NR512
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
Week 1
Discussion
Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies
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?
NR512
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
Week 2
Discussion
Wisdom Versus Judgment
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?
NR512
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
Week 3
Discussion
Virtual Learning Environments
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:
Virtual simulation
Edutainment
Three dimensional virtual environment or world
Augmented-reality games (ARGs)
Virtual Reality devices
Then discuss how you, as the advanced practice nurse, would
use this in your practice.
NR512
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
Week 4
Discussion
Informatics Skills
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?
NR512
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
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
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
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
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
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
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
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?
NR512
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
Week 3
E-Portfolio Project
E-Portfolio PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) Assignment
Guidelines with Scoring Rubric
NR 512 W3 eportfolio PPT guidelines and rubric 111718 SJW
Rev .docx (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
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)
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
1. Must be a professional, scholarly prepared PowerPoint
presentation of 8-10slides including at least five scholarly references.
2.You should have at least 8-10 slides, not including the
title slide and reference slides.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5.All aspects of the presentation must be in APA format as
expressed in the 6th edition.
6. Ideas and information from professional sources must be
cited correctly.
7. 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.
8. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and citations are
consistent with formal academic writing.
NR512
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
Week 5
HealthIT Topic of Week Assignment
Purpose
This assignment is designed to help students
• Develop an appreciation for informatics, basic skills and
knowledge required in practice settings.Students will select a “hot” or popular
topic of particular interest to their practice to discuss. The topic will be
selected from the website using the link provided in the course Assignments
section.
Requirements
Students will login to FierceEMR and FierceHealthIT using
the link provided in the reading assignment module for Week 5and select a “current/popular” topic of the week that may
impact their practice. Students, in a professionally developed paper, will
discuss the rationale for choosing the topic, how it will impact practice in a
positive or negative manner, citing pros and cons. Include a discussion of how
informatics skills and knowledge were used in the process relevance to
developing the assignment. In the conclusion, provide recommendations for the
future. Submit completed FierceHealthIT Topic paper for Wk. 5 to dropbox by end
of Week 5.
PREPARING THE PAPER
1. The FierceEMR and FierceHealthITCurrent/Popular Topic of
the Week assignment must be a professional, scholarly prepared paper. See the
guidelines for writing a professional, scholarly paper in the Course Resources.
The professional paper will have an introduction, body of paper to explain what
you are doing, summary/conclusion, and at least three scholarly references.
2. Required texts may be used as references, but a minimum
of three sources must be from outside of course readings.
3. All aspects of the paper must be in APA format as
expressed in the 6th edition.
4. The paper (excluding the title page, introduction and
reference page) is 4-6 pages in length.
5. Ideas and information from professional sources must be
cited correctly.
6. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and citations are
consistent with formal academic writing.
NR512
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
Week 7
Narrated Power Point Presentation
Purpose
This assignment is designed to help students
• Develop
an appreciation for informatics, basic skills and knowledge required in
practice settings.Students selected a “hot” or popular topic of particular
interest to their practice to discuss in week 5. This week student will develop
a narrated slide PowerPoint (PPT) presentation of 8-10 slides summarizing the
assignment.
Course Outcomes
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the
following ability.
(CO 6) Describe health information systems within healthcare
setting and the profession of nursing in all practice domains and settings
including electronic health records (EHR), their management and patient-care
information technology (IT). (PO 4)
(CO 7)
ExploretrendsandissuesinNIandtheirimpactonnursingpracticeinall
domains.(POs9,11)
Due Date: Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 7.
Total Points Possible:
150
Requirements
The FierceEMR and FierceHealthIT current topics from the Week 5 assignment
will be summarized in 8-10 narrated slides for this Week 7 assignment. Studentswillsummarize the rationale for
choosing the topic, how it will impact practice in a positive and negative
manner, including pros and cons. Include discussion of how informatics skills
and knowledge were applied in the process relevance to developing the
assignment. In the conclusion, provide recommendations for the future. Submit
completed FierceHealthIT Hot Topic narrated PPTassignment to assignment folder
by end of Week 7.
Preparing the Presentation
1. The FierceEMR and FierceHealthIT Current Topic of the
Week is a recap of the assignment from Wk.5 and must be a professional,
scholarly prepared PowerPoint narrated presentation of 8-10slides including at
least three scholarly references.
2.You should have at least 8-10 slides. 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.
3. 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.
4.All aspects of the presentation must be in APA format as
expressed in the 6th edition.
5. Ideas and information from professional sources must be
cited correctly.
6. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and citations are
consistent with formal academic writing.
7. Due to the size of the file with narration, please do not
include any animation.
NR512 Fundamentals
of Nursing Informatics
Week 2 Quiz
Question 1
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Data?
Processed
information which places relationships in context
Raw fact without
meaning in itself
Process which uses
information to make decisions electronically
Unit of memory equal
to one keystroke
Question 2
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is an Electronic Medical Record?
An online record of
treatment, typically limited to one episode, whether that might be an emergency
room or clinic visit or a hospital stay
Longitudinal record
of one’s health and treatment interventions
Using software to
sort through data to discover patterns and establish relationships
Web browser-based
login accessible data, software, and hardware
Question 3
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Knowledge Work?
