NURS 8200 Discussion: Welcome to the Week 2 Discussion area!

NURS 8210 Week 2 Discussion: Information Architecture

Post your responses to the Discussion based on the course requirements.

Your Discussion postings should be written in standard edited English and follow APA guidelines as closely as possible given the constraints of the online platform. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Walden Students to ensure your in-text citations and reference list are correct. Initial postings must be 250–350 words (not including references).

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Information Architecture

How do you use health information technology in your daily work activities? Does the CNO in your organization use the same HIT as the nurses at the bedside? What about those individuals who work in admissions? In order to develop an information system that can facilitate the ability to track, share, and analyze patient data, an organization has to take into account the differing needs or views of various departments.

In this Discussion, you consider the differing viewpoints of the professionals within your organization. Imagine what your colleagues’ needs might be and how they might use a HIT system to access and share information to promote evidence-based care. What are the similarities and differences in how this technology would be used by physicians, lab techs, administrators, nurses, informaticians, and others?

To prepare for NURS 8200 Discussion: Welcome to the Week 2 Discussion area!:

Review this week’s media presentation, focusing on how the VA’s VistA system demonstrates data flow across an organization.
Reflect on your organization’s information architecture and the various information needs of different groups within your work setting. What constraints has your organization faced with implementing health information technology systems that meet everyone’s needs? Consider speaking with your colleagues from different areas about this topic.
Ask yourself: How does the flow of data across my organization support, or inhibit, evidence-based practice?

By Day 3 post a cohesive response that addresses the following:

Differentiate the information needs within your organization. For example, how might the needs of an administrator differ from the needs of a physician or lab tech?
Explain the impact of these different needs on the implementation of HIT in your present organization.
Evaluate how the flow of information across HIT systems within your organization supports or inhibits evidence-based practice.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

By Day 6 respond to at least two of your colleagues in one or more of the following ways:

Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you learned and/or any insights you gained as a result of the comments made by your colleagues.

Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and any additional sources.

NURS 8210 Week 2: Information Architecture

As presented in Week 1, information technology is a vast field encompassing the collection, representation, processing, and communication of data. Health care professionals use health information technologies (HIT) to improve the quality of health care delivery, reduce costs, and promote patient safety. HIT offers stakeholders countless tools to support, share, and analyze health-related data.

This week, you consider the health information technology needs and viewpoints of stakeholders within an organization. You also examine the critical role that information systems can play in evidence-based practices and explore how data flows across a health information system.

Learning Objectives for NURS 8200 Discussion: Welcome to the Week 2 Discussion area!

Students will:

Differentiate the information architecture needs of various stakeholders within an organization
Evaluate how the flow of information across HIT systems can facilitate evidence-based practice
Assess the flow of information within an organization

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Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Course Text: Ball, M. J., Douglas, J. V., Hinton Walker, P., DuLong, D., Gugerty, B., Hannah, K. J., . . . Troseth, M. R. (Eds.) (2011). Nursing informatics: Where technology and caring meet (4th ed.). London, England: Springer-Verlag.

Chapter 15, “Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support”

In this chapter, the authors discuss the challenges that arise as HIT systems are employed to support evidence-based practices. The authors also provide examples of tools, features, and systems that promote evidence-based practices.

Course Text: American Nurses Association. (2008). Nursing informatics: Scope and standards of practice. Silver Spring, MD: Author.

Metastructures, Concepts, and Tools of Nursing Informatics” (pp. 2-18
Functional Areas for Nursing Informatics” (pp. 19-36)

These excerpts differentiate the metastructures (overarching concepts used in theory and science) of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom and examine how they are utilized in nursing informatics.

Alexander, G. L. (2008). A descriptive analysis of a nursing home clinical information system with decision support. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 5(12), 1–22.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

This research study examines how data flows through a nursing home’s information system and includes a diagram to illustrate that flow.

Required Media for NURS 8200 Discussion: Welcome to the Week 2 Discussion area!

United States Department of Veterans Affairs. (Producer). (2011). Innovation in VA, The Story of VistA [Video]. Washington, DC: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 4 minutes.

This video, created by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), demonstrates how VA innovations have dramatically changed the way in which the VA operates and provides patient care. Enlisting a diverse range of medical staff and IT professionals has helped the VA stay on the cutting edge of the technological tools that ensure patient safety.

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Optional Resources

Chunhau, W., Levine, B. A., & Mun, S. K. (2009). Software architecture and engineering for patient records: Current and future. Military Medicine, 174(5) (May Suppl.), 27–34.

Reddy, M., McDonald, D. W., Pratt, W., & Shabot, M. M. (2005).Technology, work, and information flows: Lessons from the implementation of a wireless alert pager system. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 38(3), 229–238.

Schleyer, R., & Beaudry, S. (2009). Data to wisdom: Informatics in telephone triage nursing practice. AAACN Viewpoint 31(5), 1, 10–13.

NURS 8200 Week 2: Information Architecture

Application 1: Nursing Informatics Pioneers

Nursing Informatics Pioneers Assignment: Application 1: Nursing Informatics Pioneers

Please see Week 1 for complete instructions.

By Day 7

Submit your Assignment.

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	Exemplary	Proficient	Sufficient	Developing
Discussion Postings and Responses	4 (100%) – 4 (100%) • Discussion postings and responses are responsive to the requirements of the Discussion instructions and are posted by the due date. • Discussion postings and responses significantly contribute to the quality of interaction by providing rich and relevant examples, applicable research support, discerning ideas, and/or stimulating thoughts/probes and are respectful when offering suggestions, constructive feedback, or opposing viewpoints. • Discussion postings and responses demonstrate an in-depth understanding of concepts and issues presented in the course (e.g., insightful interpretations or analyses, accurate and perceptive parallels, and well-supported opinions) and are well supported, when appropriate, by pertinent research. • Discussion postings and responses provide evidence that the student has read and considered a sampling of colleagues’ postings and synthesized key comments and ideas, as applicable.	3 (75%) – 3 (75%) • Discussion postings and responses are responsive to the requirements of the Discussion instructions and are posted by the due date. • Discussion postings and responses contribute to the quality of interaction by providing examples, research support when appropriate, ideas, and/or thoughts/probes, and are respectful when offering suggestions, constructive feedback, or opposing viewpoints. • Discussion postings and responses demonstrate some depth of understanding of the issues and show that the student has absorbed the general principles and ideas presented in the course, although viewpoints and interpretations are not always thoroughly supported. • Discussion postings and responses provide evidence that the student has considered at least some colleagues’ postings and synthesized some key comments and ideas, as applicable.	2 (50%) – 2 (50%) • Discussion postings and responses are posted by the due date but are not always responsive to the requirements of the Discussion instructions. • Discussion postings and responses do little to contribute to the quality of interaction or to stimulate thinking and learning. • Discussion postings and responses demonstrate a minimal understanding of concepts presented, tend to address peripheral issues, and, although generally accurate, display some omissions and/or errors. • Discussion postings and responses do not provide evidence that the student has considered at least some colleagues’ postings or synthesized at least some key comments and ideas, as applicable.	0 (0%) – 1 (25%) • Discussion postings and responses are posted past the late deadline, defined as 11:59 p.m. on the due date, and/or do not address the requirements of the Discussion instructions. • Discussion postings and responses do not contribute to the quality of interaction or stimulate thinking and learning. • Discussion postings and responses do not demonstrate an understanding of the concepts presented in the course, and/or do not address relevant issues, and/or are inaccurate and contain many omissions and/or errors. • Discussion postings and responses do not provide evidence that the student has read or considered colleagues’ postings, as applicable.
Total Points: 4

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