NURS 6051 Week 1 Discussion Work

Information Technology (IT) Impacting Patient Safety

In response to the 1999 report of To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, Congress … NURS 6051 Week 1 Discussion Work

Personal Experience with Health Informatics.

As a travel nurse, I have been exposed to a great variety of health information systems at a … NURS 6051 Week 1 Discussion Work

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NURS 6051 Week 1 Assignment (Walden)

Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum

As a registered nurse (RN), working in an intensive critical care unit (ICU) is seen as the zenith …

Clinical Question

Will obtaining the CCRN certificate lead to nurses in the ICU obtaining more critical care knowledge that can lead to wisdom in their role as a nurse?

Data and Information

The American Nurses Association (ANA) define data as “discrete entities that are described …

CCRN Search

Knowledge on the CCRN

The AANA, the accreditation body, touts many benefits of certification. These include patients …

Transforming CCRN knowledge to Critical Care Wisdom

Nursing informatics can transform knowledge into wisdom. By providing the knowledge … NURS 6051 Weekly Discussions and Assignments

References

NURS 6051 Week 2 Assignment

Adaptive Response and Mind Map

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Adaptive Response and Mind Map

?The word patho is derived from the Greek word pathos, which means suffering, logos, …

Scenerio One

?The patient presenting in this scenario is a 2-year-old female who according to her …

Scenerio Two

?The patient in this scenario is a 27-year-old who presents with redness and …

Scenerio Three

?In this scenario a patient presents with trouble sleeping, occasionally “racing heartbeat”, ….

Conclusion

NURS 6051 Week 2 Response (Walden)

RESPONSE 1 Week 2

Good day,.

Thank you for your interesting discussion post! I can completely relate to you when you mention compliance and integrity are pertinent to patient care. As most of us know, the …

RESPONSE 2, Week 2

Good day,.

Thank you for your interesting contribution to our discussion. Reading about how the formerly cumbersome paging system you used became a more efficient tool to communicate made me …

NURS 6051 Week 3 Discussion (1) (Walden)

Week 3 Discussion

Pain: Acute, Chronic, and Referred

Acute Pain

Chronic Pain

Referred Pain

Factors: Gender and Behavior

NURS 6051 Week 3 Discussion (Walden)

Standardized Documentation

When working in the intensive critical care unit (ICU), it is vital to be able to communicate accurately and succinctly. Very often, time is of the essence and nurses need to be as direct as … NURS 6051 Weekly Discussions and Assignments

NURS 6051 Week 4 Assignment (Walden)

Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum

As a registered nurse (RN), working in an intensive critical care unit (ICU) is seen as the zenith of clinical skills and knowledge. Every day, you are continuously faced with critical decisions

Clinical Question

Will obtaining the CCRN certificate lead to nurses in the ICU obtaining more critical care knowledge that can lead to wisdom in their role as a nurse?

Data and Information

CCRN Search

Databases used were CINAHL Plus with Full Text, MEDLINE with Full Text, and Google Scholar. The search words used were: CCRN, Critical Care Register Nurse, certificate, certification, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AANA), benefits, ICU, and critical care.

Knowledge on the CCRN

The AANA, the accreditation body, touts many benefits of certification. These include patients …

Transforming CCRN knowledge to Critical Care Wisdom

Nursing informatics can transform knowledge into wisdom. By providing the knowledge offered by the CCRN, hospitals can promote the higher quality of care provided by the nursing …

References

NURS 6051 Week 4 Discussion (Walden)

Innovative Technology Utilized

During my travel nursing career, I came across a broad spectrum of technology being used to enhance nursing. Sometimes the technology actually did the opposite and added to the daily workload. One of the great perks at my current hospital is that we get assigned a smartphone at the start of the day. They are not iPhones or anything like that, but they do enhance communication in many ways.

