Deliverable 7 – Reflections of Emerging Healthcare Technologies and Innovation
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Competency
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- Explain technologies that lead to enhanced decision-making strategies utilizing the technology life cycle.
- Evaluate the role and scope of practice for Nursing Informaticists.
- Differentiate the impact of various communication technologies on safety and quality improvement.
- Analyze ethical and nursing informatics practice standards within the context of healthcare delivery.
- Analyze how evidence-based practice influences healthcare technology.
- Explain innovative systems and distribution of technology to enhance the quality of healthcare delivery and patient safety.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
You are applying for positions as a new BSN nurse and seeking a position that fills your passion and enthusiasm for leveraging emerging healthcare technologies. Your current nurse manager at Healing Spaces Hospital has encouraged you to apply for the internal nurse informaticist position on the oncology unit. You enjoy working at this hospital and appreciate the private, non-profit nature in the small, rural community. The qualifications do ask for applicants to have a certification in Nursing Informatics or a Master’s degree but it does have a grace period for those willing to get one of these advancements. Therefore, you have gone ahead and submitted the application and submitted a letter of reference from your nurse manager and current nursing informaticist on your unit. You received an email that your application has been accepted and you are scheduled for a panel interview with nursing leaders next Friday at noon.
Instructions
You have received a packet of panel interview questions to come prepared with answers to show how you would fill this Nursing Informatics role. You must creatively address the scenario questions using support from credible evidence within the field of nursing informatics. Using a Word document answer the following four interview questions:
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- Our hospital is considering purchasing innovative technology to support staffing and patient flow in the oncology unit, what would you recommend and why?
- Support your choice with current evidence
- You need to design a policy for ethical use of clinical information systems. What would you propose for this policy?
- Support your choice with current evidence
- We are considering purchasing technology to support patient education and decrease re-admissions in the cardiology unit, what would you recommend and why?
- Support your choice with current evidence
- Healing Spaces would like to increase our technological security to increase patient safety, specifically protecting PHI. What technological security measures do you feel are most important to consider and why?
- Support your choice with current evidence
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