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DNP 805 Week 7: informatics case report guide

The integration requirement is the spine: one technology that follows the patient from your care setting to home and then to the clinic. Choose a technology that cannot do that and the report has no middle.

Aug 15, 2026

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Last reviewed · August 15, 2026

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Aaron Bishop

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Dr. Nathan Cole

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Interpret the task
Assignment instructions
Deliverables
Proposed outline
Research plan
Reference shortlist
Final review

One patient, one technology, three settings

Choose the technology for its reach rather than for its sophistication, because the assignment asks it to do something specific: integrate treatment, monitoring or communication from your chosen care setting to the home and then to ongoing clinic care. A device that only works on the ward fails that test however impressive it is. Remote monitoring with a clinic-facing dashboard passes it; a patient portal with messaging and result release passes it; a structured discharge and medication reconciliation workflow that persists into primary care passes it. Pick the setting and disease process first — congestive heart failure in acute care, diabetes in primary care, falls in long-term care — and then select the technology that can actually follow that patient across all three stages. Pick the setting and the disease process first, then choose the technology that can actually follow that patient across all three stages, because the reverse order produces a report whose middle section has nowhere to go.

Work the eight required components in the order given, because the rubric follows that order and the case sits in the middle for a reason. The literature review must be synthesised rather than listed, which means it should reach a position about what the evidence supports rather than summarising sources in turn. The case itself needs a real patient situation with its problems and its barriers to care named explicitly, since the barriers are what your technology is being proposed against. Two instructions are easy to lose: primary sources published within the last five years, which rules out most textbooks and review articles you may have relied on, and the Christian worldview integration in the summary. Treat the latter as a genuine reflection on stewardship, dignity and care for the vulnerable applied to your solution, not as a sentence bolted on before the conclusion. Read the rubric before drafting rather than after, since it orders the sections for you.

Likely learning objectives

Inferred from the brief — check these against your own rubric.

01
Select a technology capable of spanning three care settings.
02
Synthesise a literature review into a position rather than a list.
03
Describe a real case with its barriers to care named explicitly.
04
Integrate a worldview reflection into a technical summary without ornament.

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Assessment Description In this assignment, learners are required to write a case report addressing the personal knowledge and skills gained in the current course and potentially solving an identified practice problem. General Guidelines: Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment: This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center. Use primary sources published within the last 5 years. Provide citations and references for all sources used. Your case report should be no more than 10 double-spaced pages, including references. You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance. Learners will submit this assignment using the assignment dropbox in the learning management system. In addition, learners must upload this deliverable to the Learner Dissertation Page (LDP) in the DNP PI Workspace for later use. Directions: Choose a specific focus of patient practice (e.g., acute care hospital, clinic, primary care, long-term care, home health). Select a particular disease process (congestive heart failure, fall, diabetes, etc.). Identify and fully describe a technology element that could be involved in providing care to a patient with your selected disease process and the patient practice. Define how this technology will integrate treatment, monitoring or communication from the identified care setting to the home and then to ongoing care through the clinic. Your case report must include the following: Introduction with a problem statement and your disease process described from the focus of patient practice. Synthesized literature review. Description of the case/situation/conditions. Use a real life patient situation or condition to describe your case, including the problems the patient encounters and the barriers to care. Describe at least one technology that may be used as a solution to the patient situation or condition described in your case. Describe how the technology can be used specifically in the case you have proposed. Summary of the case integrating proposed solutions(s). Keep in mind and integrate a Christian worldview when summarizing proposed solutions. Conclusion.

Turn the brief into deliverables

01
Introduction with a problem statement and the disease process in your practice focus.
02
A synthesised literature review from primary sources within five years.
03
A real case description with problems and barriers to care.
04
A technology solution and its specific application to the case.
05
A summary integrating a Christian worldview, and a conclusion.
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Submission to the dropbox, LopesWrite, and the Learner Dissertation Page.

The eight required components, in order

Problem statement and disease process

Establish the practice focus, the disease process and why it is a problem there.

Synthesised literature review

Reach a position on what the evidence supports for this technology and condition.

The case and its barriers

Describe a real patient situation, its problems and the barriers to care.

The technology across settings

Describe the technology and how it integrates care from setting to home to clinic.

Summary and conclusion

Integrate the proposed solutions with a worldview reflection, then conclude.

Primary sources from the last five years

Recommended databases

CINAHL
PubMed Central
JAMIA
AHRQ

Search sequence

1.
Filter every search to the last five years and to primary studies before you start collecting.
2.
Search your disease process AND the technology, then again with the care-transition term.
3.
Check whether any study followed patients across settings, which is your strongest citation.
4.
Read the rubric's literature review criterion before drafting, since it asks for synthesis.

Reference shortlist

These are authoritative starting points, not a ready-made bibliography. A qualified reviewer must confirm that each source fits the assignment and supports the claim beside which it is cited.

Nothing here is cleared for citation until you have read it.

01
Reducing Hospital Readmissions
StatPearls, NCBI Bookshelf · 2024
The readmission evidence base, which is where a technology spanning settings has to show it makes a difference.
02
Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality · 2024
A structured discharge intervention, useful as the comparison your proposed technology is measured against.
03
Telehealth Systems
StatPearls, NCBI Bookshelf · 2023
Telehealth modalities set out systematically, which helps you choose one that genuinely reaches all three settings.
04
Implementing electronic health records in hospitals: a systematic literature review
BMC Health Services Research · 2014
A systematic review of implementing electronic records in hospitals, evidence for the barriers section rather than the aspiration.
05
Interoperability
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology · 2024
Whether information actually crosses organisational boundaries, which is the technical constraint on the integration claim.

Review before submission

Common mistakes

Choosing a technology that cannot follow the patient home.
Summarising sources one by one instead of synthesising them.
Describing a case with no barriers, which leaves the technology solving nothing.
Using reviews and textbooks when primary sources within five years are required.
Appending the worldview sentence rather than integrating the reflection.
Uploading to the dropbox but not to the Learner Dissertation Page.

Submission checklist

Does your technology work in all three settings?
Does the literature review reach a position?
Are the patient's barriers to care stated?
Are the sources primary and within five years?
Is the worldview integrated into the summary rather than appended?
Have you uploaded to both required destinations?

Use this guide to plan and review your own work. Follow your institution's rules and read our academic-integrity policy.