How has your definition evolved over the course of this semester? What top three skills or characteristics do you now believe are required to be an effective nurse informaticist?

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Week 12: Nursing Informatics Revisited

Review your original definition of nursing informatics from the Chapter 1 Assignment.

  • How has your definition evolved over the course of this semester?
  • What top three skills or characteristics do you now believe are required to be an effective nurse informaticist?
  • Did your view about the benefits of nursing informatics change with the knowledge you have acquired from this course? Explain why or why not.

Provide references in APA format.

What leadership, communication, collaboration, or change management skills did you employ during your interactions to overcome these barriers or change the patient’s, family’s, or group’s thinking about the problem (for example, creating a sense of urgency based on data or policy requirements)?

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Capella Academic Portal

In a 5-7 page written assessment, assess the effect of the patient, family, or population problem you’ve previously defined on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual. Plan to spend approximately 2 direct practicum hours exploring these aspects of the problem with the patient, family, or group you’ve chosen to work with and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form. Report on your experiences during your first two practicum hours.

Introduction

Organizational data, such as readmission rates, hospital-acquired infections, falls, medication errors, staff satisfaction, serious safety events, and patient experience can be used to prioritize time, resources, and finances. Health care organizations and government agencies use benchmark data to compare the quality of organizational services and report the status of patient safety. Professional nurses are key to comprehensive data collection, reporting, and monitoring of metrics to improve quality and patient safety.

Preparation

In this assessment, you’ll assess the effect of the health problem you’ve defined on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual. Plan to spend at least 2 direct practicum hours working with the same patient, family, or group. During this time, you may also choose to consult with subject matter and industry experts.

To prepare for the assessment:

Review the assessment instructions and scoring guide to ensure that you understand the work you will be asked to complete and how it will be assessed.
Conduct research of the scholarly and professional literature to inform your assessment and meet scholarly expectations for supporting evidence.
Review the Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 2 [PDF], which provides guidance for conducting this portion of your practicum.
Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Support page.

Instructions

Complete this assessment in two parts.

Part 1
Assess the effect of the patient, family, or population problem you defined in the previous assessment on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual. Plan to spend at least 2 practicum hours exploring these aspects of the problem with the patient, family, or group. During this time, you may also consult with subject matter and industry experts of your choice. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Capella Academic Portal Volunteer Experience Form. Use the Practicum Focus Sheet: Assessment 2 [PDF] provided for this assessment to guide your work and interpersonal interactions.

Part 2
Report on your experiences during your first 2 practicum hours, including how you presented your ideas about the health problem to the patient, family, or group.

Whom did you meet with?
What did you learn from them?
Comment on the evidence-based practice (EBP) documents or websites you reviewed.
What did you learn from that review?
Share the process and experience of exploring the influence of leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy on the problem.
What barriers, if any, did you encounter when presenting the problem to the patient, family, or group?
Did the patient, family, or group agree with you about the presence of the problem and its significance and relevance?
What leadership, communication, collaboration, or change management skills did you employ during your interactions to overcome these barriers or change the patient’s, family’s, or group’s thinking about the problem (for example, creating a sense of urgency based on data or policy requirements)?
What changes, if any, did you make to your definition of the problem, based on your discussions?
What might you have done differently?

Identify and briefly describe each chemical step required to create each neurotransmitter.

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Assignment 2

  • Starting with the precursor substance tyrosine, draw three diagrams showing how the various enzymes convert this substance to serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine.
  • Identify and briefly describe each chemical step required to create each neurotransmitter.

 

 

Demonstrate understanding and competence in making decisions in nursing which will promote client-centered care, taking into consideration ethical, clinical, cultural, spiritual, and political implications.

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Hallmark Assignment

Part B: Presentation

Develop a 15-20 slide PowerPoint not including the title and reference slides. Be sure to place citations as needed on each slide following APA guidelines. Please provide recorded audio for each slide that is clean and free of any background noise. Additionally the PowerPoint slides should be professional in appearance and include graphics, music, photos, embedded video etc. as appropriate. Be as creative as you desire, but remember to remain professional.

Part A: Final Paper

This semester we have reviewed a various Issues and Trends in Contemporary Nursing Practice. Many objectives have been addressed and met. Please take a moment to reflect on the objectives of the course and develop an 8-10-page scholarly paper stating how you have met the outcomes of this course.

Course Outcomes
Demonstrate understanding and competence in making decisions in nursing which will promote client-centered care, taking into consideration ethical, clinical, cultural, spiritual, and political implications.
Demonstrate intentional learning with reflection as it relates to decision-making in nursing.
Understand processes of making decisions in nursing, and apply evidence in supporting concepts and processes which relate to practice.
Demonstrate knowledge of how decision-making in nursing practice relates to clinical reasoning and critical thinking, taking into consideration the many facets of decision-making in nursing.
Demonstrate leadership in organizational, local, and global environments as it relates to decision-making in nursing.
Communicate effectively and therapeutically, with and without the use of technology, while making decisions in nursing practice.
Propose evidence-based, culturally-competent nursing care which promotes standard safe practices along with error and hazard prevention and quality improvement practices.
Participate as a collaborative team member in understanding and implementing client care, and in promoting the health of clients while making decisions as nurses in practice.

