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help !!!info_3.odtexample_3.pdfUnformatted Attachment PreviewWrite a 4-6-page analysis
of a current problem or issue in health care, including a proposed solution and possible
ethical implications. Introduction In your health care career, you will be confronted with
many problems that demand a solution. By using research skills, you can learn what others
are doing and saying about similar problems. Then you can analyze the problem and the
people and systems it affects. You can examine potential solutions and their ramifications.
This assessment allows you to practice this approach with a real-world problem.
Demonstration of Proficiency By successfully completing this assessment, you will
demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment
scoring guide criteria: • Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research
skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care. • Use scholarly information
to describe and explain a health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it. •
Discussion: Developing A Health Care Perspective LetterCompetency 2: Apply scholarly
information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care. • Analyze
a health care problem or issue by describing the context, explaining why it is important and
identifying populations affected by it. • Discuss potential solutions for a health care problem
or issue and describe what would be required to implement a solution. • Competency 3:
Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of health care. • Analyze the
ethical implications if a potential solution to a health care problem or issue was
implemented. • Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style,
in accordance with Capella’s writing standards. • Write clearly and logically, with correct
use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. • Write following APA style for in-
text citations, quotes, and references. Instructions Note: The requirements outlined below
correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address
each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performancelevel descriptions for
each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. 1. Discussion: Developing A Health
Care Perspective LetterDescribe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in

2. Assessment 2 (from the Assessment Topic Areas | Transcript media piece) and provide
details about it. • Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of
the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking. This approach was
introduced in Assessment 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. • Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and
identify possible causes for it. • Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed
journal articles about the topic. • You may find the How Do I Find Peer-Reviewed Articles?
library guide helpful in locating appropriate references. • You may use articles you found
while working on Assessment 2 or you may search the Capella library for other articles. •
You may find the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide helpful in your search. •
Review the Think Critically About Source Quality to help you complete the following: •
Assess the credibility of the information sources. • Assess the relevance of the information
sources. Analyze the health care problem or issue. • Describe the setting or context for the
problems or issues. • Describe why the problem or issue is important to you. • Discussion:
Developing A Health Care Perspective LetterIdentify groups of people affected by the
problem or issue. • Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.
Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue. • Describe what would be
required to implement a solution. • Describe potential consequences of ignoring the
problem or issue class=”ice-nodecoration” data-ice-class=”848587″>. • Provide the pros
and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing. Analyze the ethical implications if the
potential solution (the one for which you provide pros and cons) were to be implemented. •
Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making. • Discuss the
pros and cons of implementing the proposed solution from an ethical principle point of
view. • Describe what would be required to implement the proposed solution. Additional
Requirements Your assessment should also meet the following requirements: • Length: 4–6
typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page. • Font and font
size: Times New Roman, 12 point. • APA template: Use the APA Style Paper Template
[DOCX] as the paper format and the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOC] for guidance. • Written
communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar,
punctuation, and mechanics. • Using outside sources: Integrate information from outside
sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing,
following APA style. • Discussion: Developing A Health Care Perspective LetterReferences:
Integrate information from outside sources to include at least three scholarly or academic
peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper. • APA format:
Follow current APA guidelines for in-text citations of outside sources in the body of your
paper and also on the reference page. Organize your paper using the following structure
and headings: • • • • • • • • • Title page. A separate page. Introduction. A brief one-paragraph
statement about the purpose of the paper. Elements of the problem/issue. Identify the
elements of the problem or issue or question. Analysis. Analyze, define, and frame the
problem or issue. Considering options. Consider solutions, responses, or answers. Solution.
Choose a solution, response, or answer. Ethical implications. Ethical implications of
implementing the solution. Implementation. Implementation of the potential solution.
Conclusion. One paragraph. Running head: ANALYZE A CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROBLEM

