PICOT Paper: Care Coordination Approaches Using Health Information Technology for Reducing Nursing B

Population's Demographics and Health Concerns

Refer to the PICOT you developed for your evidence-based practice project proposal. If your PICOT required revision, include those revisions in this assignment. You will use your PICOT paper for all subsequent assignments you develop as part of your evidence-based practice project proposal in this course and in NUR-590, during which you will synthesize all of the sections into a final written paper detailing your evidence-based practice project proposal.

Write a 750-1,000-word paper that describes your PICOT. Describe the population's demographics and health concerns. Describe the proposed evidence-based intervention and explain how your proposed intervention incorporates health policies and goals that support health care equity for the population of focus. Compare your intervention to previous practice or research.

Explain what the expected outcome is for the intervention. Describe the time for implementing the intervention and evaluating the outcome. Explain how nursing science, social determinants of health, and epidemiologic, genomic, and genetic data are applied or synthesized to support population health management for the selected population.

Create an Appendix for your paper and attach the PICOT. Be sure to review feedback from your previous submission and revise your PICOT accordingly. Complete the "APA Writing Checklist" to ensure that your paper adheres to APA style and formatting criteria and general guidelines for academic writing. Include the completed checklist as the final appendix at the end of your paper.

Refer to the "Evidence-Based Practice Project Proposal – Assignment Overview" document for an overview of the evidence-based practice project proposal assignments. You are required to cite at least four to six peer-reviewed sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Problem statement:

Being front-line professionals, nurses play a fundamental role in improving safe and quality health care. However, nursing professionals frequently encounter care coordination challenges due to limited knowledge of coordination, poor knowledge, lack of technological advancement, poor teamwork, and team management (Recio?Saucedo et al., 2018).

Hence, long working hours and lack of coordination often resulted in nursing burnout reflected in high sleep deprivation, stressed work environment, and high absentees. In this case, electronic health record (EHR) systems can decrease the fragmentation of care by improving care coordination amongst professionals.

For example, Tai-Seale et al. (2016) suggested that electronic health records or any other technology enhance splitting even time for the nurses and physician and improve teamwork and care coordination. Akhu?Zaheya et al. (2018), suggested that such health information technology improves the quality of care by enhancing documentation quality, and hence, it is instantly distributed amongst professionals. Such care coordination enhances the quality of care and reduces professionals' long work and stress levels.

Similarly, Baumann, Baker, and Elshaug (2018), argued that since health information technology improves documentation, it enables nursing professionals to readily access patient history without investing time on gaining clinical history and access allergies previous medications used by the professionals. Hence, it improves teamwork and the ability to improve care coordination with a multidisciplinary team. In this case, the PICOT question will be following:

Research question:

Amongst registered nurses, can care coordination approaches using Health information technology reduce nursing burnout and improve quality of care?

PICOT:

P: Registered nurse

I: Care coordination approaches using health information technology

C: Standard care

O: Improved care coordination and low nursing burnout.