Discuss ways that nursing informatics could be applied to all areas of professional nursing practice, including clinical practice, administration, education, and research. Provide examples of each. What do you see as the biggest significance of nursing informatics, and why? How is nursing informatics different from healthcare informatics?

(COs 1, 4, 5, 7, and 8)

Your post should discuss and answer all points with the use of scholarly work to back up your thoughts. Therefore, begin researching and using that research to indicate how nursing informatics can be applied. Second, provide examples of each application to help show the benefits of using informatics within each application. Finally, give your thoughts as to which one of those is the most significant application and why. 

Example:

Nursing practice – helps with the evidence-based practice that can restore, support, and promote a healthy lifestyle or provide the necessary tools to help patients with certain diseases or illnesses.

Clinical practice – gives is the technology needed to gather patient information and store information that helps guide the plan of care. For example using dynamaps, glucometer, ECG, EMR, and software systems like EPIC. 

Administration – can help with making sure medical records are accurate, accessible, it helps record all care given to the patient, it helps with billing and coding. 

Education – allows for education tools to deliver easier and in a more accurate manner. It gives options to learn virtually and deliver courses more efficiently to ensure clinical/nursing practice is always evolving.

Research- helps support new clinical trials that can be used to support treatment for illness/diseases. Research can be supported by clinical data, analysis, and management. Research has helped back up infection control policies that have been implemented in many hospitals

 

For our discussion board this week, we will discuss a neurological condition known as Cluster Headache.

Week 9 Discussion:

Richard is a 40-year-old man with a history of 4 weeks of cluster headache once each year. These began when he was 35 years old. His cluster periods occur in the fall. The cluster period begins slowly, increasing over 1 week, reaching a peak where Richard has two or three severe cluster attacks each day. They occur from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Each cluster headache lasts from 40 to 90 minutes, and the headaches are severe. The pain is always on the right side, with eye tearing and nasal congestion. 

Richard comes into our office 1 week into this fall’s cluster series. The headaches are increasing in intensity, and he is miserable with the pain.

Please complete the following questions: 

• Describe Cluster Headache and its epidemiology.
• What would be your goals for therapy for Richard? Give rationale with evidence from articles. 

Please limit your posts to the above 2 questions. APA Format

 

research public health issues on the “Climate Change” or “Topics and Issues” pages of the American Public Health Association (APHA) website. Investigate a public health issue related to an environmental issue within the U.S. health care delivery system and examine its effect on a specific population.

Write a 750-1,000-word policy brief that summarizes the issue, explains the effect on the population, and proposes a solution to the issue.

Follow this outline when writing the policy brief:

1. Describe the policy health issue. Include the following information: (a) what population is affected, (b) at what level does it occur (local, state, or national), and (c) evidence about the issues supported by resources.
2. Create a problem statement.
3. Provide suggestions for addressing the health issue caused by the current policy. Describe what steps are required to initiate policy change. Include necessary stakeholders (government officials, administrators) and budget or funding considerations, if applicable.
4. Discuss the impact on the health care delivery system.

Include three peer-reviewed sources and two other sources to support the policy brief.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

 

By this point, you should know what you are going to write about for the final paper. Now, you need to gather your sources that will help back up your argument in the final paper. You are going to find at least ten sources for this assignment. For these ten sources, you will need to provide a reference and a short paragraph of at least 100 words that summarizes and analyzes the source. You should have a total of at least 1,000 words for this document. An annotated bibliography helps you keep track of your sources and how you plan to use them for a large project. The majority of this assignment will rely on your reading and comprehension of the sources you choose for your paper. Please keep that in mind. If you read and write about one or two sources a day over the course of two weeks, you could easily complete this assignment. Please do not wait until the last minute. 

Requirements:

• APA formatting
  • cover page
  • no abstract required
  • Times New Roman, 12 pt font
  • double-spaced
• at least 100 words and a citation per source

 

It may seem to you that healthcare has been a national topic of debate among political leaders for as long as you can remember.

Healthcare has been a policy item and a topic of debate not only in recent times but as far back as the administration of the second U.S. president, John Adams. In 1798, Adams signed legislation requiring that 20 cents per month of a sailor’s paycheck be set aside for covering their medical bills. This represented the first major piece of U.S. healthcare legislation, and the topic of healthcare has been woven into presidential agendas and political debate ever since.

As a healthcare professional, you may be called upon to provide expertise, guidance and/or opinions on healthcare matters as they are debated for inclusion into new policy. You may also be involved in planning new organizational policy and responses to changes in legislation. For all of these reasons you should be prepared to speak to national healthcare issues making the news.

In this Assignment, you will analyze recent presidential healthcare agendas. You also will prepare a fact sheet to communicate the importance of a healthcare issue and the impact on this issue of recent or proposed policy.

To Prepare:

• Review the agenda priorities of the current/sitting U.S. president and the two previous presidential administrations.
• Select an issue related to healthcare that was addressed by each of the last three U.S. presidential administrations.
• Reflect on the focus of their respective agendas, including the allocation of financial resources for addressing the healthcare issue you selected.
• Consider how you would communicate the importance of a healthcare issue to a legislator/policymaker or a member of their staff for inclusion on an agenda.

The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Comparison Grid, 1-Page Analysis, and 1-page narrative) with a title page, an introduction, purpose statement, and a conclusion. This is an APA paper.

Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid

Use the Agenda Comparison Grid Template found in the Learning Resources and complete the Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid based on the current/sitting U.S. president and the two previous presidential administrations and their agendas related to the public health concern you selected. Be sure to address the following:

• Identify and provide a brief description of the population health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it.
• Describe the administrative agenda focus related to the issue you selected.
• Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.
• Explain how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue.
• At least 3 resources must be used

Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis

Using the information you recorded in Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid on the template, complete the Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis portion of the template, by addressing the following:

• Which administrative agency would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected?
• How do you think your selected healthcare issue might get on the agenda for the current and two previous presidents? How does it stay there?
• Who would you choose to be the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor of the healthcare issue you selected for the current and two previous presidents?

Part 3: Narrative

Using the information recorded on the template in Parts 1 and 2, develop a 1-page narrative that you could use to communicate with a policymaker/legislator or a member of their staff for this healthcare issue. Be sure to address the following:

• Summarize why this healthcare issue is important and should be included in the agenda for legislation.
• Justify the role of the nurse in agenda setting for healthcare issues.
• The response fully integrates at least 2 outside resources and 2-3 course specific resources that fully supports the summary provided.