**DEADLINE: FRIDAY 3/5/2021 BY 08:00 PM EST**
INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to your colleague, asking questions to help clarify the scenario and application of data, or offering additional/alternative ideas for the application of nursing informatics principles.
**Use at least 2 references**
Annemary Kimani
Top of Form
Health informatics is a term that describes the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of healthcare information to foster better collaboration among a patient's various healthcare providers. Health informatics plays a critical role in the push toward healthcare reform. Healthcare Informatics is defined as "the integration of healthcare sciences, computer science, information science, and cognitive science to assist in managing healthcare information" (Saba & McCormick, 2015, p. 232).
Scenario
My scenario will be on reducing the rate of Hospital Readmissions in the unit I work. After reading through this week's resources, I realized a gap that needs bridging in my work unit. Norris, Hinrichs, & Brown tell us, "gaps are present between the technology and the process. Informatics can help bridge that gap. Skills needed include the understanding of data collection, storage, and extraction, in addition to an appreciation for the power of data to drive and inform practice" (2015, p. 11-12). The rate of patient readmission in my unit is overwhelming. Working in a mental health crisis and assessment can be very challenging, and it hurts to see a patient discharged after four to seven days came back the same day or the next day after discharge seeking the same help. The federal government has estimated the annual cost of Medicare readmissions to be $26 billion per year, with $17 billion considered avoidable. ("Reducing hospital readmissions: The value of analytics," 2019). The organization seems to have failed in tracking these numbers and try to figure out ways to reduce this problem.
As a nurse, I will use health informatics in the form of a spreadsheet to acquire, store, retrieve and analyze the data of those patients who have multiple admissions within three months. Doing so will help communicate and collaborate better with clinical improvement teams, doctors, and the administration to focus on specific clinical measures needed to manage baseline mental health processes and outcomes of these patients to reduce readmission. Nursing informatics blends information and knowledge, enhancing communication among health care workers, improving efficiency, and providing overall good patient outcomes (Laureate Video File. 2018).
To sum up, health informatics and Nursing Informatics are very relevant in evolving health systems. Having a nurse informaticist guiding data-driven processes, educating nurses, and validating data quality, will advance health systems beyond the data platform to reach the nursing workforce to inform decisions at the healthcare delivery frontlines in the organizations we work. According to Sweeney (2017), nursing in ...
The Application of Data to Problem-SolvingIn the modern era, the.docxtodd801
The Application of Data to Problem-Solving
In the modern era, there are few professions that do not to some extent rely on data. Stockbrokers rely on market data to advise clients on financial matters. Meteorologists rely on weather data to forecast weather conditions, while realtors rely on data to advise on the purchase and sale of property. In these and other cases, data not only helps solve problems, but adds to the practitioner’s and the discipline’s body of knowledge.
Of course, the nursing profession also relies heavily on data. The field of nursing informatics aims to make sure nurses have access to the appropriate date to solve healthcare problems, make decisions in the interest of patients, and add to knowledge.
In this Discussion, you will consider a scenario that would benefit from access to data and how such access could facilitate both problem-solving and knowledge formation.
To Prepare:
Reflect on the concepts of informatics and knowledge work as presented in the Resources.
Consider a hypothetical scenario based on your own healthcare practice or organization that would require or benefit from the access/collection and application of data. Your scenario may involve a patient, staff, or management problem or gap.
By Day 3 of Week 1
Post
a description of the focus of your scenario. Describe the data that could be used and how the data might be collected and accessed. What knowledge might be derived from that data? How would a nurse leader use clinical reasoning and judgment in the formation of knowledge from this experience?
By Day 6 of Week 1
Respond
to at least
two
of your colleagues
* on two different days
, asking questions to help clarify the scenario and application of data, or offering additional/alternative ideas for the application of nursing informatics principles.
Click on the
Reply
button below to reveal the textbox for entering your message. Then click on the
Submit
button to post your message.
*Note:
Throughout this program, your fellow students are referred to as colleagues.
Will be posting additional discussion replies that will require two replies which will be included in this discussion post.
Each requires at least three references and all need to be in APA format.
Monicas discussion
Discussion #1- Initial Post
All healthcare workers are trained to share the common goal of providing the best quality of care to their patients. Regardless of what role one may serve on the multidisciplinary team, they all have an obligation to accurately assess the needs of the patient, to efficiently collect and record data, to contribute to diagnosing, and to treat/ evaluate properly. “Informatics blend technology and information to blend something new that people, organizations and society can make use of” (Laureate, 2018). Advancement in technologies such as, electronic health records (EHR), electronic medication administration records (EMARS), computerized physician order entry (COPOE) and.
The Dual Nature of InformaticsInformatics can be used for impr.docxhe45mcurnow
The document discusses the dual nature of informatics, which refers to how informatics can improve health outcomes for individual patients through tools like EHRs and CDS at the point of care, and also for groups of patients through data warehousing and mining of patient information in EHRs. It provides a scenario about a patient, Mrs. Jones, presenting with dizzy spells and nausea, and prompts the reader to consider what information should be collected from Mrs. Jones and how it could help her care and be aggregated to help other similar patients.
Evolution Of Health Care Information SystemsLana Sorrels
The Defense Health Agency is a multi-service agency that enables the Army, Navy, and Air Force to provide medical services to members of the Department of Defense. It ensures the delivery of integrated, affordable, and high-quality healthcare to beneficiaries of the Military Health System. The Defense Health Agency drives greater integration of clinical and business processes across the system. It accomplishes this mission by implementing shared services with common functions and standards.
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The Application of Data to Problem-Solving PEER RESPONSES
PEER NUMBER 1: Luis Arencibia
Top of Form
Clinical data is fundamental in the medical field. It is from this data that change and efficiency are made possible. Clinical data forms the basis of clinical care given to patients and research studies and is also used by the administration for decision-making and influencing change (Deckro et al., 2021). Modernization has come up with better ways of processing and storing clinical data, popularly known as informatics. This has led to the increased utilization of computers and information technology in clinical data management. The informatics results have increased efficiency in managing patients' data (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2022). It is crucial to ensure proper data management because it is from clinical data that crucial decisions and problems are solved in healthcare.
An example of a scenario where data can be helpful in problem-solving is the case where a healthcare facility wants to determine the average number of patients they receive in a day and use that information to establish whether the staff to patient ratio is satisfactory. This data can be obtained by registering all patients who attend the facility for a certain period, for example, three months, and stored electronically. The average is then done to get the approximate number of clients in a day. Additionally, the data should capture the age of patients, significant complaints, and the departments where the patients were attended. It is vital to secure this data to avoid unauthorized access to promote patients' privacy and compliance with the HIPAA to avoid legal consequences.
The knowledge derived from the data described above is the number of patients visiting the facility and their health needs. From this, the healthcare center will be able to critically analyze and evaluate whether the facility's staffing and resources are enough to meet the patients' demands. Suppose the number of patients is higher compared to the resources. In that case, the facility will be able to tell there is a shortage and the staff is being overworked, which is likely to compromise the services given to the patients.
From the data, a nurse leader can use clinical reasoning and judgment to explain why the health facility could be performing less efficiently and not meeting its goal of providing optimum medical services to patients. Additionally, the nurse could judge that the patients are not satisfied with the services provided from the data (Zhu et al., 2019). With that information, a nurse leader can successfully convince the management that there is a need for more staffing and resources to meet the patients' needs more successfully.
In conclusion, data management is crucial in the healthcare practice. With proper informatics, nurses and other healthcare providers will function optimally, and the results will be better quality ...
Big Data Plays a Vital Role in Healthcare Sector Discussion.pdfbkbk37
Big data plays a vital role in the healthcare sector by enabling benefits like more accurate patient data analysis as well as personalized care, while also presenting challenges and risks if not properly implemented and regulated. One benefit is improved diagnosis and treatment through analytics of large clinical datasets. However, a challenge is ensuring privacy and security of sensitive patient information. Strategies to address this include developing strong policies and oversight of data access.
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Discussion 3
Select a topic for your Topic 3 Executive Summary assignment. Post your idea and basic thoughts about the topic using the assignment details from Topic 3. You should provide thoughts to your peers about their topics and ideas that may assist them in completing their projects.
In this assignment, you will propose a quality improvement initiative from your place of employment that could easily be implemented if approved. Assume you are presenting this program to the board for approval of funding. Write an executive summary (750-1,000 words) to present to the board, from which the board will make its decision to fund your program or project. Include the following:
The purpose of the quality improvement initiative.
The target population or audience.
The benefits of the quality improvement initiative.
The interprofessional collaboration that would be required to implement the quality improvement initiative.
The cost or budget justification.
The basis upon which the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated.
Reply 1
Weiner
1 posts
Re: Topic 2 DQ 3
For my executive summary assignment my idea for quality improvement in my workplace is the reduction of falls. I work in a skilled nursing facility and we have a lot of dementia patients as well as rehab patients. Basically, I think there are ways in which to decrease the number of falls that my facility could implement that wouldn’t be too difficult to accomplish. One would be to assign the fall risk patients rooms closer to the nurses’ station because we have a few right now that I think are too far and on more than one occasion, I have found certain patients halfway out of the bed. I know reducing falls is a very common project, but I do think it’s vitally important to do so.
Reply 2
Nkamse
1 posts
Re: Topic 2 DQ 3
The central electronic systems in hospitals are the electronic health record systems. These systems are clear evidence of the significance of information technology that continues to revolutionize various industries. These systems have great importance in enhancing healthcare services provided to the patients. Many healthcare organizations and facilities have shifted their focus to its use to improve their service delivery. These systems function as the key repository of all patients' files (Liberati et al., 2017). Nurses also utilize the appointment scheduling software to track and schedule shifts among them. The medical equipment management software helps doctors to monitor their patients who are in the ICU.
Healthcare has experienced some improvements in service delivery through these electronic systems, such as limiting medication errors and ensuring advanced health management. The continued adoption of electronics in the hospitals leads to increased delivery of quality care to patients and improvements in health and healthcare administration (Prezerakos, 2018). The most common electronic systems in hospitals include electronic health record (EHR.
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Application: Evaluation Project Part 1: Evaluation Plan Focus
Technology increases human effectiveness. Using a lever, you can move an object several times your size. In an airplane, you can move exponentially faster than on foot. Using the Internet, you can access information much more quickly than at a library. What possibilities like this exist in the nursing field? What health information technologies can amplify your impact as a nurse far more than ever before? In this Evaluation Project, you will have the opportunity to answer these questions.
Because of the great differences between HIT systems and different goals of an evaluation, there is no one-size-fits-all evaluation plan. Different technologies require different evaluation methods. Consequently, in this part of your Evaluation Project, you will conduct research on how system implementations similar to the one you select have been previously evaluated. After exploring similar system implementations, you will select one research goal and viewpoint to use in the evaluation.
Read the following three scenarios, and select the one that is of most interest to you:
Scenario 1:
Your hospital is implementing a new unified acute and ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) system through which patient care documentation will occur. Interdisciplinary assessment forms (including nursing), clinical decision support, and medical notes will be documented in this system. The implementation of the system is anticipated to improve the hospital’s performance in a multitude of areas. In particular, it is hoped that the use of the EHR system will reduce the rate of patient safety events, improve the quality of care, deter sentinel events, reduce patient readmissions, and impact spending. The implementation of the EHR system is also intended to fulfill the “Meaningful Use” requirements stipulated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. As the hospital’s lead nurse informaticist, you have been tasked with planning the evaluation of the EHR implementation.
Scenario 2:
As the lead nurse informaticist in your hospital, you have been given the task of planning an evaluation for a soon-to-be launched computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. The CPOE system is designed to replace conventional methods of placing medication, laboratory, admission, referral, and radiology orders. CPOE systems enable health care providers to electronically specify orders, rather than rely on paper prescriptions, telephone calls, and faxes. The intended goal of a CPOE system is to improve safety by ensuring that orders are easily comprehensible through the use of evidence-based order sets. In addition, the CPOE system has the potential for improving workflow by avoiding duplicate orders and reducing the steps between those who place medical orders and their recipients.
Scenario 3:
You are the lead nurse informaticist in a large urban hospital that has recently implemented a new .
DEADLINE FRIDAY 492021 BY 0800 PM ESTINSTRUCTIONS ResLinaCovington707
**DEADLINE: FRIDAY 4/9/2021 BY 08:00 PM EST**
INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to your colleague offering additional/alternative ideas regarding opportunities and risks related to the observations shared.
**At least 2 references per reply, and they need to support information in the reply**
Mary Sarfo
RE: Discussion - Week 6
Top of Form
Undoubtedly, there has been a paradigm shift in the delivery of healthcare due to technological advancement. Nurse informaticist are now able to utilize information technology and advance technology to make informed decision in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients (Laureate Education, 2018b).
Nurses and other health professionals are now able to carry out their duties and responsibilities in a safe and efficient manner due to the evolution of informatics. Even though, there is more room for improvement, technological advancement and the evolution of information technology has contributed immensely to the training, acquisition of knowledge, skills, and the disposition of nurses. This technological advantage enables nurses to provide safe, quality, and efficient patient care (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).
Clearly, the change in technology and informatics in the organization that I worked for has been incredibly substantial. The organization has moved from the era of paper charting when nurses had to document patient information by handwriting to using the Electronic Medical records (EMR) and eventually to the Electronic Health Records (EHR). Also, nurses used to receive handwritten orders including prescriptions from physicians which gave room for misinterpretations and errors. Currently the patient’s prescriptions are entered into the EHR which eliminates the potential for misinterpretation (Laureate Education, 2018a).
One of the newer trends in information technology in my organization is the ability to transmit patients’ vital signs from the dynamap machine directly into the EHR. Prior to the introduction of the dynamap, nurses and nurse’s assistant had to manually input this information into the EHR which was time consuming and gave room for potential errors (Rao-Gupta et al., 2018).
Evidently, the advent of the EHR and other health information technology devices have had significant impact on the delivery of safe, quality, and efficient care. However, it is important to note that due to the enormous volume of data receive in the EHR, nurses and informaticist sometimes need to weed out irrelevant and redundant information. Another pitfall associated with the transmission of data from the dynamap to the EHR is the failure to synchronize properly due to connectivity problem. This may cause some data to be missing and nurses must manually input the missing data (Laureate Education, 2018a).
Obviously, the changing trends in information technology and the evolution of new technological devices and systems such as the EHR and dynamap withing the organization have been extremely beneficial to imp ...
The Application of Data to Problem-SolvingIn the modern era, the.docxtodd801
The Application of Data to Problem-Solving
In the modern era, there are few professions that do not to some extent rely on data. Stockbrokers rely on market data to advise clients on financial matters. Meteorologists rely on weather data to forecast weather conditions, while realtors rely on data to advise on the purchase and sale of property. In these and other cases, data not only helps solve problems, but adds to the practitioner’s and the discipline’s body of knowledge.
Of course, the nursing profession also relies heavily on data. The field of nursing informatics aims to make sure nurses have access to the appropriate date to solve healthcare problems, make decisions in the interest of patients, and add to knowledge.
