Application: Subscribing to a Newsletter

Many of today’s health care organizations utilize digital communications to keep professional communities up to date on latest trends, technologies, and evidence-based practices. As you progress through your informatics specialization, the communications can support your professional growth as a scholar practitioner.

For this Assignment, you will subscribe to a daily newsletter from Fierce Healthcare.

To prepare:

• Access the Fierce Healthcare website at http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/.
• Enter your e-mail address into the “sign up for our newsletter” section of the website. You will receive a confirmation e-mail shortly after signing up. Copy and paste this confirmation into a Word document. If you are having trouble copying the e-mail in its entirety, you may also utilize the “print screen” button on your keyboard and then paste the copy of your screen into your Word document. Save this confirmation document, as you will submit this with your final paper.
• Over the next weeks, make time to regularly browse the newsletters that you receive, selecting two informatics articles that are of particular interest to you. Each of the articles that you select must come from a different newsletter. SEE ATTACHED FILES

To complete:

Submit a 3-page paper  Due by Friday  8/05/2016 and 5 references that addresses the following:

1) Summarize the key points of each article you have selected (See attached files). In your summary, include how the informatics topic, trend, initiative, etc. is impacting nursing practice and/or health care settings. In addition, explain how nursing practices, the needs of patient populations, and society in general are influencing the informatics topics being discussed.

2) Explain how (or if) you found the Fierce Healthcare newsletters to be beneficial to your studies and/or your professional growth as a scholar practitioner. In your explanation, include whether or not you intend to continue your subscription  (YES),and whether or not you are considering signing up for any other digital communications from professional organizations (YES). Explain your rationale.

3) Provide a copy of your confirmation e-mail at the end of your paper. (Note that this does not contribute towards your page count.) (Don’t worry about this part)

Reminder:The School of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references.

PS. The introduction must include a purpose statement. The last sentence must begin with  “The purpose of this paper is …”

Required Resources

Readings

• American Nurses Association. (2015). Nursing informatics: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: Author.

  Read the following Chapter:

  • “Functional Areas for Nursing Informatics”

    This section details nine distinct functional areas that nurse informaticists often fulfill in their various job titles and specific positions. These functional areas include administration, analysis, integrity management, consultation, and others.

• Saba, V. K., & McCormick, K. A. (2015). Essentials of nursing informatics (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

  • Chapter 48, “Information Literacy and Computerized Information Resources”

    In this chapter, the authors focus on electronic sources that are easily accessible to nurses and how vital they are to professional credibility and growth. They elaborate on three main points: staying up-to-date with the published literature, developing and maintaining a list of resources, and collaborating and networking with your colleagues. 

• Ericksen, A. B. (2009). Informatics: The future of nursing. RN, 72(7), 34–37.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. 

  This article explores the use of technology in the nursing field and how the informatics specialty came into existence. The article also discusses the role of informatics in patient safety, its use in today’s technological sphere, and the future role it may play in health care.

• Huryk, L.A. (2011). Interview with an informaticist. Nursing Management, 42(11), 44–48.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.  

  The author of this article interviews an experienced informatics nurse specialist (INS) to acquire a nurse’s perspective on electronic health records. The interviewee highlights common topics that future informatics nurses need to consider such as improved patient safety, evidence-based practices, legal/ethical implications, and health care reform.

• Murphy, J. (2011). The nursing informatics workforce: Who are they and what do they do? Nursing Economic$, 29(3), 150–153.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.  

  The author of this article details roles within the nursing informatics workforce. The article also examines the chief nursing informatics officer position.

• Rimmerman, C., Heidenreich, D., & Appel, D. (2009). The role of a clinical operations analyst in implementing a successful electronic medical record. Physician Executive, 35(6), 34–39.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.  

  This article describes electronic medical record (EMR) implementations and their associated benefits. The authors list goals and challenges of EMRs and also discuss how clinical operations analysts can help to increase the probability of a successful implementation.

• American Medical Informatics Association. (n.d.f). Working group: Nursing informatics. Retrieved October 17, 2012 from http://www.amia.org/programs/working-groups/nursing-informatics

  This web page lists a variety of job descriptions that are applicable to the nursing informatics specialty. You should review how the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) defines nursing informatics. Scroll down the page and use the left navigation bar to browse the hyperlinks under the “Informatics Core” and “Informatics Areas” for more information on this. You will also need to explore the hyperlinks under the “Related Working Groups” and “Cross-cutting Working Groups” headings on the right-hand side of the page for more information, as well. (Note: You will use this resource for this week’s discussion, so make sure to explore these links thoroughly.)

• HIMSS Nursing Informatics Awareness Task Force. (2007). An emerging giant: Nursing informatics. Nursing Management. Retrieved from http://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-himss/files/production/public/HIMSSorg/handouts/An%20Emerging%20Giant%20Nursing%20Informatics.pdf

  This foundational piece created by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)Task Force examines the ever-growing need for nurse informaticists.  The authors also specify the roles that are associated with nursing informatics, as well as relevant education programs and certification processes.

Media

• Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012g). The role of nurse informaticists. Baltimore: Author. 

  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 15 minutes.

  In this week’s media presentation, Gail Latimer, Dr. Patricia Button, and Dr. Roy Simpson share their professional experiences in the informatics field, as well as their perceptions about the evolution of nursing informatics.  Each also outlines the varied roles that informatics professionals can play within health care settings.

Optional Resources

• American Medical Informatics Association. (n.d.a). Informatics areas: Clinical informatics. Retrieved October 17, 2012 from http://www.amia.org/applications-informatics/clinical-informatics

• American Medical Informatics Association. (n.d.b). Informatics areas: Clinical research informatics. Retrieved October 17, 2012 from http://www.amia.org/applications-informatics/clinical-research-informatics

• American Medical Informatics Association. (n.d.c). Informatics areas: Consumer health informatics. Retrieved October 17, 2012 from http://www.amia.org/applications-informatics/consumer-health-informatics

• American Medical Informatics Association. (n.d.d). Informatics areas: Public health informatics. Retrieved October 17, 2012 from http://www.amia.org/applications-informatics/public-health-informatics

• American Medical Informatics Association. (n.d.e). Informatics areas: Translational bioinformatics. Retrieved October 17, 2012 from http://www.amia.org/applications-informatics/translational-bioinformatics

• Anderson, C., Barthold, M. F., Duecker, T., Guinn, P., MacCallum, R., & Sensmeier, J. (2012). Nursing informatics 101. Retrieved from http://www.himss.org/files/HIMSSorg/handouts/NI101.pdf