Develop an appreciation for informatics, basic skills, and knowledge required in practice settings. Students will select a “hot” or popular topic of particular interest to their practice to discuss

NR512 Health IT Topic of Week Assignment Guidelines with Scoring Rubric Purpose This assignment is designed to help students

• Develop an appreciation for informatics, basic skills, and knowledge required in practice settings. Students will select a “hot” or popular topic of particular interest to their practice to discuss. The topic will be selected from the website using the link provided in the course Assignments section.

Requirements Students will log in to Fierce EMR and Fierce Health IT using the link provided in the reading assignment module for Week 5 and select a (“current/popular” topic of the week that may impact their practice). The topic chosen is:- Industry Voices—5 things we need to fix in healthcare now. Visit the following site http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/it (Links to an external site.) Students, in a professionally developed paper, will discuss the rationale for choosing the topic, how it will impact practice in a positive or negative manner, citing pros and cons. Include a discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process of relevance to developing the assignment. In the conclusion, provide recommendations for the future.

Preparing the paper

1) The Fierce EMR and Fierce Health IT Current/Popular Topic of the Week assignment must be a professional, scholarly prepared paper. See the guidelines for writing a professional, scholarly paper in the Course Resources. The professional paper will have an introduction, body of the paper to explain what you are doing, summary/conclusion, and at least three scholarly references. 2) Required texts may be used as references, but a minimum of three sources must be from outside of course readings. 3) All aspects of the paper must be in APA format as expressed in the current edition. 4) The paper (excluding the title page, introduction, and reference page) is 5 pages in length. 5) Ideas and information from professional sources must be cited correctly. 6) Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing.

Category	Points	%	Description
Introduction	20	11.4	The introduction presents a brief overview of the parts of the paper.
Selects relevant HealthIT Topic to discuss; provides a rationale for selecting a topic	30	17	Provides convincing rationale for topic selection
Convincing arguments of how the topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner citing pros and cons.	40	23	Convincing arguments of how topic impacts practice in a positive or negative manner; the pros and cons are presented
Discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process of relevance to developing the assignment	30	17	Provides a discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process to develop the assignment
Conclusion	20	11.4	Concluding statements summarize insights about the key elements of the paper gained during the assignment. Recommendations for the future are provided
APA Style	20	11.4	Text, title page, the body of the paper, summary, and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.
Citations	7	4	Ideas and information from sources are cited correctly. There is a minimum of three scholarly, current (5 years or less) references.
Writing Mechanics	8	4.5	Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage and punctuation are consistent with formal written work,
Total	175	100%	A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

Grading Rubric

Assignment Criteria	Exceptional Outstanding or highest level of performance	Exceeds Very good or high level of performance	Meets Competent or satisfactory level of performance	Needs Improvement Poor or failing level of performance	Developing Unsatisfactory level of performance
Content Possible Points =  140 Points
Introduction	20 Points	18 Points	16 Points	14 Points	0 Points
	Introduction presents a brief overview all parts of the paper.	Introduction presents one of the two required elements.	Introduction does not include either of the two required elements.	Minimal attempt at introduction.	No introduction is present.
Selects relevant HealthIT Topic to discuss; provides rationale for selecting topic	30 Points	26 Points	24 Points	21 Points	0 Points
	Successfully selects relevant HealthIT Topic to discuss; provides rationale for selecting topic	Selects relevant HealthIT Topic to discuss; provides minimal rationale for selecting topic	Selects  HealthIT Topic to discuss; not related to practice; provides minimal rationale for selecting topic	Selects  HealthIT Topic to discuss; not related to practice; provides no rationale for selecting topic	Does not complete assignment
Convincing arguments of how topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner citing pros and cons.	40 Points	36 Points	32 Points		0 Points
	Provides convincing arguments of how topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner -pros and cons  presented.	Some arguments of how topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner -pros and cons  presented, but are not convincing in nature.	Minimal arguments of how topic will impact practice in a positive or negative manner -pros and cons presented.		No discussion of positive or negative impact presented
	30 points	26 points	24 points		0 Points
Discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process relevance to developing the assignment	Discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process relevance to developing the assignment is presented	Some discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process relevance to developing the assignment.	Minimal discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used  presented		No discussion of how informatics skills and knowledge were used
Conclusion	20 Points	18 Points	16 Points	14 Points	0 Points
	Concluding statements summarize insights about the key elements of the paper gained during the assignment. Recommendations for the future are provided	Provides a summary of key points and a partial summary of insights gained during the assignment. Includes some recommendations for future related to topic.	Concluding statements are present but do not address insights and/or includes minimal recommendations for future related to topic	Minimal concluding statements present but no insight or recommendations for future are presented.	No conclusion.
Content Subtotal_____/140 Points									Minimal concluding statement.
Format Possible Points =  35 Points
APA Style	20 Points	18 Points	16 Points	14 Points	0 Points
	0–1 APA format errors in text, title, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.	2-3 APA format errors in text, title page, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.	4-6 APA format errors in text, title page, in text, title page, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.	7-9 APA format errors in text, title page, in text, title page, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format	10 or more APA format errors in text, title page, in text, title page, body of paper, summary and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format.
Citations	8 Points	7 Points	6 Points	4 Points	0 Points
	0–1 errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited correctly. There are a minimum of three scholarly, current (5 years or less) references.	2-3 errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited.	4-6 errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited.	7-9 errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited.	10 or more errors in identifying ideas, and information from other sources are cited.
Writing Mechanics	7 Points	6 Points	5 Points	3 Points	0 Points
	0–3 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing	4–5 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing	6-7 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing	8-9 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing	10 or more errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing.
Format Subtotal_____/35 Points									8–9 errors in grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and other elements of formal academic writing
Total Points____/175 Points

ANSWER. PAPER DETAILS
Academic Level	Masters
Subject Area	Nursing
Paper Type	Assignment
Number of Pages	5 Page(s)/1375 words
Sources	0
Format	APA 6
Spacing	Double Spacing

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