Process that
generates information and knowledge as a product
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at the application and use of information and
knowledge in organizations and the interface between people, organizations, and
information systems
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at how the human mind works
Process by which
clinical data is used to help make decisions and develop predictive analytics
Question 4
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Health Information Exchange?
An initiative to
improve healthcare quality, efficiency, and effectiveness by making healthcare
information available when and where it is needed through technology,
standards, interoperability, governance, and cooperation
A computer-based
program designed to assist clinicians in making clinical decisions
Process by which
clinical data is used to make decisions
The process of
electronic transmission or sharing of healthcare information or an organization
that organizes and oversees the transmission process
Question 5
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is an Information System?
Emerging field of
study that focuses upon how information is processed both in the human mind and
the computer
. Process that
generates information and knowledge as a product
The people, data,
actions, and components used to create information for a user or organization
Knowledge applied in
a practical manner
Question 6
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Knowledge?
Processed
information which places relationships in context
Raw fact without
meaning in itself
Using clinical data
to make decisions
How information is
processed both in the human mind and the computer
Question 7
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is a Firewall?
Tool used to protect
corporate networks that examines incoming and outgoing information
Computer program
designed to recognize and neutralize computer viruses
Tool used to
recognize individual users based on one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral
attributes
Method using a proxy
server to protect the identify of a corporation’s employees when they are
surfing the Internet.
Question 8
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Computer Science?
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at how the human mind works
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at the theory underlying information and computation
and their implementation in computer systems
Emerging field of
study that focuses upon how information is processed both in the human mind and
the computer
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at the application and use of information and
knowledge in organizations and the interface between people, organizations, and
information systems
Question 9
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Wisdom?
Using clinical data
to make decisions
Planning and
enacting a project
Using software to
sort through data for use in the clinical setting
Knowledge applied in
a practical manner
Question 10
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Cognitive Science?
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at how the human mind works
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at the theory underlying information and computation
and their implementation in computer systems
Emerging field of
study that focuses upon how information is processed both in the human mind and
the computer
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at the application and use of information and
knowledge in organizations and the interface between people, organizations, and
information systems
Question 11
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is an Electronic Health Record?
An online record of
treatment, typically limited to one episode, whether that might be an emergency
room or clinic visit or a hospital stay
Longitudinal record
of one’s health and treatment interventions
Using software to
sort through data to discover patterns and establish relationships
Web browser-based
login accessible data, software, and hardware
Question 12
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is National Health Information Infrastructure?
An initiative to
improve healthcare quality, efficiency, and effectiveness by making healthcare
information available when and where it is needed through technology,
standards, interoperability, governance, and cooperation
A computer-based
program designed to assist clinicians in making clinical decisions
Process by which
clinical data is used to make decisions
The process of
electronic transmission or sharing of healthcare information or an organization
that organizes and oversees the transmission process
Question 13
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Cognitive Informatics?
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at the theory underlying information and computation
and their implementation in computer systems
Use of software,
hardware, services, and supporting infrastructure to manage and deliver
information using voice, data, and voice or use of technologies
Emerging field of
study that focuses upon how information is processed both in the human mind and
the computer
Specialized training
or certification in informatics
Question 14
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Information Science?
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at how the human mind works
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at the theory underlying information and computation
and their implementation in computer systems
Emerging field of
study that focuses upon how information is processed both in the human mind and
the computer
Foundational science
for informatics that looks at the application and use of information and
knowledge in organizations and the interface between people, organizations, and
information systems
Question 15
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Field or application
that attempts to capture human thought processes and intelligence
Web-based browser
login accessible data, software, and hardware
Process by which
clinical data is used to help make decisions and develop predictive analytics
An avatar
Question 16
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Clinical Decision Support (CDS)?
Process by which
clinical data is used to help make decisions and develop predictive analytics
Using a telephone,
videophone, computer or other technology-based tool to deliver health-related
information to patients or to connect patients with healthcare providers.
A computer-based
program designed to assist clinicians in making clinical decisions by filtering
or integrating vast amounts of information and providing suggestions for
clinical intervention
A nursing role that
supports immediate access to up-to-date knowledge anywhere and anytime
Question 17
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Cloud Computing?
Process by which
client information is used to make decisions
Web browser-based
login accessible data, software, and hardware
Processed
information which places relationships in context
Process that
generates information and knowledge as a product
Question 18
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Datamining?
Using software to
sort through data to discover patterns and establish relationships
Using technology to
connect with patients
Hardware or software
used to enter data into a computer
Software used to
locate and display webpages
Question 19
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is a Project Manager?
a. A nursing role that supports immediate
access to up-to-date knowledge anywhere and anytime
b. Process of using clinical data to help
make decisions and develop predictive analytics
c. A person who plans and enacts an
event or project
d. Person or people, data, actions, and
components used to create information for a user or organization
Question 20
Choose the best definition or example for the informatics
key term in the question.
What is Telehealth?
Process by which
clinical data is used to help make decisions and develop predictive analytics
Using a telephone,
videophone, computer or other technology-based tool to deliver health-related
information to patients or to connect patients with healthcare providers.
A computer-based
program designed to assist clinicians in making clinical decisions by filtering
or integrating vast amounts of information and providing suggestions for
clinical intervention
A nursing role that
supports immediate access to up-to-date knowledge anywhere and anytime
