NURS 5051/6051 (NURS6051)

Post a description of a current or new information, education, or communication technology tool that is being used in your specialty area and assess its impact on the quality of care. Highlight the effect that increased use of this technology would have on nursing practice and discuss the barriers that are slowing or hindering its adoption. Summarize how adoption of the technology tool could be facilitated.

Post an explanation of why nurses need to document care using standardized nursing languages and whether this standardization can be limited to specialty areas or if it should be across all nursing practice. Support your response using specific examples from your own specialty or area of expertise and using at least one additional resource from the Walden Library.

Write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following: • Summarize the question you developed and then relate how you would work through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge, wisdom continuum. Be specific. o Identify the databases and search words you would use. o Relate how you would take the information gleaned and turn it into useable knowledge. • Can informatics be used to gain wisdom? Describe how you would progress from simply having useful knowledge to the wisdom t...

Post the key functional area(s) of nursing informatics relevant to your current position or to a position you recently held, and briefly describe why this area(s) is relevant. Identify the TIGER competencies you selected as essential to your functional area(s) in which you need improvement. Describe why these competencies are necessary, and outline a plan for developing these competencies. Include any resources that are available to you within your organization and the ways you might acces...