Assessment INTRUCTIONS
Module 1, Part 1: 4-minute Podcast
Using the Brightspace Video Note tool, create a 4-minute podcast for your nursing colleagues.
- Choose an example of a communication technology tool from your practice or a practice area you are familiar with. Describe how this technology tool supports patient and team communications and patient safety.
- Explain the pros and cons of your chosen technology for the healthcare team.
- Explain the pros and cons of the technology from the patient’s perspective.
- Explain how this communication technology enhances the flow of clinical information to the healthcare team.
Module 2, Part 2: Paper on Use of Communication Tools in Nursing Practice
Using the CON Writing Template, write a paper addressing the following prompts:
- Describe how information and communication technology tools support patient and team communications. Be specific and provide examples. Cite relevant sources in APA format.
- Explain how a lack of communication or improper communication by providers using various forms of technology can negatively impact patient safety and/or privacy. Provide an example of mistakes that have happened or may happen with inappropriate use of technology in your nursing practice.
- Explain how a lack of information exchange, interoperability, and integration of hardware in healthcare technology systems might impact communication between healthcare providers and patients. Explain how a lack of communication or improper communication may impact patient safety.
| Rubric Criteria | Exceeds Expectations | Meets Expectations | Does Not Meet Expectations |
| Describe how information and communication technology tools support patient and team communications. Be specific and provide examples.
Learning Objective 2.1: Describe how information and communication technology tools support patient and team communications. |
Response provides a fully developed description, with specific examples, of how information and communication technology tools support patient and team communications. | Response provides an adequately developed description, with specific examples, of how information and communication technology tools support patient and team communications. | Response does not provide an adequate description of how information and communication technology tools support patient and team communications with specific examples. |
| Explain how a lack of communication or improper communication by providers using various forms of technology can negatively impact patient safety and/or privacy.
Learning Objective 2.2: Explain how a lack of communication or improper communication by providers using various forms of technology can negatively impact patient safety and/or privacy. |
Response provides a fully developed explanation of how lack of communication or improper communication by providers using various forms of technologies can negatively impact patient safety and/or privacy. | Response provides an adequately developed explanation of how lack of communication or improper communication by providers using various forms of technologies can negatively impact patient safety and/or privacy. | Response does not provide an adequate explanation of how lack of communication or improper communication by providers using various forms of technologies can negatively impact patient safety and/or privacy. |
| Provide an example of mistakes that have happened or may happen with inappropriate use of technology in your nursing practice.
Learning Objective 2.3: Provide an example of mistakes that have happened or may happen with inappropriate use of technology in your nursing practice. |
Response includes a fully developed example of mistakes that have happened or may happen with inappropriate use of technology in nursing practice. | Response includes an adequately developed example of mistakes that have happened or may happen with inappropriate use of technology in nursing practice. | Response does not include an adequate example of mistakes that have happened or may happen with inappropriate use of technology in nursing practice. |
| Explain how a lack of information exchange, interoperability, and integration of hardware in healthcare technology systems might impact communication between healthcare providers and patients.
Learning Objective 2.4: Explain how a lack of information exchange, interoperability, and integration of hardware in healthcare technology systems might impact communication between healthcare providers and patients. |
Response provides a fully developed explanation of how a lack of information exchange, interoperability, and integration of hardware in healthcare technology systems might impact communication between healthcare providers and patients. | Response provides an adequately developed explanation of how a lack of information exchange, interoperability, and integration of hardware in healthcare technology systems might impact communication between healthcare providers and patients. | Response does not provide an adequate explanation of how a lack of information exchange, interoperability, and integration of hardware in healthcare technology systems might impact communication between healthcare providers and patients. |
| Explain how a lack of communication or improper communication may impact patient safety.
Learning Objective 2.5: Explain how a lack of communication or improper communication may impact patient safety
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Response includes a fully developed explanation of how a lack of communication or improper communication may impact patient safety. | Response includes an adequately developed explanation of how a lack of communication or improper communication may impact patient safety. | Response does not include an adequate explanation of how a lack of communication or improper communication may impact patient safety. |
