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As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise. With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expert…
Assignment Prompt & Instructions
As a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise.
With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders.
In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate.
**To Prepare:**
– Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.
– Consider the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to a healthcare organization’s compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
– Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.
**The Assignment: (1 page not including the title and reference page)**
Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:
– Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.
– Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.
– Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.
– Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.
– Use APA format and include a title page, in-text citations, and reference page.
– Use the Turnitin Drafts to check your match percentage before submitting your work.
Weekly Resources
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2022). _Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge_ (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
– Chapter 8, “Legislative Aspects of Nursing Informatics: HIPAA, HITECH and Beyond” (pp. 161–181)
– American Association of Nurse Practitioners. (2018). [_MACRA/MIPS: The transition from fee-for-service to quality-based reimbursement_Links to an external site.](https://www.aanp.org/legislation-regulation/federal-legislation/macra-s-quality-payment-program). Retrieved from https://www.aanp.org/legislation-regulation/federal-legislation/macra-s-quality-payment-program
– Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (n.d.). [_MACRA_Links to an external site.](https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/value-based-programs/macra-mips-and-apms/macra-mips-and-apms.html). Retrieved January 18, 2019, from https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/value-based-programs/macra-mips-and-apms/macra-mips-and-apms.html
– HealthIT.gov. (2018a). [_Health IT legislation_Links to an external site.](https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy/health-it-legislation). Retrieved from [https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy/health-it-legislationLinks to an external site.](https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy/health-it-legislation)
– HealthIT.gov. (2018b). [_Meaningful use and MACRA_Links to an external site.](https://www.healthit.gov/topic/meaningful-use-and-macra/meaningful-use-and-macra). Retrieved from
https://www.healthit.gov/topic/meaningful-use-and-macra/meaningful-use-and-macra
– U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.). [_Laws & Regulations_Links to an external site.](https://www.hhs.gov/regulations/index.html). Retrieved September 27, 2018, from https://www.hhs.gov/regulations/index.html
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