Define key terms in informatics, healthcare informatics, and nursing informatics

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Impressions of Nursing Informatics

  • Based on your readings this week, how has your impression of informatics, especially nursing informatics, changed?

 

 

Nursing informatics is a science that integrates nursing knowledge with technology in order to enhance clinical practice and to improve health care delivery for our patients. For our first discussion topic, we are going to discuss your impressions of nursing informatics.  The course outcomes for week one are:

 

CO 1: Define key terms in informatics, healthcare informatics, and nursing informatics.
CO 2: Recognize the importance of synthesizing nursing science with computer, information, and cognitive sciences. 

Nursing informatics combines many technological and personal components.  Please reflect, based on your readings this week, how your impression of informatics, especially nursing informatics, have changed over time.  Do you remember when you were you first introduced to the concept of nursing informatics?  Did you believe nursing informatics was here to stay?

 

Please remember to include evidence based research to support your posts, and, use the APA 6th edition format to cite and reference from the literature

How does the chronically ill patient’s illness trajectory influence the plan of care?

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There are many factors that affect chronic illness—chronic pain, stigma, social isolation, altered mobility, or fatigue. Utilizing your learning from your readings and the South University Online Library resources, respond to the following questions:

  • Based on the research, which of these factors have the greatest impact on a patient? Why? Contrast at least two ways the factors would affect a twelve-year-old with the way they would affect a seventy-five-year-old.
  • Consider the twelve-year-old and the seventy-five-year-old have a chronic illness. How does the chronically ill patient’s illness trajectory influence the plan of care?
  • Review Healthypeople.gov website. Discuss how you feel these goals will impact the health of the nation. Briefly discuss how you could incorporate these goals/objectives into your day-to-day nursing practice.

    There are many factors that affect chronic illness—chronic pain, stigma, social isolation, altered mobility, or fatigue. Utilizing your learning from your readings and the South University Online Library resources, respond to the following questions:

    • Based on the research, which of these factors have the greatest impact on a patient? Why? Contrast at least two ways the factors would affect a twelve-year-old with the way they would affect a seventy-five-year-old.
    • Consider the twelve-year-old and the seventy-five-year-old have a chronic illness. How does the chronically ill patient’s illness trajectory influence the plan of care?
    • Review Healthypeople.gov website. Discuss how you feel these goals will impact the health of the nation. Briefly discuss how you could incorporate these goals/objectives into your day-to-day nursing practice.

Explain how conceptual knowledge applies to the advanced nurse roles

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MN502 Unit 10 DQ Topic 1 

Reflection

Review the course outcomes at the beginning of the course (also listed in the course Syllabus) and assess how you have met each outcome. Include in your Discussion how assignments and readings have contributed to your development as a nurse in an advanced role. Remember to share some of your thoughts related to specific websites you found of value in your discussion.Explain how conceptual knowledge applies to the advanced nurse roles

Course Outcomes: By the end of this course, you should be able to:

MN502-1: Explain how conceptual knowledge applies to the advanced nurse roles.

MN502-2: Evaluate the application of nursing theories and conceptual frameworks to the advanced nurse roles.

MN502-3: Formulate a professional nursing philosophy based upon the roles and responsibilities of the advanced nurse.

MN502-4: Create a conceptual framework based on nursing science, theory, and research to guide the advanced nurse roles.

Outcomes were fully met. Include 3 references.

define culturally competent nursing care

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Using APA format, write a six (6) to ten (10) page paper (excludes cover and reference page) that examines culturally sensitive nursing care. The paper consists of two (2) parts and must be submitted by the close of week six (6).

A minimum of three (3) current professional references must be provided. Current references include professional publications and valid websites dated within five (5) years. Additionally, a textbook that is no more than one (1) edition old may be used.

Part 1 – Introduction

Address the following:

Using your own words, define culturally competent nursing care. Support your definition with a professional literature citation.
Identify four (4) guidelines the registered professional nurse may use to enhance the ability to provide culturally competent nursing care. Provide one example the culturally competent nurse applies to each of the four (4) selected guidelines. At least one example must address care of patient(s) not occurring in an acute care hospital.
Describe how the registered professional nurse evaluates if the patient’s cultural needs have been met.
Describe whether cultural practices must be accommodated in all aspects of health care. Provide a specific example and rationale to support your response.
Part 2- Demonstrating Culturally Competent Nursing Care

Address the following:

Select one of the following cultures and focus on the direct caregiving role of the RN at the bedside:
Asian
Native American
Hispanic
Select four (4) cultural features, associated with the selected culture that influence the provision of nursing care for patients with chronic illness and at the end of their lives. Describe how the four (4) cultural features influence the provision of care to the patients. At least one (1) feature must address chronic illness and at least one (1) feature must address end of life care.
Provide a total of four (4) nursing interventions that demonstrate nursing care, which reflect the respect for the dignity and uniqueness of those cultural features for patients experiencing chronic illness (2 interventions) and at the end of their lives (2 interventions).

Compose your work using a word processor (or other software as appropriate) and save it frequently to your computer. Use a 12 font size, double space your work and use APA format for citations, references, and overall format.