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Jimmie Chipwood is a 19-year-old college student who presents to the ED with a new-onset “boil” on his right buttock. He noticed some pain and irritation in the right buttock area over the past week but thought it was due to having slid into second base during a baseball game. The pain gradually increased over the next few days, and he went to the student health center, where they cleaned the wound and gave him a prescription for clindamycin 300 mg QID for 7 days. They recommended he try to keep the area covered until the antibiotic began to work. Today (7 days later), Jimmie returned to the student health center for further evaluation and was referred to the ED for further care for his continued SSTI. At the ED, Jimmie says the area on his buttock is worse, and he cannot sit down for class. He reports only partial adherence to the clindamycin regimen, because he often forgets to take it and says it makes him nauseated.

• PMH – Noncontributory
• Surgical History – Appendectomy 4 years ago, Repair of left ACL tear 2 years ago
• SH – Denies any EToH or illicit drug use.
• Meds – Clindamycin 300 mg PO QID 7 days (prescribed at student health center visit 1 week ago; patient did not complete full course).
• Allergies – Penicillin (hives as a child)
• Physical Examination
  • WDWN Caucasian man in no acute distress, but with noticeable pain when he walks and tries to sit
  • BP 129/74, P 81, RR 16, T 37.5C; Wt 77.5 kg, Ht 60
  • Lateral right gluteal area: red, erythematous, warm, and tender to touch; localized fluid collection that appears fluctuant, consistent with a carbuncle and surrounding erythema
  • PERRLA; EOMI, oropharynx clear
  • Abdomen Soft, NT/ND; (+) BS
  • Large 2 cm 4 cm red swollen area over the lateral right buttock, with a localized fluid collection and surrounding erythema

Labs

Clinical Course

The patient was treated in the ED with I&D alone and was given wound care instructions. The fluid was not sent for culture and susceptibility. He returns to the ED 8 days later with a recurrent boil in the same right buttock area. On physical exam, the patient is found to have a new area of fluid collection (1 cm 3 cm), some purulent drainage and surrounding erythema. An MRI of the gluteal area was negative for deep tissue involvement and extension to other adjacent areas. Two sets of blood cultures were drawn and are pending, and a second I&D of the area was performed and sent for culture and susceptibility. The patient did have his nares and groin area swabbed for MRSA detection, and the results are pending. The patient reported mild fevers without chills, but he has not taken his temperature at home. His current temperature is 37.7C, and all other vital signs are stable. Given the current information, the ED physician does not think Jimmie needs to be admitted.

Microbiology

Blood cultures two sets: pending

Culture of abscess fluid from right buttock: pending

Nares swab: pending

Groin swab: pending

Imaging Studies

Negative for deep tissue involvement; localized area of inflammation and fluid consistent with an abscess.

1. What subjective and objective clinical data are consistent with the diagnosis of an SSTI?
2. What additional information is needed to fully assess this patient’s SSTI?
3. Assess the severity (mild, moderate, or severe) of this patient’s SSTI based on the subjective and objective information available.
4. Create a list of the patient’s drug therapy problems and prioritize them. Include assessment of medication appropriateness, effectiveness, safety, and patient adherence.
5. What are the goals of pharmacotherapy in this case?
6. What nondrug therapies might be useful for this patient?
7. What feasible pharmacotherapeutic alternatives are available for treating his SSTI?
8. Create an individualized, patient-centered, team-based care plan to optimize medication therapy for this patient’s drug therapy problems. Include specific drugs, dosage forms, doses, schedules, and durations of therapy.

To Prepare:

• Review the concepts of informatics as presented in the Resources.
• Reflect on the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
• Consider how knowledge may be informed by data that is collected/accessed.