In this Discussion, you will consider a scenario that would benefit from access to data and how such access could facilitate both problem-solving and knowledge formation.
To Prepare:
Reflect on the concepts of informatics and knowledge work as presented in the Resources.
Consider a hypothetical scenario based on your own healthcare practice or organization that would require or benefit from the access/collection and application of data. Your scenario may involve a patient, staff, or management problem or gap.
By Day 3 of Week 1
Post
a description of the focus of your scenario. Describe the data that could be used and how the data might be collected and accessed. What knowledge might be derived from that data? How would a nurse leader use clinical reasoning and judgment in the formation of knowledge from this experience?
By Day 6 of Week 1
Respond
to at least
two
of your colleagues
* on two different days
, asking questions to help clarify the scenario and application of data, or offering additional/alternative ideas for the application of nursing informatics principles.
Click on the
Reply
button below to reveal the textbox for entering your message. Then click on the
Submit
button to post your message.
*Note:
Throughout this program, your fellow students are referred to as colleagues.
Will be posting additional discussion replies that will require two replies which will be included in this discussion post.
Each requires at least three references and all need to be in APA format.
Monicas discussion
Discussion #1- Initial Post
All healthcare workers are trained to share the common goal of providing the best quality of care to their patients. Regardless of what role one may serve on the multidisciplinary team, they all have an obligation to accurately assess the needs of the patient, to efficiently collect and record data, to contribute to diagnosing, and to treat/ evaluate properly. “Informatics blend technology and information to blend something new that people, organizations and society can make use of” (Laureate, 2018). Advancement in technologies such as, electronic health records (EHR), electronic medication administration records (EMARS), computerized physician order entry (COPOE) and.
The Dual Nature of InformaticsInformatics can be used for impr.docxhe45mcurnow
The document discusses the dual nature of informatics, which refers to how informatics can improve health outcomes for individual patients through tools like EHRs and CDS at the point of care, and also for groups of patients through data warehousing and mining of patient information in EHRs. It provides a scenario about a patient, Mrs. Jones, presenting with dizzy spells and nausea, and prompts the reader to consider what information should be collected from Mrs. Jones and how it could help her care and be aggregated to help other similar patients.
Evolution Of Health Care Information SystemsLana Sorrels
The Defense Health Agency is a multi-service agency that enables the Army, Navy, and Air Force to provide medical services to members of the Department of Defense. It ensures the delivery of integrated, affordable, and high-quality healthcare to beneficiaries of the Military Health System. The Defense Health Agency drives greater integration of clinical and business processes across the system. It accomplishes this mission by implementing shared services with common functions and standards.
CANCER DATA COLLECTION6The Application of Data to Problem-SoTawnaDelatorrejs
CANCER DATA COLLECTION 6
The Application of Data to Problem-Solving PEER RESPONSES
PEER NUMBER 1: Luis Arencibia
Top of Form
Clinical data is fundamental in the medical field. It is from this data that change and efficiency are made possible. Clinical data forms the basis of clinical care given to patients and research studies and is also used by the administration for decision-making and influencing change (Deckro et al., 2021). Modernization has come up with better ways of processing and storing clinical data, popularly known as informatics. This has led to the increased utilization of computers and information technology in clinical data management. The informatics results have increased efficiency in managing patients' data (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2022). It is crucial to ensure proper data management because it is from clinical data that crucial decisions and problems are solved in healthcare.
An example of a scenario where data can be helpful in problem-solving is the case where a healthcare facility wants to determine the average number of patients they receive in a day and use that information to establish whether the staff to patient ratio is satisfactory. This data can be obtained by registering all patients who attend the facility for a certain period, for example, three months, and stored electronically. The average is then done to get the approximate number of clients in a day. Additionally, the data should capture the age of patients, significant complaints, and the departments where the patients were attended. It is vital to secure this data to avoid unauthorized access to promote patients' privacy and compliance with the HIPAA to avoid legal consequences.
The knowledge derived from the data described above is the number of patients visiting the facility and their health needs. From this, the healthcare center will be able to critically analyze and evaluate whether the facility's staffing and resources are enough to meet the patients' demands. Suppose the number of patients is higher compared to the resources. In that case, the facility will be able to tell there is a shortage and the staff is being overworked, which is likely to compromise the services given to the patients.
From the data, a nurse leader can use clinical reasoning and judgment to explain why the health facility could be performing less efficiently and not meeting its goal of providing optimum medical services to patients. Additionally, the nurse could judge that the patients are not satisfied with the services provided from the data (Zhu et al., 2019). With that information, a nurse leader can successfully convince the management that there is a need for more staffing and resources to meet the patients' needs more successfully.
In conclusion, data management is crucial in the healthcare practice. With proper informatics, nurses and other healthcare providers will function optimally, and the results will be better quality ...
Big Data Plays a Vital Role in Healthcare Sector Discussion.pdfbkbk37
Big data plays a vital role in the healthcare sector by enabling benefits like more accurate patient data analysis as well as personalized care, while also presenting challenges and risks if not properly implemented and regulated. One benefit is improved diagnosis and treatment through analytics of large clinical datasets. However, a challenge is ensuring privacy and security of sensitive patient information. Strategies to address this include developing strong policies and oversight of data access.
Discussion 3Select a topic for your Topic 3 Executive Summary as.docxduketjoy27252
Discussion 3
Select a topic for your Topic 3 Executive Summary assignment. Post your idea and basic thoughts about the topic using the assignment details from Topic 3. You should provide thoughts to your peers about their topics and ideas that may assist them in completing their projects.
In this assignment, you will propose a quality improvement initiative from your place of employment that could easily be implemented if approved. Assume you are presenting this program to the board for approval of funding. Write an executive summary (750-1,000 words) to present to the board, from which the board will make its decision to fund your program or project. Include the following:
The purpose of the quality improvement initiative.
The target population or audience.
The benefits of the quality improvement initiative.
The interprofessional collaboration that would be required to implement the quality improvement initiative.
The cost or budget justification.
The basis upon which the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated.
Reply 1
Weiner
1 posts
Re: Topic 2 DQ 3
For my executive summary assignment my idea for quality improvement in my workplace is the reduction of falls. I work in a skilled nursing facility and we have a lot of dementia patients as well as rehab patients. Basically, I think there are ways in which to decrease the number of falls that my facility could implement that wouldn’t be too difficult to accomplish. One would be to assign the fall risk patients rooms closer to the nurses’ station because we have a few right now that I think are too far and on more than one occasion, I have found certain patients halfway out of the bed. I know reducing falls is a very common project, but I do think it’s vitally important to do so.
Reply 2
Nkamse
1 posts
Re: Topic 2 DQ 3
The central electronic systems in hospitals are the electronic health record systems. These systems are clear evidence of the significance of information technology that continues to revolutionize various industries. These systems have great importance in enhancing healthcare services provided to the patients. Many healthcare organizations and facilities have shifted their focus to its use to improve their service delivery. These systems function as the key repository of all patients' files (Liberati et al., 2017). Nurses also utilize the appointment scheduling software to track and schedule shifts among them. The medical equipment management software helps doctors to monitor their patients who are in the ICU.
Healthcare has experienced some improvements in service delivery through these electronic systems, such as limiting medication errors and ensuring advanced health management. The continued adoption of electronics in the hospitals leads to increased delivery of quality care to patients and improvements in health and healthcare administration (Prezerakos, 2018). The most common electronic systems in hospitals include electronic health record (EHR.
Application Evaluation Project Part 1 Evaluation Plan FocusTec.docxalfredai53p
Application: Evaluation Project Part 1: Evaluation Plan Focus
Technology increases human effectiveness. Using a lever, you can move an object several times your size. In an airplane, you can move exponentially faster than on foot. Using the Internet, you can access information much more quickly than at a library. What possibilities like this exist in the nursing field? What health information technologies can amplify your impact as a nurse far more than ever before? In this Evaluation Project, you will have the opportunity to answer these questions.
Because of the great differences between HIT systems and different goals of an evaluation, there is no one-size-fits-all evaluation plan. Different technologies require different evaluation methods. Consequently, in this part of your Evaluation Project, you will conduct research on how system implementations similar to the one you select have been previously evaluated. After exploring similar system implementations, you will select one research goal and viewpoint to use in the evaluation.
Read the following three scenarios, and select the one that is of most interest to you:
Scenario 1:
Your hospital is implementing a new unified acute and ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) system through which patient care documentation will occur. Interdisciplinary assessment forms (including nursing), clinical decision support, and medical notes will be documented in this system. The implementation of the system is anticipated to improve the hospital’s performance in a multitude of areas. In particular, it is hoped that the use of the EHR system will reduce the rate of patient safety events, improve the quality of care, deter sentinel events, reduce patient readmissions, and impact spending. The implementation of the EHR system is also intended to fulfill the “Meaningful Use” requirements stipulated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. As the hospital’s lead nurse informaticist, you have been tasked with planning the evaluation of the EHR implementation.
Scenario 2:
As the lead nurse informaticist in your hospital, you have been given the task of planning an evaluation for a soon-to-be launched computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. The CPOE system is designed to replace conventional methods of placing medication, laboratory, admission, referral, and radiology orders. CPOE systems enable health care providers to electronically specify orders, rather than rely on paper prescriptions, telephone calls, and faxes. The intended goal of a CPOE system is to improve safety by ensuring that orders are easily comprehensible through the use of evidence-based order sets. In addition, the CPOE system has the potential for improving workflow by avoiding duplicate orders and reducing the steps between those who place medical orders and their recipients.
Scenario 3:
You are the lead nurse informaticist in a large urban hospital that has recently implemented a new .
DEADLINE FRIDAY 492021 BY 0800 PM ESTINSTRUCTIONS ResLinaCovington707
**DEADLINE: FRIDAY 4/9/2021 BY 08:00 PM EST**
INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to your colleague offering additional/alternative ideas regarding opportunities and risks related to the observations shared.
**At least 2 references per reply, and they need to support information in the reply**
Mary Sarfo
RE: Discussion - Week 6
Top of Form
Undoubtedly, there has been a paradigm shift in the delivery of healthcare due to technological advancement. Nurse informaticist are now able to utilize information technology and advance technology to make informed decision in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients (Laureate Education, 2018b).
Nurses and other health professionals are now able to carry out their duties and responsibilities in a safe and efficient manner due to the evolution of informatics. Even though, there is more room for improvement, technological advancement and the evolution of information technology has contributed immensely to the training, acquisition of knowledge, skills, and the disposition of nurses. This technological advantage enables nurses to provide safe, quality, and efficient patient care (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).
Clearly, the change in technology and informatics in the organization that I worked for has been incredibly substantial. The organization has moved from the era of paper charting when nurses had to document patient information by handwriting to using the Electronic Medical records (EMR) and eventually to the Electronic Health Records (EHR). Also, nurses used to receive handwritten orders including prescriptions from physicians which gave room for misinterpretations and errors. Currently the patient’s prescriptions are entered into the EHR which eliminates the potential for misinterpretation (Laureate Education, 2018a).
One of the newer trends in information technology in my organization is the ability to transmit patients’ vital signs from the dynamap machine directly into the EHR. Prior to the introduction of the dynamap, nurses and nurse’s assistant had to manually input this information into the EHR which was time consuming and gave room for potential errors (Rao-Gupta et al., 2018).
Evidently, the advent of the EHR and other health information technology devices have had significant impact on the delivery of safe, quality, and efficient care. However, it is important to note that due to the enormous volume of data receive in the EHR, nurses and informaticist sometimes need to weed out irrelevant and redundant information. Another pitfall associated with the transmission of data from the dynamap to the EHR is the failure to synchronize properly due to connectivity problem. This may cause some data to be missing and nurses must manually input the missing data (Laureate Education, 2018a).
Obviously, the changing trends in information technology and the evolution of new technological devices and systems such as the EHR and dynamap withing the organization have been extremely beneficial to imp ...
This document outlines a nursing informatics course that teaches students to apply concepts of informatics in nursing care. The course covers topics such as the history of computers in nursing, computer hardware and software, clinical information systems, nursing data standards, and informatics applications in different nursing specialties and settings. Students are expected to create their own nursing informatics webpage and do an individual or group presentation to pass the course. The document emphasizes that as information doubles every few years, nurses need informatics skills to effectively manage patient data and provide evidence-based care using technology.
This document discusses the course Nursing Informatics. The course covers the use of information technology and data standards in nursing based on informatics principles. It deals with using clinical information systems to manage patient care and support decision making. The course objectives are to apply informatics concepts to nursing and discuss relevant issues and trends. Various topics are outlined including computers and nursing history, computer systems, issues in informatics, informatics theories, and applying informatics in different nursing practices and internationally. Students are expected to create an online nursing informatics page and do an individual or group presentation to pass the course.
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Improving competency in nursing informatics through education can strengthen clinical decision making skills. Informatics helps nurses communicate, manage knowledge, and support decision making at the point of care. It has significantly impacted nursing practice, especially in how information is documented and coordinated to improve patient outcomes and satisfaction.
Big Data Means Big Potential Challenges for Nurse Execs Response.pdfbkbk37
Big data has the potential to improve patient outcomes through more efficient access to personalized health information. However, it also poses significant risks, such as privacy breaches during cyberattacks. One strategy is to fragment big data across secure legacy systems to mitigate these risks, while still allowing analysis. Continuous data cleansing is also important. Overall, big data technologies could enhance clinical decision making if challenges around security and incompatible data formats are properly addressed.
The document provides an overview of nursing informatics, including its history from the 1950s to present day, core competencies, education and certification requirements, roles and skills, average salaries, and future outlook. Nursing informatics integrates nursing, computer science, and information science to support data-driven decision making in healthcare. Key areas it can benefit include use of clinical data, patient record management, implementation of standards, and security/privacy of patient information.
The Future of Healthcare Informatics Write an essay.docxwrite30
The document provides instructions for an essay assignment on the future of healthcare informatics. It includes three main prompts to address in separate sections: 1) the current and future role of informatics nurses, 2) examples of connected health technologies and their benefits/drawbacks, and 3) ways informatics has impacted public health. For each section, students are asked to support their ideas with at least three citations using APA style. The assignment expects a minimum of 500 words per section for a total of 1500 words, and includes a title page, reference page, introduction, and conclusion.
Big Data Risks and Rewards (good length and at least 3-4 references .docxtangyechloe
Big Data Risks and Rewards (good length and at least 3-4 references everything in APA 7 format)
When you wake in the morning, you may reach for your cell phone to reply to a few text or email messages that you missed overnight. On your drive to work, you may stop to refuel your car. Upon your arrival, you might swipe a key card at the door to gain entrance to the facility. And before finally reaching your workstation, you may stop by the cafeteria to purchase a coffee.
From the moment you wake, you are in fact a data-generation machine. Each use of your phone, every transaction you make using a debit or credit card, even your entrance to your place of work, creates data. It begs the question: How much data do you generate each day? Many studies have been conducted on this, and the numbers are staggering: Estimates suggest that nearly 1 million bytes of data are generated every second for every person on earth.
