Describe Your Career Path To The RN, Official Job Name Of A Charge Nurse

Demographics: Provide initials of the RN, official job title of interviewee, and the date the interview was conducted. ET, MSN, RN – Nursing Informatics Specialist – 2/1/17

Required Questions

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1. Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences. After ET graduated with her BSN, she was undoubtedly interested in informatics, but that wasn’t where her career started in the beginning. ET accepted a position on a urology/nephrology/transplant unit as a staff nurse directly after graduation and eventually became a charge nurse. ET then became a super user for her facility’s current EMR system and this opened the door of opportunity for ET to work in

Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility. Throughout the healthcare system, evidence based practice establishes a foundation where changes are made to improve practice. Leaders in practice are stationed at both the facility and system levels to guarantee the implementation of evidence based practice. ET’s facility’s EMR also contains third party evidence based content that provides care plan, flowsheet, and patient education content. To guarantee that ongoing evidence is imbedded within the EMR through regular upgrades, using a third party makes this possible. No matter what the technology, evidence based practice must be present to establish positive patient

I learned how nursing informatics is applied in nursing practice, nursing administration, nursing education and nursing research. How nursing informatics benefits consumers, healthcare professionals and organizations. I familiarized myself with the educational opportunities for nursing informatics including the graduate, doctoral and certificate programs. I was also informed of the future direction of the nursing informatics role in the improvement of healthcare