The Assignment:

• Explain the concept of a knowledge worker.
• Define and explain nursing informatics and highlight the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
• Include one slide that visually represents the role of a nurse leader as knowledge worker.
• Your PowerPoint should Include the hypothetical scenario you originally shared in the Discussion Forum. Include your examination of the data that you could use, how the data might be accessed/collected, and what knowledge might be derived from that data. Be sure to incorporate feedback received from your colleagues responses.

• McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2022). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Chapter 1, Nursing Science and the Foundation of Knowledge (pp. 717)
  • Chapter 2, Introduction to Information, Information Science, and Information Systems (pp. 2132)
  • Chapter 3, Computer Science and the Foundation of Knowledge Model (pp. 3564)
• Nagle, L., Sermeus, W., & Junger, A. (2017).
• . In J. Murphy, W. Goosen, & P. Weber (Eds.), Forecasting Competencies for Nurses in the Future of Connected Health (212-221). Clifton, VA: IMIA and IOS Press. Retrieved from
• Sweeney, J. (2017).
• . Online Journal of Nursing Informatics, 21 (1).

This was my discussion

Nursing Informatics for HAPI Reduction in Medical-Surgical Units

As healthcare practitioners, we are constantly dependent on data to fill the gap between clinical issues and better patient outcomes. To illustrate this point, when a sudden, alarming increase in Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPIs) occurs in a busy medical-surgical unit, nursing informatics is the key tool that is necessary to examine and address this patient care issue. This discussion post aims to show how the gathering and use of clinical information can help close one particular patient safety gap: the spread of hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) by converting raw data into actionable clinical information and utilizing clinical judgment to implement a systematic, non-punitive remedy that will successfully reduce the occurrence of hospital-acquired pressure injuries.

Data Collection and Access

The data that will be relevant will contain daily Braden Scale scores, turning time, patient comorbidities, and the staffing ratios between nurses and patients. The given process is simplified with the help of informatics systems: data is measured through Electronic Health Record (EHR) flowsheets and smart-bed sensors, and is reviewed by a nurse leader using a secure clinical dashboard (Moore, 2024).

Knowledge Derived from Data

Raw data is turned into actionable knowledge using the Foundation of Knowledge model (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2024). Such cross-referencing of patient records with staffing logs could indicate that HAPIs are mainly seen on understaffed shifts during weekends or during night-shift turnover reporting. This provides information about the weaknesses of a given workflow.

Clinical Reasoning and Judgment

Clinical judgment is what enables a nurse leader to turn this knowledge into wisdom. Based on the knowledge of the clinical environment, the leader understands that missed turns are typically caused by conflicting priorities of a critical nature and not negligence (Nagle et al., 2017). Rather than being punitive, the leader uses this knowledge to initiate systemic responses, e.g., promoting complex pressure-relieving mattresses or restructuring weekend staffing patterns to enhance patient outcomes safely.

References

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. (2024). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Moore, S. (2024). HAPI Prevention in Post-Operative Inpatient Rehabilitation Patients (Doctoral dissertation, Bradley University).

Nagle Lynn M., Sermeus Walter, & Junger Alain. (2017). Evolving Role of the Nursing Informatics Specialist. Forecasting Informatics Competencies for Nurses in the Future of Connected Health. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-738-2-212

An understanding of cells and cell behavior is a critically important component of disease diagnosis and treatment. But some diseases can be complex in nature, with a variety of factors and circumstances impacting their emergence and severity. Effective disease analysis often requires an understanding that goes beyond isolated cell behavior. Genes, the environments in which cell processes operate, the impact of patient characteristics, and racial and ethnic variables all can have an important impact. An understanding of the signals and symptoms of alterations in cellular processes is a critical step in the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. For APRNs, this understanding can also help educate patients and guide them through their treatment plans.

In this Assignment, you examine a case study and analyze the symptoms presented. In 1-2 pages, you will answer the questions provided following the case scenario. You must use current evidence-based resources to support your answers. Follow APA guidelines. Follow the grading rubric.

The Assignment

Develop a 1- to 2-page case study analysis by answering the questions provided following the case scenario.