3. OR ISSUE Analyze a Current Health Care Problem or Issue Learner’s Name Capella
University Developing a Health Care Perspective Analyze a Current Health Care Problem or
Issue March, 2018 Copyright ©2018 Capella University. Copy and distribution of this
document are prohibited. 1 ANALYZE A CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROBLEM OR ISSUE 2
Analyze a Current Health Care Problem or Issue Patient safety, as discussed in the previous
assessment, is an important element of quality health care. Discussion: Developing A Health
Care Perspective LetterThis assessment will expand upon patient safety issues that occur
when patients are exposed to inadvertent harm or injury while receiving medical care.
Health care organizations should maintain and develop a safety culture to prevent patient
safety issues. Patient safety culture is defined as a system that promotes safety by shared
organizational values of what is important and beliefs about how things work. It also
encompasses how these values and beliefs interact with the work unit, organizational
structures, and systems to produce behavioral norms (Ulrich & Kear, 2014). As such, care
should be taken to improve the infrastructure of health care organizations. Improving
patient safety should be discussed and addressed by every individual associated with public
health care. Elements of the Problem/Issue Research shows that while getting treated at
health care organizations, patients might be at risk of experiencing the harm or injuries
associated with medical care. The most likely causes of patient safety issues are preventable
adverse events, which are adverse events attributable to error. These errors can be
classified as diagnostic errors, contextual errors, and communication errors (Ulrich & Kear,
2014). Diagnostic errors take place when health care professionals provide a wrong or
delayed diagnosis or no diagnosis at all (James, 2013). An example of a wrong diagnosis is a
health care professional diagnosing a patient with gastric troubles when the patient is
actually experiencing a heart attack. An example of a delayed diagnosis is a patient not
being notified of an abnormal chest X-ray, thereby delaying diagnosis of a serious medical
condition. An example of a missed diagnosis is a patient not being diagnosed with heart
failure despite warning symptoms. Copyright ©2018 Capella University. Copy and
distribution of this document are prohibited. ANALYZE A CURRENT HEALTH CARE
PROBLEM OR ISSUE 3 Contextual errors occur when health care professionals fail to
consider their patients’ personal or psychological limitations while planning appropriate
care for them. An example is a health care professional’s failure to recognize that basic
follow-up discharge instructions may not be understood by patients with cognitive
disabilities (James, 2013). It is important for health care professionals to be aware of their
patients’ mental and physical abilities before they formulate a plan of care. Communication
errors occur when there is miscommunication or lack of communication between health
care professionals and patients (James, 2013). They can cause severe harm to Comment
[A1]: You provided a clear explanation regarding the problem investigated.The possible
causes were explored. patients. An example of this is a nurse failing to tell a surgeon that a
patient experienced abdominal pain and had a drop in red blood cell count after an
operation, resulting in the death of the patient due to severe internal bleeding. Limited
health care knowledge; language barriers; and auditory, visual, and speech disabilities could
also lead to communication errors and cause safety issues. Analysis As a medical
transcriptionist, it is important for me to be aware of potential transcription errors and

4. privacy standards, which affect patient safety. Errors like these pose dangerous risks;
therefore, it is necessary to have an overall quality evaluation of the transcribed documents.
Also, I must ensure that serious difficulties in transcription resulting from poor-quality
voice files are reported immediately to the manager, who will then convey this to the health
care professionals involved in the process. This will help ensure that patient safety is not
compromised. Context for Patient Safety Issues Copyright ©2018 Capella University. Copy
and distribution of this document are prohibited. Comment [A2]:Which error classification
describes these errors? Add this information to add continuity. ANALYZE A CURRENT
HEALTH CARE PROBLEM OR ISSUE 4 With the advancement of medical technology, health
care processes have become extremely complex. Health care professionals are required to
stay up-to-date with a lot of new knowledge and innovations obtained from research. This
often overburdens them as there is a need to apply the learning from research in their
practice. Also, at the individual level, there is a dearth of wellbalanced continuing education
programs, which has resulted in a lack of attention to patient safety among health care
professionals. At the system level, organizations fail to deliver optimum health care as a
result of being understaffed, an inability to provide appropriate technology, and ineffective
execution of patient care transfer (James, 2013). Overcrowding and understaffing delays
initiation of treatment and puts critically ill patients at significant risk. All of these factors
contribute to a rise in patient safety issues. Comment [A3]: You effectively indicated which
causes were the most likely to create safety issues. Populations Affected by Patient Safety
Issues Patients with a psychiatric history are also a vulnerable group of people who face
patient safety issues because their psychiatric records are often combined with their
current symptoms. Patients with a documented history of psychiatric illness may avoid
seeking health care services as they feel that their care will be based on their past record of
illnesses and not their present needs. Therefore, psychotherapists should implement
measures such that their psychiatric data is concealed from their medical records before it
is shared with the third party, which helps protect patients’ confidentiality (Shenoy & Appel,
2017).Considering Options Patient safety in hospitals can be achieved by creating a culture
of safety that involves effective communication, correct managerial leadership styles, and
the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Copyright ©2018 Capella University. Copy and
distribution of this document are prohibited. Comment [A4]: This section was very
informative about special populations, but it would be of value to also include the general
populations discussed earlier in this paper (such as public health patients and hospital
patients). ANALYZE A CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROBLEM OR ISSUE 5 Effective
communication while passing patient-specific information from one health care
professional to another is essential in ensuring continuous and safe patient care. Training
the team could likely improve consistent successful communication and help prevent
errors. Standardizing critical content that needs to be communicated by the initial health
care professional ensures safe transfer of care (Farmer, 2016). It is essential for leadership
teams to adopt organizational strategies that would improve patient safety and transform
their organizations into reliable systems for enhanced patient satisfaction. They should set
strategic safety goals, which could include adhering to standards of health, assessing
quality, using patient satisfaction reviews, and analyzing adverse event reports to