As the volume of data increases, information professionals have looked for ways to use big data—large, complex sets of data that require specialized approaches to use effectively. Big data has the potential for significant rewards—and significant risks—to healthcare. In this Discussion, you will consider these risks and rewards.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on the web article
Big Data Means Big Potential, Challenges for Nurse Execs
.
Reflect on your own experience with complex health information access and management and consider potential challenges and risks you may have experienced or observed.
By Day 3 of Week 5
Post
a description of at least one potential benefit of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Then, describe at least one potential challenge or risk of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Propose at least one strategy you have experienced, observed, or researched that may effectively mitigate the challenges or risks of using big data you described. Be specific and provide examples.
By Day 6 of Week 5
Respond
to at least
two
of your colleagues
* on two different days
, by offering one or more additional mitigation strategies or further insight into your colleagues’ assessment of big data opportunities and risks.
Click on the
Reply
button below to reveal the textbox for entering your message. Then click on the
Submit
button to post your message.
*Note:
Throughout this program, your fellow students are referred to as colleagues.
Michea Discussion ( in APA 7 format and at least 2-3 references)
With the fast growing pace of technological advancement in the health care sector, daily operations of the institution helps generate millions of data that over time needs proper channels of transmission, storage, processing, assimilation and utilization. Following from the vast amount of data generated, some of its benefits includes but is not limited to functioning as a pattern discovery aid with relation to the amount of variance or similarity in .
NURS 6051 week 1 The Application of Data to.docx4934bk
The document discusses using data to improve patient placement and care quality at a hospital. Specifically:
1) The hospital currently struggles with correctly placing patients on the appropriate units due to a lack of notifications to physicians about patient criteria and care needs. This results in patients being misplaced and resources being wasted.
2) Implementing a new system using data like orders and patient criteria could help flag when specialists are needed or if patients should be placed in specific units. This would help ensure patients are directed to the right areas and prevent issues.
3) Collecting data on current placement problems and trials of safety programs could provide information to improve the placement process or identify other solutions. Proper patient flow using this data could
This document summarizes a research paper on using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) to improve inpatient hospital care. It discusses challenges in the current healthcare system and how machine learning and artificial intelligence could help address issues like overtreatment, inconsistent care quality, and high costs. The paper proposes using MDPs and other algorithms to analyze patient electronic health record data, detect abnormal care patterns, and make real-time predictions to optimize treatment and resource allocation. A web application with modules for patients, doctors and administrators is designed to facilitate this approach. Simulation results suggest it could increase care efficiency by better connecting patients and doctors. Future work may expand this to personalized treatment planning, diagnostic testing optimization and knowledge discovery from medical literature.
This document provides an overview of nursing informatics, including:
- Defining nursing informatics and its history since Florence Nightingale.
- The benefits of informatics in healthcare like decreased redundancy and increased time for patient care.
- The functions and importance of informatics in enabling access to patient data and evaluating nursing practices.
- How informatics is used in hospitals for tasks like storing patient data and in communities through technologies like telehealth.
- The impact of informatics on the nursing profession through changes to documentation and care coordination.
Discussions1.Electronic Health RecordsElectronic healt.docxlefrancoishazlett
Discussions
1.
Electronic Health Records
Electronic health records (EHRs) are at the center stage of the effort to improve health care quality and control costs. In addition to allowing medical practitioners to access and record clinical documentation at much faster rates, EHRs are also positively influencing care delivery and nurse-patient interaction. Yet despite the potential benefits of EHRs, their implementation can be a formidable task that has broad-reaching implications for an entire health care organization.
In this Discussion, you appraise strategies for obtaining the benefits and overcoming the challenges of implementing and using electronic health records.
To prepare
Review the implementation of EHRs in an organization. Reflect on the various approaches used.
If applicable, consider your own experiences with implementing EHRs. What were some positive aspects of the implementation? What suggestions would you make to improve the process?
Reflect on the reactions of others during the implementation process. Were concerns handled effectively?
If you have not had any experiences with an EHR implementation, talk to someone who has and get his or her feedback on the experience.
Search and indicate examples of effective and poor implementation of EHRs.
RESOURCES
Required Readings
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2015). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Chapter 15, “The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Informatics”
This chapter describes the crucial parts of an electronic health record system and explores the benefits of implementing one.
Bates, D. W. (2010). Getting in step: Electronic health records and their role in care coordination. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(3), 174–176.
The author of this editorial critically analyzes current applications of electronic health records (EHRs) and their impact on cost, quality, and safety of health care delivery. The author describes a study on the use of vendor-developed EHRs in clinical practice settings, the results of which pinpointed the benefits and drawbacks of EHRs.
Cresswell, K., & Sheikh, A. (2009). The NHS Care Record Service: Recommendations from the literature on successful implementation and adoption. Informatics in Primary Care, 17(3), 153–160.
This article defines the United Kingdom’s National Health Service’s Care Record Service (NHS CRS) as a standard electronic health record system. The article describes the challenges associated with implementing this new information technology and provides recommendations for overcoming those challenges.
Fickenscher, K., & Bakerman, M. (2011). Change management in health care IT. Physician Executive, 37(2), 64–67.
This article offers strategies for health care leaders to successfully implement change programs in their organizations, especially with regard to the new standards for electronic health records (EHRs). The article provide.
Nurse leaders must adhere to standardized screening and CDC guidance to reduce COVID-19 transmission. Telehealth has become standard to maintain distance and safety during the pandemic. Informatics plays a key role by gathering data, documenting in electronic health records, and reporting to the CDC. This data can then be used to implement healthcare strategies and improve outcomes.
Gain insights from data analytics and take action! Learn why everyone is making a big deal about big data in healthcare and how data analytics creates action.
Transforming Nursing and Healthcare through TechnologyDiscussion.docxturveycharlyn
Transforming Nursing and Healthcare through Technology
Discussions
1. Electronic Health Records
Electronic health records (EHRs) are at the center stage of the effort to improve health care quality and control costs. In addition to allowing medical practitioners to access and record clinical documentation at much faster rates, EHRs are also positively influencing care delivery and nurse-patient interaction. Yet despite the potential benefits of EHRs, their implementation can be a formidable task that has broad-reaching implications for an entire health care organization.
In this Discussion, you appraise strategies for obtaining the benefits and overcoming the challenges of implementing and using electronic health records.
To prepare
Review the implementation of EHRs in an organization. Reflect on the various approaches used.
If applicable, consider your own experiences with implementing EHRs. What were some positive aspects of the implementation? What suggestions would you make to improve the process?
Reflect on the reactions of others during the implementation process. Were concerns handled effectively?
If you have not had any experiences with an EHR implementation, talk to someone who has and get his or her feedback on the experience.
Search and indicate examples of effective and poor implementation of EHRs.
RESOURCES
Required Readings
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2015). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Chapter 15, “The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Informatics”
This chapter describes the crucial parts of an electronic health record system and explores the benefits of implementing one.
Bates, D. W. (2010). Getting in step: Electronic health records and their role in care coordination. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(3), 174–176.
The author of this editorial critically analyzes current applications of electronic health records (EHRs) and their impact on cost, quality, and safety of health care delivery. The author describes a study on the use of vendor-developed EHRs in clinical practice settings, the results of which pinpointed the benefits and drawbacks of EHRs.
Cresswell, K., & Sheikh, A. (2009). The NHS Care Record Service: Recommendations from the literature on successful implementation and adoption. Informatics in Primary Care, 17(3), 153–160.
This article defines the United Kingdom’s National Health Service’s Care Record Service (NHS CRS) as a standard electronic health record system. The article describes the challenges associated with implementing this new information technology and provides recommendations for overcoming those challenges.
Fickenscher, K., & Bakerman, M. (2011). Change management in health care IT. Physician Executive, 37(2), 64–67.
This article offers strategies for health care leaders to successfully implement change programs in their organizations, especially with regard to the new standards for electronic health ...
Health systems recognize the potential of digital health but e-health programs have had modest returns. Ambitious initiatives focus on providing clinicians information but struggle with legacy systems that impede data integration. The solution is a digital services platform that holds healthcare data and optimizes access through APIs and services for identity, access and consent management. This platform could serve as an innovation ecosystem for third-party digital health services and advanced by health systems. It could revolutionize health services and help bend the cost curve through contextualized information, ushering in an era of "Healthcare 3.0."
NURS 521 Nursing Informatics And Technology.docxstirlingvwriters
This document discusses the application of clinical information systems in nursing. It reviews 4 peer-reviewed articles on this topic. The articles found that clinical information systems can help reduce medical errors, improve care quality by enhancing workflow and access to patient information, and engage patients more in their care when interactive technology is used. However, challenges remain around data integration across healthcare systems and technical, human, and organizational constraints. The document concludes that clinical information systems provide opportunities to improve care but must be effectively implemented and upgraded so nurses can benefit from these technologies.
NUR3165 SFCC Statewide Study to Assess Nurses Experience Review Article.docxstirlingvwriters
The document summarizes a statewide study conducted in Texas to evaluate nurses' satisfaction with electronic health records (EHRs). Over 1,000 nurses responded to an online survey that assessed EHR usability and meaningful use using the Clinical Information System Implementation Evaluation Scale and a Meaningful Use Maturity-Sensitive Index. Results showed that EHR maturity levels and nurse age significantly influence satisfaction. Qualitative analysis of open-ended responses provided further insight into nurses' experiences. Recommendations will inform strategies to improve EHR satisfaction.
We have spent a lot of time this semester talking about various as.docxmelbruce90096
We have spent a lot of time this semester talking about various aspects of the health care industry -- cost, access, utilization, strategy. Another important aspect that needs to be balanced with all these other concerns is QUALITY!
What does QUALITY mean in health care?
How do you go about defining quality in health care? Is there just one measure of quality, or more?!
Find one outside article that addresses health care quality. Tell us about the article and how they define quality.
Be sure to post your citations
Alicia AliendreCOLLAPSE
Top of Form
Parent Post
In the health care industry quality of care means everyone participating in ways to improve health care such as health care professionals, patients and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators. These changes lead to better outcomes in health, a better system performance in care, as well as better professional development.
When you describe quality, it’s the process for making strategic choices in health systems for quality assurance in health care and decision making. Although there are many outcomes to improve quality of care, the main concern is accomplishing a goal that will be beneficial for the future.
Good quality means providing patients with appropriate services in a technically competent manner, with good communication, shared decision making, and cultural sensitivity. In practical terms, poor quality can mean too much care (e.g., providing unnecessary tests, medications, and procedures, with associated risks and side effects), too little care (e.g., not providing an indicated diagnostic test or a lifesaving surgical procedure), or the wrong care (e.g., prescribing medicines that should not be given together, using poor surgical technique).
Quality can be evaluated based on structure, process, and outcomes (Donabedian 1980). Structural quality evaluates health system characteristics, process quality assesses interactions between clinicians and patients, and outcomes offer evidence about changes in patients' health status. All three dimensions can provide valuable information for measuring quality, but the published quality-of-care literature reveals that there is more experience with measuring processes of care.
Marie Savino
To many health care consumers quality of health care can mean several different things, including wait times, doctors professionalism, the courtesy of the medical staff and use of updated medical technology, which can all effect how people judge the quality of health care they are receiving. These characteristics may be important to the patient but they do not add up to a quality health care system. Quality health care can be defined as levels of superiority which distinguish the health care provided based on accepted standards of quality. Several factors help measure quality of care:
* Safety- health care does not cause harm
* Effective- health care service is based on scientific and medical knowledge and is right for the.
The electronic health record (EHR) is the digital version of a patient's paper medical chart. It contains the patient's medical history, diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, immunization dates, allergies, radiology images, and laboratory and test results. EHRs allow multiple providers to access a patient's complete medical data electronically, improving care coordination and preventing medical errors. However, some physicians have complained that EHRs can be time-consuming and interfere with patient care due to poor usability and excessive alerts. Proper implementation of EHRs through project management is important for a successful transition to digital medical records.
Introduction Healthcare system is considered one of the busiest.pdfbkbk37
The document discusses the application of clinical information systems in nursing. It reviews 4 peer-reviewed articles on the topic. The articles found that clinical information systems can improve workflow and reduce medical errors. However, challenges remain around data integration and sharing patient data across healthcare systems. The document concludes that clinical systems provide opportunities to improve care if effectively implemented and regularly updated to support nurses.
ESSAY #4In contrast to thinking of poor people as deserving of bei.docxLinaCovington707
ESSAY #4
In contrast to thinking of poor people as deserving of being poor, use the sociological perspective to explain poverty
without
“blaming the victim.” In other words, what conditions in society create poverty? You should use the Newman book extensively to help you with this question.
Your response should be about 500 words.
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Essay # 3 Instructions Representations of War and Genocide .docxLinaCovington707
Essay # 3 Instructions
Representations of War and Genocide
:
In 1000-1200 words, discuss the novel, Edwidge Danticat’s
Farming of the Bones
, represent genocide and massacre. Focus on why in history, The Parsley massacre is not called a genocide, rather a massacre.
Even though the parsley massacre was clearly an act of genocide, history calls it a massacre. Before discussing the novel, explain in your words the definitions of “massacre” and “genocide”?
This is the time you should refer to the documentary and discuss why does the author mention genocides in history as far back as the Armenian genocide but do not mention the Parsley massacre. What are the factors that might contribute to its absence in history? This is the first part of your essay.
The second part is to discuss testimonies of survivors of the genocide.
In many ways,
The Farming of Bones
is also a meditation on survival. Each character in the novel—Amabelle, Sebastien, Father Romain, Man Denise, Man Rapadou, just to name a few—have different methods of survival. Can you discuss these? Are there any characters in particular that have survived with a better quality of life than others? What does it mean to survive?
How does the novel differ from the documentaries in terms of survival testimony? Why do you think the author chose to write a historical fiction novel versus a non-fiction novel like I am Malala or Persepolis?
Length: 1000-1200 words
Style: Times New Roman, Double-space, Size 12
please use the PowerPoint
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To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on the web article
Big Data Means Big Potential, Challenges for Nurse Execs
.
Reflect on your own experience with complex health information access and management and consider potential challenges and risks you may have experienced or observed.
By Day 3 of Week 5
Post
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By Day 6 of Week 5
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to at least
two
of your colleagues
* on two different days
, by offering one or more additional mitigation strategies or further insight into your colleagues’ assessment of big data opportunities and risks.
Click on the
Reply
button below to reveal the textbox for entering your message. Then click on the
Submit
button to post your message.
*Note:
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Electronic health records (EHRs) are at the center stage of the effort to improve health care quality and control costs. In addition to allowing medical practitioners to access and record clinical documentation at much faster rates, EHRs are also positively influencing care delivery and nurse-patient interaction. Yet despite the potential benefits of EHRs, their implementation can be a formidable task that has broad-reaching implications for an entire health care organization.
In this Discussion, you appraise strategies for obtaining the benefits and overcoming the challenges of implementing and using electronic health records.
