Unit 7 SDLP Draft Assignment

Unit 7 SDLP Draft Assignment

Purpose:

It’s important to develop your professional goals and how you achieve them in this course and your chosen program.

Directions:

To prepare your SDLP for the review, complete the steps outlined below.

After exploring the course description, course outcomes, and unit themes and outcomes, complete your SDLP for this course. Not all courses will directly impact your strengths or your areas of development.

What do you expect to learn in this course that will help you achieve your academic and professional goals? You are encouraged to reflect earnestly about how the course content and experience might serve your goals, as well as about what you might proactively do in the course to develop in your target areas.

If you have determined there are additional areas from which you would benefit, or areas you would like to replace, this is a good time to do so. Remember, this is your learning plan, so design it to help you achieve your unique goals. Integrate feedback (if any) from the Unit 7 SDLP Draft Assignment feedback. You must submit the Unit 9 SDLP Assignment using the . You should not submit a written paper for the Unit 9 SDLP Assignment. If you have references to support your SDLP then you should add a heading References at the end of the SDLP Template and add the references in APA format. You do not need to have a title page for this Assignment in APA format.

This Assignment will be graded based on evidence of thoughtful development of your SDLP.

To view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Resources.

Assignment Requirements:

Before finalizing your work, you should:

· be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);

· consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and

· utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Your writing Assignment should:

· follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);

· be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful; and

· display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics.

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Only to Read: Overview and Outcomes

Using Health Care Information Technology to Evaluate and Improve Performance

This unit provides an overview of the use of technology in practice. Patient outcomes can be enhanced by the ability to store, retrieve, and share data among provider networks. Use of data in quality improvement and research projects has specific parameters for privacy, security, and accuracy. This unit will provide opportunity to explore different methods of quality assessment utilizing different technological techniques.

Unit 9 Deliverables

1. One Discussion topic.

2. One Assignment.

3. Seminar Quiz.

After completing this unit, you should be able to:

· Monitor the quality of care delivered and the outcomes achieved by APNs.

· Discuss performance indicators at two levels: the aggregate level, where evidence addresses APN role impact; and the individual level, with activities directed at the outcomes of a single APN’s practice.

· Define key terms and describe frameworks for quality and outcomes assessment.

· Perform outcome evaluation and manage health information using systems that are developing in the United States.

Reading Resources

Textbook Readings

Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach

· Chapter 23: “Integrative Review of Outcomes and Performance Improvement Research on Advanced Practice Nursing”

· Chapter 24: “Using Health Care Information Technology to Evaluate and Improve Performance and Patient Outcomes”