5. determine improvement in safety issues (Parand, Dopson, Renz, & Vincent, 2014). An EHR
is another potential solution to prevent patient safety issues. It is a digital record of a
patient’s medical information that includes history, physical examination, investigations,
and treatment (Ozair, Jamshed, Sharma, & Aggarwal, 2015). It helps manage multiple
processes in the complex health care system and prevents errors. EHRs utilize less storage
space compared to paper documentation and allow an infinite number of records to be
stored. In addition to being cost-effective and preventing a loss of records, EHRs help
conduct research activities and provide quick data transfer (Ozair et al., 2015). Solution In
health care, because transmission of information takes place among different people and
electronic devices, there is a high likelihood of errors occurring. For example, transcription
errors (which occur due to poor audio quality or the lack of a quality evaluation process)
can be prevented by using recording equipment with good sound quality and by
maintaining proofreading and quality checks. However, integrating transcription processes
with the EHR Copyright ©2018 Capella University.Copy and distribution of this document
are prohibited. ANALYZE A CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROBLEM OR ISSUE 6 system helps
prevent errors, helps access the required information faster, and allows health care
professionals to take accurate decisions about patients’ care. Implementation An EHR is an
important mechanism for improving patient safety. Its advancement has made it a viable
option to prevent medical errors. However, the use of EHRs has certain ethical implications
such as security violation, data inaccuracies, lack of privacy and confidentiality, and
challenges during system implementation. Security violation takes place when patients’
confidential health information is accessible to others without their permission. To avoid
security violation, data should not only be password protected but also encrypted to restrict
access to unauthorized individuals. Firewalls and antivirus software should be used to
protect data (Ozair et al., 2015). Though EHRs improve patient safety by reducing medical
errors, data inaccuracies are increasing. Loss of data during data transfer leads to
inaccuracies that affect decision-making related to patient care. Discussion: Developing A
Health Care Perspective LetterA problem of concern related to data inaccuracy is medical
identity theft, which leads to incorrect information being filed into a person’s medical
record, which in turn leads to insurance fraud and wrong billing (Ozair et al., 2015). In
health care, information that is shared during physician–patient interactions should be kept
confidential and should be made inaccessible to unauthorized individuals. Enabling
rolebased access controls based on user credentials will restrict access to the EHR system to
authorized users. The user should also be made aware that he or she is responsible for any
information that he or she misuses (Ozair et al., 2015). As EHR is a complex software, there
is a high likelihood that software failure may result in inaccurate recordings of patients’
data. Therefore, EHR system implementation may have Copyright ©2018 Capella
University. Copy and distribution of this document are prohibited. ANALYZE A CURRENT
HEALTH CARE PROBLEM OR ISSUE 7 ethical implications due to the violation of data
integrity (Ozair et al., 2015).EHRs can safeguard patient confidentiality by using various
methods that prevent security breaches. In addition to this, creating reminders that ask for
a confirmation before accessing confidential information can help protect data. A nesting
system could be developed, which would allow, for example, a health care professional from

6. a specific specialty clinic to access patient records by signing into the specialty domain
(Shenoy & Appel, 2017). These methods will enable the safe and efficient use of EHRs and
ensure patient safety. Conclusion Patient safety involves preventing the risk of harm or
injuries to patients by establishing a safety culture and providing high-quality medical care.
Health care organizations must understand patient safety issues and find solutions for these
issues by designing systems that prevent errors from occurring. Potential solutions include
effective communication, changes in leadership style, and the use of EHRs. The ethical
implications of these solutions should be considered before implementing them in a health
care setting. It is also important that health care professionals undergo continuous
education and effective training, provide appropriate medical care, prevent errors, and
follow safety practices to improve clinical outcomes. Copyright ©2018 Capella
University.Copy and distribution of this document are prohibited. Comment [A5]: The
concluding paragraph summarizes the analysis and solutions offered in this paper.
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