information, knowledge and wisdom continuum. This paper examines how nursing informatics through this continuum can be utilized to gain wisdom on a clinical issue in the field of psychiatric nursing.
Clinical Issue and Question
Psychiatric nursing practice entails the provision of comprehensive, patient-centered psychiatric care to patients with psychiatric or mental health problems. This nursing practice is considered as an integral component of the continuum of nursing practice since it entails promoting psychiatric and mental health through assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric and mental health problems (Ballard, 2008). Therefore, there are various issues that psychiatric nurses encounter when dealing… Continue Reading...
• High staff turnover
• Staff management problems
• Organisational politics
• Ineffective utilization of health informatics
• Inadequate integration of evidence into practice
• Financial constraints
External
Opportunities:
• Demographic shifts
• Increased demand for health care
• Partnerships
• New care delivery models
• Expansion
Threats:
• Competition (other urgent care clinics)
• Unfavourable health care reforms and adverse shifts in government regulations
Knowledge of the organisation's internal and external environment helps the organisation to make important strategic decisions (Harrison, 2010). More specifically, the organisation determines how it can utilise its strengths and exploit the available opportunities to overcome its weaknesses and threats.
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This is owing to the fact that collaboration is key to innovation. Discovering new and smarter ways that information technology and clinical informatics can be utilized to advance healthcare necessitates the participation of all individuals within the organization. This implies that continuous innovation cannot be attained by the top most leaders but rather through giving authority to other individuals in the organization to partake in various activities. This makes it possible to develop a variety of solutions to enhance clinical care. The incessant search for ways to advance, do the right thing for patients, and removing out the waste in the systems of the healthcare organization benefits from the empowerment and all… Continue Reading...
to be concrete. For example, a goal might be to master the new informatics system, and the specific learning objectives would be to input three hundred new data points into a particular information management system.
Using the Texas Textbook Evaluation Tool (T-TET)
Used especially to evaluate nursing textbooks, the Texas Textbook Evaluation Tool (T-TET) has become a sort of gold standard. Using the T-TET to assess the Bastable (2014) text provides a useful opportunity to apply this tool:
1. General Information: Bastable, S. B. (2014). Nurse as educator: Principles of teaching and learning for nursing practice (4th ed.). Boston: Jones… Continue Reading...
place a greater emphasis on topics like research and informatics. They include clinical rotations in community and public health settings. A BSN typically does not get more clinical experience carrying out assessments and procedures in an acute care setting. Students will likely exit no more adept at wielding needles and tubes, but be better prepared for hospital employment nonetheless” (Nursinglicensure.org). As a result of the fact that the BSN nurse is more prepared with clinical experience, this graduate might have an easier time adjusting to employment as an actual nurse, as the high stakes and ultra fast-paced world of… Continue Reading...
Healthcare Informatics for the Generic Pharmaceutical Association estimated that consumer savings from generic drug uptake were nearly $240 billion in 2013” (VanEck, 2016). These savings demonstrate how important generic drugs are to the entire pharmaceutical business and the healthcare industry as a whole. While it would be nice of there was a generic version of every drug on the market, the reality is that when new drugs are approved and given a spot on the marketplace, this is usually with a timeframe of patent protection and overall exclusivity (VanEck, 2016). Hence,… Continue Reading...
Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) have already been developed in the United States and Japan, also called Road Transport Informatics (RTI) in Europe (Collier and Weiland, 1994, p. 27). Smart highways are also referred to as Automated Vehicle Highway Systems (AVHS) or Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The lack of global consensus on what to call smart driving and smart highways reflects the burgeoning nature and broad gamut of technologies that need to be further developed and integrated into standardized systems. The most important of the IVHS systems involve both vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) technologies. Both V2V and V2I technologies capitalize on software and hardware… Continue Reading...
carry out evidence-based practices. These competencies are:
1. Patient-centered care
2. Teamwork and collaboration
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Quality improvement
5. Safety
6. Informatics (Melnyk, Gallagher-Ford, Long, & Fineout-Overholt, 2014, p. 5).
Keeping these competencies in mind, strategies aimed to encourage evidence-based practice can include instruction from the beginning levels of learning as nursing students. Equipping nursing students with foundational skills and knowledge will allow the fostering of positive attitudes towards EBP (Evidence-Based Practice). One article discusses a pilot learning program allowed during a clinical practicum in one of China's teaching hospitals. The pilot learning program involves use of a learning process that involves self-directed learning as well as workshop strategies. The results… Continue Reading...