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: In this Assignment, you examine a case study and analyze the symptoms presented. In 1-2 pages, you will answer the questions provided following the case scenario. You must use current evidence-based resources to support your answers (at least 3). Follow APA guidelines. Follow the grading Rubric. Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a Title Page, Introduction, Headers, Summary/Conclusion, and Reference Page.

The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate the various information and communication technology tools that can be used when caring for patients, communities, and populations.

For this assignment, write a 1,000-1,250-word essay. Based on your current practice, clinical experience, course materials, and review of outside resources, include the following:

• Discuss the history of health information technologies and the evolution of nursing informatics.
• Based on the five areas of practice discussed on the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) website, describe the one that is most relevant to day-to-day nursing practices.
• Explain two to three information and communication technologies and the components used on a daily basis to provide care to patients, communities, and populations.
• Describe the appropriate use of multimedia applications in health care.
• Evaluate how technology impacts the way you modify the plan of care to meet the needs of your patients. Provide two examples.
• Explain the importance of nursing engagement in the planning and selection of health care technologies.

You are required to cite a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

RN-BSN

8.1: Describe the various information and communication technology tools used in the care of patients, communities, and populations.

American Association of Colleges of Nursing Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education

This assignment aligns to AACN Core Competencies 8.1.

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 1 of your fellow classmates with at least a 250-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

All sources should be cited using APA format. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and format should be correct and professional.

PLEASE READ AND ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOVE

With the intervention of implementing a heart failure education bundle program, there are many positive outcomes I would expect to measure with my patients. The main objective we would be measuring, however, is the readmission rate of heart failure patients to the hospital within 30-days after discharge. By increasing education of the disease process and importance of treatment adherence, the hope would be to decrease readmission rates. We would track readmissions to the hospital in patients who were recently discharged within 30 days. Upon readmission, we would interview the patient to follow up with their education program. These details would include why the patient thinks they were readmitted, note any medication or diet noncompliance, and ask the patient their thoughts on their treatment plan and care goals. We would also do an intake of quantitative data, looking at information like their weight compared to last admission discharge weight, labs such as BNP, electrolytes, ejection fraction, troponin and kidney function levels. The quantitative and qualitative data collected by each patient would hopefully give us a good idea as to why they were readmitted and how to prevent this in the future.

If this intervention is successful and the readmission rates of patients with heart failure are decreased, this would lead to many positive outcomes. Alhabib et al. (2024), explains how overcrowding in emergency rooms puts patients at risk for deterioration, lower satisfaction of quality of care, higher financial costs, and longer than necessary stays. Research done by Han et al. (2022) found that longer length of stays were associated with increased risk of readmissions and mortality. In comparison patients who are discharged within 28 days were less likely to be readmitted or experience post-discharge mortality. With the success of this educational intervention, patients with heart failure would spend less time in the hospital and therefore in the emergency room. This would create more time for treatment of other emergencies, lower wait times, and improve patient satisfaction scores leading to better overall quality of care.

Based on these outcomes, nurses would have more time to care for other emergencies. Quality of care would improve, leading to not only improved patient satisfaction but also help the nurses feel more satisfied with the care they are able to provide. Those receiving this heart failure intervention would have less risk of being readmitted, resulting in a decreased risk of mortality and deterioration. By having the education needed to adhere to their treatment plan, these patients will have an overall improved quality of life and have their disease appropriately managed.

References

Alhabib, A., Almutairi, M., & Alqurashi, H. (2024). Patient-centered care models effectiveness in reducing patient waiting time in the emergency department: A systematic literature review. Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research, 4(3), 103-113.

Han, T. S., Murray, P., Robin, J., Wilkinson, P., Fluck, D., & Fry, C. H. (2022). Evaluation of the association with length of stay in hospital and outcomes. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 34(2).

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 1 of your fellow classmates with at least a 250-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

All sources should be cited using APA format. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and format should be correct and professional.

