Write an evidence-based proposal to support the need for a
nurse informatics in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.
What is nursing informatics?
What is the role of the nurse informaticist?
Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations
What is the experience of other health care organizations with nurse informaticists?
How do these nurse informaticists interact 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 3–4 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.
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Submission length: 4–5 double-spaced pages, in addition to title and references pages.
Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Citations and References: Cite a minimum of three current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your ideas. In addition, cite a minimum of one current professional blog or website to support your central ideas. Current means no more than five years old.
APA formatting: Be sure to follow APA formatting and style guidelines for citations and references. For an APA refresher, consult the Evidence and APA page on Campus.
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.
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 and
interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected
health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality).
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.
Nursing Informatics in Health Care Scoring Guide
Criteria
Non-performance
Basic
Proficient
Distinguished
Define nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist.
Does not define nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist.
Defines nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist,
but the description lacks detail or is missing important information.
Defines nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist.
Defines nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist. References current
data, evidence, or standards
to support and refine definition.
Explain how the nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team,
including technologists, to improve the quality of patient care.
Does not explain how the nurse collaborates with the
interdisciplinary team, including technologists, to improve the quality
of patient care.
Identifies but does not explain how the nurse collaborates with the
interdisciplinary team, including technologists, to improve the quality
of patient care.
Explains how the nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team,
including technologists, to improve the quality of patient care.
Explains how the nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team,
including technologists, to improve the quality of patient care. Makes
explicit reference to scholarly or
professional resources to
support explanation.
Justify the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization.
Does not justify the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization.
Proposes but does not justify the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization.
Justifies the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization.
Justifies the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care
organization and references relevant and timely scholarly or
professional resources to support the justification.
Explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse and interdisciplinary
team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health
information (privacy, security, and confidentiality).
Does not explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse and
interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected
health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality).
Describes but does not explain evidence-based strategies that the
nurse and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’
protected health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality).
Explains evidence-based strategies that the nurse and
interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected
health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality).
Explains evidence-based strategies that the nurse and
interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected
health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality), with
reference to specific data,
evidence, or standards to
support the explanation.
Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
Does not follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
Partially follows APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
Follows APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
Follows APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references with flawless precision and accuracy.
Create a clear, well-organized, and professional proposal that is
generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Does not create a clear, well-organized, and professional proposal
that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and
spelling. Creates a proposal that lacks clarity and/or has errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Creates a clear, well-organized, and professional proposal that is
generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Creates a clear, comprehensive, well-organized, and professional
proposal that is error-free in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
