Submit a summary of six of your articles on the discussion board. Discuss one strength and one weakness for each of these six articles on why the article may or may not provide sufficient evidence for your practice change.

CHI is devoted to informatics from the perspectives of general consumers and patients. The focus is on empowering consumers and patients to manage their own health information through health information, PHR, and Internet-based tools and resources.

Tasks:

Using the South University Online Library, research CHI based on your readings and understanding, create a 5- to 6-page Microsoft Word report using at least five references that provides the answer to the following tasks.

• Compare and contrast the goal and functionality of PHR and EHR.
• Differentiate the role of other applications Social Networking, Home Telemedicine, and Smart Phone Technology in CHI from that of PHR.
• Describe and explain the challenges Consumer Informatics face in regard to health literacy.
• Critique the role of health professionals and healthcare organizations in CHI.
• Construct three recommendations for future development of CHI.

 HA3300D – Healthcare Policy and Ethics

Discussion 04: Ethics in the Era of ACA

Chapter 5 of your textbook discussed how the ACA, or Affordable Care Act, is changing the business of health care, as well as the ethical issues raised by the Act (also known as “Obamacare”).

Get more background on the ACA’s effect on individuals by viewing “Affordable Care Act Goes into Effect” and “Obamacare in 2014: A Tale of Two States,” both from NBC Learn.

INITIAL POST

Now, imagine that you are a healthcare administrator who must explain the pros and cons of the ACA to your hospital’s Board of Trustees. Respond to the following questions in your post:

• Are there existing ethical dilemmas in the healthcare field that the ACA solves? What are they?
• What new ethical conflicts might your hospital face as a result of the ACA?
• Which ethical theorists have the most to say about the ACA?

Your initial post should be 8 – 10 sentences in length and include an APA-style references list.

Respond to your classmate’s post from the perspective of an individual patient. Does the ACA raise ethical dilemmas for you, the individual patient, that it does not raise for hospital administrators? What would you like healthcare administrators to know about the ACA as it relates to ethics?

Each of your responses should be 4 – 6 sentences, and refer to the textbook or other course material.

This week you have learned about common Dermatology disorders in the Adult and Geriatric patient. For the purpose of this discussion select one of the following Dermatology and provide the following in your initial post:

• Common Signs and symptoms seen
• Screening assessment tools
• Recommended diagnostic tests (if any)
• Treatment plans both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic based on current clinical practice guidelines

Dermatology:

• Herpes Zoster
• Melanoma
• Tinea

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View the two videos linked below then answer the discussion question provided.

From the timeline, you are aware that in the 1960’s it was decided that the mentally ill should be provided care/ treat in their communities. This video will explain this process in greater detail.

Deinstitutionalization Movement

This is another segment of the same movie, explaining how communities in the different states were unable to meet client needs. As a result, many became homeless at that time, and many with a mental health disorder are homeless today.

The Homeless Mentally Ill

Initial Post

Do you think the mental health system in our country today functions well, or is it broken? Why or why not?

Purpose: To assist students in identifying areas to improve on in order to be academically successful, formulating strategies to implement and meet goals, and determining the effectiveness of the strategies (outcomes).

Student Learning Outcomes

• Describe her/himself as a learner.
• Demonstrate improvement of study skills through a variety of exercises.

Instructions:

1. Write a 4-8 page paper on the goals to improve, the outcomes, and the effectiveness of the strategies that you implemented this semester (use the chart below to guide you. Address each area.). Use the literature to provide the evidence to support your strategies.
2. Create two (2) strategies for each provided “Goals to Improve” that you plan to implement this semester.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness (Outcomes) of each strategy you implement in meeting the goal of improving academically.
4. Include a minimum of three (3) current (≤ 5 years), peer-reviewed, nursing journal articles.
5. Your paper should be 4-8 pages, excluding title and reference pages. No abstract is needed. Current APA formatting is required.
6. Upload each article in pdf form that is used in your paper to the Dropbox.
7. Please refer to the OWL at Purdue APA for questions. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
8. Do not include any block quotes (direct quotes ≥ 40 words) or direct quotes in your paper.  Instead, paraphrase the information in your own words and cite appropriately.
9. Include a conclusion. Use headers in your paper.
10. No more than 25% Turnitin score. 

Submit your paper to the appropriate Dropbox, in a Word docx, by the specified date/time. If the document is uploaded in a format that will not open, meaning the faculty cannot grade it as it was uploaded, then the student will receive a grade of zero (0). It is the student’s responsibility to verify that their paper is in the correct format.

Only assignments that are uploaded to the correct location will be graded. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure they upload the correct assignment to the correct location and by the posted due date/time. It is also the student’s responsibility to ensure that they upload the correct version of their assignment. Only the version that is uploaded/posted will be graded. If a student inadvertently uploads the incorrect version of an assignment, it is the student’s responsibility to contact their instructor prior to the due date/time.

Evidence-Based Project, Part 5: Recommending an Evidence-Based Practice Change

The collection of evidence is an activity that occurs with an endgame in mind. For example, law enforcement professionals collect evidence to support a decision to charge those accused of criminal activity. Similarly, evidence-based healthcare practitioners collect evidence to support decisions in pursuit of specific healthcare outcomes.

In this Assignment, you will identify an issue or opportunity for change within your healthcare organization and propose an idea for a change in practice supported by an EBP approach.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on the four peer-reviewed articles you critically appraised in Module 4, related to your clinical topic of interest and PICOT.
• Reflect on your current healthcare organization and think about potential opportunities for evidence-based change, using your topic of interest and PICOT as the basis for your reflection.

The Assignment: (Evidence-Based Project)

Part 5: Recommending an Evidence-Based Practice Change

Create an 8- to 9-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

• Briefly describe your healthcare organization, including its culture and readiness for change. (You may opt to keep various elements of this anonymous, such as your company name.)
• Describe the current problem or opportunity for change. Include in this description the circumstances surrounding the need for change, the scope of the issue, the stakeholders involved, and the risks associated with change implementation in general.
• Propose an evidence-based idea for a change in practice using an EBP approach to decision making. Note that you may find further research needs to be conducted if sufficient evidence is not discovered.
• Describe your plan for knowledge transfer of this change, including knowledge creation, dissemination, and organizational adoption and implementation.
• Describe the measurable outcomes you hope to achieve with the implementation of this evidence-based change.
• Be sure to provide APA citations of the supporting evidence-based peer reviewed articles you selected to support your thinking.
• Add a lessons learned section that includes the following:
  • A summary of the critical appraisal of the peer-reviewed articles you previously submitted
  • An explanation about what you learned from completing the Evaluation Table within the Critical Appraisal Tool Worksheet Template (1-3 slides)

cWhile the implementation plan prepares students to apply their research to the problem or issue they have identified for their capstone project change proposal, the literature review enables students to map out and move into the active planning and development stages of the project.

A literature review analyzes how current research supports the PICOT, as well as identifies what is known and what is not known in the evidence. Students will use the information from the earlier PICOT Question Paper and Literature Evaluation Table assignments to develop a 750-1,000 word review that includes the following sections:

1. Title page
2. Introduction section
3. A comparison of research questions
4. A comparison of sample populations
5. A comparison of the limitations of the study
6. A conclusion section, incorporating recommendations for further research

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.