To prepare
Review the implementation of EHRs in an organization. Reflect on the various approaches used.
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Reflect on the reactions of others during the implementation process. Were concerns handled effectively?
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RESOURCES
Required Readings
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2015). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Chapter 15, “The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Informatics”
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Bates, D. W. (2010). Getting in step: Electronic health records and their role in care coordination. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(3), 174–176.
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1. Electronic Health Records
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In this Discussion, you appraise strategies for obtaining the benefits and overcoming the challenges of implementing and using electronic health records.
To prepare
Review the implementation of EHRs in an organization. Reflect on the various approaches used.
If applicable, consider your own experiences with implementing EHRs. What were some positive aspects of the implementation? What suggestions would you make to improve the process?
Reflect on the reactions of others during the implementation process. Were concerns handled effectively?
If you have not had any experiences with an EHR implementation, talk to someone who has and get his or her feedback on the experience.
Search and indicate examples of effective and poor implementation of EHRs.
RESOURCES
Required Readings
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2015). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Chapter 15, “The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Informatics”
This chapter describes the crucial parts of an electronic health record system and explores the benefits of implementing one.
Bates, D. W. (2010). Getting in step: Electronic health records and their role in care coordination. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 25(3), 174–176.
The author of this editorial critically analyzes current applications of electronic health records (EHRs) and their impact on cost, quality, and safety of health care delivery. The author describes a study on the use of vendor-developed EHRs in clinical practice settings, the results of which pinpointed the benefits and drawbacks of EHRs.
Cresswell, K., & Sheikh, A. (2009). The NHS Care Record Service: Recommendations from the literature on successful implementation and adoption. Informatics in Primary Care, 17(3), 153–160.
This article defines the United Kingdom’s National Health Service’s Care Record Service (NHS CRS) as a standard electronic health record system. The article describes the challenges associated with implementing this new information technology and provides recommendations for overcoming those challenges.
Fickenscher, K., & Bakerman, M. (2011). Change management in health care IT. Physician Executive, 37(2), 64–67.
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This document discusses the application of clinical information systems in nursing. It reviews 4 peer-reviewed articles on this topic. The articles found that clinical information systems can help reduce medical errors, improve care quality by enhancing workflow and access to patient information, and engage patients more in their care when interactive technology is used. However, challenges remain around data integration across healthcare systems and technical, human, and organizational constraints. The document concludes that clinical information systems provide opportunities to improve care but must be effectively implemented and upgraded so nurses can benefit from these technologies.
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The document summarizes a statewide study conducted in Texas to evaluate nurses' satisfaction with electronic health records (EHRs). Over 1,000 nurses responded to an online survey that assessed EHR usability and meaningful use using the Clinical Information System Implementation Evaluation Scale and a Meaningful Use Maturity-Sensitive Index. Results showed that EHR maturity levels and nurse age significantly influence satisfaction. Qualitative analysis of open-ended responses provided further insight into nurses' experiences. Recommendations will inform strategies to improve EHR satisfaction.
We have spent a lot of time this semester talking about various as.docxmelbruce90096
We have spent a lot of time this semester talking about various aspects of the health care industry -- cost, access, utilization, strategy. Another important aspect that needs to be balanced with all these other concerns is QUALITY!
What does QUALITY mean in health care?
How do you go about defining quality in health care? Is there just one measure of quality, or more?!
Find one outside article that addresses health care quality. Tell us about the article and how they define quality.
Be sure to post your citations
Alicia AliendreCOLLAPSE
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In the health care industry quality of care means everyone participating in ways to improve health care such as health care professionals, patients and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators. These changes lead to better outcomes in health, a better system performance in care, as well as better professional development.
When you describe quality, it’s the process for making strategic choices in health systems for quality assurance in health care and decision making. Although there are many outcomes to improve quality of care, the main concern is accomplishing a goal that will be beneficial for the future.
Good quality means providing patients with appropriate services in a technically competent manner, with good communication, shared decision making, and cultural sensitivity. In practical terms, poor quality can mean too much care (e.g., providing unnecessary tests, medications, and procedures, with associated risks and side effects), too little care (e.g., not providing an indicated diagnostic test or a lifesaving surgical procedure), or the wrong care (e.g., prescribing medicines that should not be given together, using poor surgical technique).
Quality can be evaluated based on structure, process, and outcomes (Donabedian 1980). Structural quality evaluates health system characteristics, process quality assesses interactions between clinicians and patients, and outcomes offer evidence about changes in patients' health status. All three dimensions can provide valuable information for measuring quality, but the published quality-of-care literature reveals that there is more experience with measuring processes of care.
Marie Savino
To many health care consumers quality of health care can mean several different things, including wait times, doctors professionalism, the courtesy of the medical staff and use of updated medical technology, which can all effect how people judge the quality of health care they are receiving. These characteristics may be important to the patient but they do not add up to a quality health care system. Quality health care can be defined as levels of superiority which distinguish the health care provided based on accepted standards of quality. Several factors help measure quality of care:
* Safety- health care does not cause harm
* Effective- health care service is based on scientific and medical knowledge and is right for the.
The electronic health record (EHR) is the digital version of a patient's paper medical chart. It contains the patient's medical history, diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, immunization dates, allergies, radiology images, and laboratory and test results. EHRs allow multiple providers to access a patient's complete medical data electronically, improving care coordination and preventing medical errors. However, some physicians have complained that EHRs can be time-consuming and interfere with patient care due to poor usability and excessive alerts. Proper implementation of EHRs through project management is important for a successful transition to digital medical records.
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The document discusses the application of clinical information systems in nursing. It reviews 4 peer-reviewed articles on the topic. The articles found that clinical information systems can improve workflow and reduce medical errors. However, challenges remain around data integration and sharing patient data across healthcare systems. The document concludes that clinical systems provide opportunities to improve care if effectively implemented and regularly updated to support nurses.
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ESSAY #4In contrast to thinking of poor people as deserving of bei.docxLinaCovington707
ESSAY #4
In contrast to thinking of poor people as deserving of being poor, use the sociological perspective to explain poverty
without
“blaming the victim.” In other words, what conditions in society create poverty? You should use the Newman book extensively to help you with this question.
Your response should be about 500 words.
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Essay # 3 Instructions
Representations of War and Genocide
:
In 1000-1200 words, discuss the novel, Edwidge Danticat’s
Farming of the Bones
, represent genocide and massacre. Focus on why in history, The Parsley massacre is not called a genocide, rather a massacre.
Even though the parsley massacre was clearly an act of genocide, history calls it a massacre. Before discussing the novel, explain in your words the definitions of “massacre” and “genocide”?
This is the time you should refer to the documentary and discuss why does the author mention genocides in history as far back as the Armenian genocide but do not mention the Parsley massacre. What are the factors that might contribute to its absence in history? This is the first part of your essay.
The second part is to discuss testimonies of survivors of the genocide.
In many ways,
The Farming of Bones
is also a meditation on survival. Each character in the novel—Amabelle, Sebastien, Father Romain, Man Denise, Man Rapadou, just to name a few—have different methods of survival. Can you discuss these? Are there any characters in particular that have survived with a better quality of life than others? What does it mean to survive?
How does the novel differ from the documentaries in terms of survival testimony? Why do you think the author chose to write a historical fiction novel versus a non-fiction novel like I am Malala or Persepolis?
Length: 1000-1200 words
Style: Times New Roman, Double-space, Size 12
please use the PowerPoint
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Essay 1 What is the role of the millennial servant leader on Capito.docxLinaCovington707
Essay 1: What is the role of the millennial servant leader on Capitol Hill in the 21st century?
Essay 2: Identify the most pressing public policy issue affecting your community. If you were a Member of Congress, what measures would you take to address this issue? (I want the public policy issue to focus on the school to prison pipeline in Mississippi)
Responses should equal to a total of two pages for each essay which is four pages in total.
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ESSAY #6
Over the course of the quarter, you have learned to apply the sociological perspective to the world around you. How has taking a sociological perspective changed the way you view our social environment and/or society? In other words, how has the sociological imagination changed your view of things? Provide at least two examples to illustrate.
Your response should be about 500-750 words.
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Paper is well-written, free of typos and grammatical errors, and well-organized; it's clear that the student spent some time editing the paper
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Scholarship Search
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Format Errors: Letters and Memos
Format Errors: Report and job search documents
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Epidemiological ApplicationsDescribe how the concept of multifacto.docxLinaCovington707
Epidemiological Applications
Describe how the concept of multifactorial etiology relates to the natural history of disease and the different levels of prevention. How should the nurse incorporate these concepts into health promotion of clients in community settings? How should the nurse approach client risk in these health promotion activities?
Disease Outbreak
Select an infectious disease and research the CDC website for information about the disease, its natural history, presenting symptoms, and outbreak characteristics. Identify an occurrence of the disease by searching the Internet for recent reports of this disease, and compare that episode or occurrence with information from the CDC website. How closely did that outbreak resemble the case definition?
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Epidemic, Endemic, and Pandemic Occurrence of Disease(s)One aspect.docxLinaCovington707
Epidemic, Endemic, and Pandemic Occurrence of Disease(s)
One aspect of epidemiology is the study of the epidemic, endemic, and pandemic occurrence of disease(s).
Some critics may argue diseases and conditions such as bird flu are endemic in many countries, and some may argue human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or AIDS is a series of epidemics.
Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about the various epidemic, endemic, and pandemic occurrence of disease(s).
Based on your research and understanding, answer the following questions:
At what point does a disease become an epidemic, endemic, or pandemic? What are the parameters that define each of these states of a disease's effect?
Do you agree that bird flu, HIV, or AIDS could be described as a series of epidemics? Why or why not?
Should we study epidemiology and disease control as a complement to the provision of healthcare services? Why or why not?
Disease control has evolved since the discoveries and achievements of these epidemiological pioneers
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Hippocrates, John Snow, Pasteur, and Koch. Explain the impact of at least one major historical contribution on the current status of epidemiological practices. How can history potentially shape and impact our future work in public health and clinical medicine? Explain.
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ENVIRONMENTShould the US support initiatives that restrict carbo.docxLinaCovington707
ENVIRONMENT
Should the US support initiatives that restrict carbon emissions (or carbon pollution)?
1000 - 1200 words persuasive essay
Must include minimum of three sources with in-text citations
Microsoft word document in APA format including Title page, Reference page
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ePortfolio Completion
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Discussion Participation Scoring Guide
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Throughout this course, we have addressed the following areas:
Helping relationships.
Human services theory and practice.
Theoretical models of practice.
The multidisciplinary approach.
Professional development goals.
Pick
one
of these areas to share with your peers. Your initial post in this discussion may be a draft of one portion of the assignment in this unit. Address why you chose this particular area and its significance to your work in the field.
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eproduction and Animal BehaviorReproduction Explain why asexually.docxLinaCovington707
eproduction and Animal Behavior
Reproduction: Explain why asexually reproducing organisms are generally found in environments that do not change very much through time, while sexually reproducing organisms are very successful in environments that change dramatically through time.
Animal Behavior: How does an animal’s behavior aid survival and reproduction? Provide an example to illustrate your comments. In your response, be sure to include information from the reading to support your answer.
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Envisioning Leadership
Identifying a challenge that evokes your passion, understanding its historical and contemporary contexts, and bringing together the community of people needed to respond to this challenge—these are essential steps that make change possible. What kind of person is needed to lead such efforts? What characteristics make an effective leader?
Throughout your program of study, you have been encouraged to think about leadership. You have met, via video and audio podcasts, many inspiring and committed leaders in the early childhood field. This week, the Learning Resources have encouraged you to delve even deeper into the characteristics of leaders.
For this Discussion, without hesitation, jot down at least 10 characteristics that come to mind when you think of a leader. Put your list aside, and review this week's Learning Resources on leadership.
Now, think about the early childhood field and the various situations that call for leaders to interact and work effectively with families, colleagues, organizations, government agencies, etc. Consider the thinking and characteristics that stood out for you from the readings you just reviewed. Then, identify four characteristics you believe to be the most essential for leaders in the early childhood field today.
By Wednesday, post
:
Your list of four leadership characteristics selected from this week's Learning Resources that you think are essential for leaders in the early childhood field today and why you think each is vital.
Three mind-opening realizations about leadership that struck you from the Learning Resources this week. (Be sure to tell the reason[s] these caught your attention, and cite your sources.)
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EnvironmentOur environment is really important. We need to under.docxLinaCovington707
Environment
Our environment is really important. We need to understand it and then would we be able to look after it. To manage our natural environment responsibly, governments, industry and the community need detailed, trusted and timely environmental information.
Good information is essential to make sound decisions (individually and/or collectively) on issues affecting our environment.
View/review information in the below attached power point then answer questions that follows prompt!
Week 2 Env. Samp ppt(2).pptx
Questions
Give 2 definitions of “Environment”?
Give 4 reasons why we are so concern about the Environment?
Give 2 definitions of Pollution?
Give 5 effects of pollution on Human?
Give 5 effects of pollution on Animals
Give 5 effects of pollution on plants, fruits and vegetables?
Explain pollution effects on outer space? (what is the name of the effect)
Explain Urban Pollution?
Explain outer space pollution?
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Environmental Awareness and Organizational Sustainability Please .docxLinaCovington707
"Environmental Awareness and Organizational Sustainability" Please respond to the following:
Use the Internet to research one (1) environmentally aware organization and its actions. Next, examine the selected organization’s relationship between sustainability, ethical decision making, and social responsibility. Provide one (1) example of this organization demonstrating environmental awareness.
Determine the major effects that an organization’s environmental awareness has on its sustainability. Recommend one (1) approach that HR can take to use an organization’s environmental awareness in order to attract and retain top talent.
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EnterobacteriaceaeThe family Enterobacteriaceae contains some or.docxLinaCovington707
Enterobacteriaceae
The family Enterobacteriaceae contains some organisms living in the intestines without harming the host and some organisms that are harmful to the host.
Research Enterobacteriaceae.
Based on your research, respond to the following:
What is meant by the term "enteric pathogen"?
Why are anaerobic organisms generally not seen in a routine fecal specimen or culture?
What are the indole test, methyl red test, voges-proskauer test, and citrate test (IMViC) reactions? Describe in detail all four reactions (what media is used, important ingredients, what each reaction measures, and what positive and negative results mean).
Create a flowchart for the isolation and identification of specific enteric bacteria from fecal samples.
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Ensuring your local region is prepared for any emergency is a complex task requiring the coordination and collaboration of multiple stakeholders. What are the greatest challenges to coordination and collaboration in your area? What needs to be done to overcome those challenges in order to facilitate improved multi-agency coordination and collaboration?
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ENG 2480 Major Assignment #3Essay #2 CharacterAnaly.docxLinaCovington707
ENG
2480
Major Assignment #
3
Essay #2
:
Character
Analysis Essay
Paper Specifications:
2
Full Pages
, excluding Work
s
Cited page. Typed. Double Spaced.
One-inch
Margins.
12pt. Font
.
Times New Roman. Proper MLA
.
