NR 532 Week 6 Discussion: Meaningul Use of Technology and Information Management (GRADED A)

Discuss one example where simulation technology could be beneficial for nursing or for patient care. Explain your rationale. In addition, discuss two strategies you could implement to ensure the confidentiality and protection of patient health information at your facility. Good afternoon Dr. Coleman and class, Using simulation technology in learning is gaining popularity and can be a very valuable learning tool. Human simulation learning is a method that allows students to develop, refine, and apply learned information, intervention and skills in a realistic simulated clinical situation. Simulated clinical situations with specific learning goals and objectives are used to help students gain experience, learn, and promote competency requirements for real situations. This is done without fear of harm to a live patient and promotes patient safety and better outcomes. The student has the opportunities to practice scenarios and apply knowledge and procedures in clinical situations within a safe, supervised environment without posing a risk to a patient (Durham, & Arden, 2018). Simulation technology is a beneficial tool used to improve patient care. For example, at my facility, we use simulation for BLS/ACLS training and certification. I find this learning tool very effective and is a way to learn and each person’s own pace without the fear of peer ridicule or harm to actual patients. A study was done to evaluate the effect of simulation-based learning using a standard set of simulated clinical situations for nursing students. The clinical thinking, nursing skills and decision-making abilities were evaluated. 18 controlled trials (4 randomized and 14 nonrandomized designs), with a total of 1326 nursing students was conducted. The conclusion was that simulation-based learning appeared to a positive effect on the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills compared to traditional classroom learning and labs. These results suggest that simulation-based learning has a positive impact on self-efficacy and learning, motivation, and skill improvement ( Oh, Jeon, & Koh, 2015). In reference to discussing strategies used that protect patient confidentiality and information, the use of and evolving technology available to make patient care and communication more efficient, faster and accurate has opened the door to many privacy concerns. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is used to govern issues related to the security and privacy of any information about each patient. As a nurse leader, to ensure that policies regarding protecting the patient’s confidential information are well known and implemented by all nursing staff and co-workers. It is the responsibility of every nurse as well as other care providers to use tools and interventions that are in place to ensure each patient’s information is protected. As new technology is developed and used for information sharing, protecting confidential information and patient privacy is more challenging (Roussel et al., 2016).