REPSONSE TO PEER DISCUSSION BELOW Identify the participants of your proposed DN

REPSONSE TO PEER DISCUSSION BELOW
Identify the participants of your proposed DNP practice change project as stated in your PICOT question.
The participants involved in the proposed DNP practice change project are adult patients discharged from UT Harris County Psychiatric Center who have follow-up appointments with the community outpatient clinic of UT Physicians. Additional participants include the social workers of UT Harris County Psychiatric Center who will schedule the appointments, the community health workers of UT Physicians who conduct interviews of attendance to scheduled follow-up appointments, as well as the internal scheduling department responsible for inputting appointment data and transferring data to use for the interval automated appointment reminder system.
Examine the benefits and risks for the participants of your DNP practice change project.
The participant’s benefit is managing the transition of care from inpatient to outpatient services. The patient is provided with a means of continuity of care by providing interval reminders until the day of the scheduled appointment. The patient is not at risk of harm as there is no physical manipulation of the patient. The risks associated with the patient include data charges that may apply with receiving text messages through the interval automated appointment reminder system. The system does not require a response or confirmation of the patient, which can help reduce the costs to the client depending on their cellphone provider. The benefits associated with the employees of the UT system are creating and implementing a system that decreases the financial impact of missed appointments to the outpatient community clinic.
Detail the measures you will take to protect their human rights.
In protecting the rights of the participants, ensuring that their information is safe from breach and use of other entities helps to increase the participant’s trust in the study (McKibbin et al., 2021). Throughout the research project, maintaining the confidential rules associated with HIPAA is the foundation for patients’ rights (McKibbin et al., 2021). Protecting the patient’s privacy is a key human right; Although access to the excel document is on the shared system for easier accessibility, the information will have an encryption code to ensure that the patient’s data is not breached (Flanagin et al., 2020). Above all, obtaining consent and making sure the patient is aware of their involvement in research and rights throughout the extent of the project.