Nursing Informatics Pioneers

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Application 1: Nursing Informatics Pioneers

One of the major drivers in recent health care reform legislation is the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act’s (ARRA) HiTech Incentive. This act, passed in 2009, earmarked $22 billion for the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), with a goal of 100% adoption in all practice settings by the year 2014. The HiTech Act provides an example of the pivotal role that health information technology plays in the delivery of quality health care services. Yet, health information technology is a relatively new field. This Application Assignment provides an opportunity for you to examine the contributions of pioneers in this arena and consider how their contributions have influenced health informatics and nursing practice today.

To prepare:

  • Visit the AMIA Video Library 1: Nursing Informatics Pioneers webpage listed in the Learning Resources.
  • Review the biographies and video presentations of pioneers who are of interest to you, or may hold a position that you aspire to achieve.
  • Select two nursing informatics pioneers and conduct further research on their contributions.
  • Consider how their contributions have influenced health information technology and nursing practice today.

By Thursday 09/07/17, Write a scholarly 3- to 4-page paper comparing two nursing informatics pioneers in APA format with a minimum of 4 references from the list below which include the level one headings as numbered below:

1)     What are the professional accomplishments of each individual?

2)     How have their contributions influenced nursing practice?

3)     How have their contributions shaped the field of nursing informatics?

4)     What lessons can you take away from their experiences?

5)     What skills or ideas demonstrated by these leaders might you apply to your professional practice?

 

 

Required Readings

 

Course Text: Ball, M. J., Douglas, J. V., Hinton Walker, P., DuLong, D., Gugerty, B., Hannah, K. J., . . . Troseth, M. R. (Eds.) (2011). Nursing informatics: Where technology and caring meet (4th ed.). London, England: Springer-Verlag.

Chapter 1, “Nursing Informatics: Transforming Nursing”

Chapter 12, “The Evolving National Informatics Landscape”

Chapter 1 introduces the need for health care reform by detailing cost concerns and future needs of the nursing profession. A look at the beginning stages of the TIGER collaborative is also given, detailing its start at the 2006 Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Chapter 12 provides an overview of technology’s emergence into the health care industry.

 

Course Text: American Nurses Association. (2008). Nursing informatics: Scope and standards of practice. Silver Spring, MD: Author.

“Introduction” (pp. 1–2)

“Informatics Competencies” (pp. 33–40)

The 2-page excerpt from the introduction offers a brief description of the field of informatics and presents the rationale for referring to the scope and standards throughout your nursing career. The excerpt from the “Informatics Competencies” section uses research and matrices to correlate informatics competencies with the education and roles of nursing professionals.

 

Cesnik, B., & Kidd, M. R. (2010). History of health informatics: A global perspective. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 151, 3–8.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

The authors of this article begin by summarizing the rise of computer development and use. They then examine how technology will build the capabilities of future businesses.

 

Hovenga, E. J., Kidd, M. R., Garde, S., & Hullin Lucay Cossio, C. (2010). Health informatics: An introduction. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 151, 9–15.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

A brief explanation of informatics principles is given in this article.

 

 

Ozbolt, J. G., & Saba, V. K. (2008). A brief history of nursing informatics in the United States of America. Nursing Outlook, 56(5), 199–205.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Examine the initiatives and technological developments that have informed the field of informatics by using this article as a guide.

 

Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER). (n.d.). The TIGER Initiative: Informatics competencies for every practicing nurse: Recommendations from the TIGER collaborative. Retrieved from: http://www.mhsinformatics.org/CI-Fellowship/Workforce-Development/Competencies/Tiger.Report_Competencies_final.pdf

For this week, focus on the executive summary and Appendix A, B, and C for review of the TIGER initiative and resulting competencies.

 

Required Media

 

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Transforming nursing and healthcare through technology: What is health informatics? Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note:  The approximate length of this media piece is 13 minutes.

In this week’s media presentation, the presenters discuss the extensive applications, implications, and benefits of health informatics for patients, practitioners, and health care organizations as a whole.

 

 

HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Community Podcast Series. (Producer). (2009). Episode #15: TIGER initiative – technology informatics guiding education reform. [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from http://podbay.fm/show/popout.php?id=285132709&e=1246544022

Joyce Sensmeier, vice president of informatics at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), presents the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) initiative that is aimed at educating nurses on new digital technologies. This podcast also highlights the organizational accomplishments and future informatics goals of the TIGER initiative. To access the podcast, scroll through the page linked above to find Episode #15.

 

 

American Medical Informatics Association. (2011). Video Library 1: Nursing informatics pioneers.

Retrieved from http://www.amia.org/programs/working-groups/nursing-informatics/history-project/video-library-1

The AMIA developed a Nursing Informatics History Project, aimed at documenting and preserving the history of nursing informatics. This project consists of two video libraries. Video Library 1 portrays the viewpoints and accomplishments of those recognized as pioneers in the informatics field.

