NR360 Uniform Assignment – We Can, but Dare We? Question # 00597299 Course Code : NR360 Subject: Health Care Due on: 01/28/2019 Posted On: 01/28/2019 11:09 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.9/5

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.

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.