Overview
Introduction
Doctor of Nursing Practice-prepared nurses will be expected to lead large-scale informatics/technology implementation projects. One of the keys to a successful project is understanding real or potential risks. The HealthIT SAFER Guides are designed to recommend practices to optimize the safety and safe use of EHRs and other technology. In this assessment, you will demonstrate this by using the SAFER Guides to examine performance and risk in your chosen healthcare setting. Then, you will create a video presentation reporting your findings and reflecting on the experience.
Preparation
In preparation for this assessment, think about the technology/informatics you recommended to implement as part of the practice change to address the safety, process, or quality issues identified in the previous assessment. Review the nine SAFER Guides found in Assessment 2: SAFER Guides with your proposed technology/informatics in mind. You will use the discoveries you uncover by using the SAFER Guides to identify risks, which you will address via the risk mitigation plan you will create in Assessment 3.
If you are not familiar with the SAFER Guides, Assessment 2: How to Use SAFER Guidesmay help you get started on this assessment.
If you choose to make revisions based on feedback from a previous attempt, you should highlight your revisions in yellow. For example, if you made revisions from attempt one and would like the instructor to review the content when grading attempt two, the content needs to be highlighted. Therefore, the instructor reviews only the content highlighted on attempts two and three. If the entire paper is highlighted, the paper will be returned ungraded and will count as an attempt. Track changes are not a substitution for highlighted text.Before you get started, please watch the following video:
Instructions
For this assessment, create a 5–8 minute video presentation for an executive-level audience to showcase your SAFER guidelines and identify and describe any potential risks uncovered through the completion of such. Make sure to use the literature to support your findings.
Overall, your assessment will be assessed based on the following criteria and should be presented in the order listed:
- Describe the technology/informatics you propose to implement as part of a practice change to drive improvements in a chosen healthcare environment.
- Evaluate the use of information and communication technology to address needs, gaps, and inefficiencies in care.
- You may wish to refer to your work in the previous assessments to help you compose this section. Keep in mind, as you move through these assessments, your writing should become more concise.
- Explain SAFER Guides findings related to areas where the chosen healthcare environment is performing well with regard to the proposed technology/informatics.
- These will likely be areas in which you would have rated your chosen healthcare environment as "Fully in all areas" on the SAFER Guides.
- Explain SAFER Guides findings related to risks with regard to the proposed technology/informatics in the context of the chosen healthcare environment.
- These will likely be areas in which you would have rated your chosen healthcare environment as "Not implemented" on the SAFER Guides, but could also include areas you rated "Partially in some areas," depending on how severe the risks might be.
- Reflect on the experience of using the SAFER Guides to discover areas of risks and to focus improvement efforts.
- Think about the process of using the SAFER Guides and how it helped you adopt a different point of view in your evaluation.
Note: Remember, the assessments in this course build upon one another. It may be helpful to refer to any feedback you received on previous assessments when completing this. Also, keep in mind that your findings from the SAFER Guides will be used to inform Assessment 3.
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