 

 

Optional Resources

 

Gugerty, B. Delaney, C. (August, 2009). Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER). TIGER Informatics Competencies Collaborative (TICC) Final Report. Retrieved from http://tigercompetencies.pbworks.com/f/TICC_Final.pdf

 

Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER). (n.d.). Evidence and Informatics Transforming Nursing: 3-Year Action Steps toward a 10-Year Vision. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/education-resources/TIGER.pdf

 

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Life Changing Event

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These are the instructions from my professor. Everything should be listed here. I’ve already started my introductory paragraph and a bit of the second paragraph. Basically I am writing a story about how I rolled my vehicle on I-10 coming from a bar called Giau located on Bellaire Blvd and Beltway 8 in houston texas. I had been drinking that night. Drinking and driving was a very normal thing for me at this point in my life. It was New Years Eve. I knew drinking and driving was dangerous but never stopped because nothing ever happened to me until this experience. I shouldve died or gotten seriously injured but walked away with a few scratches. this experience made me change the way I lived. Stopping drinking and driving became a new years resolution that was extremely successful with. This took place on December 31st 2019/January 1st 2020. 23 years old at the time. Now 24. Paragraphs must follow meal plan

1.Woke up that day
2 Went to work (abt 5 min away from home)(paralegal at personal injury firm called Thurlow and Associates) (9-5)
3 Went to the gym till 7
4 Played Apex Legends on Xbox for a few hours till 10
5 Met up with friends at bar (Giau)
6 Drank bottles of hennesey vsop there with friends Tuan, Aston, and Jose
7 Left bar at 2am
8 Went to an after party at an air bnb down at bellaire blvd and cook
9 lots of girls, few guys, socialized for a few hours
10 left around 3:45am
11 10 minutes later down beltway 8, i take the ramp to i10
12 light sprinkle all night, but rain started to pick up
13 slick layer of water on i10
14 hit a puddle going about 80mph
15 hydroplaned
16 tried to correct, fishtailed into barrier
17 car rolled over
18 wasnt wearing seatbelt
19 scary watching sparks as im upside down in my car slding along the freeway
20 kick open door to get out
21 knees bleeding for getting cut by broken glass
walk over to shoulder of highway
22 fire truck and police pull up
23 know im about to get a dwi
24 cop questions me, but never takes breathalyzer
25 lets me go home free in an uber
26 car gets towed away.
27 fall asleep with large amounts of anxiety
28 wake up feeling hopeless

For this essay, you will need to write about one specific experience that changed how you acted, thought, or felt. Use your experience as a springboard for reflection. This narrative essay needs to be about an event that actually happened to you.

Your first goal is to tell an interesting story about this event. Your goal is to tell a good story, so don’t think of this as simply an academic essay. Think of interesting stories you have read during your life. Good stories are entertaining, informative, lively, and believable; they will mean something to those who write them as well as to those who read them.

However, the purpose is not to merely tell an interesting story but to show your readers the importance and influence the experience has had on you.

Any time you render a full account of a personal experience, you answer what is commonly known as “reporter’s questions”–the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions reporters ask themselves to make sure their reports of news stories are complete. Whether your essay is engaging or not depends upon the subject, your interest in telling it, and the skills you use to weave together these story elements.

Your story should be descriptive, using sensory language (touch, smell, sight, sound, and taste) (Links to an external site.) to describe. Narratives include action and details, provide a clear sequence of events, and use dialogue. Describe yourself and other participants in your story in such a way that the details and facts help tell your story. Experiences happen in some place at some time, and good essays describe these settings.

In the personal essay, your main character is yourself, so don’t be afraid to use a first-person perspective and use the word “I.”

The event you choose is up to you, but make sure it’s clear to a reader why the event is important and how it changed you in some way.

I suggest you follow this basic outline:

Introduction: Introduce the topic, assuming the readers do not know the writing prompt. Make sure your introduction grabs the readers’ attention. Use at least one introduction strategy. Invest your readers in the topic. Make them care about it. End the introduction by stating your thesis statement, which should include a forecasting statement (sub-divisions).

Body Paragraphs: Follow the MEAL PLAN (Links to an external site.) for each body paragraph. Use evidence, examples, direct quotations, events, and people to support your paragraphs.

Conclusion: End your piece in a strong and interesting way. Sum up your main argument, but also include a strong conclusion strategy. You might want to predict what the future holds or explain the lasting impact of this event.

Length: Your essay must be at least 1,500 words. Let me be clear this part of the assignment is non-negotiable: papers short of the length requirement will be returned ungraded.

Writing Process: You will complete this assignment in stages. This process is designed to help you; it’s designed to ensure you earn a high grade. If you take the process seriously, you will earn a high grade. If you do not take it seriously, if you skip steps, you will almost certainly earn multiple failing grades – which will jeopardize your chances of passing this class.

Argumentative

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argumentative essay using the classical model supported by evidence and research

Remember the word argument does not mean a fight in a writing context. An academic argument is more like a thoughtful conversation between two people with differing viewpoints on a debatable issue. However, you are required to take a position on one side of the issue.

must include an APA style reference page following the essay.  will need 2-4 credible primary or secondary sources to use as support in your essay.

Clint Eastwood

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Use either an Alphanumeric Outline, a Decimal Outline, or a sentence hierarchical outline.
The list of resources you expect to use includes website, books and films. This should be in the form of an Annotated Bibliography

give me the basic details of the director’s life and career. Identify some of the director’s most important films. What honors and awards did the director receive? Provide a sampling of critical opinion about the director’s work (i.e. film reviews or articles). View at least two films by your director and comment on them (one of them can be a film you would have watch previously for the class). Do not summarize any plots. Write about how this director used the following in these films: Editing (montage), Sound and Music, Cinematography, Special Camera Work (steady cam, hand held, optical effects), Special Effects (this can include stunt work).

I have attached stage one to this.