Module 4 Discussion Question: Health Information Exchange

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Discussion Question:

Contact the state representative for HIE (from the above list), what can you do as a MSN to be part of improving the HIE and look for successful examples of HIE in your state. If you cannot find anything in your state look to another state for examples. Compare and contrast your findings and post a summary of your experience.

(I live in Alabama)

Module 3 Assignment: Interoperability and Integration

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Assignment Description:

The patient presents to your office with a Personal Health Records (PHR). Remembering, medical records and PHRs are not the same thing, complete both of the following:

1. Develop and create an educational tool (brochure, flyer pamphlet) that you can provide to your patients that address the following areas:

• How do you access it?

• What obstacles might you identify?

• Frequently Asked Questions

2. Develop and create an educational tool (brochure, flyer pamphlet) for providers to understand the PHR that address the following areas:

• How can we make sure PHR information is accurate, reliable, and complete?

• What obstacles might patients have with control over how their health information is accessed, used, and disclosed?

• Frequently Asked Questions

• What advantages and disadvantages are there?• What does the clinician need to understand?

The following specifications are required for this assignment:

  • Length: Answers must thoroughly address the questions in a clear, concise manner.
  • Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA style. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment.
  • References: Use the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. Include at least three (3) scholarly sources to support your claims.

Discussion Post 6 response to peer

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Information Literacy

 

           Information literacy for nurses is the term used for having the ability to locate, understand, evaluate, and apply information education (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2017). This is important for nursing because information is impactful in the delivery and sustainability of healthcare (Kuek & Hakkennes, 2019). Being information literate only enhances nursing practice. The correlation between the importance information literacy and the growing role nursing informatics is an obvious one. Nursing informatics is defined by McGonigle and Mastrian (2017) as a specialty that merges nursing, computers, and information sciences to manage, share data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice.The intersection between the two is information and the growth of one effect the others growth. As information literacy expands so will the role of nursing informatics as it will guide nursing practice and help to incorporate information literacy into nursing research, education, and clinical practice.

As nurses move forward as a profession the minimum expectations will be that we are data and information literate and proficient in using and obtaining credible evidenced based data to support our practice (Bergren et al.,2020). Nursing informatics can help guide nurses into being proficient to meet that expectation. Nurses can then take this proficiency and apply it to helping their patients be more information literate as the amount of information available is not always credible and reliable.

References

Bergren, M. D., & Maughan, E. D. (2020). Data and Information Literacy: A fundamental nursing competency. NASN School Nurse, 35(3), 140–142. https://doi.org/10.1177/1942602×20913249

 

Kuek, A., & Hakkennes, S. (2019). Healthcare staff digital literacy levels and their attitudes towards information systems. Health Informatics Journal, 26(1), 592–612. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458219839613

 

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2017). Nursing Informatics and the foundation of knowledge. Jones & Bartlett Learning.