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Technology Needs Assessment Scoring Guide

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Explain the relevance and importance of a needs assessment.

Does not explain the relevance and importance of a needs assessment.

Attempts to explain the relevance and importance of a needs assessment, but omits some obvious consequences of doing or not doing the needs assessment.

Explains the relevance and importance of a needs assessment.

Explains the relevance and importance of a needs assessment, and identifies assumptions underlying the suggested needs assessment.

Identify the key issues in nursing care affecting patient outcomes that a new or upgraded telehealth technology will address.

Does not identify the key issues in nursing care affecting patient outcomes that a new or upgraded telehealth technology will address.

Attempts to identify the key issues in nursing care that a new or upgraded telehealth technology will address, but fails to clearly explain the effect on specific patient outcomes.

Identifies the key issues in nursing care affecting patient outcomes that a new or upgraded telehealth technology will address.

Identifies the key issues in nursing care affecting patient outcomes that a new or upgraded telehealth technology will address, and impartially considers conflicting evidence and/or other perspectives.

Identify the safety requirements and regulatory considerations when using a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Does not identify the safety requirements and regulatory considerations when using a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Identifies the safety requirements, but fails to consider relevant regulatory factors.

Identifies the safety requirements and regulatory considerations when using a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Identifies the safety requirements and regulatory considerations when using a new or upgraded telehealth technology, and suggests criteria that could be used to evaluate whether requirements are met.

Identify the patient confidentiality and privacy protections that a new or upgraded telehealth technology must address.

Does not identify the patient confidentiality and privacy protections that new or upgraded telehealth technology must address.

Attempts to identify the patient confidentiality and privacy protections, but fails to consider relevant safeguarding features or security risks.

Identifies the patient confidentiality and privacy protections that a new or upgraded telehealth technology must address.

Identifies the patient confidentiality and privacy protections that a new or upgraded telehealth technology must address, and identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty.

Describe the potential impact of internal and external stakeholders and end users on the acquisition of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Does not describe the potential impact of internal and external stakeholders and end users on the acquisition of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Attempts to describe the potential impact of stakeholders on technology acquisition, but fails to consider possible interactions with some stakeholders.

Describes the potential impact of internal and external stakeholders and end users on the acquisition of a new or upgraded telehealth technology.

Describes the potential impact of internal and external stakeholders and end users on the acquisition of a new or upgraded telehealth technology, and identifies assumptions on which this description is based.

Support assertions, arguments, conclusions, and recommendations

Does not support assertions, arguments, conclusions, and

Provides sources that lack relevance or credibility, or the evidence is not

Supports assertions, arguments, conclusions, and recommendations

Supports assertions, arguments, conclusions, and recommendations with

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recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.

persuasive or explicitly supportive of assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations.

with relevant and credible evidence.

relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Skillfully combines error-free source citations with a perceptive and coherent synthesis of the evidence.

Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Does not write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Writes with a lack of clarity or conciseness. Writing is loosely structured, or includes errors in grammar, mechanics, or APA formatting that inhibit effective communication or detract from good scholarship.

Writes clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Writes clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style. Main points, ideas, arguments, or propositions are well- developed and engaging. Adheres to all applicable disciplinary and scholarly writing standards and conventions.