PLEASE READ AND ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOVE

With the intervention of implementing a heart failure education bundle program, there are many positive outcomes I would expect to measure with my patients. The main objective we would be measuring, however, is the readmission rate of heart failure patients to the hospital within 30-days after discharge. By increasing education of the disease process and importance of treatment adherence, the hope would be to decrease readmission rates. We would track readmissions to the hospital in patients who were recently discharged within 30 days. Upon readmission, we would interview the patient to follow up with their education program. These details would include why the patient thinks they were readmitted, note any medication or diet noncompliance, and ask the patient their thoughts on their treatment plan and care goals. We would also do an intake of quantitative data, looking at information like their weight compared to last admission discharge weight, labs such as BNP, electrolytes, ejection fraction, troponin and kidney function levels. The quantitative and qualitative data collected by each patient would hopefully give us a good idea as to why they were readmitted and how to prevent this in the future.

If this intervention is successful and the readmission rates of patients with heart failure are decreased, this would lead to many positive outcomes. Alhabib et al. (2024), explains how overcrowding in emergency rooms puts patients at risk for deterioration, lower satisfaction of quality of care, higher financial costs, and longer than necessary stays. Research done by Han et al. (2022) found that longer length of stays were associated with increased risk of readmissions and mortality. In comparison patients who are discharged within 28 days were less likely to be readmitted or experience post-discharge mortality. With the success of this educational intervention, patients with heart failure would spend less time in the hospital and therefore in the emergency room. This would create more time for treatment of other emergencies, lower wait times, and improve patient satisfaction scores leading to better overall quality of care.

Based on these outcomes, nurses would have more time to care for other emergencies. Quality of care would improve, leading to not only improved patient satisfaction but also help the nurses feel more satisfied with the care they are able to provide. Those receiving this heart failure intervention would have less risk of being readmitted, resulting in a decreased risk of mortality and deterioration. By having the education needed to adhere to their treatment plan, these patients will have an overall improved quality of life and have their disease appropriately managed.

References

Alhabib, A., Almutairi, M., & Alqurashi, H. (2024). Patient-centered care models effectiveness in reducing patient waiting time in the emergency department: A systematic literature review. Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research, 4(3), 103-113.

Han, T. S., Murray, P., Robin, J., Wilkinson, P., Fluck, D., & Fry, C. H. (2022). Evaluation of the association with length of stay in hospital and outcomes. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 34(2).

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 1 of your fellow classmates with at least a 250-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

All sources should be cited using APA format. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and format should be correct and professional.

PLEASE READ AND ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOVE

With the intervention of implementing a heart failure education bundle program, there are many positive outcomes I would expect to measure with my patients. The main objective we would be measuring, however, is the readmission rate of heart failure patients to the hospital within 30-days after discharge. By increasing education of the disease process and importance of treatment adherence, the hope would be to decrease readmission rates. We would track readmissions to the hospital in patients who were recently discharged within 30 days. Upon readmission, we would interview the patient to follow up with their education program. These details would include why the patient thinks they were readmitted, note any medication or diet noncompliance, and ask the patient their thoughts on their treatment plan and care goals. We would also do an intake of quantitative data, looking at information like their weight compared to last admission discharge weight, labs such as BNP, electrolytes, ejection fraction, troponin and kidney function levels. The quantitative and qualitative data collected by each patient would hopefully give us a good idea as to why they were readmitted and how to prevent this in the future.

If this intervention is successful and the readmission rates of patients with heart failure are decreased, this would lead to many positive outcomes. Alhabib et al. (2024), explains how overcrowding in emergency rooms puts patients at risk for deterioration, lower satisfaction of quality of care, higher financial costs, and longer than necessary stays. Research done by Han et al. (2022) found that longer length of stays were associated with increased risk of readmissions and mortality. In comparison patients who are discharged within 28 days were less likely to be readmitted or experience post-discharge mortality. With the success of this educational intervention, patients with heart failure would spend less time in the hospital and therefore in the emergency room. This would create more time for treatment of other emergencies, lower wait times, and improve patient satisfaction scores leading to better overall quality of care.

