According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2021), nurses should “use information and communication technologies in accordance with ethical, legal, professional and regulatory standards, and workplace policies in the delivery of care” (p. 48).
American Association of College of Nursing. (2021). The essentials: Core competencies for professional nursing education.
Course Competency
Analyze ethical and nursing informatics practice standards within the context of healthcare delivery.
Content
Scenario
You are a nursing manager of the education and innovations department at a large nonprofit academic medical center. You do work at the flagship hospital, but there are three additional campuses and several affiliated facilities throughout three additional states. Therefore, technology is heavily relied upon for consistent and reliable communication for interdisciplinary care. Recently, the CNO sent you a patient satisfaction survey highlighting how impressed this patient was with their nurse’s timeliness of answering their questions. The patient continued to share that the nurse used their personal cell phone to reach out to the patient’s provider to get clarification of the patient’s discharge instructions. The patient loved their quick response and wanted to highlight this as a best practice for all healthcare professionals.
Instructions
You have just completed a technology usage assessment of the healthcare staff across departments, and it has come to your attention that several nurses occasionally communicate with medical providers through text on their personal cell phones, using their phone’s messaging service. The nurses found that they are able to meet their patient needs more quickly. Your assessment also discovered that a nurse used their personal cell phone to take a picture of a patient’s foot ulcer. The picture was posted on social media as a reminder to diabetics the importance of managing their blood sugars. As the nursing education manager it is your responsibility to ensure staff are following the hospital polices and your technology assessment has highlighted that the staff is in urgent need of HIPAA training and Smart Phone use.
Using the scenario above create a mandatory training for all staff using PowerPoint:
1. Voice over- recording of the PowerPoint.
2. Graphics- pictures
3. Bullet Point
4. Speaker Note: this is the information you will discuss from your bullet points.
The education including the following:
• Thoroughly examine personal Smart Phone (this is your phone, not the hospital phone) use and its implications in Healthcare
• Identify and explain a minimum of 3 unethical uses of Smartphones in healthcare (including text messaging and pictures)
• Discuss potential benefits to appropriate Smartphone use in healthcare
• Thoroughly examine judicious use of Social Media and its implications in Healthcare
• Potential benefits to appropriate use of Social Media in healthcare
• Identify a minimum of 3 unethical uses of Social Media (as reviewed by NCSBN)
• Thoroughly describe regulatory bodies and Ethical Frameworks used to protect Personal Health Information (PHI)
• Investigate the role of HIPAA, HITECH, and Nursing Code of Ethics
• Determine the legal consequences associated with unethical or illegal Smart Phone and Social Media use.