The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act laid out the groundwork for a program designed to equip hospitals and medical practices around the country with electronic health record systems by providing financial incentives (p. 245). However, in some markets such as long-term care facilities the transition to electronic system has been slow. Professional nurses whose careers are in long-term care in our nation will play major role in getting electronic health systems into these settings. It will take nurse advocating for these systems and continuation of research showing evidence that supports widespread adaptation of these systems, but nurse united under one cause, best practice can make anything happen.
Demonstrate effective use of technology to navigate the electronic health record, communicate with inter/intraprofessional teams, and be involved with decision making in the delivery of quality and safe patient care. (Ivy Tech Community College, 2016). Rationale In nursing, the use of technology is vital in providing high quality of care and complete understanding of the patient.
The resources above expanded on knowledge concerning the definition, evolution, proposed outcomes, research and the technology of meaningful use of the electronic health record. Nursing administrators, staff nurses, and nursing informaticists all perform an essential role in achieving meaningful use of the electronic medical record to improve patient care. Certain authors referenced other authors proving that the health information technology field is indeed a tightknit community. The resources were well written from highly credentialed authors and were, for the most part, easy to comprehend. All of these articles were written for the nursing professional with the exception of resource
In her assessment of the American Reinvestment & Recovery Act (ARRA), Murphy (2009) discusses how its enactment provided unprecedented funding for the advancement of health information technology (HIT) which served to promote health care reform. Electronic health records (EHRs) by extension received a boost via incentivization for appropriate use in hospitals and ambulatory settings (Murphy, 2009). The benefits of EHRs include the ability to improve the delivery and quality of nursing care, the ability to make more timely and efficient nursing care decisions for nursing, the ability to avoid errors that might harm patients and the ability to promote health and wellness for the patients (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). An appropriate use of EHR
Using IT to reduce the number of descriptions are taking place during the same time implementation and other task occurring in the nursing unit. Challenges Experienced during an Informatics
Obtaining certification in a specialty area is one way a nurse confirms she has achieved the necessary knowledge and skill within that practice area to be considered above average (Rauen, Shumate, & Gendron-Trainer, 2016). In order to realize my goal of board certification as a master’s prepared informatics nurse, I must first gain the required education, expertise, and competence through classes and practice experiences. This paper will discuss how each MSN core course, each MSN specialty course, and each potential practice experience will improve upon the competencies needed to obtain board certification in informatics after obtaining my MSN from American Sentinel University. MSN Core Courses MSN Role Development (N501PE)
What about Me? Through the Project 2 self-assessments available in Connect (2017), I was able to complete 45 assessments to gain valuable information including big five personality, self-esteem levels, proactivity, listening skills, problem-solving skills, adaptability, and strategic planning skills. These assessment results all correlated with my Jung Typology test classification as ENTJ (Humanmetrics, 2017). Personality Insights.
This current care act can be very beneficial to nursing care in that it directly affects the continuity of care given by providers as well as nursing staffs across America. For instance, since the bill has rolled out, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has found “meaningful use” technology to develop electronic health records that provide more accurate and timely data on patients, help protect against adverse drug interactions, and reduce paperwork (Gardner, Deborah B.). This kind of provision in the bill has allowed for nursing staff to cut down on medical error consistent with patient rights. Also it has allowed for nursing staff to be less culpable and gives nurses the ability to transfer information on patient care more fluently and consistent. The ACA has created what is called clinical integration in which patient care that coordinated across all conditions, diseases, providers, and care settings, and over time.
Points of care solutions are medical diagnostic testing or documentation done at the patient 's bedside. At my work we us point of care documentation, meaning that the nurses do their documentation in the patient 's room. Research shows that point of care solutions “reduces inefficiencies, decreases the probability of errors, promotes information transfer, and encourages the nurse to be at the bedside” (Duffy&Kharasch, 2010). However, point of care services has been reported by patients to make them feel alienated for their care providers because the nurse 's attention is on their charting and not the patient (Duffy&Kharasch, 2010). This has the potential to “compromise the nurse-patient interaction” (Duffy&Kharasch, 2010).
Role of Graduate Nurse in Informatics are: 1) computer generated nursing care plan for each patient. 2) reminder and prompts that appear during documentation to ensure comprehensive charting. 3) help as a communication aid to other health care professionals taking care of the same patient. For example, Electronic Health Record. The role of Advanced Practice Nurses and Registered Nurses are same in Informatics regarding accessing, protecting and documenting patients Electronic Health Record(EHR).
“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.” These are wise words once spoken by the founder of the National Honor Society, Aneurin Bevan, explaining the dynamic of the NHS. Fundamentally, the National Honor Society is an esteemed organization that recognizes the achievements of treasured students and helps them advance their influence on their community, primarily in order to help others. In my past endeavors and years spent attending school, I have surpassed expectations in the fields of academics, character, leadership and service, and intend to use the platform of National Honor Society to further advance my presence in these areas.
I will summarize each outcome for the Nursing Informatics specialty. For the intent of this paper I will use outcome and competency interchangeably. The first outcome means the ability to gather healthcare information across the continuum of care; combine and utilize the information gathered to develop a process. Finally execution of that process to evaluate its ability to improve the quality of the healthcare environment. Healthcare managers are constantly assessing patients and collecting information.
A self-assessment is not an easy task; a person needs a lot of insight to do it. However, my partner’s suggestions and positive criticisms helped me to have better judgment about my performance on the WISC-V (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition) administration. Many aspects involve the administration of the WISC-V, and it requires training and practice to avoid mistakes during the administration that are likely to trigger errors in the children’s responses or even errors in the scoring. I was familiar with the administration of the WISC-IV, and this facilitated a little the manipulation of the kit. However, there are considerable differences in the content of these two versions, for example in the WISC-V there
As mentioned before, an increase of technology use is a major influence on nursing, the introduction of evidence-based practice in the professional field and in the educational environment plays a role in a nurse’s everyday life. Also, there are the changes in society itself that benefit the nursing profession. For example, the breaking of stereotypical gender roles in society results in male nurses
Technology has made patient care safer and more reliable than before. Nurses and doctors use hand-held computers to record a