Discuss your findings and relate the results to the patients that you care for. How can you use these findings to make data-driven decisions to improve surveillance, and decrease the incidence of post-vaccination anaphylaxis/adverse reactions in your clinic?

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Week 11 Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Discussion

Directions:

NUR 808 Rubric for Evaluating Discussion Board PostsDownload NUR 808 Rubric for Evaluating Discussion Board Posts

Your substantive entry is due by Wednesday and reply to two of your peers by Sunday.

1. Read the Rubric attached below, articles Anaphylaxis after vaccination reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 1990-2016 Download Anaphylaxis after vaccination reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System that is attached below, 1990-2016 and the VAERS Table of_Reportable Events Following Vaccination.Download the VAERS Table of_Reportable Events Following Vaccination. chapters 5 in the pictures below.

2. Compare the 2019 VAERS data set to the 1990-2016 data set. How did the 1990-2016 data differ from the 2019 data? How were they similar (population data)?

3. Perform a chart review at your clinic to determine how many patients had a reaction to a vaccine and were reported to VAERS in 2019 .

4. Discuss your findings and relate the results to the patients that you care for. How can you use these findings to make data-driven decisions to improve surveillance, and decrease the incidence of post-vaccination anaphylaxis/adverse reactions in your clinic?

5. Discuss how you could use the various nursing statistic sampling types when recruiting a sample from a population. What type of sampling technique did you use when performing the clinic chart review?

6.. Add a question to the bottom of your post to stimulate further discussion amongst your peers.

Explore the sources of evidence necessary for your identified practice problem.

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EXPLORATION OF SOURCES OF EVIDENCE

For this Discussion, you will explore the sources of evidence necessary for your identified practice problem. These sources of evidence may be derived from library databases related to nursing, or you may find sources necessary for your practice problem in the form of interviews or library databases related to other fields. Consider where you might explore sources of evidence for your practice problem. Where might you find these sources outside of your typical evidence locations? Consider why this exploration is important and meaningful for your proposed change.
Post a response detailing your exploration of sources of evidence for your practice problem. Consider multiple sources of evidence, rather than simply resources from the library: formal and informal interviews, national organizations, internal/external to your organization and/or practice. Consider library sources of information outside of nursing literature (e.g., business journals). Consider the impact of not including resources from specific sources. How might this create a flaw in your ability to support a proposed practice change? Be specific and provide examples.

Explain the modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors for osteoporosis. How can a nurse support the patient to manage the health condition and restore the patient to optimal health?

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Osteoporosis

Explain the modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors for osteoporosis. How can a nurse support the patient to manage the health condition and restore the patient to optimal health?

What did you learn from Professional nursing 1 that you did not already know? How will you apply what you learned Professional nursing 1 to your patient care?

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Professional nursing

Your written assignment for this module should be a 1-2 page paper (not including title page and reference page) that describes the following:

  • What did you learn from Professional nursing 1 that you did not already know?
  • How will you apply what you learned Professional nursing 1 to your patient care?

You should include a minimum of 2 references. Include a title page, in-text citations, and a reference page in APA format.

Discuss the need for institutional review boards (IRBs). How can they potentially affect or impact a study?

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Institutional review boards (IRBs)

Discuss the need for institutional review boards (IRBs). How can they potentially affect or impact a study?

Would you agree? What about Maslow’s description of humanness in terms of a hierarchy of needs with self-actualization at the top? Another possibility is that persons are the major focus of nursing. Do you see humans as good or evil?

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Chapter 3: Philosophy of Nursing

1. Where do you see yourself and your understanding of truth on the continuum of realism and idealism?

2. How would you define person? Look at the following attributes given to a person:

  • (1) the ability to think and conceptualize,
  • (2) the capacity to interact with others,
  • (3) the need for boundaries, and
  • (4) the use of language (Doheny, Cook, & Stopper, 1997).

Would you agree? What about Maslow’s description of humanness in terms of a hierarchy of needs with self-actualization at the top? Another possibility is that persons are the major focus of nursing. Do you see humans as good or evil?

3. Where do you see yourself and your understanding of truth on the continuum of realism and idealism?

4. What are your beliefs about the major concepts in nursing—person, environment, health, nursing?

5. Do you believe there is more than one right answer to situations? How do you value the whole individual? What barriers prevent us from responding to the contextual needs of our patients?

6. Do you believe in health care for everyone? Does health care for everyone have value to me as a person? Does it have value to me as a nurse? What value does universal health care have to my patients?

7. How does my personal philosophy fit with the context of nursing? Does it fit? What areas, if any, need assessing?