Submit
.doc,
.
docx
,
odt
.,
or .rtf Files Only
***Do not paste the essay into the assignment forum
text box
. Attach the document instead***
Due Date: Monday,
June
1
9
, 201
7
in Blackboard by
11
:
00
pm
Using the STEAL method or Foil Characters
concept
, a
nalyze how the author
constructs a
character.
Your analytical argument should focus on how
the author creates
the character
and how the author uses the character
to embody
the theme of the work.
Find one scholarly source to help support your essay’s thesis.
Choose
only one character
from the following list
as your main point of analysis
:
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Oscar Wilde’s
The Importance of Being Earnest
:
o
Lady
Bracknell
o
Miss Prism
o
Cecily
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
:
o
Mr. Poole
o
Mr. Gabriel John
Utterson
o
Dr. Hastie Lanyon
Remember, always establish clear criteria during your argumentation. You need a clear thesis to guide the essay and argumentative topic sentences to guide each paragraph. You are essentially discussing
how
an author creates the personality of a fictional character and how
that
character helps develop the meaning and significance of a work
, so make sure you assert your interpretation.
Do not summarize!
Consider that your audience has read the work
and
has
been exposed to the key literary
te
rms, so you do not need to define them.
Do not evaluate!
Avoid judging how well the author
writes or how good or bad the poem is
. Analyze the importance of the
literary device and remain objective
.
***
Numerous essays exist about these works. Do not be tempted to plagiarize! Use close reading and your critical thinking skills to approach your selected topic
***
Grading Scale
Title Is Helpful, Informative, and Reflective
0 to
5
Points
Presentation and Strength of the Introduction, Body, and Conclusion.
0 to 10 Points
Clearly Stated Thesis.
Must Be Analytical and Reflect the Assignment.
0 to 10 Points
Focus: Staying on Topic. Always Developing and Sticking to the Thesis
and Assignment
.
0 to 10 Points
Every Paragraph Has an Argumentative Topic Sentence. Every Paragraph Has Support or Examples or Details Explaining the Topic Sentence.
0 to 10 Points
Flow: Transitions (not simply transitional words) and Logical Progressions or Movements Between Paragraphs and Sentences Connecting Their Different Ideas.
0 to 10 Points
Organization, Order, and Structure.
0 to 10 Points
Using and Developing a Logical and In-depth Approach to Claims.
Strong Analysis without Over-Summarization.
0 to 10 Points
Vivid Descriptions. “Show. Do Not Tell.” Substantial, In-depth Detail
and Textual / Visual Evidence
.
0 to 10 Points
Clear Language that Explains and Expresses Each Idea in an Und.
English EssayMLA format500 words or moreThis is Caue types of .docxLinaCovington707
English Essay
MLA format
500 words or more
This is Caue types of essay (Only the causes/ not the effect)
Do not cite anything from outside source
Topic: what are the causes of Divorce?
Download the File Below to see the Form of the Essay.
Due By 4/26/2017 11 pm
*** Important note: Do not use hard or complicated words. Simple essay with easy word. ***
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Eng 2480 British Literature after 1790NameApplying Wilde .docxLinaCovington707
Eng
2480 British Literature after 1790
Name:
Applying Wilde to Wilde (100 points)
Instructions:
Discuss how Wilde applies the ideas of aestheticism and the arguments from
The Critic as Artist
to
The Importance of Being Earnest
. What notions of living to the fullest exist in the play? What notions of living intensely and passionately do the characters reinforce? How is the play (as a creative work) acting as a critical work, as well? What does the work critique?
This response should
be around 250 to 300 words,
not
including the quotes.
Always cite specifics from the texts
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*NEED IT COMPLETED BY 8pm eastern
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English 1C Critical Thinking Essay (6 - 6 12 pages, MLA 12pt font .docxLinaCovington707
English 1C: Critical Thinking Essay (6 - 6 1/2 pages, MLA 12pt font times new roman)
Due Date: (8/2/17)
Assignment: Consider one of the topics: I choose to propose my own topic. (received teacher's approval)
Requirements: Use 1-2 in class philosophical texts (I have them in the attachment) and 3-4 academic sources (requires research) to analyze, explore, and make connections to each other. Needs to have at least one quote in each body paragraph.
My proposed topic:
In class, my teacher he talks about a scenario where people from different cultures tend to have different views and values, but people who were raised in both cultures can have an internal conflict between their cultures, causing to choose one over the other, have a mix of both (as in a hybrid form of culture), or identify themselves to another culture that lies somewhere in between, or maybe even reject both cultures.
In Nietzsche's essay "On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense", he says "for between two absolutely different spheres such as subject and object, there can be no expression, but as most an aesthetic stance, I mean an allusive transference, a stammering translation into a completely foreign medium. For this, however, in any case a freely fictionalizing and freely inventive middle sphere and middle faculty is necessary." In connection to people who have lived in two different cultures this inventive "middle ground” and “aesthetic stance” is essential for them to embrace their own set of values and beliefs.
For the research part of the essay, I wanted to explore people who have immigrated to another country from their own home country since a young age, for their development is heavily influenced by the struggles of living in multiple cultures. (I’m one of them myself). In sociology, Ruben Rumbaut was the first to coin the term “1.5 generation immigrant”, which means the people who have arrived in another country before their adolescence. Based on the age in which they immigrated, some of these immigrants might feel a stronger connection to a particular culture where some might feel they belong right in the middle, being unable to identify themselves to either of their ethnicities. (Just providing possible examples)
Optional (If there isn’t enough topics): Also for immigrants who might choose one culture over another. It can possibly relate to another philosophical text. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” Aristotle argues that there are two mediums of knowledge that exists: the physical/sensory world(cave), where people(prisoners) are living happily in an illusion, and the intelligible world, where people can achieve a perfect form of knowledge through learning philosophy. For people, who have acquired the “perfect knowledge” of philosophy, when they go back to the sensory world, they will have a better and clearer perception of the world than those in the sensory world. They also have developed a responsibility of “quietly ruling” the people in the sensor.
ENGL 227World FictionEssay #2Write a 2-3 page essay (with work.docxLinaCovington707
ENGL 227
World Fiction
Essay #2
Write a 2-3 page essay (with works cited page) on one of the following topics:
1.
D.H. Lawrence “The Rocking Horse Winner”
·
Describe the relationship between mother and son in this story.
How is this relationship central to the story’s themes of luck,
money, and dysfunctional families?
2.
Shirley Jackson “The Lottery”
·
Describe the importance of tradition in the community depicted in this story. What does the author appear to be saying about its effects upon society?
3.
Franz Kafka “A Hunger Artist”
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What is Kafka suggesting about the nature of the relationship between the artist and society?
Cite examples of the artist’s attitude toward his “art” and regulations as well as society’s changing attitude toward the artist.
4.
Clarice Lispector “The Smallest Woman in the World”
·
What does the story appear to be implying about the nature of human love?
Be sure to examine love as it is described in the narrator’s depiction of Little Flower as well as in her depiction of the various readers’ reactions to the story of Little Flower.
Relate this to the overall theme of the story.
5.
Jack London “To Build a Fire”
·
Examine the difference between actions based on knowledge and those based on instinct as depicted in the behaviors of the man and the dog.
What does London seem to be saying about the nature and the value of both approaches to navigating the world?
Relate this to Naturalism.
6.
Ernest Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants”
·
Hemingway is famous for his “iceberg theory” of narrative in which sparse prose suggests deeper elements of character and theme.
What does the dialogue suggest about the two protagonists?
What is the attitude of each toward their predicament?
·
What will change, depending on how the predicament is resolved? How does each envision the possibility of a shared future? Be sure to support your interpretation with quotations and connect character with theme.
·
Examine how the story’s setting is related to character, theme, and action (conflict).
7.
Flannery O’Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
·
Discuss O’Connor’s use of humor in this story.
What kind of tone is developed at the beginning of the story through humor?
How does the tone change as we move toward the story’s conclusion?
8.
Jorge Luis Borges “Emma Zunz”
·
Examine Emma’s attitude toward sexuality.
How does this attitude relate to the crime she commits?
Why does she decide to add a sexual component to her set-up of Loewenthal?
Consider the element of sacrifice.
9.
Raymond Carver “A Small, Good Thing”
·
Discuss the theme of communication in relationships in the story, including the Weisses, the baker, Doctor Francis, and Franklin’s family.
10.
Yukio Mishima “Patriotism”
While Takeyama waits for his wife to take a bath, he thinks, “Was it death he was now waiting for? Or wild ecstasy of the senses?
The two seemed to overlap, almost as if the object of his bodily desire was death itself.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
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Discover the Simplified Electron and Muon Model: A New Wave-Based Approach to Understanding Particles delves into a groundbreaking theory that presents electrons and muons as rotating soliton waves within oscillating spacetime. Geared towards students, researchers, and science buffs, this book breaks down complex ideas into simple explanations. It covers topics such as electron waves, temporal dynamics, and the implications of this model on particle physics. With clear illustrations and easy-to-follow explanations, readers will gain a new outlook on the universe's fundamental nature.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
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DEADLINE FRIDAY 352021 BY 0800 PM ESTINSTRUCTIONS Res
1. **DEADLINE: FRIDAY 3/5/2021 BY 08:00 PM EST**
INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to your colleague, asking questions
to help clarify the scenario and application of data, or offering
additional/alternative ideas for the application of nursing
informatics principles.
**Use at least 2 references**
Annemary Kimani
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Health informatics is a term that describes the acquisition,
storage, retrieval, and use of healthcare information to foster
better collaboration among a patient's various healthcare
providers. Health informatics plays a critical role in the push
toward healthcare reform. Healthcare Informatics is defined as
"the integration of healthcare sciences, computer science,
information science, and cognitive science to assist in managing
healthcare information" (Saba & McCormick, 2015, p. 232).
Scenario
My scenario will be on reducing the rate of Hospital
Readmissions in the unit I work. After reading through this
week's resources, I realized a gap that needs bridging in my
work unit. Norris, Hinrichs, & Brown tell us, "gaps are present
between the technology and the process. Informatics can help
bridge that gap. Skills needed include the understanding of data
collection, storage, and extraction, in addition to an
appreciation for the power of data to drive and inform practice"
(2015, p. 11-12). The rate of patient readmission in my unit is
overwhelming. Working in a mental health crisis and
assessment can be very challenging, and it hurts to see a patient
discharged after four to seven days came back the same day or
the next day after discharge seeking the same help. The federal
2. government has estimated the annual cost of Medicare
readmissions to be $26 billion per year, with $17 billion
considered avoidable. ("Reducing hospital readmissions: The
value of analytics," 2019). The organization seems to have
failed in tracking these numbers and try to figure out ways to
reduce this problem.
As a nurse, I will use health informatics in the form of a
spreadsheet to acquire, store, retrieve and analyze the data of
those patients who have multiple admissions within three
months. Doing so will help communicate and collaborate better
with clinical improvement teams, doctors, and the
administration to focus on specific clinical measures needed to
manage baseline mental health processes and outcomes of these
patients to reduce readmission. Nursing informatics blends
information and knowledge, enhancing communication among
health care workers, improving efficiency, and providing
overall good patient outcomes (Laureate Video File. 2018).
To sum up, health informatics and Nursing Informatics are very
relevant in evolving health systems. Having a nurse
informaticist guiding data-driven processes, educating nurses,
and validating data quality, will advance health systems beyond
the data platform to reach the nursing workforce to inform
decisions at the healthcare delivery frontlines in the
organizations we work. According to Sweeney (2017), nursing
informaticists are the prime group to bridge the technology and
clinical care gap. Without a strong clinician presence in the
building and implementation process, gaps could remain.
References
Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). What is Informatics?
[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Norris, B. J., Hinrichs, D. J., & Brown, D. A. (2015).
3. Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measures and Beyond:
Meeting the Challenges of eMeasurement. Nursing Informatics
Today, 30(1), 8-12 5p
Reducing hospital readmissions: The value of analytics. (2019,
October 23). Health
Catalyst. https://www.healthcatalyst.com/insights/reducing-
hospital-readmissions-value-analytics
Saba, V. K. & McCormick, K. A. (2015). Essentials of nursing
informatics (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Sweeney, J. (Feb, 2017). Healthcare Informatics. Online
Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 21( 1), Available
at http://www.himss.org/ojni
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Basic Skills Lab Activity (Measuring)
Purpose:
The lab is designed to help students develop basic lab
measuring skills.
Procedure
Show and record all work !!
Station I:
Using a meter stick, find and record the volume of the desktop.
Station II:
Use a beaker or Graduated cylinder to determine the volume of
a bowl
Station III:
Using a graduated cylinder, find the volume of 3 irregular
objects
4. Station IV:
Using the triple-beam balance, find the mass of 3 objects.
Convert the masses to
Kilo and milligrams.
Station V:
Using a thermometer, record the temp of ice water and tap
water. Convert the temps to Fahrenheit.
Station VI:
Using a metric ruler, find the volume of 3 books
Design a chart and list qualitative and quantitative observations
Metric – English UNITS chart
Quantity/ VariableName of Base Unitsymbol
Length
meter/ yard
m : yd
Volume
Liter/ gallon
7. centi
milli
Some basic Metric – English Conversions
1 m = 39.37 in
1.6 Km = 1 mile
1600 m = 1 mile
1 Liter = .22 gallons
1 Liter = .01375 oz
**DEADLINE: FRIDAY 3/5/2021 BY 08:00 PM EST**
INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to your colleague, asking questions
to help clarify the scenario and application of data, or offering
additional/alternative ideas for the application of nursing
informatics principles.
**Use at least 2 references**
Jennifer Nubla
Top of Form
Nursing and healthcare informatics is essential as it improves
the quality and efficiency of information and data gathering,
enhancing service quality. American Nurses Association (as
cited in Sweeney, 2017) stated that nursing informatics helps
manage and communicate data information and knowledge in
the nursing practice. McGonigle and Mastrian (2017) mentioned
8. that "nursing informatics is a combination of nursing science,
information science, and computer science." Data analysis from
this science will help in the surveys known as HCAHPS
required for hospitals to show transparency in quality service.
CMS.gov (n.d.) mentioned that Hospital Consumer Assessment
of Healthcare Providers and System (HCAHPS) is the first
publicly reported, systematized survey that gathers data about
patients' perspectives.
Based on my healthcare practice, I remembered a scenario
where nurses gave patients instructions to mail patient
satisfaction survey questions. I know the importance of
feedback and reviews from post-care patient satisfaction
surveys to recognize areas that need improvement to provide
better nursing care for our patients. We all know that
healthcare is a service-oriented profession. As nurses, we offer
health services to our patients in need of it. A way for us to
evaluate the quality of service provided is to send patient
satisfaction surveys after an episode of hospitalization. These
surveys will be either mailed or delivered electronically or even
phone-in interviews. The data from these surveys can collect
information about their overall experience, the nursing staff's
attentiveness, the response time when they hit their "call
buttons," the quality of the food, etc. A rating system to
provide a metric of the areas mentioned above. Assuming that
you can obtain a large volume of post-hospitalization surveys
from your patients, the data can reveal which areas require
further assessment to improve overall care better.
