G Acute Care Case Report Healthcare Informatics
In this assignment, learners are required to write a case
report addressing the personal knowledge and skills gained in the current
course and potentially solving an identified practice problem.
General Guidelines:
Use the following information to ensure successful
completion of the assignment:
- This
assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the
assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful
completion. - Doctoral
learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The
APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center. - Use
primary sources published within the last 5 years. Provide citations and
references for all sources used. - Your
case report should be no more than 10 double-spaced pages, including
references. - You
are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the
directions in the Student Success Center.
Directions:
Choose a specific focus of patient practice (e.g., acute
care hospital, clinic, primary care, long-term care, home health). Select a
particular disease process (congestive heart failure, fall, diabetes, etc.).
Identify and fully describe a technology element that could be involved in
providing care to a patient with your selected disease process and the patient
practice. Define how this technology will integrate treatment, monitoring or
communication from the identified care setting to the home and then to ongoing
care through the clinic.
Your case report must include the following:
- Introduction
with a problem statement and your disease process described from the focus
of patient practice. - Synthesized
literature review. - Description
of the case/situation/conditions. Use a real life patient situation or
condition to describe your case, including the problems the patient
encounters and the barriers to care. - Describe
at least one technology that may be used as a solution to the patient
situation or condition described in your case. - Describe
how the technology can be used specifically in the case you have proposed. - Summary
of the case integrating proposed solutions(s). - Conclusion.