Unit 4, Assignment 1
Health Information Technology Needs Analysis
Professional Context
A needs analysis is a way to address needed changes within a health care organization. Typically, when completing a needs analysis, the reviewer will look at the current state and compare it to a desired state for the organization.
This assignment provides an opportunity for you to complete a needs analysis to identify gaps in practice related to current technology within an organization. As a part of the need’s analysis, you will define a problem with current technology and determine what practice improvements can be made by identifying new or updated technology to meet the needs of the patient population and improve outcomes.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:
- Competency
2: Employ appropriate research methods to gather supporting evidence for quality
and process improvement interventions.
- Explain how specific practice changes will be legally and ethically beneficial for patients with respect to quality outcomes.
- Defend the relevance and importance of a needs analysis to patients, communities, and nurses.
- Competency
3: Identify gaps in practice based on the analysis of information management
system data.
- Identify gaps in practice within an organization.
- Competency
5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and
style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly
standards.
- Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.
Instructions
Conduct a needs analysis to identify gaps in practice related to a specific health information technology and report your findings. Before you begin writing your analysis report, be sure to note the requirements below for document format and length and for citing supporting evidence.
The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that, at a minimum, you address each criterion. You may also want to read the Health Information Technology Needs Analysis Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.
- Identify
gaps in practice within the organization.
- Use evidence-based practices and appropriate assessment techniques or processes to identify current gaps.
- Consider the key elements of communication, data management, and patient education.
- Explain
how specific practice changes will be legally and ethically beneficial for
patients with respect to quality outcomes.
- Include the factors that may potentially affect outcomes.
- Include the legal and ethical nursing responsibilities that are applicable to technology implementation and changes.
- Consider the patient’s educational and resource needs with regard to technology implementation and adoption.
- Defend
the relevance and importance of a needs analysis to patients, communities, and
nurses.
- Determine the influence of outcome measures on patient care.
- Determine the need for technology in the clinical environment.
- Identify the sources of data collection.
- Write
clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.
- Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
- Organize and structure your writing coherently.
- Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.
- Adhere to the accepted rules of grammar and mechanics.
- Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your assessment.
Document Format and Length
Format your document using APA style.
- Use
the APA Style Paper Template.
- A title page and a references page. An abstract is not required.
- A running head on all pages.
- Appropriate section headings.
