Week 1 Assignment: Identifying Gaps Paper

NURS659 Week 1 Assignment: Identifying Gaps Paper

NURS659 Week 1 Assignment: Identifying Gaps Paper

Write a three- to four-page paper that describes a minimum of two gaps that you have identified in current and future workflow processes in your organization. Propose possible solutions for the gaps identified.

Follow APA format and provide a minimum of five scholarly resources.

Examples of scholarly sources include professional journal articles and books obtained from library databases, national guidelines, and informatics organizations, published within the last five years.

NURS659 Week 2 Assignment: Strategic Plan for Clinical Decision Support

Building on the activity you have just completed, create a two- to three-page strategic plan (paper) using APA format and a minimum of three scholarly sources. Examples of scholarly sources include professional journal articles and books obtained from library databases, national guidelines, and informatics organizations, published within the last five years.

Please include the following information in your plan (organize using headings):

The approach you would take to ensure all aspects of patient care are considered

Define and describe a minimum of five CDS supports you would include

How you would prioritize the efforts

Potential areas to focus on that are related to payment rates, national quality measures, CDS interventions that meet meaningful use requirements, readmissions for congestive heart failure and other care events, and areas identified as institutional priorities for clinical improvement

How you would balance the need to deliver the CDS capabilities quickly against the benefit of establishing a robust infrastructure

Identify one area for quality and improvement and what CDS strategies you would implement to improve that area

Define how your approach aligns with best practices such as CDS Five Rights, CDS 10 commandments, and the desire to use standards-based scalable approaches

Include how you will systematically measure the effect of the CDS interventions.

NURS659 Week 3 Assignment: EHR Implementation Teaching/Training Plan

As the nursing informaticist leading the implementation of a new electronic health record, you may be assigned the task of developing a teaching/training plan for your newly acquired EHR. There are a number of things you must consider when developing teaching/training materials. These include, but are not limited to:

Setting/Practice type

Having a plan for each “role” that needs training at your facility (e.g., IT professionals, providers, patients, management)

Figuring out what training each particular group will need and how you will schedule these trainings based on the groupings. Consider grouping different roles for specific trainings where you can for efficiency

Meaningful use

Although we realize that in reality a teaching/training implementation plan would be an extensive plan involving all stakeholders from employees to patients, for the purpose of this assignment, we are going to have you focus on employee groups in a specific type of setting.

Visit the Implementation Resources pages of HealthIT.gov at the following link:

Explore the site’s resources by narrowing the search using the tool on the left side of the page several different times to see different materials for different situations.

Choose a setting/practice type and describe it in detail. Then, choose three different resources you might use at the start of a teaching/training plan in this setting (include them in your submission as appendices, not counting toward the page count of your paper). Make sure at least two of the resources apply to at least two different roles within the setting. Describe why you chose each one, how you would use each one, who they are geared toward (group roles when possible for efficiency), the setting in which they apply, and any other considerations you made while choosing them.

Write a three- to four-page paper in APA format, providing a minimum of three scholarly resources to support your teaching/training initial plan. Examples of scholarly sources include professional journal articles and books obtained from library databases, national guidelines, and informatics organizations, published within the last five years.

NURS659 Week 4 Assignment: Selling Your System Presentation

Imagine that you are a project manager at an electronic health record company that has recently bought their competitor. You are going into a facility that has been using the old competitor’s system and you will be in charge of discussing the effects of upgrading or changing EHR systems.

Using the course materials and a minimum of two outside resources, discuss the implications of upgrading or changing to a different EHR.

Include the process, the people involved, and the training needed, as well as the positive and negative outcomes that may occur during transition.

Keep in mind that you work for the EHR company, and you need to focus on selling the new system to the facility.

Use the Kaltura recording tool to create your presentation. It should be no more than five minutes in duration and should include audio with your integrated PowerPoint. Please see the Getting Started with Kaltura link in the main menu if you need to review how to use the recording tool.

NURS659 Week 5 Assignment: Downtime Plan Analysis Paper

Analyze the current downtime plan for scheduled upgrades that will support workflow, clinical processes, and data recovery in your organization.

Utilizing scholarly resources, write a two- to three-page paper that discusses your recommendations for editing or amending the current downtime plan. In addition to course resources, a minimum of two outside resources must be used.

Examples of scholarly sources include professional journal articles and books obtained from library databases, national guidelines, and informatics organizations, published within the last five years.

NURS659 Week 6 Assignment: Meaningful Use Planning Pamphlet

You are in charge of planning and implementing the third stage of meaningful use at a large healthcare organization. Create an educational pamphlet to explain the third stage of meaningful use and its effect on health care and electronic health records. In addition to course resources, a minimum of two outside resources must be used. Examples of scholarly sources include professional journal articles and books obtained from library databases, national guidelines, and informatics organizations, published within the last five years.

Websites with free software for building creative items that you can then download as a PDF:

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Vengage

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Note: WCU is not responsible for these websites. You do not have to use any of them; this is only a list to provide options. You can use any software you have available with which you are most comfortable and can be downloaded as a PDF for assignment submission.