Healthcare Informatics

Weekly Discussions Discussion 1 Safety is recognized as minimizing risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Please review the QSEN competencies related to Informatics (http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/#informatics) and Safety (http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/#safety). For this discussion, please respond to each of the following prompts: 1.      Describe a safety-enhancing technology that you use in your practice. Provide a full description that helps the reader understand its use and features.  2.      In your experience, has the technology described help reduce the intended safety risk for which it was intended? Strengthen your discussion by fully describing why or why not?   Please be sure to provide appropriate APA-formatted in-text citations and references to support your response.  Student’s writing is supported with at least one scholarly source in the initial answer post. Examples of scholarly sources are journal articles, assigned readings, textbooks, lectures, course materials    Discussion 2 Patients are becoming technologically savvy. The use of the Smartphone has made accessing information as simple as tapping on a downloaded application. For this discussion, please select a disease or condition and research online support groups and websites or applications you would recommend for patient education. Consider the information provided by USA.gov  related to evaluating health information on the Internet (https://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/How_To_Evaluate_Health_Information_on_the_In ternet_Questions_and_Answers.aspx) Please respond to each of the following prompts: 1.      Choose 3 sites or applications (one must be a support group) and explain what the critical components are that you used to evaluate them.  2.      Explain from a nursing perspective the benefits of each site and also what improvements are needed. 3.      How do these sites or applications (one of which is a support group) support diverse and hard-to-reach populations? Please be sure to provide appropriate APA-formatted in-text citations and references to support your response.  Student’s writing is supported with at least one scholarly source in the initial answer post. Examples of scholarly sources are journal articles, assigned readings, textbooks, lectures, course materials Discussion 3 In the discussion for this week, we will focus on the use of radio-frequency implanted devices, known as RFIDs. This discussion will help you begin to think about the APA-formatted paper due this week on the topic of RFIDs and Smartcards.  Consider this scenario: The hospital administrators have chosen to include the smart card or implanted RFID in their plan for patient care delivery. However, your client base is resistant to the idea of using the smart card. In your discussion response, please address each of the following questions: 1.      What are the pros and cons for using the smartcard or RFID?  2.      How would you balance the concerns related to the cons, while trying to incorporate its use into the healthcare system?  3.      Identify groups or individuals who could immediately benefit from the use of the technology, and why is that so? Please be sure to provide appropriate APA-formatted in-text citations and references to support your response. Student’s writing is supported with at least one scholarly source in the initial answer post. Examples of scholarly sources are journal articles, assigned readings, textbooks, lectures, course materials  Discussion 4 For this discussion, consider the ways in which technology and informatics are used to support evidence-based practice. Please address each of the following questions in your discussion response for this week: 1.      Choose a specific evidence-based practice (examples: CAUTI reduction, sepsis protocol, SCIP protocol, bedside shift report, etc.).  a.      Describe how technology and informatics are used to support the interventions used in practice?  b.      Describe how employing evidence-based practice guidelines improve patient outcomes? 2.      What benefits and challenges have you experienced with (the integration of) information technology in your practice? 3.      What strategies did you, or could you, use to overcome these challenges? Please be sure to provide appropriate APA-formatted in-text citations and references to support your response.  Student’s writing is supported with at least one scholarly source in the initial answer post. Examples of scholarly sources are journal articles, assigned readings, textbooks, lectures, course materials                   Discussion 5 Nurses interact with technology on a daily basis. For this discussion, please address each of the following aspects of the discussion: 1.      Describe a human-technology interface that you have encountered in healthcare that you think needs improving.  2.      Describe what you would specifically like to see changed about this technology and why?  Please be sure to provide appropriate APA-formatted in-text citations and references to support your response.  Student’s writing is supported with at least one scholarly source in the initial answer post. Examples of scholarly sources are journal articles, assigned readings, textbooks, lectures, course materials