The advancement in technology and the field of nursing
informatics in the healthcare setting is vastly growing. This
progress supports the enhancement of quality in data gathering,
efficiency in task performance, and quality care.
References
CMS.gov. (n.d.). HCAHPS: Patients' Perspectives of Care
Survey. Retrieved March 2, 2021,
from https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-
Assessment-Instruments/HospitalQualityInits/ HospitalHCAHPS
9. McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2017). Nursing informatics
and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Burlington, MA:
Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Sweeney, J. (2017). Healthcare Informatics. Online Journal of
Nursing Informatics, 21(1), 4–1. Retrieved March 2, 2021,
from https://doi.org/https://eds-b-ebscohost-
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Evolving Role of the Nursing Informatics
Specialist
Lynn M. NAGLEa, Walter SERMEUS b, Alain JUNGERc
a
Lawrence S. Bloomberg, Faculty of Nursing, University of
Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
b
Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy, University of Leuven,
Belgium
cUniversity Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract. The scope of nursing informatics practice has been
evolving over the
course of the last 5 decades, expanding to address the needs of
10. health care
organizations and in response to the evolution of technology. In
parallel, the
educational preparation of nursing informatics specialists has
become more
formalized and shaped by the requisite competencies of the role.
In this chapter,
the authors describe the evolution of nursing informatics roles,
scope and focus of
practice, and anticipated role responsibilities and opportunities
for the future.
Further, implications and considerations for the future are
presented.
Keywords. Nursing informatics specialist, role function,
connected health, data
science, big data, personalized medicine, clinical intelligence,
virtual care
1. Introduction
By 2018, 22 million households will use virtual care solutions,
up from less than a
million in 2013. Average (healthcare) visits among these
adopter households will
increase from 2 per year in 2013 to 6 per year in 2018, which
include both acute care
11. and preventive follow-up services in a variety of care settings—
at home, at retail kiosk
or at work. [1]
Nursing informatics roles have taken many forms in focus and
function over the
last decades; suffice it to say that they have not been
consistently described or defined
in terms of scope of practice. At the time of this writing it is
clear that role of nursing
informatics specialists will continue to evolve at an increasingly
rapid rate in the
coming years. The unfolding of new health care paradigms will
bring greater
connectivity between care providers and patients, include a
wide array of emerging
technologies and an increasing emphasis on data analytics will
make the integration of
informatics competencies into every area of nursing an
imperative.
2. Brief history of roles of the past and present
The earliest and most common types of informatics work
assumed by nurses has
included: oversight of organizational workload measurement
13. informatics roles has been recognized for several years [3, 4, 5].
The advent of formal education programs for nurses interested
in specializing in
informatics has occurred in conjunction with increasing
sophistication in the use of
information and communication technologies (ICT) in clinical
practice settings. Today,
nurses have the option to pursue specialization and credentials
at a variety of levels
including graduate specialization and specialty certification.
Advanced credentials and
certification (e.g., Certified Professional in Healthcare
Information and Management
Systems - CPHIMS) have afforded nurses the opportunity to
achieve credibility and
legitimacy regarding the specialty informatics knowledge and
skills they bring to bear
in nursing practice and academia and healthcare in general [6].
This credibility has
been recognized with the development of executive level
positions such as the “Chief
Nursing Informatics Officer” (CNIO) in some countries. The
position of the “Chief
Medical Informatics Officer” (CMIO) is much more prevalent
14. and deemed essential in
medium and large health care organizations while the C-level
nursing counterpart
remains less common. Several authors [7-11] have described the
role and competencies
for these senior informatics positions, yet the valuing of these
positions remains limited
among health care provider organizations.
In addition to the evolution of formalized training programs for
nurses interested in
informatics, the specialty of nursing informatics has continued
to evolve and has
become recognized in local jurisdictions, nationally and
internationally. Groups of like-
minded nurses have organized into special interest groups
affiliated with larger
interdisciplinary organizations (e.g., International Medical
Informatics Association -
Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics (IMIA-NI-SIG)).
Organizations such as
the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA), the
American Nursing
Informatics Association (ANIA), the Nursing Informatics
Working Group of the
15. European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI-NURSIE)
are examples of forums
for nurses to network, collaborate and profile their work in
informatics. The existence
of these specialty organizations has served to further legitimize
the work of nurse
informaticians and provided a venue for advancing regional,
national and international
efforts in nursing informatics. Through conferences, meetings
and the offering of
educational sessions, virtually and face to face, these networks
of nurse informaticists
have collectively advanced the practice and science of nursing
informatics. A case in
point is the International Nursing Informatics Congress and
post-conference, now held
bi-annually and hosted by countries across the globe. Outputs of
these meetings include
publications such as this one; benefitting nursing informatics
specialists and the nursing
profession worldwide.
At the time of this writing, we find nursing informatics
specialists in virtually
16. every clinical practice setting. The roles and focus of their work
endeavors are wide
and varied. The titles of “informatics nurse”, “nurse
informatician”, and “nursing
informatics specialist” are but a few of the titles applied to
nurses working in the field.
Many of the roles of the past and present have been more
extensively described
elsewhere [2,12]. For the purpose of this chapter, the authors
use the title of nursing
informatics specialist to provide illustrations of the potential
focus of these roles
current and future.
Roles to date have largely focused on supporting acquisition,
implementation and
evaluation of clinical information systems in health care
organizations. As noted by
McLane and Turley [4], “informaticians are prepared to
influence, contribute to, and
mold the realization of an organization’s vision for knowledge
management” (p.30).
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Specialist 213
17. Nurses have been in pivotal roles at every step of the systems
life cycle and
instrumental in the success of deployments at every level of an
organization. From the
provision of executive oversight, project management, systems
education and training,
and analytics, nurses in clinical settings have become core to
organizations’
information management infrastructure and support.
In addition to health care provider organizations, nursing
informatics specialists
can be found in the employ of technology vendors, retail
outlets, and consulting firms
while many others have created their own entrepreneurial
enterprise. Over the last few
decades, technology vendors, hardware and software, have come
to appreciate the
invaluable contribution of nurses to the development, sales and
deployment of their
solutions. Throughout the world, nurses are also engaged in
academic pursuits to
advance the knowledge base of nursing informatics through the
conduct of research.
18. Efforts are underway in many countries to advance the adoption
and integration of
entry-to-practice informatics competencies into undergraduate
nursing programs.
Notwithstanding some of the ongoing gaps in the provision of
informatics content in
undergraduate nursing education, many courses and programs
have been taught in a
variety of post-secondary education institutions over several
years by nursing
informatics specialists. In fact it is not unusual for many nurses
to develop an interest
in informatics through a single course and subsequently pursue
further studies and
employment opportunities.
Since the early 90’s many graduate level courses and degrees,
certificate and
certification programs have been developed and offered world-
wide. Nurses have
pursued these opportunities recognizing the necessity of
informatics knowledge and
skills now and particularly into the future, as they face an
increasingly connected world
of digital healthcare. To a large extent, the core competencies
19. of the nursing
informatics specialist have become essential for all nurses and
expectations of the
specialist role will continue to evolve even further.
3. Emerging roles for nursing informatics specialists
The healthcare sector continues to evolve in the application and
use of technologies to
support the delivery of care. Factors including: a) rising health
care expenditures, b) the
increasing incidence of chronic disease, c) the ubiquity of
technology, d) an aging
demographic, e) personalized medicine, f) mobile and virtual
healthcare delivery, g) the
emergence of consumer informatics, h) genomics, i) big data
science, and connected
health are and will continue informing the evolution of nursing
informatics roles.
One of the main challenges we have to cope with is the
difference in growth rate
that is exponential for the new technology and knowledge yet is
still linear for
changing human behavior, learning, organizations, legislation,
ethics, etc, A linear
20. growth rate is mostly represented by a function in a form like
y(x) = ax+b. An
exponential growth rate is mostly represented by a function in a
form like f(x) = kax.
For example: In an exponential world where the information is
doubling every year, 5
exponential years would equal to 25 or 32 linear years which
has a massive impact on
the management of professional knowledge. In reality, we
estimate that knowledge
development in healthcare, which has doubled every century
until 1900, is now
estimated to double every 18 months. And the pace is getting
faster. This means that
when nurses finish their education, the knowledge they gained
might be already
outdated. The traditional way of developing procedures,
protocols and care pathways,
sometimes requiring a year to develop, are outdated when they
are finalized and are
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Specialist214
insufficient to guide future practice. The only way forward is to
21. integrate and embed
the new knowledge in electronic patient records using
algorithms and decision support
systems so that practice remains aligned with new knowledge
and insights. The impact
might be that best practices can change very quickly and what is
viewed as best
practice before your holiday leave might be different upon your
return to work. Making
the connection between these different dimensions of time will
be a key-role of the
evolving role of the NI specialist.
A second challenge is that clinical practice in the future will be
largely team based.
The nature of teams will include interprofessional teams,
patients and their relatives
and a wide range of virtual devices (internet of things - IoT)
that are all connected.
Teams will work across boundaries of organizations and will be
organized around a
particular patient. We still have to come up with new labels for
naming these temporary
virtual interprofessional patient teams. Practically it will mean
that nurses will be
22. (temporary) members of different teams at the same time. This
notion of teamwork is
in contrast with what we normally see as teams organized in
organizations, departments
and units. It will challenge how teams will be managed, led, and
evaluated. But it will
also challenge the communication within teams and the
exchange of information.
3.1 Virtual and connected care
The delivery of health services virtually is becoming
commonplace in many places
around the globe. Virtual care has been defined as: “any
interaction between patients
and/or members of their circle of care, occurring remotely,
using any forms of
communication or information technologies, with the aim of
facilitating or maximizing
the quality and effectiveness of patient care” [13, p 4].
The most common modalities of virtual care are currently in use
in telemedicine.
Telemedicine has been largely used to conduct remote medical
consultations,
assessments and diagnosis (e.g., teledermatology, telestroke,
23. telepsychiatry) through
the use of computer technology and associated peripheral
devices including digital
cameras, stethoscopes and opthalmoscopes, and diagnostic
imaging. More recently, the
tools of telemedicine have been extended to the provision of
remote nursing monitoring
and assessment particularly for individuals with chronic
diseases such as congestive
heart failure (CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD). The nurses
providing these tele-homecare services are not necessarily
informatics specialists but
the design and management of the monitoring tools,
infrastructure and support services
may be provided by them in the future.
Another emerging area of nursing informatics practice will
likely focus on the use
of remote monitoring technologies such as sensors and alerts
embedded in structures
(e.g., flooring, lighting, furniture, fixtures) and appliances (e.g.,
stove, refrigerator) in
the homes of citizens. These tools offer the promise of
supporting seniors to maintain a
24. level of independence in their own homes longer, particularly
those with cognitive or
sensory impairments. Such devices might trigger direct
messaging to providers, lay and
professional, flagging potentially harmful situations and
affording early intervention as
necessary. Different types of sensors (e.g., sleep, activity,
falls, ambulation,
continence, fluid and electrolyte) will also contribute new
supplementary data to health
information repositories, offering the possibility of linking to
other data sets and
provide new insights to the well-being of individuals in the
community especially the
aged and those living with chronic illness.
With the increasing use of consumer health solutions such as
patient portals and
smartphone apps for self-monitoring and management of health
and disease, nurse
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Specialist 215
informatics specialists will likely play a key role in their
25. support and development.
From the perspective of application design and usability, and
training, nursing input
and informatics expertise will be important to ensure
appropriate and safe use of these
tools. As individuals and their families become more active
participants in their care
through the use of applications and devices to connect with
providers, they will likely
also need expertise and support from the nursing informatics
specialist.
3.2 Knowledge generation and innovation
The traditional ways of new knowledge generation is through
research and the
dissemination of findings in research journals. Knowledge is
consumed by researchers
and clinicians who transform it into relevant guidelines and care
pathways. The time
between the generation of research findings and application in
the real clinical work
can take several years. It is generally estimated that it takes an
average of 17 years for
research evidence to reach clinical practice [14]. Therefore
clinicians are not always
26. aware of existing evidence. In a landmark study, McGlynn et al.
[15] evaluated the use
of evidence-based guidelines in 30 conditions and 439
indicators for the use of the
same. They showed that clinicians (doctors, nurses) only appl y
50% of them in their
daily practice. The use varied from 80% for structured
conditions such as cataract to
10% for unstructured conditions such as alcohol addiction.
There is also a lot of
research demonstrating that nurses lack knowledge related to
common procedures.
Dilles study illustrated [16] that nurses lack sufficient
pharmacological knowledge and
calculation skills. Baccalaureate prepared nurses’
pharmacological knowledge averaged
between 60% and 65% of the level expected. Segal et al. [17]
analyzed the use of hip
arthroplasty care pathways in 19 Belgian hospitals finding a
high variability in
providing evidence-based interventions. While post-op pain
monitoring is in 100% of
the care pathways, pre-op physiotherapy was only present in
25% of the care pathways.
27. In the future of connected health, there will be direct links to
knowledge generated
by specialists from around the world. New knowledge will be
automatically integrated
and embedded into electronic patient records, and include new
algorithms for decision
support systems. It is interesting to note that Hearst Health
Network, one of the largest
media and communication groups in the world, is taking a
leading role in healthcare.
They started an intensive collaboration among strong health
knowledge companies
such as First Databank (FDB), Map of Medicine, Zynx Health
and Milliman Care
Guidelines (MCG). FDB is a United Kingdom company
specialized in integrated drug
knowledge to prescribe medication, follow-up drug interactions,
improve clinical
decision making and patient outcomes. Map of Medicine was
created in the UK for
clinicians by clinicians. It offers a web-based visual
representation of evidence-based
patient journeys covering 28 medical specialties and 390
pathways. Zynx Health offers
28. a similar story from the US to provide evidence-based clinical
decision support system
solutions at the point of care through electronic patient records.
MCG produces
evidence-based clinical guidelines and software and is widely
used in the US, UK and
Middle East. Other examples of health information networks are
CPIC (Clinical
Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium) to help
clinicians understand how
available genetic test results could be used to optimize drug
therapy, the International
Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) which facilitates data
sharing to describe genomic
sequences in tumor types among research groups all over the
world. In the information
models, such as archetypes and Detailed Clinical Models (see
section C chapter 1) offer
summaries of evidence for specific clinical concepts.
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Likely one of the most significant areas of focus for nursing
29. informatics specialists
in the near term is data science and the use of “big data”. Big
data has been defined as:
“large amounts of data emerging from sensors, novel research
techniques, and
ubiquitous information technologies” [18, p. 478]. Access to big
data unveils a whole
new sphere of informatics opportunities related to health and
nursing analytics.
According to Masys [19], big data is “that which exceeds the
capacity of unaided
human cognition and strains the computer processing units,
bandwidth, and storage
capabilities of modern computers”. The future development of
nursing capabilities in
data science will essentially lead to an entirely new cadre of
nursing informatics
specialists whose work will focus on deriving new nursing
knowledge from not only
electronic health record data, but also the data from sensor and
remote monitoring
technologies, patient portals and mobile apps described above.
