NR 512 (NR 512)

WEEK 7 DISCUSSION Week 7: Safeguarding Health Information and Systems A new concept for some organizations is to allow nurses to bring in their own devices known as bring your own devices (BYOD) to use at work. What are some of the security issues you might encounter if this were allowed? How would you address these issues? How is this issue addressed in your practice setting? Professor and Class, In today’s world of rapid advancing technology, healthcare companies have multiple lines of...

Week 5: Knowledge Generation Through Nursing Informatics In one of the reading assignments this week you reviewed advance nurse practitioner (APN) roles and the application of project management concepts, one of the major elements of NI, but new to most nurses. What type of application does this have for your practice? According to Sipes (2016, p. 16), the five steps of project management are similar to the five steps of the nursing process when caring for patients using evidence-based c...

NR 512 Week 3 Discussion, Reflections on Second Life Experiences (Two Version) You are working in Second Life now completing a number of activities. What do you see as a benefit to augmenting course assignments through the use of a virtual learning environment (VLE)? How do you see the advanced practice nurse using VLE in their practice? Professor and class, The use of technology in the nursing profession has become more prominent over the years and is becoming more prevalent in its incorpo...

Week 1: Discussion 1: Integration of nursing informatics skills and competencies What is nursing informatics? According to American Association of Colleges of Nursing QSEN Consortium, (2012) Nursing informatics (NI) is one of many specialties in nursing that integrates science with analytics and health information management to define, manage, identify, process and communicate health care and computer information data in nursing practice. Nursing informatics is relatively vital in the nursing ...

HealthIT Hot Topic of the Week and Impact on Practice What was the HealthIT Hot Topic you selected related to your specialty? Why did you select it? How will this impact your practice? The topic that I selected for the HealthIT Hot Topic was the relevance of social media in the healthcare setting. With the emerging popularity of various social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, healthcare facilities need to recognize the importance of embracing this technology and running ...

Week 4: Informatics Skills How do the informatics skills you are now developing/expanding upon and validating help you meet current informatics skills levels? How did the TANIC self-assessment change your impression of your current informatics skill levels? Professor and class, Nursing informatics is essential to daily nursing practice and aids in reinforcing decision making. Nursing, as many other fields in medicine, has seen a wave of technology integrated into practice which has made mai...

Week 2: Wisdom Versus Judgement Hello Professor and Class, Nursing seeks to improve understanding on how to gain nursing wisdom and apply this learned wisdom into daily nursing practice. According to Matney, Avant & Staggers (2015), the technological advances relating wisdom to knowledge suggest a strong concept relationship. In addition, Matney, Avant & Staggers, (2015) noted that the American Nurse Association (ANA) revised the nursing informatics scope and standard of practice by modify...