Assignment: Nursing Informatics Discussion

The term “knowledge worker” was first coined by management consultant and author Peter Drucker in his book, The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959). Drucker defined knowledge workers as high-level workers who apply theoretical and analytical knowledge, acquired through formal training, to develop products and services. Does this sound familiar?

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Nurses are very much knowledge workers. What has changed since Drucker’s time are the ways that knowledge can be acquired. The volume of data that can now be generated and the tools used to access this data have evolved significantly in recent years and helped healthcare professionals (among many others) to assume the role of knowledge worker in new and powerful ways.

In this Assignment, you will consider the evolving role of the nurse leader and how this evolution has led nurse leaders to assume the role of knowledge worker. You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation with an infographic (graphic that visually represents information, data, or knowledge. Infographics are intended to present information quickly and clearly.) to educate others on the role of nurse as knowledge worker.

Reference: Drucker, P. (1959). The landmarks of tomorrow. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.

To Prepare:

Review the concepts of informatics as presented in the Resources.
Reflect on the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
Consider how knowledge may be informed by data that is collected/accessed.

The Assignment:

Explain the concept of a knowledge worker.
Define and explain nursing informatics and highlight the role of a nurse leader as a knowledge worker.
Include one slide that visually represents the role of a nurse leader as knowledge worker.
Your PowerPoint should Include the hypothetical scenario you originally shared in the Discussion Forum. Include your examination of the data that you could use, how the data might be accessed/collected, and what knowledge might be derived from that data. Be sure to incorporate feedback received from your colleagues’ responses.

APA format. 5-6 slides. needs 3 sources plus two sources that I will provide.

https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_4A0FEA5…

Sweeney, J. (2017). Healthcare Informatics. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics, 21(1), 4–1.

The scenario used:

“The healthcare sector has witnessed massive evolution over the decades. The introduction of informatics in nursing has facilitated radical changes due to the advancement of technology, which has changed the way activities are performed (Rodney, 2016). Nurses are direct caregivers who often feel the impact of best practices changes than any other medical practitioner. According to reports from the Biomedical Health sciences assistant professor in Chicago, healthcare is currently facing imminent challenges of population aging and prevalence of chronic disease. However, data is one of the most effective solutions for addressing these problems. In the hospitals’ move, reducing the cost of their services and shifting to home care informatics is a significant factor.

Reports from the informatics forecasting agencies suggest that the medical sector is planning to facilitate virtual care services. In the last two decades, nursing informatics roles have taken many forms in focus and ways that have consistently defined practice scope. Moreover, the evolution is set to increase to unfold new healthcare paradigms, which will enhance connectivity between the patient and the nurses.

One of the importance of informatics in the nursing sector is to enhance accurate data collection. The latest health reports suggest that medication errors impact an estimate of about 1.5 million patients annually. Consider a scenario where a medical facility deals with prescription drugs to ill patients. Without proper records or standards, a medical practitioner stands a chance of making medical errors such as insufficient or wrong treatment of a particular behavior, injury, or disease. Health experts assert that the consequences of misdiagnosing a particular drug to the patient can substantially worsen the medical condition of the individual (Kennedy, 2017). Other mistakes include miscommunication between medical professionals and incorrect recording of patient data. This will have an impact on the patient’s wellbeing. In this scenario, health informatics can play a significant role in reducing the frequency of errors. Health informatics helps a great deal in in standardizing the administration of prescription drugs and in standardizing the tracking of diagnostic information. The implementation of digital systems is an effective solution that can be implemented to report and analyze diagnoses. This strategy helps in reducing medical errors, which poses a risk to the patient’s health. Pharmaceutical dispensing and barcoded systems also reduce mismatches between the patients’ identity and their respective medications.

In the nursing environment, medical practitioners work in temporary teams around patients. Proper coordination between the nurses and the patients is a key factor to avoid errors. Data is, therefore, necessary in the decision-making processes for the interest of patients (Sweeney, 2017). In the future, nursing informatics specialists will function in the context of virtual care delivery (Nagle et al., 2017). They will also be informed by data aggregated from an assortment of sources and real-time knowledge generation that will facilitate individualized care (Nagle et al., 2017). In the future, unknown challenges will be posed for nursing informatics using the concept of connected care to help in developing solutions for hypothesized scenarios (Nagle et al., 2017).

References

Kennedy, M. A. (2017). Innovation in transformative nursing leadership: nursing informatics competencies and roles. Nursing Leadership (Toronto, Ont.), 25(4), 14.

Rodney, P. (2016). The evolution of data-information-knowledge-wisdom in nursing informatics. Advances in nursing science, 39(1), E1-E18.

Sweeney, J. (2017). Healthcare Informatics. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics, 21(1), 4–1.

Nagle, L. M., Sermeus, W., Junger, A., & Bloomberg, L. S. (2017). Evolving Role of the Nursing Informatics Specialist. Forecasting Informatics Competencies for Nurses in the Future of Connected Health, 212.”