The implications of -
omics data such as genomics, metabolomics, and proteomics,
30. being included as part of
the electronic health record in the near future, should be taken
into account. Nurse
informatics specialists will be pivotal in assisting to identify
potential ethical and
practice implications in the use of these data.
Using big data, the knowledge generating process might be
reversed into practice-
based evidence where data from electronic health records,
patient portals, sensors etc.
are uploaded into large databases that identify patterns and
clinical interesting
correlations. An example of the power of analyzing large
datasets is the Vioxx-case
(rofecoxib). Although a clinical trial initially showed no
increased risk of adverse
cardiovascular events for the first 18 months of Vioxx use, a
joint analysis of the US
FDA and Kaiser Permanente’s Healthconnect database of more
than 2 million person-
years of follow-up, the NSAID arthritis and pain drug was
found shown to have an
increased risk for heart attacks and sudden cardiac death. [20]
After the findings were
31. confirmed in a large meta-analysis, Merck decided to withdraw
the drug from the
market worldwide in 2004.
With the proliferation of these emerging data sources and
databases, the nursing
informatics specialist will play a key role in the use of these
data to inform quality and
safety improvements in every practice setting.
3.3 Sharing knowledge and communication
In the realm of the new normal of connected health, nurses will
work in temporary
teams around patients. Within these teams it will be essential
that goals are clear and
shared, that roles are defined and accepted and that the way of
working is clear to
everyone. It requires systems for coordination and
communication to ensure the
continuity of care. Reid et al. [21] defined continuity of care as:
"how one patient
experiences care over time as coherent and linked; this is the
result of good
information flow, good interpersonal skills, and good
coordination of care". They
32. make a distinction between information continuity, relational
continuity and
management continuity. Information continuity consists on one
hand in the exchange
and transfer of information among health care providers and to
patients and on the
other hand how the knowledge of the patient is accumulated. It
is about their specific
knowledge, preferences, expectations, social network. With the
existence of the new
technology of the quantified self, it is important that these new
data are effectively
integrated and connected. Relational continuity consists of the
trusted relationship
between patient and healthcare provider. Increasingly advanced
practice nurses are
assuming this pivotal role within the health team. Management
continuity is referring
to a consistent and coherent approach to the health problem
across organizations and
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33. boundaries. The Belgian healthcare system offers an interesting
example of this:
General Practitioners are stimulated (financially) to prescribe
generic drugs. Hospitals
are stimulated to negotiate discounts with pharmaceutical
companies leading to brand
named drug choices. Although they might chemically be
identical, for the patient they
often are not as they have different names. Like drugs may be
different in size and
color leading to more medication errors as patients may take
two pills without being
aware that they are the same drug.
Although nurses spend a lot of time documenting care, the
accuracy of nursing
documentation has been found to be poor. In a study within 10
Dutch hospitals, Paans
et al. [22] found that within 341 patient records the accuracy of
documentation of
diagnoses was poor or moderate in 76% of the records. The
accuracy of the
intervention documentation was poor or moderate in 95% of the
patient records. Only
the accuracy for admission, progress notes and outcomes
34. evaluation and the legibility
were acceptable. The work of Connected Health should support
the documentation
systems of nurses and other health professionals. The use of
structured documentation
methodologies and standardized terminologies should improve
the quality of the
patient record and improve the capacity for comparability of
care processes and
outcomes across the care continuum and within patient care
groups.
3.4 Impact of connected health on the Scope of Practice of
Nurses and Advanced
Practice Nurses (APN)
In Connected Health, the scope of practice of nurses will
change. For example, based
on time and motion studies, it has been shown that nurses spend
5-7% of their time [23,
24] collecting vital sign data. In the future this work will be
assimilated by sensors and
other devices. However, nurses’ work will be more focused on
analyzing the data and
evaluating thresholds for action (e.g., alerting rapid response
teams). Another example
35. is the use of sensors for pressure ulcer monitoring [25]. The
used sensors will provide
information about patient temperature, skin humidity, pressure
points and position.
These data will generate a whole new set of information for
review and action
including pressure intensity map and humidity intensity maps.
These data would lead to
more precise management of pressure sores. Other examples of
data gathering that will
change the focus and processes of nurses’ work include:
barcode scanning for checking
identity of patients, patient and device tracking systems, and
robotic dispensing of
medication.
Patient access to their own records and partnering in their own
health will change
the roles of physicians, nurses and hospitals drastically. The
work of nurses will
increasingly shift from a direct care provision to the role of
knowledge broker in
helping patients to understand care alternatives, manage their
health, and navigate
36. information access.
4. Impact of connected health on the evolving role of the
Nursing Informatics
Specialist
Connected health will alter the future role of the nursing
informatics specialist and
require a new set of competencies. To a large extent these
competencies will build
upon existing competencies but have an increasing emphasis on
information use rather
than technology use. Table 1 provides a summary of the
anticipated new competencies
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and role responsibilities that are likely to be necessary for
Nursing Informatics
Specialists in the emerging world of connected health and the
IoT.
Table 1. New competencies related to the future role of nursing
informatics specialists
New Competencies New Roles
37. Knowledge Innovation and
Generation
• Provide guidance and support to others (nurses, patients) in
the
application and use of emerging knowledge (e.g., clinical
decision
support, Practice-Based Evidence (PBE), genomics, expert and
patient/citizen knowledge)
• Inform-teach others (clinicians, teams, patients) about new
knowledge and knowledge innovations relevant to specific
situations
• Provide direction and support to others in the use of
international
guidelines and knowledge
• Contribute internationally to new knowledge generation and
innovations ensuring the inclusion of relevant team member and
patient perspectives and expertise
Monitoring the use of new
technology
• Monitor and maintain vigilance over data/technologies to
38. identify
those that add value to a given health situation.
• Recognize that nurses, other clinicians and patients may
engage and
assume responsibility independently and or interdependently for
specific data (e.g., remote monitoring, self-monitoring,
wearables,
appliances).
• Recognize the emergence of patient self-service and relevance
of
patient expertise in specific situations.
Value judgement & quality
assessment
• Provide guidance as to the value and relevance of specific data
and
information as derived from single or multiple sources for any
given
set of circumstances, or health situations.
Change Management • Identify the broader scope and
considerations for change
management in the context of connected health (e.g., virtual and
39. physical participants/partners)
• Recognize the extended complexities of technology adoption
in the
context of connected health.
Communication &
Documentation
With increasingly complex and personalized approaches to
health care,
participate in the identification and/or development of new:
• models of clinical documentation
• methods of communication
• data standards
• terminology standards
• data sources
• data models
• data repositories
Data Analytics In addition to traditional quantitative and
qualitative analyses, support
and participate in the development and use of new approaches
and
40. methods of data analytics for:
• knowledge generation (e.g., natural language processing,
experiential data)
• reporting outcomes
• demonstrations of value (e.g., patient-caregiver perspectives,
health
and financial outcomes)
• predictive and retrospective analyses
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5. Conclusion
The future Nursing Informatics Specialist will function in the
context of virtual care
delivery, be informed by data aggregated from a multiplicity of
sources and real-time
knowledge generation that will inform individualized care. In
addition to the
competencies required to date, they will be required to support
other clinicians and
patients and families as they assume new roles and use data
41. analytics to interpret and
appropriately apply new knowledge. With the IoT, connected
care will pose as yet
unknown challenges for the Nursing Informatics Specialist in
the future; what is certain
is that the role will continue to evolve from the role scope and
responsibilities known
today.
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Nursing Informatics -- Trends
Diffusion of Innovation
Health Informatics -- Trends
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; Meaningful Use;
Health
Policy; Policy Making
Healthcare Informatics is defined as "the integration of health-
care
sciences, computer science, information science, and cognitive
science
to assist in the management of healthcare information" (Saba &
McCormick, 2015, p. 232). Nursing Informatics is a subset of
informatics, specific to the field and the role of the nurse in the
healthcare setting. The American Nurses Association (ANA)
identified
nursing informatics as "a specialty that integrates nursing,
science,
computer science, and information science to manage and
communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing
practice"
(ANA, 2001, p.17). Healthcare and nursing informatics are both
50. vastly
growing fields within the medical field and are continuously
incorporating
new and evolving technology. Both have been around for the
past three
decades, at least. The technology boom at the turn of the
century has
helped informatics and information systems further evolve.
Enhanced
delivery of care, improved health outcomes, and advanced
patient
education are just a few aspects that have improved. With any
new
technology or innovation there are implications, some
foreseeable and
some that come to light after the unveiling of the new process
or
product: some impacts that are most notable are clinical,
managerial,
and policy implications. This paper explores the implications,
(both
constructive and adverse), that are the most notable in today's
healthcare world within the healthcare and nursing informatics
fields.
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52. Healthcare Informatics
Healthcare Informatics is defined as "the integration of health-
care sciences, computer science, information
science, and cognitive science to assist in the management of
healthcare information" (Saba & McCormick,
2015, p. 232). Nursing Informatics is a subset of informatics,
specific to the field and the role of the nurse in the
healthcare setting. The American Nurses Association (ANA)
identified nursing informatics as "a specialty that
integrates nursing, science, computer science, and information
science to manage and communicate data,
information, and knowledge in nursing practice" (ANA, 2001,
p.17). Healthcare and nursing informatics are
both vastly growing fields within the medical field and are
continuously incorporating new and evolving
technology. Both have been around for the past three decades,
at least. The technology boom at the turn of
the century has helped informatics and information systems
further evolve. Enhanced delivery of care,
improved health outcomes, and advanced patient education are
just a few aspects that have improved. With
any new technology or innovation there are implications, some
foreseeable and some that come to light after
the unveiling of the new process or product: some impacts that
53. are most notable are clinical, managerial, and
policy implications. This paper explores the implications, (both
constructive and adverse), that are the most
notable in today's healthcare world within the healthcare and
nursing informatics fields.
Citation
Sweeney, J. (Feb, 2017). Healthcare Informatics. Online Journal
of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 21( 1),
Available at http://www.himss.org/ojni
Introduction
Healthcare Informatics is defined as "the integration of health-
care sciences, computer science, information
science, and cognitive science to assist in the management of
healthcare information" (Saba & McCormick,
2015, Pg. 232). Nursing Informatics is a subset of informatics,
specific to the field and the roll of the nurse in
the healthcare setting. The American Nurses Association (ANA)
identified nursing informatics as "a specialty
that integrates nursing, science, computer science, and
information science to manage and communicate data,
information, and knowledge in nursing practice" (ANA, 2001,
Pg.17). Healthcare and nursing informatics are
both vastly growing fields within the medical field and are
54. continuously incorporating new and evolving
technology. Both have been around for the past three decades,
at least. The technology boom at the turn of
the century has helped informatics and information systems
further evolve. Enhanced delivery of care,
improved health outcomes, and advanced patient education are
just a few aspects that have improved. With
any new technology or innovation there are implications, some
foreseeable and some that come to light after
the unveiling of the new process or product. Some impacts that
are most notable are clinical, managerial, and
policy implications. This paper will explore the implications,
both constructive and adverse, most notable in
today's healthcare world within the healthcare informatics and
nursing informatics fields.
Clinical Implications
The use of informatics is seen in a multitude of processes within
the clinical setting. Whether inpatient or
outpatient, clinicians and patients utilize online portal systems,
electronic medical records, data collection
devices such as vital sign machines and glucometers, as well as
personal data devices and email, to name a
few. When considering these systems and how they effect the
process and flow of the clinical setting, it is
55. important to not only consider the technology at hand but also
the workflow and the data collection process.
Norris, Hinrichs, & Brown, tell us "gaps are present between the
technology and the process. Informatics can
help bridge that gap. Skills needed include understanding of
data collection, storage, and extraction, in addition
to an appreciation for the power of data to drive and inform
practice" (2015, p. 11-12). Healthcare
informaticists, especially nursing informaticists, are the prime
group to help bridge that gap. Without a strong
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clinician presence in the building and implementation process,
gaps will remain. With healthcare informaticists
involved in the development, a strong product can be delivered
that is usable to all members of the healthcare
56. team.
President Obama signed the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law in 2009. This law
includes the Health Information and Technology for Economic
Clinical Health Act (HITECH). HITECH
formulated the Meaningful Use (MU) program under the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Meaningful Use incentivizes providers to use their Electronic
Health Records (EHR) by financially rewarding
them when demonstrating their use, but also poses a threat by
penalizing them if not used in the future (Norris,
Hinrichs, & Brown, 2015). These Acts greatly impact both
nursing and the healthcare field clinically. Providers
who do not typically use an EHR are now finding themselves in
a learning curve while still maintaining their
patient caseload, and providing comprehensive care. However
this vast amount of data collection across a
multitude of healthcare settings has provided opportunity in
enhancements of care. While the initial roll out of
these initiatives may cause chaos, the benefits of these
initiatives will allow clinicians to provide
comprehensive, safe, evidence-based care to all of their
patients. Health care staff will be able to quickly and
safely access pertinent information on their patients throughout
57. the health institution and beyond.
In addition to enhancements in care and improved evidence-
based practice, the increased amount of data
collected by EHRs and other data systems has created a massive
amount of data that hospitals and health
care organizations now have to manage and analyze. "This has
led to increased demand for professionals who
are well versed in both informatics and medicine. To meet this
demand, the American Medical Informatics
Association spearheaded the establishment of professional-level
education and certification for physicians in
informatics" (Simpao, Ahumada, Galvez, & Rehman, 2014, p.
45). We are now seeing a new influx of
healthcare professionals entering this sub-specialty. The needs
for these professionals to collect, interpret, and
study the data and the operation of information systems is
crucial to the success and usability of these
systems. Lehman, Shorte, & Gundlapalli (2013) stated that "it is
reasonable to predict that the number of
leadership positions in clinical informatics with titles and roles
such as chief medical informatics officer, chief
health informatics officer, directors of clinical informatics, and
lead of EHR implementation, etc., will increase in
the near future" (p. 528).
58. Managerial Implications
The use of healthcare informatics is not only prevalent in the
clinical setting but also in the managerial setting.
In our society, communication comes in a multitude of
applications: verbal, physical, and now electronic. We
often find that individuals can contact us by using various
applications such as telephone, fax, pager, instant
messenger, email, and so on. It is crucial for those in
managerial positions to utilize these information systems
to aid their work and the work of their staff while being mindful
to set limits and standards. Time management is
a prevalent issue in the healthcare setting, thus the use of
informatics to aid and organize and not create
barriers is essential. However, these expansive communication
tools can create stress and feelings of intake
overload. Marquis & Huston (2013) suggested "to reduce
interruptions and distractions, individuals should shut
off their email, isolate themselves, and make sure the
environment around them is working to strengthen their
willpower and focus" (p. 189). Healthcare professionals need to
ensure that they are utilizing informatics to aid
their work and time management, not impeding them. Marquis
& Huston (2013) go on to note that "creating a
workspace that has a desk with enough clear space to do your
59. work, good lighting, and a comfortable chair" is
crucial (p.190).
