Assignment: The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes and Patient Care Efficiencies

In the Discussion for this module, you considered the interaction of nurse informaticists with other specialists to ensure successful care. How is that success determined?

Patient outcomes and the fulfillment of care goals is one of the major ways that healthcare success is measured. Measuring patient outcomes results in the generation of data that can be used to improve results. Nursing informatics can have a significant part in this process and can help to improve outcomes by improving processes, identifying at-risk patients, and enhancing efficiency.

To Prepare:

• Review the concepts of technology application as presented in the Resources.
• Reflect on how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence may help fortify nursing informatics as a specialty by leading to increased impact on patient outcomes or patient care efficiencies.

The Assignment: (5 pages)

In a 5-page project proposal written to the leadership of your healthcare organization, propose a nursing informatics project for your organization that you advocate to improve patient outcomes or patient-care efficiency. Your project proposal should include the following:

• Describe the project you propose.
• Identify the stakeholders impacted by this project.
• Explain the patient outcome(s) or patient-care efficiencies this project is aimed at improving and explain how this improvement would occur. Be specific and provide examples.
• Identify the technologies required to implement this project and explain why.
• Identify the project team (by roles) and explain how you would incorporate the nurse informaticist in the project team.

Instructions

1. Use paragraphs to organize your response and address each prompt separately. 500 word min must answer both questions.

• Prompt 1: The directors of the documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry ask us to consider the role of the artist in society. In your response, first discuss how Ai Weiwei answers this question concerning the artist’s role in society, and second discuss how you would answer the question. Make reference to one of the the following pieces discussed in the film and the other provided materials to support your ideas: Remembering (backpack piece), Study of Perspectives (the middle finger photographs), or the Sunflower Seeds installation.
  • Things to consider as you formulate your reply: should the artist be an activist, or should the artist focus on expression through a specific medium leaving politics aside?
• Prompt 2: Choose either the Trace installation, which is large scale series of portraits, made of legos, and originally exhibited at Alcatraz in 2014, or the #SafePassage installation, which was a large scale installation made of life jackets originally exhibited in 2016.
  • First, Read through the links and spend some time looking at the images of the installations.
  • Second, research the topic Ai is commenting on in his work (freedom of expression/refugee crisis).
  • In your post, first, describe the installation using the elements of art and explain what drew you to the work. Second, offer a brief analysis of the installation’s purpose and meaning by focusing on what is Ai calling attention to and why. Last, discuss whether or not the work is successful. Justify your response with evidence from the work and your research.
    • You should review this video on Goya’s Third of May, which is successful work of art because Goya merges form and content together to communicate his message.
    • You can begin your research here.

Any outside sources used should be scholarly in nature and included in your submission along with a citation for the textbook in a properly formatted MLA style “Works Cited” section at the end of your post. Any material you integrate into your post word-for-word must be placed in quotation marks and have an in-text parenthetical citation and a works cited entry. Any material you paraphrase or summarize must also be cited with an in-text parenthetical citation and a works cited entry.

Module 4 Discussion

Discussion Documents ( Attached below )

Learning objectives associated with this discussion

This discussion is associated with the three learning objectives in this module:

• understanding the roles of paid staff and volunteers.
• understanding theories of volunteer motivation, and;
• understanding how to train, motivate, and reward staff/volunteers

Instructions for this Discussion

For this discussion, respond to the following:

Most of the theories of management we have explored in this module were originally developed to understand the for-profit world of work. Keeping this in mind. Based on the first four posted articles in this module, which of these theories do you think would be best suited for helping us understand what motivates employees and volunteers in the nonprofit world? If you were leading a nonprofit organization, which one of these theories of human motivation, would you use to guide your interactions with staff and volunteers at your organization? Also, do you think motivating staff and volunteers should be different? Why or why not?

Please prepare for a threaded post. Your initial post should be at least 250 words.

You will also need to post a response to at least two of your classmates’ posts except the primary post. Also, make sure that your response(s) are substantial and consist of at least 100 words.

https://volpro.net/managing-volunteers/

THIS IS FOR POST AND REPLY

It’s easy to tell that all stars are not the same brightness – some stars are brighter, while others are dimmer. We can often use how bright the star appears to us (it’s apparent luminosity) to tell how far away that star is, if we know some additional information about the star (like it’s color, for instance). In this lab, you’ll get a little practice estimating stellar magnitudes for the different brightnesses of stars.

For this lab, you’ll need to print out the Estimating Stellar Magnitudes worksheet (attached below), and the monthly star chart (https://www.telescope.com/content.jsp?pageName=Mon…).

IMPORTANT – the point of this lab is NOT to look up the magnitudes of each of these stars!!! The point is for you to go outside and estimate the magnitudes of the stars, using other stars as a reference. If you look up and fill in the magnitudes of the stars simply by Googling them, you’ll get no points for this assignment! You have to actually do the lab – the numbers aren’t the important part – I can look up the numbers – the important part is you doing the estimating!