Using the NHS Leadership Academy clinical leadership competencies, I have put together a leadership portfolio to showcase my leadership growth academically, professionally, and personally during my time as a BScN student at Nipissing University. Leadership Credo My intention to lead will begin with setting an example on the importance of collaboration, ethical decision making, and …
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Future Direction…
What if we could understand health and complex diseases BEFORE they occurred using personalized genomics, informatics, and biology to create a healthcare system that focused on prevention (Snyderman, 2012)? This outlook on health is the concept best described as “personalized medicine/healthcare”. The understandings from science are leading the way in changing our thinking about diseases …
Module 9: Professional Standards – Informatics Edition
Professionalism
This week’s module focuses on the topic of professionalism in nursing and how this relates to a nurses online representation. An example of this comes from a case involving a nursing student in her final year, Doyle Byrnes, who took a photograph of a placenta during a lab at a medical centre and posted it …
Information Literacy
Protecting our patients personal health information (PHI) under the regulations of the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) is a nursing responsibility. Nurses have both the ethical and legal responsibility to maintain our patient’s confidentiality and privacy as we are health information custodians (College of Nurses of Ontario, 2019; Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, …
Computerized Patient Information System
The Darbyshire (2004) article described the nurses and midwives experience to computerized patient information systems being implemented across five Australian hospitals during their everyday practice. There was a significant amount of negative responses to this implementation. This was a qualitative study which allowed nurses and midwives to describe their experience in their own words and …
Process of Administering Medications
The process of administering medications goes beyond the actual act of providing a patient with a medication. Nurses must implement the three principles that are outlined by the College of Nurses of Ontario that include: authority, competence, and safety (CNO, 2019). I have integrated these three principles in a word cloud that outlines the process …
Defining Types of Data
For this week’s module, I will be exploring six different informatics/eHealth systems. Depending on your level of understanding/exposure to these systems, you may feel unaware of the meanings behind the acronyms and what it means to nursing. I hope to provide you a deeper understanding of these systems and the data that can be captured …
Thesis Statement
For this week’s module, I have been tasked with creating a thesis statement to begin the process of writing a scholarly paper. I have had the privilege of being involved in the evolution of using technology at my workplace. I assisted in the roll-out of the new electronic medication administration record (eMAR) by educating nurses, …
What Is Informatics?
After reading this week’s material that included the required readings from the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO), I have a better understanding of what the word ‘informatics’ means. Although there are various definitions of the word, it appears that informatics embodies the basic fact of technology and the connection technology has in the delivery …
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