Assignment: Interview with a Nursing Information Expert
Interviewer Form
Criteria
Demographics: Provide initials of the RN, officialjob title of interviewee that includes the type of nursing information roleand the date the interview was conducted.
Types of nursing information expert may be considered include, but are not limited to, Nursing Clinical Information Manager; Super User, Director/Manger Clinical Education; Chief Information Officer; Quality Assurance or Performance Improvement Nurse; Nurse Informaticist; Telenursing Specialist; Nurse Abstractor; Case Manager; Compliance Nurse.
Required Questions
(answer EVERY question in this section)
1. Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences.
2. Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility.
3. What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility?
4. Names/lists four or more technologies that improved patient care.
5. Names/lists three or more groups that rely on information/data AND describes in detail how information is utilized.
Optional Questions
(answer only ONE question from the choices below)
1. Tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not "understand the needs of nurses/nursing?"
2. Share an example of how garbage in/garbage out (GIGO) impacted a decision related to your information/data collection.
3. Give me an example of how the lack of interprofessional collaboration impacted your role.
4. Describe what a typical day on the job is like for you?
Follow-up Questions
1. How will completing this interview impact your practice as a BSN-prepared nurse? Give specific examples.
2. Resources:
List scholarly articles or texts that were used prior to the interview to prepare. Write resource in APA format. (The references should be within the last five years).
Clearly states how each resource helped prepare for the interview.
• Clearly summarizes what was learned from interaction with interviewee answers. Clearly describes how personal nursing practice will change as a result of learning about roles and responsibilities of interviewee.
• Specifically names TWO scholarly resources reviewed prior to interview. Clearly states how each resource helped prepare for interview. This needs to be detailed. Reminder references can not older than eight years old. Best practice is three to five years old.
• Name of student and date of interview appears on Interview Form.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.