NURS8210 – Transforming Nursing and Healthcare Through Technology

Week 11: Putting It All Together: A Reflection on Nursing Informatics and Project Management Approaches What is the importance of nursing informatics on nursing practice? What is the role of nursing informatics on technology? What is the impact of project management on implementing change in nursing practice? Throughout the past 10 weeks, you have worked […]

To Prepare The Assignment: (4–5 pages, and completed Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment Survey) Note: Be sure to include the completed Nursing Informatics Competency Assessment Survey with your paper. Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references. The Sample Paper provided at the Walden Writing Center […]

Week 10: Nursing Informatics Competencies and Leadership Applications To successfully manage, analyze, and implement the amount of data in healthcare organizations and practice, nurses need to possess certain informatics competencies. These competencies outline the necessary qualities one must possess to be successful as a doctorally prepared nurse. By analyzing and evaluating these competencies, you will […]

Assignment: Developing a Small Informatics Project for Your Organization, Part 2: Implementation The scholarly paper will include a minimum of 10 current citations from peer-reviewed journals. Every statement made in a scholarly report must be supported by a reference. Please note that only primary sources are to be used. Peer-reviewed journal articles should make up […]

Week 9: The Role of Ethics and Security for Nursing Informatics and Practice Technology has provided an ease of access for patient records, communication, and information collection, however, what happens when this information is not kept safe? What happens when safeguards are not put in place, training is not adequate, or hacking occurs? What are […]

The Assignment: (17-20 pages) Activities to track with application of tools: Using these activities above for guidance, continue to work on Part 2, the Project Final paper and presentation. The 10 documents from Part 1 will be added to the final paper as appendices. The paper, 17-20 pages not including references, will include a comprehensive […]

Week 8: The Influence of Social Determinants of Health in Technology Social determinants of health can be categorized into five distinct areas: economics, education, healthcare access and quality, environment, and social/community. These five areas can be widely varied resulting in healthcare disparity. These disparities highlight that “healthy choices” are not enough, rather these disparities must […]

Activities to track with application of tools: Using these activities above for guidance, continue to develop and compile the final paper, discussing the plan for implementation and tracking project progress with your manager who will provide oversight for the project. If you do not have time to fully implement the project due to constraints discussed […]

Week 7: Computer Science Methodologies “Technology will change how nurses spend time delivering patient care, but the need for nurses will remain. Nursing experience, knowledge, and skills will transition to learning new ways of thinking about and processing information—the nurse will become the information integrator, health coach, and deliverer of human caring, supported by AI […]

Using these activities, begin to develop and compile the final paper, discussing the plan for implementation and tracking project progress with your manager who will provide oversight for your project. If you do not have time to fully implement your project due to constraints discussed with your manager and Instructor, continue to write it up […]