Meaningful Use for Nurses:
Implications and Recommendations
Guidelines with Scoring Rubric
Purpose
This assignment is designed to help students
Course Outcomes
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the following ability.
(CO 3) Examine the ethical/legal issues arising in NI practice while using, designing, managing, upgrading, and building information systems. (POs 4, 6)
Total Points Possible: 325
Requirements:
Provide an overview of the Meaningful Use program and an analysis of the implications for nurses, nursing, national health policy, patient outcomes, and population health associated with the collection and use of Meaningful Use core criteria. Recommend additional core criteria not presently identified for Meaningful Use collection in Stages 1 or 2 (lists of criteria may be found at cms.gov) that you feel would be beneficial for nurses, nursing, monitoring population health, setting national health policies, and/or improvements in patient outcomes or population health, providing your evidence for your recommendations. If you feel that no additional criteria are necessary, provide your evidence-based rationale for your argument. Conclude with insights gained from this assignment. A minimum of three outside scholarly resources are required—texts may be cited but are NOT included among the minimum of three outside scholarly resources.
| Category | Points | % | Description |
| Introduction | 55 | 15 | Introduction establishes the purpose of the paper and names parts of the paper. |
| Overview of Meaningful Use | 55 | 15 | Provides an overview of the Meaningful Use program. |
| Analysis | 65 | 20 | Analyzes the implications of Meaningful Use core criteria. |
| Meaningful Use Recommendations | 65 | 20 | Provides evidence-based recommendations for the collection of additional criteria OR for why no additional criteria are felt to be necessary. |
| Conclusion | 55 | 15 | Concluding statements summarize the analysis and recommendations as well as the insights gained during the assignment. |
| APA Style | 10 | 5 | Text, title page, and reference page(s) are completely consistent with APA format. |
| Citations | 10 | 5 | Ideas and information from other sources are cited correctly. |
| Writing Mechanics | 10 | 5 | Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are consistent with formal written work, and page restrictions are met. |
| Total | 325 | 100 | A quality assignment will meet or exceed all of the above requirements. |

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