THE ROLE OF THE NURSE INFORMATICIST IN SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION

Assume you are a nurse manager on a unit where a new nursing documentation system is to be implemented. You want to ensure that the system will be usable and acceptable for the nurses impacted. You realize a nurse leader must be on the implementation team.

To Prepare:

· Review the steps of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and reflect on the scenario presented.

· Consider the benefits and challenges associated with involving a nurse leader on an implementation team for health information technology.

The Assignment: (2-3 pages not including the title and reference page)

In preparation of filling this role, develop a 2- to 3-page role description for a graduate-level nurse to guide his/her participation on the implementation team. The role description should be based on the SDLC stages and tasks and should clearly define how this individual will participate in and impact each of the following steps:

· Planning and requirements definition

· Analysis

· Design of the new system

· Implementation

· Post-implementation support

· Use APA format and include a title page and reference page.

· Use the Safe Assign Drafts to check your match percentage before submitting your work.

LEARNING RESOURCES

Required Readings

· McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2022). 
Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

· Chapter 9, “Systems Development Life Cycle: Nursing Informatics and Organizational Decision Making” (pp. 191–204)

· Chapter 12, “Electronic Security” (pp. 251–265)

· Chapter 13, “Achieving Excellence by Managing Workflow and Initiating Quality Projects” 

· Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.a). 


Health IT evaluation toolkit and evaluation measures quick reference guide

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. Retrieved January 26, 2022, from https://digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-evaluation-toolkit

· Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.b). 


Workflow assessment for health IT toolkit

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. Retrieved January 26, 2022, from https://digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit

Health Promotion

Week 2 Discussion (USLOs 2.1, 2.3, 2.5)

Like you have learned with nursing theory, behavior change theories and models provide a framework for developing effective health promotion activities. Include the following in your initial post:

· Introduce a behavior change theory or model. Include the name and key concepts of the theory or model.

· Discuss your rationale for choosing this theory or model.

· How can this theory or model be used to address the Healthy People topic and objective you are choosing for the remainder of the course assignments?

Additional Instructions

Please note that you need to support your post with a scholarly source that is referenced using APA format and include in-text citations where you are using the referenced material in your post. 

 Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 250–300 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Library Research Assignment

Discuss the following points regarding the evolution of total quality management concepts:

• Prior to the advent of the total quality management concept, what was senior management’s typical approach toward quality?
  • In your discussion, provide an example showing management’s typical approach toward quality.
• What has led to the more comprehensive strategic view of total quality management?
• What are the benefits of a more comprehensive strategic view? Please support your discussion with an example.

Respond using at least two scholarly references/ APA format

 

Current National Healthcare Issue and its Impact on the Work Setting

            One of the most significant healthcare issues to date is the lack of insurance coverage for patients and the continued high costs of healthcare.  As a whole society needs healthcare, but fewer can afford it even with working full-time jobs. Here in the U.S., our method for paying for healthcare is where patients pay a fee for the services provided. When doing this, it devalues the primary care aspect of healthcare and supports a more volumed-based system so that the providers can increase the monetary gain for a payment model system (Park et al., 2018). There is no consistent way to make things perfect across the board, but there are ways to help such as bundling care and treatments and implementing monthly payments (Park et al., 2018). The social determinant that most affects this issue is the ability to have access to quality healthcare. Multiple inequalities affect patients in healthcare such as ethnic groups, social status, and economic (Broome, M., & Marshall, E. S.,2021). In 2020, the United States healthcare costs reached 4.1 trillion dollars (AAMC, 2023). “Nearly one in five Americans has medical debt, and affordability is still an issue for a large proportion of the population, whether uninsured or insured, which suggests that policymakers should focus on patients’ costs.” (Association of American Medical Colleagues, 2023). With that number of Americans being in debt due to healthcare, we need to focus on how to change the way we are billing our services as providers, offering insurance to the public as a country, and a way to offer more affordable services.

How the National Healthcare Issue Affects the Work Setting

In the clinic where I work our patients often must reschedule the procedures that they are scheduled for their pain management treatments due to insurance denying them. They will either pay out of pocket or reschedule. This impacts the practice as a whole: the nursing staff must rearrange the whole schedule, and change the documentation, and the patients will miss their much-needed treatments. Our case manager then works closely with the insurance companies to see what we can do to get the patient’s procedures approved. It has often taken up to 6 months to get just one injection approved. This process often makes the patient feel depressed and angered and leaves the staff feeling hopeless.