Information systems in the managerial role often consist of
interpreting information and modifying data to be
utilized in decision-making processes. Managerial programs
facilitate payroll functions, streamline material
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control, and assist with financial and administrative factors of
their role (Pacheco de Souza, Santiago & Izu,
2015, p.7284). As seen in clinical implications, Meaningful Use
also plays a role in the role of the manager. It is
important for "nurse managers to utilize informatio n from the
EHR to show Meaningful Use and are important
to the process of determining how information is organized and
categorized within the EHR" (Biddle &
60. Milstead, 2016, p.12). Without nurse manager and other
administrator identification of how to best capture and
report Meaningful Use information, the healthcare organization
may not be compliant with this aspect of the
HITECH Act.
The continuously growing field of informatics is of great
benefit to healthcare managers at all levels. Using this
growing technology can greatly benefit their role and improve
the function of their staff. Pacheco de Souza,
Santiago, & Izu (2015) go on to acknowledge that this
advancing technology "should be utilized as a
management tool, giving power and autonomy to nurse
managers in more efficient use of available
technological resources" (p.7285). One example of this is where
a unit may identify incomplete documentation
on a given point of care. The nurse manager can then construct
a work group of colleagues who are involved
in the process including an IT specialist. Once this group
identifies the issues and improved processes, they
can present their recommendations to administration, ultimately
improving documentation in the EHR (Biddle &
Milstead, 2016). Thus, healthcare information systems can
improve communication, time-management, and
delivery of information amongst staff and patients.
61. Policy Implications
As previously noted in clinical implications and managerial
implications, the amount of data that is now
available from EHRs and other forms of information systems, is
larger than healthcare providers have ever
dealt with. Policy makers are now able to utilize this data to
inform their decision-making about public-health
issues. It is crucial now, more than ever, that epublic health
staff are available at various levels of the health
system to develop skills and knowledge to better utilize existing
datasets. Adair (2012) identified guidelines to
help public health officials understand, interpret, and best
utilize this influx of information. "These guidelines
were developed to assist public health officials assess the
quality of existing health data, and effectively utilize
such data to compute indicators to inform health sector policy-
making" (p. 53). If policymakers are not able to
thoroughly understand data derived from the utilization of
electronic health records, patient portals, and other
data sources, then people cannot expect them to make sound
judgments when voting on new laws.
In this age of technology it is important that healthcare
providers, managers, and informaticists are mindful of
62. adhering to HIPAA regulations to ensure that growing
technology is incorporated in current policies. With the
use of EHRs and mobile health applications there is an
increased "liability for healthcare organizations if there
is a breach in patient confidentiality or privacy, which is why
organizations must have policies in place that
guide the use of telehealth and communication" (Biddle &
Milstead, 2016). Ensuring proper policy is in place
and that changes are made as needed when new technology is
introduced is crucial.
McGowan, Cusack, and Bloomrosen (2012) wrote, "since 2006,
the American Medical Informatics Association
(AMIA) has convened an annual investigational Health Policy
meeting to examine Cutting edge issues in
healthcare and health-information technology (health IT)
policy" (p. 460). These meetings will identify and
discuss potential issues with health IT and informatics as well
as develop a plan and report to present to our
nation's policymakers so they are well informed when making
and voting for pertinent policies and laws
(McGowan, Cusack, & Bloomrosen, 2012). It is important that
health professionals, information technology
developers, and policymakers are able to communicate and work
together in the interest of delivering the most
63. efficient and safest patient care.
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Meaningful Use is one example of health policy and health
informatics working together. The initiative behind
Meaningful Use was to encourage the use of Electronic Health
Records in all health systems nationwide.
However with this initiative, some providers may find
themselves not being truthful in their documentation in
order to meet the incentives set by the HITECH legislation.
McGowan, Cusack, and Bloomrosen (2012),
identified that "with the mandate for meaningful use of health
IT by providers, there is ample opportunity for
inappropriate and even fraudulent or illegal activities, ranging
from lack of oversight to deliberate
misrepresentation" (p. 461). Although dishonorable, some
providers may lie to ensure their practice is able to
64. receive the best monetary incentive by adhering to Meaningful
Use measures and may alter their
documentation to fit the criteria.
McGowan, Cusack, and Bloomrosen (2012) also identified
policy concerns with health IT and informatics when
discussing federal and state roles. Often federal and state
regulations and health IT initiatives lack
coordination. "Without explicit guidelines, proprietary state
systems may be created, with many not being able
to connect to the national health information infrastructure and
some not acknowledging the healthcare
systems that cross state lines" (McGowan, Cusack, and
Bloomrosen, 2012, p.462). It is crucial that not only
health professionals and government coordinate their objectives
and policy, but also governing officials of the
state and federal government. Conflicting or uncoordinated
health initiatives may lead to patient and public
mistrust as well as financial complications with both the
government and health organizations.
Summary
Health informatics and Nursing Informatics are very relevant in
evolving health systems. New technology and
initiatives are constantly being developed. These new
65. innovations do not go without implications in the clinical
setting, managerial setting, and the policy setting. It is cruci al
that all participants whether it is the nurse,
manager, provider, politician, lobbyist, or President of the
United States remain coordinated. Multidisciplinary
unity is crucial to ensure public trust in our health systems and
to provide safe and effective patient care.
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By Julianne Sweeney, BSN, RN
My name is Julianne Sweeney and I am a baccalaureate
prepared registered nurse who is currently enrolled in
the MSN program at Regis College: Masters of Nursing
Leadership and Informatics, located in Weston
Massachusetts. I currently work in the RN capacity at the
Department of Veteran Affairs in Jamaica Plain,
68. Massachusetts. At the VA I work in the primary care department
and am involved in a number of committees
and organizations that have a main focus on nursing and
healthcare informatics. 15 Virgil Rd. West Roxbury,
MA 02132 Phone: 508-397-5454 [email protected]
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(50%)
Answers all
parts of the
discussion
question(s)
expectations
with re�ective
critical analysis
and synthesis
of knowledge
gained from
70. the course
readings for the
module and
current credible
sources.
Supported by
at least three
current,
credible
sources.
Written clearly
and concisely
with no
grammatical or
spelling errors
and fully
adheres to
current APA
manual writing
rules and style.
40 (40%) - 44
(44%)
71. Responds to
the discussion
question(s) and
is re�ective
with critical
analysis and
synthesis of
knowledge
gained from
the course
readings for the
module.
At least 75% of
post has
exceptional
depth and
breadth.
Supported by
at least three
credible
sources.
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and concisely
with one or no
grammatical or
spelling errors
and fully
adheres to
current APA
manual writing
rules and style.
35 (35%) - 39
(39%)
Responds to
some of the
discussion
question(s).
One or two
criteria are not
addressed or
are super�cially
addressed.
73. Is somewhat
lacking
re�ection and
critical analysis
and synthesis.
Somewhat
represents
knowledge
gained from the
course readings
for the module.
Post is cited
with two
credible
sources.
Written
somewhat
concisely; may
contain more
than two
spelling or
grammatical
74. errors.
Contains some
APA formatting
errors.
0 (0%) - 34 (34%)
Does not
respond to the
discussion
question(s)
adequately.
Lacks depth or
super�cially
addresses
criteria.
Lacks re�ection
and critical
analysis and
synthesis.
Does not
represent
75. knowledge
gained from the
course readings
for the module.
Contains only
one or no
credible
sources.
Not written
clearly or
concisely.
Contains more
than two
spelling or
grammatical
errors.
Does not
adhere to
current APA
manual writing
rules and style.
76. Main Post:
Timeliness
10 (10%) - 10
(10%)
Posts main post
by day 3.
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First
77. Response
17 (17%) - 18
(18%)
Response
exhibits
synthesis,
critical thinking,
and application
to practice
settings.
Responds fully
to questions
posed by
faculty.
Provides clear,
concise
opinions and
ideas that are
supported by at
least two
scholarly
79. 15 (15%) - 16
(16%)
Response
exhibits critical
thinking and
application to
practice
settings.
Communication
is professional
and respectful
to colleagues.
Responses to
faculty
questions are
answered, if
posed.
Provides clear,
concise
opinions and
ideas that are
80. supported by
two or more
credible
sources.
Response is
e�ectively
written in
standard,
edited English.
13 (13%) - 14
(14%)
Response is on
topic and may
have some
depth.
Responses
posted in the
discussion may
lack e�ective
professional
communication.
81. Responses to
faculty
questions are
somewhat
answered, if
posed.
Response may
lack clear,
concise
opinions and
ideas, and a few
or no credible
sources are
cited.
0 (0%) - 12 (12%)
Response may
not be on topic
and lacks
depth.
Responses
posted in the
83. Response
16 (16%) - 17
(17%)
Response
exhibits
synthesis,
critical thinking,
and application
to practice
settings.
Responds fully
to questions
posed by
faculty.
Provides clear,
concise
opinions and
ideas that are
supported by at
least two
scholarly
85. 14 (14%) - 15
(15%)
Response
exhibits critical
thinking and
application to
practice
settings.
Communication
is professional
and respectful
to colleagues.
Responses to
faculty
questions are
answered, if
posed.
Provides clear,
concise
opinions and
ideas that are
86. supported by
two or more
credible
sources.
Response is
e�ectively
written in
standard,
edited English.
12 (12%) - 13
(13%)
Response is on
topic and may
have some
depth.
Responses
posted in the
discussion may
lack e�ective
professional
communication.
87. Responses to
faculty
questions are
somewhat
answered, if
posed.
Response may
lack clear,
concise
opinions and
ideas, and a few
or no credible
sources are
cited.
0 (0%) - 11 (11%)
Response may
not be on topic
and lacks
depth.
Responses
posted in the
88. discussion lack
e�ective
professional
communication.
Responses to
faculty
questions are
missing.
No credible
sources are
cited.
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89. Meets
requirements
for
participation by
posting on
three di�erent
days.
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requirements
for participation
by posting on 3
di�erent days.
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1. MAIN DISCUSSION POST BY TUESDAY 03/02/2021
90. BEFORE 8:00 PM EST
2. TWO REPLIES BY FRIDAY 03/05/2021 BEFORE 8:00 PM
EST
Discussion: The Application of Data to Problem-Solving
In the modern era, there are few professions that do not to some
extent rely on data. Stockbrokers rely on market data to advise
clients on financial matters. Meteorologists rely on weather data
to forecast weather conditions, while realtors rely on data to
advise on the purchase and sale of property. In these and other
cases, data not only helps solve problems, but adds to the
practitioner’s and the discipline’s body of knowledge.
Of course, the nursing profession also relies heavily on data.
The field of nursing informatics aims to make sure nurses have
access to the appropriate date to solve healthcare problems,
make decisions in the interest of patients, and add to
knowledge.
In this Discussion, you will consider a scenario that would
benefit from access to data and how such access could facilitate
both problem-solving and knowledge formation.
To Prepare:
· Reflect on the concepts of informatics and knowledge work as
presented in the Resources.
91. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=fLUygA8Hpfo
2. See attached articles -
· Consider a hypothetical scenario based on your own healthcare
practice or organization that would require or benefit from the
access/collection and application of data.
Your scenario may involve a patient, staff, or management
problem or gap. – I work in a psychiatric unit.
Instructions:
1. Post a description of the focus of your scenario.
2. Describe the data that could be used and how the data might
be collected and accessed.
3. What knowledge might be derived from that data?
4. How would a nurse leader use clinical reasoning and
judgment in the formation of knowledge from this experience?
** USE AT LEAST 3 REFERENCES**
**THIS DISCUSSION IS DIVIDE IN TWO PARTS
–
1.
92. MAIN DISCUSSION POST BY TUESDAY 03/02/2021
BEFORE
8:00 PM EST
2.
TWO REPLIES BY FRIDAY 03/05/2021 BEFORE 8:00 PM
EST
Discussion: The Application of Data to
Problem
-
Solving
In the modern era, there are few professions that do not to some
extent rely on data.
Stockbrokers rely on market data to advise clients on financial
matters. Meteorologists
rely on weather data to forecast weather conditions, while
realtors rely on data t
o advise
on the purchase and sale of property. In these and other cases,
93. data not only helps
solve problems, but adds to the practitioner’s and the
discipline’s body of knowledge.
Of course, the nursing profession also relies heavily on data.
The field of
nursing
informatics aims to make sure nurses have access to the
appropriate date to solve
healthcare problems, make decisions in the interest of patients,
and add to knowledge.
In this Discussion, you will consider a scenario that would
benefit from access
to data
and how such access could facilitate both problem
-
solving and knowledge formation.
To Prepare:
·
94. Reflect on the concepts of informatics and knowledge work as
presented in the
Resources.
1.
https://www.you
tube.com/watch?reload=9&v=fLUygA8Hpfo
2.
See attached articles
-
·
Consider a hypothetical scenario based on your own healthcare
p
ractice or
organization that would require or benefit from the
access/collection and
application of data.
Your scenario may involve a patient, staff, or management
95. problem or gap.
–
I
work in a
psychiatric
unit
.
Instructions:
1.
Post
a description of the focus of your scenario.
2.
Describ
e the data that could be used and how the data might be
collected and
96. accessed.
3.
What knowledge might be derived from that data?
4.
How would a nurse leader use clinical reasoning and judgment
in the formation
of knowledge from this experience?
** USE AT LEAST 3 REFERENCES**
**THIS DISCUSSION IS DIVIDE IN TWO PARTS –
1. MAIN DISCUSSION POST BY TUESDAY 03/02/2021
BEFORE
8:00 PM EST
2. TWO REPLIES BY FRIDAY 03/05/2021 BEFORE 8:00 PM
EST
Discussion: The Application of Data to
97. Problem-Solving
In the modern era, there are few professions that do not to some
extent rely on data.
Stockbrokers rely on market data to advise clients on financial
matters. Meteorologists
rely on weather data to forecast weather conditions, while
realtors rely on data to advise
on the purchase and sale of property. In these and other cases,
data not only helps
solve problems, but adds to the practitioner’s and the
discipline’s body of knowledge.
Of course, the nursing profession also relies heavily on data.
The field of nursing
informatics aims to make sure nurses have access to the
appropriate date to solve
healthcare problems, make decisions in the interest of patients,
and add to knowledge.
In this Discussion, you will consider a scenario that would
benefit from access to data
and how such access could facilitate both problem-solving and
knowledge formation.
To Prepare:
ge work
as presented in the
98. Resources.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=fLUygA8Hpfo
2. See attached articles -
healthcare practice or
organization that would require or benefit from the
access/collection and
application of data.
Your scenario may involve a patient, staff, or management
problem or gap. – I
work in a psychiatric unit.
Instructions:
1. Post a description of the focus of your scenario.
2. Describe the data that could be used and how the data might
be collected and
accessed.
3. What knowledge might be derived from that data?
4. How would a nurse leader use clinical reasoning and
judgment in the formation
of knowledge from this experience?
** USE AT LEAST 3 REFERENCES**