Nurses are expected to provide safe, competent, and compassionate care in a highly technical and digital environment. They are directly engaged with electronic health records and other information technologies that support evidence-based practice. Future nurses must develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to perform within this environment, at a time when many practicing nurses are also learning about informatics. Address the following questions regarding informatics and best practices:
1) Describe how innovations in health information technology are being used in your practice environment to better inform clinical practice, interconnect clinicians, personalize care, and/or improve population health. (If informatics are not yet well integrated in your workplace, explain how you expect them to be integrated in the near future.) My Practice environment is a state hospital setting.
2) How have you seen such innovations assist nurses with clinical decision making and improve their ability to communicate, manage knowledge, and mitigate error?
3) What opportunities do you see for transforming knowledge in yourself and/or your workplace, based on the information in your textbook about the relationships between critical thinking and health informatics? (If informatics are not yet well integrated in your workplace, focus your response on this question.)
PLEASE BE SURE TO FOLLOW ALL WRITING INSTRUCTION: Please ensure grammar and APA format is accurate. Please follow the Scoring Guidelines: Applies relevant course concepts, theories, or materials correctly. Collaborates with fellow learners, relating the discussion to relevant course concepts. Applies relevant professional, personal, or other real-world experiences. Supports position with applicable knowledge. G.R.E.A.T paper, grammar rules apply. The paper should be written correctly and effectively. Relevance is important the paper should pertain to the reading and the assignment. Engage your audience. Incorporate your interpretation of the topic or issue. Add value to the paper. Raise question or provide new information on the topic.
You must make reference to the work of another writer (either as a quotation, paraphrase, or summary) to provide support for your ideas. The source can be the course text, another relevant book, any assigned readings, or an article you find on your own. When you incorporate the other writer’s ideas in your work, use APA citation style to give credit to that writer. Remember that an APA citation includes both the in-text citation (the author’s last name and the year of publication) and the full reference for the source.
Reference: Critical Thinking Tactics for Nurses text: Chapter 9, “Critical Thinking and Informatics,” pages 243–276
