NURS 6051/NURS 5051 – Transforming Nursing and Healthcare Through Technology: Module 1: What Is Informatics? (Week 1-2)

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). What is Informatics? [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

 

Learning Objectives

Students will:

Analyze how data collection and access can be used to derive knowledge in a healthcare setting

Analyze the role of the nurse leader in using clinical reasoning and judgement in the formation of knowledge

Explain the role of the nurse as a knowledge worker

Explain concepts of nursing informatics

Create infographics related to nursing informatics and the role of the nurse as a knowledge worker

Due By Assignment

Week 1, Days 1–2 Read/Watch/Listen to the Learning Resources.

Compose your initial Discussion post.

Week 1, Day 3 Post your initial Discussion post.

Begin to compose your Assignment.

Week 1, Days 4-5 Review peer Discussion posts.

Compose your peer Discussion responses.

Continue to compose your Assignment.

Week 1, Day 6 Post at least two peer Discussion responses on two different days (and not the same day as the initial post).

Continue to compose your Assignment.

Week 1, Day 7 Wrap up Discussion.

Week 2, Day 1–6 Continue to compose your Assignment.

Week 2, Day 7 Deadline to submit your Assignment.

Photo Credit: [IAN HOOTON]/[Science Photo Library]/Getty Images

 

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

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2017). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

 

Chapter 1, “Nursing Science and the Foundation of Knowledge” (pp. 7–19)

Chapter 2, “Introduction to Information, Information Science, and Information Systems” (pp. 21–33)

Chapter 3, “Computer Science and the Foundation of Knowledge Model” (pp. 35–62)

24Slides. (2018). How to make an infographic in PowerPoint. Retrieved September 27, 2018, from https://24slides.com/presentbetter/how-make-infographic-powerpoint/

 

Nagle, L., Sermeus, W., & Junger, A. (2017). Evolving role of the nursing informatics specialist. In J. Murphy, W. Goossen, & P. Weber (Eds.), Forecasting Competencies for Nurses in the Future of Connected Health (212–221). Clifton, VA: IMIA and IOS Press. Retrieved from https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_4A0FEA56B8CB.P001/REF

 

Sweeney, J. (2017). Healthcare informatics. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics, 21(1).

 

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

 

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). Health Informatics and Population Health: Trends in Population Health [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

 

 

 

 

Accessible player 

–Downloads–

Public Health Informatics Institute. (2017). Public Health Informatics: “translating” knowledge for health [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLUygA8Hpfo.