Assessment aims This task provides you with an opportunity to review your knowledge of health and nursing informatics and online social media systems pertaining to the delivery of health information...

Assessment aims
This task provides you with an opportunity to review your knowledge of health and nursing informatics and online social media systems pertaining to the delivery of health information and care, and to evaluate their effectiveness, particularly in relation to enabling person-centred care health outcomes.

The assessment addresses the following course objectives:
CO1. Critique the application of health and nursing informatics and quality improvement in health care settings.
CO2. Critically review management and leadership approaches within a nursing practice context
CO3. Critically evaluate own knowledge, skills and attitudes for transition to professional practice and ongoing competence development.

Task description
You will write a 2,000-word formal, academic essay in response to the following question:
What are the advantages of both (1), nursing informatics and (2), online social media systems (e.g. EPAS, electronic health records, a Cystic Fibrosis site on Facebook) with regard to the delivery of quality in nursing practice and effecting person-centred health care? Discuss with reference to ONE Australian nursing informatics system and ONE online social media system.

In your appraisal, you must make explicit reference to the academic literature and regulatory standards relevant to the topic.

Additional information and resources about the assessment care in How to complete the task and assignment resources below.

Your essay must include references to support and illustrate your argument. You must use the UniSA Harvard Referencing system for in-text references and your reference list for ALL material which is not your own. This includes academic references, quality primary sources e.g. Government websites, images apart from your own, and online articles. There are examples of how to do this in the UniSA Harvard Referencing system guide.

As you prepare your assignment, remember to refer to the feedback rubric which explains how your assessment will be marked.



How to complete the task and assignment resources
The assignment asks you to identify the key features of both a nursing informatics system and a online social media system, and evaluate their quality on the delivery of nursing practice and person-centred health care.

Your essay must contain the following elements:
•    An introduction to the topic to orient the reader, explaining the aim and identifying the two systems and the key features you will be evaluating (150 words)
•    A description of person-centred care and its principles (250 words minimum)
•    A description of each system you will be evaluating, giving its purpose, the context for its use, and its key features AND An evaluation of each system in relation to its impact on nursing practice and the quality of person-centred care (1350 words)