Using Information Technology to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Nursing Care

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Using Information Technology to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Nursing Care

For this Application Assignment, you are to write a 4- to 5-page paper on the issues of data quality, patient safety, and access to health care. Reflect on your own practices and review your readings and the media programs about how information technology improves patient safety and quality of care.

Conduct additional research using the Walden Library. Then, addressing the following:

  • Describe strategies that are used to ensure the accuracy and safety of data entered into information systems used in nursing practice.
  • Explain the importance of data integrity for health care institutions.
  • Summarize how information technology contributes to patient safety and to access to health care.

Make sure to refer to your Application Assignment Rubric prior to submission. Support your position or those of others with references from the professional literature.

Using Information Technology to Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Nursing Care

For this Application Assignment, you are to write a 4- to 5-page paper on the issues of data quality, patient safety, and access to health care. Reflect on your own practices and review your readings and the media programs about how information technology improves patient safety and quality of care.

Conduct additional research using the Walden Library. Then, addressing the following:

  • Describe strategies that are used to ensure the accuracy and safety of data entered into information systems used in nursing practice.
  • Explain the importance of data integrity for health care institutions.
  • Summarize how information technology contributes to patient safety and to access to health care.

Make sure to refer to your Application Assignment Rubric prior to submission. Support your position or those of others with references from the professional literature.

 Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge

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Have you ever gone online to search for a journal article on a specific topic? It is amazing to see the large number of journals that are available in the health care field. When you view the library in its entirety, you are viewing untapped data. Until you actually research for your particular topic, there is little structure. Once you have narrowed it down, you have information and once you apply the information, you have knowledge. Eventually, after thoughtful research and diligent practice, you reach the level of wisdom—knowledge applied in meaningful ways.

Are there areas in your practice that you believe should be more fully explored? The central aims of nursing informatics are to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. This continuum represents the overarching structure of nursing informatics. In this Assignment, you develop a research question relevant to your practice area and relate how you would work through the progression from data to information, knowledge, and wisdom.

To prepare:

  • Review the information in Figure 6-2 in Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge.
  • Develop a clinical question related to your area of practice that you would like to explore.
  • Consider what you currently know about this topic. What additional information would you need to answer the question?
  • Using the continuum of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, determine how you would go about researching your question.
    • Explore the available databases in the Walden Library. Identify which of these databases you would use to find the information or data you need.
    • Once you have identified useful databases, how would you go about finding the most relevant articles and information?
    • Consider how you would extract the relevant information from the articles.
    • How would you take the information and organize it in a way that was useful? How could you take the step from simply having useful knowledge to gaining wisdom?

To complete:

Write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following:

    • Summarize the question you developed, and then relate how you would work through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge, wisdom continuum. Be specific.
      • Identify the databases and search words you would use.
      • Relate how you would take the information gleaned and turn it into useable knowledge.
    • Can informatics be used to gain wisdom? Describe how you would progress from simply having useful knowledge to the wisdom to make decisions about the information you have found during your database search.

Leadership in Nursing Practice

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Leadership in Nursing Practice

 

Participation: 

 

1. Completion of a mid-term paper, worth 15 points of the final semester computation. Understand that the mid-term paper is not optional, it is mandatory. Criteria for this written assignment are in the semester grade computation section. Late submissions will be penalized with an automatic 10 point deduction. The Learning Center (TLC) at the library is a resource for term paper assistance and confirmation of utilizing this resource will be part of the mid-term paper grade.

 

IX. Learning Guide

 

A. Mid-term Paper Assignment:

 

 

 

Criteria: Leadership in Nursing Practice

 

§ Correct APA format

 

§ Include subheading to denote each section

 

§ Abstracts are NOT necessary.

 

§ 5-6 pages (the body of the paper, excludes title and reference pages)

 

§ Title page

 

§ Reference page

 

§ Minimally 5-7 references; less than 5 years old, utilize, .edu, .gov and, .org websites, to emphasize professional resources.

 

§ Include at least two evidenced based practice research articles from the CINAHL database; the librarian can help you with this.

 

§ Document internal citation (giving credit to resources used; if not can be considered plagiarism)

 

§ Any collusion or plagiarized work with be given a zero (0) and may result in removal from the program per syllabus.

Identify a borrowed theory and apply its framework to advanced nursing issue

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1 page

APA

Spurces:2

 

Identify a borrowed theory and apply its framework to advanced nursing issue (i.e. hostility in the workplace, instituting bedside report,& shared leadership). For example, how could Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory be applied to bedside reporting.
Review the borrowed theories:
– General system theory
– Feminist theory
– Critical social theory
– theories from behavioral sciences
– Psychoanalytic theory
– Interpersonal theory
– Operant conditioning
– Human needs theory
– Person-centered theory
– Stress coping
– Adaptation theory
Choose a borrowed theory and apply its framework to an advanced nursing issue (i.e. hostility in the workplace, instituting bedside reporting, & shared leadership).

*Please use scholarly reference within 5 years (2010 and up)
*write in 3rd person
*citation in text
*APA format 6th ed

1 page

APA

Spurces:2

Identify a borrowed theory and apply its framework to advanced nursing issue (i.e. hostility in the workplace, instituting bedside report,& shared leadership). For example, how could Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory be applied to bedside reporting.
Review the borrowed theories:
– General system theory
– Feminist theory
– Critical social theory
– theories from behavioral sciences
– Psychoanalytic theory
– Interpersonal theory
– Operant conditioning
– Human needs theory
– Person-centered theory
– Stress coping
– Adaptation theory
Choose a borrowed theory and apply its framework to an advanced nursing issue (i.e. hostility in the workplace, instituting bedside reporting, & shared leadership).

*Please use scholarly reference within 5 years (2010 and up)
*write in 3rd person
*citation in text
*APA format 6th ed