NURS 6051 Week 5 Discussion (Walden)

Analysis of Two Sleep Apnea Studies

Study one

The first study is a case report in 2013 by Kumar, Camacho, and Capasso. The question being addressed in the study is a quantitative assessment of an obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patient’s symptoms post tracheostomy. According to Polit and Beck, the strongest design for such a study …

Second Study

Lacedonia et al. performed a quasi-experimental study on the effect of OSA on mitochondrial DNA in 2015. The authors used the nonequivalent control group, posttest-only design. The …

Choosing an Inappropriate Design for a Research Study

The entire purpose of research is to be able to gather data to support a hypothesis or inference. …

NURS 6051 Week 6 Assignment (Walden)

Preparing Nurses for EHR Implementation

Nurses as Resistant to Change

NURS 6051 Week 7 Discussion (Walden)

Three Workflow Concepts

One of the hospitals I got trained for by my agency company can definitely need some help in analyzing their workflow and IT use. When I trained there for two days, it would often

Usability Evaluation

A usability evaluation can highlight how NOT “user-friendly” the current system is at this

Benchmarking

?Benchmarking by this facility would mean evaluating metrics and best practices from the

Interview

?Straightforward and direct, interviews can be utilized to assess how the staff feels about

Research Article

The article to be covered is The Kaiser Permanente electronic health record:

Importance of Monitoring Effect of Technology

It is my understanding, the hospital in question implemented the current EHR just to be in … NURS 6051 Weekly Discussions and Assignments

NURS 6051 Week 8 Assignment (Walden)

A Workflow Process for Call Light Management

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A Workflow Process for Call Light Management

Patient survey reports show that my unit struggles with our call light process, as this is a

Current Method

Our call light system allows for multiple, consecutive calls at a time, and sometimes it can be tough to answer and relay information promptly to the appropriate personnel. Usually, …

Measuring Tool

Rules

Improvements

Summary

NURS 6051 Week 9 Discussion

Impact of HITECH on My Organization

?Overall, the impact of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ACT of 2009 has been very positive at my current facility. The electronic health record …

Impact of Incentives and Meaningful Use

?As listed above, meaningful use incentives are geared towards meeting the goals of …

Article of Successful Meaningful Use

One of the pivotal goals in meaningful use is decrease in medication errors. Nuckkols et al. wrote …

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NURS 6051 Week 8 Discussion (Walden)

Practice Issue

The practice issue to be discussed in this paper is the use of needleless systems by nurses in the ICU. As a travel nurse across the south, I saw a significant disparity in different hospitals ….

Health IT Supporting Evidenced-Based Practice

As mentioned in this week’s reading assignment, gone are the days when nurses were dependent on local libraries and monthly journals. With the advent of the internet and the on-…

NURS 6051 Week 10 Discussion (Walden)

RN PHI Responsibility

?According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), protecting a patient’s …

PHI and Portable Devices

HealthIT.gov recommends NOT using portable storage devices to transport PHI due to the …

My Facility and PHI

University Hospital is a Magnet hospital, and it prides itself on using the best evidence-based …

NURS 6051 Week 11 Assignment (Walden)

Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum

ata/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum

As a registered nurse (RN), working in an intensive critical care unit (ICU) is seen as the zenith of clinical skills and knowledge. Every day, you are continuously faced with critical decisions

Clinical Question

Will obtaining the CCRN certificate lead to nurses in the ICU obtaining more critical care knowledge that can lead to wisdom in their role as a nurse?

Data and Information

The American Nurses Association (ANA) define data as “discrete entities that are described

CCRN Search

Knowledge on the CCRN

Transforming CCRN knowledge to Critical Care Wisdom. NURS 6051 Weekly Discussions and Assignments

NURS 6051 Week 11 Discussion (Walden)

Health Literacy Responsibility

?According to the U. S. Department of Health and Services (HSS), all public health care …

Patient Resource to Evaluate Information

?One of the best online resources for both patients and health care professionals is the …

Additional Strategies

?According to a 2016 Gallup poll, nurses are once again seen as the most trusted and …

NURS 6051 Week 11 FINAL PAPER (Walden)

A Patient Guide for Clostridium difficile

Walden University: Nursing 6051, Section 9

A Patient Guide for Clostridium difficile

Clostridium difficile has been found to be the main cause of gastrointestinal-related death …

Health Literacy Promotion Among Patients

The attached brochure was created for the sake of increasing health literacy and …

Conclusion

Since C. diff has the potential to kill or significantly disturb the health of patients, it is ...

NURS 6051 Week 1 Discussion Work