Building Linkages Between Nursing Care and Improved Patient Outcomes: The Role of Health Information Technology
Health IT (HIT) is capable of transforming care quality and establishing connections between patient outcomes and nursing care. This arti Continue Reading...
Health Care continues to undergo fundamental change. Legislation such as the affordable care act has created a much higher percentage of insured citizens. Patent legislation is now allowing for much more competition for popular drugs. Generic drugs i Continue Reading...
Evolution of Nursing and Healthcare Informatics
Those working in the field of healthcare delivery have long recognized the importance of obtaining and recording accurate data during their course of their interaction with a patient, from the physica Continue Reading...
Workflow Needs Assessment: Postpartum Discharge
The goals for this needs assessment endeavor will include determining the primary causes of slowdowns in discharge proceedings for postpartum patients and newborns, determining methods by which these c Continue Reading...
ONCOCIN has been used successfully in some contexts, but mainly as a support system and as a source of additional data. No system, especially if analyzed by someone who is less-than-expert (as were the usual users of the first incarnation of the sy Continue Reading...
Health Policy Analysis for Maryland AC (Affordable Care) Act
McLaughlin, & McLaughlin (2014) rank 11 areas of health innovation based on their impact on costs and quality of healthcare delivery. The process improvement is the highest ranking ite Continue Reading...
Achievement of the AONL Nurse Executives CompetenciesIntroductionThe American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) provides competencies for nurse executives to achieve so they can have the skills and the knowledge to succeed in healthcare. Thi Continue Reading...
Introducing Informatics Early in Nursing Education
Introduction
As Shackelford (2019) notes in “Industry Voices—Healthcare is Changing,” there is a serious need to reach future workforce members at an earlier age, before they ente Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Role of Technology in Enhancing Patient Healthcare Delivery:
Explore the impact of advancements in technology on patient healthcare delivery. Discuss how electronic health records, telemedicine, mob Continue Reading...
QI JournalOverviewQI drives excellence in patient care and fuels the optimization of healthcare systems (Greenes & Del Fiol, 2023). Nurses must combine their clinical expertise with QI principles in accordance with the American Association of College Continue Reading...
Health Care Reform and Equity
The author of the “Health Care Reform and Equity: Promise, Pitfalls, and Prescriptions” article delves into the subject of the US’s failure to make desired progress within the past ten years. The ACA (A Continue Reading...