Assignment: Policy/Regulation Fact Sheet

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)

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.