Schooling Guides

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 5, 6 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source Initial Post Instructions Deductive arguments are top-down, working from general principles to specific cases. Inductive reasoning, on the other hand, is bottom-up, working from specific observations and looking for patterns that lead to a general conclusion. Your career path in healthcare and health-related fields will present many problems that...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 3, 4 • Minimum of 1 scholarly source Initial Post Instructions Evidence-based practice requires...evidence. The careful collection of evidence is the first job of every medical practitioner, not least the nurse, who has the most extensive and intimate contact with the patient. However, it does not stop with the nurse. Whatever your role - social worker, hospital administration, human services -...

Topic: The value of DNA therapies in treating cancer. Thesis: Gene therapy is the use of human DNA to treat diseases. This is done through the use of therapeutic DNA to the patient’s cells. While it is still in an experimental phase, the findings are staggering. It has been introduced into the medical field and patients have the opportunity to partake in this experimental therapy. This type of therapy while innovative for its time should only be used in treatment rather than modification. ...

Argument: How do you know….. evidence for the reason Explanation: How is that so….. cause for the reason Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 1, 2 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source Initial Post Instructions Chapter 1 shows a model of Bloom's taxonomy - they are the steps to mastery of any learning endeavor and the basic components of critical reasoning. They have recently been simplified and reordered as follow...

Identify the main point and the supporting points of each argument: • …………. the premises and conclusion in the following arguments: • Identify the premises and conclusion in the following arguments. Then put the arguments into standard form.

● Ethical decision making ○ When making choices about ethical issues based on the standards of right vs wrong. ○ It requires a systematic framework for addressing the complex and often controversial moral questions. ● Bioethical standards ○ The study of healthcare ethics ○ Bioethics takes on relevant ethical problems seen by healthcare providers in relation to care

• Part I: Multiple Choice Questions • Part II: True/False Questions • Part III: Essay Pick ONE of the following questions and answer it directly on the exam. (5 points) Part I: Multiple Choice Questions 1. Why is it difficult to integrate information from all hospital departments into a single hospital information system? a. Individual departments want to obtain & maintain specialized systems b. Hospital departments are organized along vertical lines while the continuum of car...

NI knowledge, skills, and competencies are so pervasive in the modern technology-rich healthcare environment it is difficult to imagine one without the other. This course provided foundational and introductory knowledge regarding informatics with an emphasis on developing an understanding of concepts of nursing informatics (NI) and becoming knowledgeable about the application of informatics in advanced practice. Reflect upon one NI competency relevant to APNs which you learned in this course. Pr...

1. Regarding the Post-TANIC Self-Assessment for this week, how does your competency level compare to the Week 2 Self-Assessment? 2. Which competencies do you think may benefit you in your future role as an APN, and why? 3. As discussed in the lesson this week, healthcare providers must be competent in informatics in order to make ethical decisions about informatics technologies and patients' intimate healthcare data and information. To the extent that information technology is reshaping heal...

As mentioned in the lesson, for the healthcare professional to be an effective patient advocate, he or she must understand how information technology affects the patient and the subsequent delivery of care. Continue to reflect upon what does this statement means to you and your responsibilities as a future APN. Provide a brief response (100 words or less)

As mentioned in this lesson, numerous telecommunications-ready tools are already available to assist nurses in delivering care and improving patients' health outcomes. New and innovative tools are rapidly making it to the marketplace, making current tools dated and sometimes obsolete. Continue to reflect upon the point-of-care tools you may be familiar with using in your role as a Registered Nurse and how your responsibilities will change with your future role as an APN. How will you stay curre...

Federal, state and local agencies related to informatics reminds me of federal, state and local taxes. Our government taxes are regulated and there are standards and guidelines that taxpayers must follow.

Medical Application Critical Appraisal Guidelines; Electronic, mobile, medical applications are becoming more and more popular with the use of electronic health records. As an advanced practice nurse it is important that these applications are understood by the provider. In addition it is essential for the provider to be able to understand the application to educate the patients and be efficient in public health.

You will need to post your reflection here before you are able to see other students' posts. • In what ways could an understanding of systems theory and complexity science impact the role of the NP? • Take a few minutes to reflect on the NP practice model that is most predominant in advanced practice environments you have observed. Are you satisfied with the demonstrated level of interprofessional collaboration? Briefly consider what appears to be the driving practice model for advanced...

1. This week we learned about the potential benefits and drawbacks to clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). Create a “Pros” versus “Cons” table with a column for “Pro” and a separate column for “Con”. Include at least 3 items for each column. Next to each item, provide a brief rationale as to why you included it on the respective list. 2. The primary goal of a CDSS is to leverage data and the scientific evidence to help guide appropriate decision making. CDSSs directly assi...

Table of Contents 1. Principles of nursing informatics 2 2. Knowledge is the awareness and understanding of a set of information and ways that information can be made useful to support a specific task or arrive at a decision 2 3. Wisdom is the application of knowledge to an appropriate situation. 2 4. Scientific underpinning 2 5. Foundation of knowledge model 3 6. Information science 3 7. Standard terminology 3 8. Informatics competencies 3 9. Information literacy 4 10. Health literacy...

2. General principles of Nursing Informatics: 3. Knowledge 4. Wisdom: 5. Scientific Underpinning: 6. The Foundation of Knowledge Model 7. Computer science: 8. Cognitive science: 9. Information science 10. Standard Terminology: 11. Informatics Competencies: 12. Information literacy: 13. Health literacy: 14. Meaningful Use 15. Patient-centered Information Systems: 16. Clinical Decision Support Systems: 17. Electronic Medical Records: (EHR) 18. Human-Technology Interface:...

Information literacy is critically important for all nurses, especially APNs. APNs must be able to determine what information is needed, find the information, critique the information, provide care based on this information, and evaluate the outcomes of the process. Sound challenging? Continue to reflect upon strategies to facilitate this process. Provide a brief response (100 words or less)

As discussed in the lesson and assigned reading for this week, EHRs provide both benefits and drawbacks. Create a “Pros” versus “Cons” table and include at least 3 items for each list. Next to each item, provide a brief rationale as to why you selected to include it on the respective list. Refer to the Stage 3 objectives for Meaningful Use located in this week’s lesson under the heading Meaningful Use and the HITECH Act. Select two objectives to research further. In your own words, ...