Please complete ALL THREE of the Professional Development exercises.

• In the Chapter 7 summary, Staggers and Nelson state, “In a way all of us are already informatics nurses.” Reflect on this summary statement and describe a scenario from your clinical experience where you manipulated data, information, and knowledge to make a wise decision. Focus specifically on the key concepts of data, information, knowledge and wisdom.  
• What do you believe are the advantages and disadvantages of having a single shared consensus-driven model of terminology use? How can a single agreed model of terminology use (with linkages to a single terminology) help to integrate knowledge into routine clinical practice?
• Hospital C is looking to implement an EHR. It has been suggested that a NIS be hired. This position does not involve direct patient care and the administration is struggling with how to justify the position. How can this position be justified?

Please submit one APA formatted paper between 1000 – 1500 words, not including the title and reference page. The assignment should have a minimum of two scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook.

McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K. (2017). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Boston: Jones & Bartlett.  (Chapters 6 and 7)

Imagine that you manage a department in a health care organization of your choosing. The organization recently merged with another, layoffs occurred, and departments are now being consolidated. Your department now has employees whose ages span four generations, three different cultural groups are represented, and conflict is brewing between them. The conflict is affecting performance, shift scheduling, and cooperation with other departments. 

Write a 700- to 1,050-word directive to address these conflicts. Do the following in your directive:

• Assess the situation that your department is facing.
• Create clear and reasonable expectations and goals to achieve cohesion, cooperation, and communication in your department.
• Lay out a strategy to overcome these conflicts and improve workplace performance.
• Explain how success will be measured based on your strategy and goals.
• Consider using tables, matrices, or other visuals.
• Evaluate what leadership traits you need to incorporate in order to lead your diverse department.

Module 08 Homework Assignment

· Use the information presented in the module folder along with your readings from the textbook to answer the following questions. 

1. What are the different      portals of entry for a pathogen to enter the body? 

2. Define the following disease categories:

1. Endemic –

2. Sporadic –

3. Epidemic –

4. Pandemic –

3. Describe the difference between innate immunity and adaptive immunity. Which type of immunity is specific and typically longer lasting?

1. Differentiate between      active and passive types of immunity. Which type of immunity is long      lasting and which is short lasting?
2. Discuss the five (5) different classes of      vaccines used in active immunity.
3. Define and differentiate      between hypersensitivity reactions and autoimmune disease. Gives an example of hypersensitivity      reaction and an example of an autoimmune disease: 

You are caring for a 59-year-old African American male who is a non-smoker and a non-drinker. The individual has a healthy weight for his height. On weekends, he coaches a youth baseball team in his community and enjoys eating hot dogs and nachos with the children after games. He has been monitoring his blood pressure at the community center and noted that the highest reading was 168/92 mm Hg. He is pleased with this number, as the results were “lower than previous readings.” However, his healthcare provider is still concerned. She informed him about the dietary choices he was making and reminded him to limit his sodium intake. She also renewed the individual’s prescription for a thiazide diuretic and added an ACE inhibitor to his treatment regime.

Please answer the following prompts in your analysis of the case:

1. Speculate how the individual’s ethnicity contributes to his hypertension. Discuss other determinants of health that contribute to the prevalence of hypertensive disease in this population.
2. Discuss the significance of an elevated systolic pressure, even in the absence of diastolic hypertension, detailing the pathophysiology behind elevation in blood pressure and the ultimate development of hypertension.
3. Identify if this individual is at risk for developing heart failure. If so, what type of heart failure would he be most at risk of developing?
4. Briefly discuss the mechanism of action of the two classes of drugs this individual was prescribed for the management of his hypertension.

For additional details, please refer to the Case study guidelines and rubric.

Prompt: 

For the case study, be sure to: 

• Introduce main elements and concerns and identify the pathology.
   
• Use the associated questions above to guide your paper and explain the pathology in the development of a plan of care.
   
• Explain the role patient-care technologies (i.e., point of care testing, computer provider order entry, bar-coding medication administration, EMR/EHR) in caring for the individual(s). Be thorough!
   
• Apply critical thinking in analyzing and interpreting the data.
   
• Include evidence to support your analysis of the case.
   
• Write clearly and concisely, following standard rules of grammar.
  Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as at least a 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least two peer-reviewed sources cited in APA format.
   

YOU MUST USE THE CASE STUDY GUIDELINE AND RUBRIC IN ANSWERING THE CASE STUDY QUESTIONS ABOVE.