Through this reflection, the student will demonstrate the ability to:
Introduce yourself to your peers and faculty (CO4)
Establish a personal baseline assessment of your informatics knowledge and goals (CO4)
Due Date:
This assignment is due no later than the Sunday of Week 1 by 11:59 PM MT.
Total Points Possible: 50 points
Requirements: Post a written response in the forum to EACH question. Each response should be substantive and..
Week 2 Discussion 2: Pre-Tanic Self-Assessment Reflection Questions - Version 1
Reflect upon your current or most recent clinical practice and answer the following:
How is informatics used?
Regarding the Pre-TANIC Self-Assessment for this week, how did your perceived competency level prior to the self-assessment compare to after the self-assessment? Explain in detail.
What competencies do you use in your current clinical role? Provide at least..
Week 2 Discussion 2: Pre-Tanic Self-Assessment Reflection Questions - Version 2
Reflect upon your current or most recent clinical practice and answer the following:
How is informatics used?
Regarding the Pre-TANIC Self-Assessment for this week, how did your perceived competency level prior to the self-assessment compare to after the self-assessment? Explain in detail.
What competencies do you use in your current clinical role? Provide at least..
Reflect upon your current or most recent clinical practice and answer the following:
How is informatics used?
Regarding the Pre-TANIC Self-Assessment for this week, how did your perceived competency level prior to the self-assessment compare to after the self-assessment? Explain in detail.
What competencies do you use in your current clinical role? Provide at least one example.
Identify resources to develop a strategic plan to enhance..
Week 3 Discussion: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) - Benefits and Drawbacks
As discussed in the lesson and assigned reading for this week, EHRs provide both benefits and drawbacks. Create a “Pros” versus “Cons” table and include at least 3 items for each list. Next to each item, provide a brief rationale as to why you selected to include it on the respective list.
Refer to the Stage 3 objectives for Meaningful Use located in this week’s lesson under the heading Meaningful Use and the HI..
Information literacy is critically important for all nurses, especially APNs. APNs must be able to determine what information is needed, find the information, critique the information, provide care based on this information, and evaluate the outcomes of the process. Sound challenging?
Continue to reflect upon strategies to facilitate this process. Provide a brief response (100 words or less)..
This week we learned about the potential benefits and drawbacks to clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). Create a “Pros” versus “Cons” table with a column for “Pro” and a separate column for “Con”. Include at least 3 items for each column. Next to each item, provide a brief rationale as to why you included it on the respective list.
The primary goal of a CDSS is to leverage data and the scientific evidence to help guide appropriate decision making. CDSSs directly assist the clinician in ..
Week 6 Discussion: Federal, State, and Local Agencies
Federal, state, and local agencies related to informatics remind me of federal, state, and local taxes. Our government taxes are regulated .....
As mentioned in this lesson, numerous telecommunications-ready tools are already available to assist nurses in delivering care and improving patients' health outcomes. New and innovative tools are rapidly making it to the marketplace, making current tools dated and sometimes obsolete. Continue to reflect upon the point-of-care tools you may be familiar with using in your role as a Registered Nurse and how your responsibilities will change with your future role as an APN.
How will you stay curre..
As mentioned in the lesson, for the healthcare professional to be an effective patient advocate, he or she must understand how information technology affects the patient and the subsequent delivery of care. Continue to reflect upon what does this statement means to you and your responsibilities as a future APN.
Provide a brief response (100 words or less)..
Regarding the Post-TANIC Self-Assessment for this week, how does your competency level compare to the Week 2 Self-Assessment?
Which competencies do you think may benefit you in your future role as an APN, and why?
As discussed in the lesson this week, healthcare providers must be competent in informatics in order to make ethical decisions about informatics technologies and patients' intimate healthcare data and information. To the extent that information technology is reshaping healthcare..
NI knowledge, skills, and competencies are so pervasive in the modern technology-rich healthcare environment it is difficult to imagine one without the other. This course provided foundational and introductory knowledge regarding informatics with an emphasis on developing an understanding of concepts of nursing informatics (NI) and becoming knowledgeable about the application of informatics in advanced practice.
Reflect upon one NI competency relevant to APNs which you learned in this course. P..