Essay Assignment: Nursing Informatics
Write an essay addressing the following prompts:
A. Electronic health records (EHRs) are easier to read than the paper charts of the past, but many complain that healthcare providers are focusing too much on the computer screen instead of the patient.
1. Is this due to lack of skill or training, poor computer system design, or just the nature of computer charting?
2. Is patient care suffering from the implementation of EHRs?
3. Charting in an EHR consist of clicking boxes, do you feel this provides enough detail about the patient, condition, and events if there was a law suit?
B. Hebda, Hunter and Czar (2019) identify three types of data that is currently being tracked by organizations (p. 46).
1. Identify and explain another type of data, specific to your practice, that is being tracked by an organization.
2. Why do you feel this data is important to track?
3. Identify and discuss the organization that is tracking the data.
4. Are there any ethical concerns with an outside organization tracking this data, explain and give examples?
C. In this essay, you identified and explain the topic selected for the project.
1. Provide a description of your selected topic based on input from the discussion forum. What is your project, why is it relevant to this class, and why is it important to you?
2. Identify an informatics/healthcare theory that aligns with the project and explain why.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.