DNP – Becoming a Doctoral Learner

DNP – Becoming a Doctoral Learner

Becoming a Doctoral Learner

1. After reading, “Dr. Ronald Berman on Time Management” and viewing the video at the conclusion of the article, describe two strategies you will implement in order to improve your time management skills? How will you change your approach to time management using that information?

2. The DNP PI Workspace is a critical resource for DNP students. It contains essential resources for this course and valuable guidance tools for successfully completing your DPI projects. Navigate the DNP PI Workspace, Student Success Center, and the Guidelines for Graduate Field Experiences. After reviewing the above resources, answer the following:

a. What information within the Guidelines for Graduate Field Experiences, DNP PI Workspace, and Student Success Center is the most helpful for this course and the completion of your DPI project? Why?

b. Review the “DNP Direct Practice Improvement Project Recommendation PowerPoint” found in the course materials. Discuss a potential topic for your project in a brief paragraph. Consider the PICOT reminder slide when selecting your potential topic.

DNP – Becoming a Doctoral Learner

Feb 2017

Successful submissions: Helpful Editor Tips

Since the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI) began 21 years ago, nurses have been encouraged to submit manuscripts for double blind peer review. June Kaminski, RN MSN PhD(c), Editor in Chief, OJNI, provides helpful tips and tricks for writers who are interested in submitting a manuscript for the OJNI.

Senior Editor Columns

Feb 2017

National Efforts in 2016 to Improve Health IT Usability

With the widespread deployment of electronic health records (EHRs) and other electronic devices, poor health IT usability has become a critical issue across disciplines and health organizations. Read the insights from Nancy Staggers, PhD, RN, FAAN, President, Summit Health Informatics and Adjunct Professor, University of Utah and Ellen Makar, MSN, RN-BC, CCM, CPHIMS, CENP, Senior Research Scientist, Battelle and their discussion on the importance of nurses in informatics to harmonize efforts to build traction in providing solutions for nursing pain points with health IT.

Feb 2017

Training Beyond Task: Organizational Policy Implications for Competency Development

Read how Margie Kennedy, PhD, RN, CPHIMS-CA, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer and Managing Partner, Clinical Informatics, Gevity Consulting Inc. discusses the challenges of change management and the implications to understand where new solutions fits into the overall strategy of the organization, the kinds of comparable applications and functionality used, as well as the scope of policies governing practice use within a new application environment.

Feb 2017

Making Advance Care Planning Information Interoperable at the Point of Care: The Next Step to Genuinely Promoting Dignified Dying

In the absence of preference identification for end-of-life care, many unnecessary and costly procedures may be performed that severely compromise the dignity of the dying patient. Senior Editor, Gail M. Keenan, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and the Annabel Davis Jenks Endowed Chair of the College of Nursing, University of Florida, discusses the new CMS (2016) reimbursement policy of advanced care planning visits for Medicare patients as an important step toward implementing care that honors the dignity of all dying patients.