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HS115 | Software Applications for Health Care Professionals

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Assignment Instructions

Unit 8 Assignment, Part 2 of 2: Email Guidelines

Unit outcome(s) addressed in this Assignment:

• Discuss the concepts of privacy, confidentiality, security, and integrity as they apply to the management of electronic data.

• Recognize common threats to privacy, confidentiality, security, and integrity of data stored in electronic systems.

• Apply effective procedures for protecting data, software, and hardware. Course outcome(s) addressed in this Assignment:

HS115-4: Manage data and documents by integrating appropriate programs. HS115-5: Demonstrate how these programs are used by healthcare professionals and in a healthcare environment. Instructions:

Scenario: You have been approached by your children’s school to help the school nurse create a set of e-mail guidelines for the teachers and students.

Please create a minimum 200-word paper, listing and describing completely at least 5 guidelines that you have created. As your write your paper, please consider the following:

• A definition of intranet is a network that is part of an organization. In this case, the intranet would include the e-mail accounts assigned to the teachers and students by the school. For example, using your Kaplan student e-mail to send e-mails to instructors or non-Kaplan e-mail addresses.

• For this discussion, internet identifies systems outside of the school’s control, including e-mail accounts not provided by the school. For example, any personal e-mail account that a person uses to send electronic mail messages.

• As a parent, do you feel comfortable with students and teachers sending e-mails via their personal accounts, or do you feel that the school provided e-mail accounts are the best account to use to communicate about school information?

o What about the school nurse, using a personal e-mail to discuss children’s health related issues?

o What steps can the school take, if any, to ensure the information shared in private e-mail accounts stays secure?

o What about professionalism? Can a person, be professional when using a personal e-mail account?

HS115 | Software Applications for Health Care Professionals

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When complete, please submit your work file(s) to the Dropbox. Be sure to Upload ALL of your Assignment. Use the proper naming convention: Unit 8-Assign-Student Last Name (username is your Kaplan username, XX is your course section number). To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted project.

Your work is due by the end of Unit 8.

Unit 8 Assignment 2 of 2 Requirements Points possible

Points earned by student

Lists at least 5 e-mail guidelines for teachers and students to follow. Each guideline, 2 points each.

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For each guideline, includes text explaining the outline. 3 pts per guideline.

15

Total (Sum of all points) 25

Points deducted for spelling, grammar, and/or APA errors. (See Writing Deductions Rubric in Doc Sharing)

Adjusted total points

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