This week’s graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO).
- CO2 Analyze data from all relevant sources, including technology, to inform the delivery of care. (PO 2)
Directions
- Discussions are designed to promote dialogue between faculty and students, and students and their peers. In discussions students:
- Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week
- Integrate scholarly resources
- Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates
- Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
- Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
Download and open the AACN Essentials Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.). Complete the self-assessment of your current comfort levels and total your score. If you are willing, please share your results with your classmates in your discussion post. (Remember, this is the starting point for our course and the start of the knowledge we will learn over 8 weeks).
As you reflect on your score, identify areas where your knowledge could use improvement. Whether you are a new graduate or a seasoned nurse, it is important to keep in mind that all professional nurses are knowledge workers. Utilizing the readings from your textbook, describe your current knowledge base in informatics and how you can improve your knowledge as they relate to nursing informatics and AACN essential. What additional questions do you have as they relate to nursing informatics and the AACN essentials
ANSWER:
Nursing informatics is defined as “a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer and information science to provide data communication management, knowledge and nursing work in 2001. Now most nursing professionals believe that it is defined as the integration of information technology and all aspects of nursing such as clinical nursing, management, research or education” (Guenther & Peters, 2006). Nowadays we all can come to an agreement that is almost impossible to think of nursing science without the integration of informatics, or the…..
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