Based on these outcomes, nurses would have more time to care for other emergencies. Quality of care would improve, leading to not only improved patient satisfaction but also help the nurses feel more satisfied with the care they are able to provide. Those receiving this heart failure intervention would have less risk of being readmitted, resulting in a decreased risk of mortality and deterioration. By having the education needed to adhere to their treatment plan, these patients will have an overall improved quality of life and have their disease appropriately managed.

References

Alhabib, A., Almutairi, M., & Alqurashi, H. (2024). Patient-centered care models effectiveness in reducing patient waiting time in the emergency department: A systematic literature review. Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research, 4(3), 103-113.

Han, T. S., Murray, P., Robin, J., Wilkinson, P., Fluck, D., & Fry, C. H. (2022). Evaluation of the association with length of stay in hospital and outcomes. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 34(2).

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 1 of your fellow classmates with at least a 250-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

All sources should be cited using APA format. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and format should be correct and professional. PLEASE READ THIS AND ANSWER

” Identifying the right outcomes to measure is just as important as selecting the right intervention. In evidence-based nursing practice, outcomes provide the concrete evidence needed to determine whether a change in care is actually making a difference for patients. For my PICOT question examining cryotherapy as a preventive intervention for paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) in women with breast cancer, defining meaningful, measurable outcomes is essential to evaluating whether this nursing-led intervention warrants adoption into standard oncology practice.

The primary outcome I propose measuring is the incidence and severity of CIPN across the 12-week treatment course. This directly answers my PICOT question and captures whether cryotherapy is achieving its intended neuroprotective effect. A secondary but equally important outcome is the impact of CIPN on functional status and quality of life, since neuropathy that interferes with daily activities, fine motor tasks, or safe ambulation represents a clinically significant burden even when graded as mild on objective scales. Additional outcomes worth tracking include chemotherapy dose reductions or treatment delays attributed to neuropathy, patient tolerance of and adherence to the cryotherapy protocol, and fall-related incidents during the treatment period. Together, these outcomes create a comprehensive picture of how the intervention affects both the patients physical health and their ability to complete their cancer treatment as planned.

A mixed-method approach combining objective clinical tools with patient-reported measures would provide the most complete evaluation. The Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) would allow nurses and providers to objectively grade neuropathy severity at each clinical encounter. The Functional Assessment of Cancer TherapyNeurotoxicity (FACT-NTX) subscale would capture the patients subjective experience of sensory symptoms and functional limitations. Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt (2023) emphasize that patient-reported outcomes are a critical component of evidence-based practice because they reflect the dimensions of care that matter most to patients themselves, which clinical grading scales alone cannot fully capture. Structured nursing assessments at each infusion visit would document symptom progression, tolerance of cryotherapy, and any safety concerns, creating a longitudinal record of the interventions effectiveness over time.

Outcome measurement should occur at multiple points rather than a single endpoint. Baseline assessment before the first paclitaxel infusion would establish each patients starting neurological status. Subsequent evaluations at weeks four, eight, and twelve would track symptom trajectory across the treatment course. A follow-up assessment at three months post-treatment completion would capture whether cryotherapy produced any lasting neuroprotective benefit during survivorship, since CIPN frequently persists beyond active treatment. Xu et al. (2023) demonstrated that patients who received extremity cooling during paclitaxel infusions showed significantly lower neuropathy burden not only during treatment but also at three months post-completion, supporting the value of extended follow-up measurement beyond the active intervention period.

