Reflect on your own practice. Discuss how informatics is used in your practice. What is your primary area where you would use informatics? From completing the Pre-TANIC TIGER assessment for this week, what do you plan to achieve in this course? How did you feel your competency level was compared to the assessment?
How does the concept of wisdom in nursing informatics compare to the concept of professional nursing judgment? What is DIKW and how do you “use” it in your practice?
Online learning is considered a virtual learning environment (VLE); however there are other types of VLE that you may have used or heard about. Please discuss one of the following VLE’s and your experience with using it:
Then discuss how you, as the advanced practice nurse, would use this in your practice.
How do the informatics skills you are now developing/expanding upon and validating help you meet current informatics skills levels? How did the TANIC self-assessment change your impression of your current informatics skill levels?
R512 Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies
Week 5 Discussion
Knowledge Generation Through Nursing Informatics
In one of the reading assignments this week you reviewed advance nurse practitioner (APN) roles and the application of project management concepts, one of the major elements of NI, but new to most nurses. What type of application does this have for your practice?
NR512 Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies
Week 6 Discussion
HealthIT Topic of the Week and Impact on Practice
What was the HealthIT Topic you selected related to your specialty? Why did you select it? How will this impact your practice?
NR512 Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies
Week 7 Discussion
Safeguarding Health Information and Systems
A new concept for some organizations is to allow nurses to bring in their own devices known as bring your own devices (BYOD) to use at work. What are some of the security issues you might encounter if this were allowed? How would you address these issues? How is this issue addressed in your practice setting?
NR512 Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies
Week 8 Discussion
Reflection on Nursing Informatics Skills and Impact on Specialty
Discuss how Course Outcomes were supported and met by the activities you have completed in this course. What changes did you note in your post-TANIC TIGER assessment from when you started this course in week 1?
Post your “HealthIT Topic” narrated PPT presentation here.
NR512 Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies
Week 3 Assignment
E-Portfolio Project
E-Portfolio PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) Assignment Guidelines with Scoring Rubric
*Please note: you will not be required to create an e-portfolio in this assignment. This assignment is strictly for the purposes of understanding the uses and functions of an e-portfolio.
Purpose
This assignment is designed to help students
Develop an appreciation for informatics, basic skills and knowledge required in practice settings. Students will discuss the e-portfolio and it uses, provide examples of items in an e-portfolio along with challenges and future uses.
Course Outcomes
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the following ability.
Course Outcomes:
4: Exemplify professional values and scholarship to support professional and personal development. (PO 3, 4)
5: Explore the roles, competencies and skills, including cultural humility, associated with nursing informatics while collaborating as part of the healthcare team. (PO 3, 5)
7: Explore trends and issues in NI and their impact on nursing practice in all domains, including cultural humility and person-centered care. (PO 2, 5)
Total Points Possible: 200
Requirements
The student will read the assigned readings pertaining to the e-portfolio, as well as research the topic. The student will define an e-portfolio for the graduate student and for an advanced practice nurse. The PowerPoint slide presentation will include discussion of the importance and purpose of developing and using an e-portfolio as a graduate student, then identify and discuss items that should be in included in an e-portfolio per the grading rubric. The student will provide five (5) examples of items that would be included in an e-portfolio. The presentation will conclude with a summary and recommendations on how the student will use the e-portfolio as a graduate student and as an advanced practice nurse (APN) in the future.
Preparing the Presentation
Must be a professional, scholarly prepared PowerPoint presentation of 8-10 slides including at least six scholarly references.
You should have at least 8-10 slides, not including the title slide and reference slides.
Speaker notes are present for each slide. It is important to note that if you could not give your presentation and someone would have to stand in for you, he or she would need to know what you were going to say. Use the speaker-notes section so that someone may step in for you and not miss a beat.
Maintain the 6x6x6 rule for a professional PowerPoint presentation. No more than 6 lines per slide, 6 words per line, and 6 slides without a graphic.
All aspects of the presentation must be in APA format as expressed in the current edition.
Ideas and information from professional sources must be cited correctly.
References may include one dictionary source, one textbook source, and four scholarly peer-reviewed journals published in the last 5 years. Total of six sources. No Wikipedia or CINAHL Nursing guide articles.
Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing.