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Discussion Board : 1

Database Search (graded, 25 points)

Choose a topic related to health that has meaning to your personal health, interests, and well-being. This may be a disease, such as diabetes, or a healthy fitness activity.

Conduct a database search comparing one of the following database directories with Google Scholar.

CINAHL and Google Scholar PubMed and Google Scholar

Explain how you were able to narrow down the number of article hits you had initially, and present within your post a summary of the credible article you chose as your resource. How do you know your article choice is credible? Which database do you prefer and why?

How will using a database search facilitate your

· scholarly work;

· nursing work (evidence-based practice); and

· personal self-development?

(CO 2,4,5,6,8)

Discussion Board : 2

Ethical Implications of Social Media and Personal Technology (graded, 25 points)

For this discussion, we will consider the use of social media and personal technology. What are the legal and ethical implications, if any? Why or why not?

Choose one of the following scenarios to research, locate a credible article, and discuss the ethical and legal implications related to the use of social media and/or personal technology associated with each.

1. Your best friend, a nurse, posts the following on Facebook, on her day off, and from her home computer: “What a crazy day at work yesterday! I met the cutest little old man from my street! I really cannot believe he is 98 years old and still sharp as a tack! He made me laugh when he said he wanted a prescription for Viagra, and I think he was serious! He really made my day when he said that he thought I was the prettiest nurse on the unit!”

2. A work colleague in the obstetrics department has a public nursing blog, and her latest entry states that she had the “most difficult time at work caring for the mother of a baby that had died due to abuse-related injuries, and she is here now to have another child.” Her post goes on to say that she and her husband have had problems conceiving, and anyone who abuses a child should be automatically sterilized or be forced to give the child up for adoption.

3. You are on break for lunch, sitting outside in the beautiful sunshine, when you see a car pull up to the main entrance of the hospital where you are a nurse. Out steps your favorite professional football player, along with his wife. She looks as though she has been punched in the face, considering the bruises, black eye, and swollen lip that you see. You grab your smartphone, quickly snap some photos, and then tweet them to your followers on Twitter.

(CO 4,5,6)

Discussion Board : 3

Healthcare Technology: Local, National, and Global Considerations (graded, 25 points)

Imagine that you are a public health nurse, and you and your colleagues have determined that the threat of a deadly new strain of influenza indicates a need for a mass inoculation program in your community. What public health data would have been used to determine the need for such a program? Where would you locate public health data? What data will be collected to determine the success of such a program? How might you communicate this to other communities or internationally?

(CO 1,2,4,5, 6,7,8)

Discussion Board : 4

Meaningful Use and Its Implications on Healthcare (graded, 25 points)

Explore health information technology for the future of healthcare ( http://www.healthit.gov/). Select a reading about meaningful use or another topic of interest to you. What types of questions does this bring to mind regarding safety, privacy, and confidentiality? Can we have a system of meaningful use in a community, nationally, or internationally and yet still maintain the HIPAA standards?

(CO 1, 2,4,5,6,7,8)

Discussion Board : 5

Patient Safety and Confidentiality (graded, 25 points)

Discuss the current patient safety characteristics used by your current workplace or clinical site. Identify at least three aspects of your workplace or clinical environment that need to be changed with regard to patient safety (including confidentiality), and then suggest strategies for change.

(CO 2,4,5,6,7,8)

Discussion Board : 6

Workarounds and Their Implications for Patient Safety (graded, 25 points)

What is a workaround? Identify a workaround (specific to technology used in a hospital setting) that you have used or perhaps seen someone else use, and analyze why you feel this risk-taking behavior was chosen over behavior that conforms to a safety culture. What are the risks? Are there benefits? Why or why not?

(CO 2,4,5,6,7,8)

Discussion Board : 7

Interacting With Information Systems (graded, 25 points)

In healthcare, think about a typical day of practice and describe the setting. How many times does the nurse interact with information systems (IS)? What are the ISs that we interact with, and how do we access them? Are they at the bedside, handheld, or station based? How does their location and ease of access impact nursing care? How does it affect interaction with the patient and other healthcare team members?

(CO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Discussion Board : 8

From Data to Knowledge and Wisdom! (graded, 25 points)

How does data become knowledge and finally wisdom? Explain the relationship between knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination, and wisdom. Then, provide examples from your clinical practice (or past work experiences) according to the following.

a. Examples of knowledge acquisition

b. Examples of knowledge generation

c. Examples of knowledge processing

d. Examples of knowledge dissemination

e. Examples of the use of feedback

(CO 2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Discussion Board : 9

Nurse-Sensitive Outcomes: The Risks and Benefits (graded, 25 points)

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will not pay any costs a healthcare facility incurs for certain hospital-acquired patient conditions or events. These patient outcomes are very sensitive to nursing care (a.k.a., nurse-sensitive outcomes). As a result, nursing has gained a lot of visibility. Locate an article or website that refers to these nurse-sensitive outcomes. Discuss one way that information technology and standardized nursing languages might assist nurses in reducing or eliminating these poor outcomes.

(CO 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 )

Discussion Board : 10

Informatics and the Development of Standards (graded, 25 points)

Discuss the roles of federal, state, and local public health agencies in the development of standards for informatics in healthcare.

( CO 1, 2, 4, 5, 8)

Discussion Board : 11

Technology in Education (graded, 25 points)

Explore some of the rationale behind the move toward more of a technologically based learning experience in nursing education and in healthcare overall. What are the benefits to this? How about patient education in the hospital setting?

( CO 1, 2, 5, 8)

Discussion Board : 12

Technology: Benefits and Future Trends (graded, 25 points)

What technology do you find most beneficial to use in your work or school setting? Least beneficial? Why do you find this tool useful or not? Then, using your imagination, look to the future and think about how this tool could be enhanced even further. Describe your dream technology, with consideration for patient care and safety.

(CO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8)

Discussion Board : 13

Team Presentation (graded, 50 points)

This week, one member of your team will be responsible for posting your team presentation to this discussion thread under the color-coordinated thread below that corresponds with your team. This must be posted by Monday of Unit 8 by 11:59 p.m.

1. Critique a team presentation other than your own, and include what the presentation taught you and what you see as far as its effect on patient safety and healthcare technology.

2. What changes in the presentation would you recommend, and why?

3. Ask questions! Each team is responsible for responding to questions asked of its presentation!

Remember to include sources of literature in your posts to back up the statements you make! Remember, we are all about evidence-based practice!

This is a short week, and you still must have at least two posts on 2 different days this week. The course ends on Wednesday of Unit 8.

(CO 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8)