nursing (health informatics) W4

Analyzing Technology Workflows

This week's discussion is intended to get you started on your Health Information Technology Presentation assignment and provide you with an opportunity to receive feedback on the workflow analysis that you will include in your presentation. For this assignment, you will be analyzing the workflow associated with a technology used in nursing practice. 

To get started, review the assignment instructions and choose a technology used in nursing practice. Be sure to choose a technology with which a nurse interacts that can be analyzed using the 10  Usability Heuristics for Interface Design (see Step 4).

Using PowerPoint or another tool of your choosing, create and share a flowchart illustrating the nurses workflow using the technology. Be sure to include all of the steps that a nurse would take to complete a work task using the technology. Write a substantive paragraph explaining technology enhances and/or hinders the clinical workflow, and how the technology or workflow be adjusted to increase efficiency or better support patient care.