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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sets standards for the United States, and especially for the Federal government. The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (“FISMA”) required risk-based management of security for Federal information systems. NIST produced a Guide for Conducting Risk Assessmentsin 2002 that was revised in 2012.

You will find the revised guide here: http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-30r1.pdf

Although the PDF document is about 100 pages, there are only 38 pages in the guide proper. You will need to review at least a few of the appendices for this assignment in addition to reading the Guide.

You can find more background material with Google and especially Good Scholar. Please note that you can set a date range with Google Scholar, and so get only material published after the rule changes were announced. Try to find at least one publication that is a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

Questions to answer:

What was the target audience of this document, and how does it apply to health care institutions? To vendors of health care information technology? [25 point]

What are the key concepts of risk, risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication? [25 point]

What are the essential elements of a risk assessment reports? [25 point]

Appendix D of the Guide divides threat sources into categories of adversarial, accidental, structural, and environmental. Based on your reading to date, which category to you believe represents the biggest danger to health information technology? Support your choice with arguments from the Guide and at least one other source. [25 point]

Submission requirements:

Times New Roman, 12 font size, Double-space, Margin 1″. No more than 4 pages not counting the “Works Cited” page.

Be sure to have in-text citation, and Works Cited page. You can use Google Scholar or other online citation generation tools to generate citation in MLA f

For this discussion:

•Think about the clients you see in your own nursing practice and describe at least two barriers that hinder a plan of care with the pediatric population, that includes health promotion and wellness.

•Explain how each barrier works to inhibit the concepts of health promotion and wellness, using information found in scholarly sources.

This post needs to be at least 150 words with at least one APA formatted reference throughout the paper, and at the end as a reference.

n a paper (750-1,000 words), summarize your analysis of this exercise. Include the following:

Provide a summary of your learning style.

List your preferred learning strategies.

Compare your preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.

Discuss how the awareness of individual learning styles, preferences and strategies influence teaching (those who are in a position to teach) and learning (those who are in a position to learn).

Cite a minimum of three references in the paper.

Although the topic of this assignment refers to your individual learning style, avoid the use of first person voice (words such as, “I, we, our”) in your essay.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Although health care professionals play a significant role in health outcomes, the day-to-day management of a patient’s health is also a personal responsibility. Physicians and nurses can provide diagnoses, interventions, treatments, and prescriptions, but they will only have an impact if patients follow through with their health care provider’s recommendations.

The advent of diverse health-related technologies is providing unprecedented opportunities to assist patients in maintaining control of their health. Consider for a moment health and fitness mobile apps, talking pill bottles, and smart apartments. New patient-centered technologies are being developed every day!

For this Assignment, you will select a health-related mobile app, personal health record, smart technology, or an interactive social media site that is helping patients to better manage their health.

Note: For the purposes of this assignment, a “mobile app” is defined as a technology application that can be viewed, played, and stored on smartphone devices and tablets.

To prepare:

Review Chapter 35, “Consumer/Patient Engagement and eHealth Resources”, in the course text, Essentials of Nursing Informatics, and consider how technological innovations are transforming the ways patients’ access health-related information.

Reflect on the various patient-centered technologies that you or others may use, as well as those gaining attention in the media.

Conduct research on patient-centered technologies that assist users in managing their own health.

Select one technology category such as apps, personal health records, smart technologies, or interactive social media sites to further explore. Examine the parameters of a specific patient-centered technology within this category. How does this technology put patients in control of their health?

To complete:

Submit a 1-page paper that addresses the following:

Identify the patient-centered technology that you selected, as well as the population of patients for whom this technology is designed.

Describe how this technology is tailored toward patient use. Specifically, explain how the features, functions, and design can help patients manage their own health.

Explain the risks and benefits this technology might bring to users.

Predict the impact this technology might have on patient health outcomes. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources and any additional sources.

Note: If you choose to select an interactive social media site, text- or article-based websites such as WebMD or Health.gov may not be selected. For the purposes of this course, interactive social media is defined as a digital technology that allows users to manipulate, interact with, and/or engage with other users. Ensure that if you choose an interactive social media site, it adheres to this rule.