Electronic Health Records: Overview and Recommendations The Health IT topic selected is Electronic Health Records. An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a patients’ chart but instead of being on paper, it is digital. Information is recorded, saved and available for immediate retrieval. An EHR includes information such as medical history, home and inpatient medication, plan of care, allergies, test results, radiology images, and much more. A crucial feature of EHR is that patient informatio...

Based on your readings this week, how has your impression of informatics, especially nursing informatics, changed? When I thought of informatics I only thought of my charting system. I have worked at two hospitals throughout my career. My first employer used Meditech and I was impressed how “easy” it was to chart. My current employer was using Netaccess when I was hired (and I thought then, that my previous employer had an “obsolete” charting system). Last year we switched to Soari...

INTRODUCTION  Difference: paper vs digital  Electronic health records (EHR) includes:  Special EHR feature  Paper chart retrieval process  Patient involvement with their care Patient portals

NR 512 WEEK 2 QUIZ COMPLETE SOLUTION GRADED A

Knowledge Generation Through Nursing Informatics In one of the reading assignments this week you reviewed advance nurse practitioner (APN) roles and the application of project management concepts, one of the major elements of NI, but new to most nurses. What type of application does this have for your practice? Project management is described as a planned set of interventions to meet the goals or objectives based on a specific timeline. As nurses there will be similarities between the proce...

Reflect on your own practice. Discuss how informatics is used in your practice. What is your primary area where you would use informatics? I have been a nurse for a little over 8 years now. Up until the last year or so, I never knew what nursing informatics was about. Slowly but surely I am starting to grasp the concept. Watts states, “the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the TIGER Initiative have both stated that all nurses should have a basic education in nursing informatics to pra...

Reflect on your own practice. Discuss how informatics is used in your practice. What is your primary area where you would use informatics? I have been a nurse for a little over 8 years now. Up until the last year or so, I never knew what nursing informatics was about. Slowly but surely I am starting to grasp the concept. Watts states, “the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the TIGER Initiative have both stated that all nurses should have a basic education in nursing informatics to pra...

How does the concept of wisdom in nursing informatics compare to the concept of professional nursing judgment? What is DIKW and how do you "use" it in your practice? Response: While reading this week’s assignment, I compared wisdom and judgment in nursing informatics to a novice and an expert nurse. Knowledge is understanding and having the ability to comprehend facts and information. Wisdom is knowledge, which is obtained through life experiences. It is knowing when to apply knowledge...

Week 4: Informatics Skills How do the informatics skills you are now developing/expanding upon and validating help you meet current informatics skills levels? Did the TANIC self-assessment change your impression of your current informatics skill levels? The health care system is always changing, and with the evolution of technology, the healthcare delivery system will have to keep up. The integration go nursing informatics helps to do this, while supporting nursing practice and knowledge m...

What was the HealthIT Hot Topic you selected related to your specialty? Why did you select it? How will this impact your practice? Dr. C and Class, The HealthIT topic related to the provider including advanced practitioner nurse is the evolution of telemedicine in the health care system. Telecommunication and telemedicine is the hot topic of modern medicine. Being a future family nurse practitioner my role is to diagnose and treat the patient of all age group suffering from both acute and ...