Nursing Informatics
Application of Innovation Assignment Guidelines
Advances in nursing practice are dependent on nursing professionals with DNP degrees that can link healthcare informatics to patient safety and outcomes through continuous quality improvement. Utilization of clinical judgment and systems thinking for designing, delivering, and evaluating patient care outcomes are required at advanced levels of clinical practice. In this assignment, informatics skills are employed for evaluating designs of healthcare delivery systems in your clinical practice. This assignment should be no more than 10 pages, excluding title, abstract, and reference pages. The grading rubric for graduate program written assignments is located in the first unit of D2L. Please follow the criteria.
| Criteria |
| Introduction |
| Abstract as per APA Guidelines |
| Identify a system to improve in your clinical practice. (Please maintain privacy and deidentify the name of the setting). |
| Apply systems thinking, informatics, and clinical judgment:
1. Describe the system and why improvement is needed in structure, process, and outcomes. 2. Apply one of the common quality improvement frameworks used in healthcare to improve these processes (for example, PDSA). 3. Discuss organization readiness, strengths, and barriers for the proposed improvement. 4. Describe the data management process/ system you will utilize for data analytics of outcomes. Be specific on the data you will collect; provide enough details in the paper that the reader would be able to implement your data collection plan as outlined for determining quality improvement. |
| Discuss the application of interprofessional teams in this improvement process. Identify by title/discipline the interprofessional members necessary on your healthcare team. |
| Discuss contributions to health policy from the improvement process. This can be on local, regional, state, national, and/or international levels. |
| Develop a poster presentation to submit electronically to the Dropbox with your final paper. You will also post the electronic document in Unit 8 Discussion section.
Resources for creating a powerpoint: http://www.emich.edu/apc/guides/apcposterpowerpoint2010.pdf
Christenbery, T. L., & Latham, T. G. (2013). Creating effective scholarly posters: A guide for DNP students. Journal Of The American Association Of Nurse Practitioners, 25(1), 16-23. doi:10.1111/j.1745-7599.2012.00790.x You can use these guidelines or other guidelines for developing the poster. It must be a one page electronic attachment. Grades for the poster will be reflected in Focus and Sequencing of the grading rubric. |
| Conclusion |