If outcome data consistently demonstrate that cryotherapy reduces CIPN incidence, preserves functional status, and improves treatment tolerability, the implications for nursing practice would be far-reaching. First, it would validate nursings independent role in designing and implementing preventive interventions that meaningfully alter patient outcomes. Second, it would provide the evidence base needed to develop standardized cryotherapy protocols that could be adopted across oncology units, reducing practice variability and improving care consistency. Third, demonstrating that a low-cost, nurse-initiated intervention can prevent a serious chemotherapy complication strengthens the case for nursing involvement in supportive oncology care at an institutional and policy level. Elevating nursings contribution to CIPN prevention also reinforces the professions commitment to holistic, patient-centered care that extends beyond task completion to proactive advocacy for patient wellbeing throughout the cancer treatment journey.”

Measuring outcomes thoughtfully and systematically is what transforms a promising intervention into an evidence-based practice change. By tracking CIPN severity, functional impact, treatment continuity, and patient-reported experience at multiple time points, nurses can build the kind of rigorous, practice-changing evidence that benefits both individual patients and the broader nursing profession.

Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2023). Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare: A guide to best practice (5th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

Tandon, M., Yacur, M., Brenin, C., & Dillon, P. (2024). Cryotherapy for prevention of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in breast cancer. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 194, Article 104244.

Xu, M., Wang, F., Zhu, X., & Hao, Z. (2023). Efficacy of cryotherapy on chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in patients with breast cancer: A propensity score-matched study. Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 85(6), 26952703.

For this assessment, assume you are a nurse attending a meeting of your states nurses association. A nurse informaticist conducted a presentation on their role and its impact on positive patient and organizational outcomes in their workplace. You realize that your organization is undergoing many technological changes. You believe this type of role could provide many benefits to your organization.

You decide to pursue proposing a nurse informaticist role in your organization. You speak to your chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager, who ask you to prepare a 45 page evidence-based proposal to support the new role. In this way, they can make an informed decision as to whether the addition of such a role could justify the return on investment (ROI). They need your proposal before an upcoming fiscal meeting. This is not an essay, but instead, it is a proposal to create a new Nurse Informaticist position.

One important part of this assessment is the justification of the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization and references from relevant and timely scholarly or professional resources to support the justification for creating this nurse informaticist position. The term justify means to show or prove that the nurse informaticist position brings value to the organization. This justification must include evidence from the literature to support that this position will provide a return on investment for the organization.

Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist

• What is nursing informatics?
• What is the role of the nurse informaticist?
• Highlight one influential nurse informaticist and their contributions to nursing.

Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations

• What is the experience of other health care organizations with nurse informaticists?
• How do these nurse informaticists collaborate with the rest of the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team?

Impact of Full Nurse Engagement in Health Care Technology

• How does fully engaging nurses in health care technology impact:
  • Patient care?
  • Protected health information (security, privacy, and confidentiality)?
    • In this section, you will explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse informaticist and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health information, particularly privacy, security, and confidentiality. Evidence-based means that they are supported by evidence from scholarly sources.
  • Workflow?
  • Costs and return on investment?

Opportunities and Challenges

• What are the opportunities and challenges for nurses and the interdisciplinary team with the addition of a nurse informaticist role?
  • How can the interdisciplinary team collaborate to improve quality care outcomes through technology?

Summary of Recommendations

• What are 34 key takeaways from your proposal about the recommended nurse informaticist role that you want the CNO and the HR manager to remember?
  • This is the section where the justification for the implementation of the nursing informaticist role is addressed. Remember to include evidence from the literature to support your recommendation.

  Competencies Measured

  By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

  • Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.
    • Define nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist, highlighting the contributions of an influential nurse informaticist.
    • Explain how the nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, including technologists, to improve the quality of patient care.
    • Justify the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization.
  • Competency 2: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information.
    • Explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse informaticist and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients protected health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality).
  • Competency 3: Evaluate the impact of patient care technologies on desired outcomes.
    • Explain the impact of full nurse engagement in health care technology, including the opportunities and challenges.
  • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.
    • Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
    • Create a clear, well-organized, and professional proposal that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.