Duke Courses, Written Works and Projects (Adobe Acrobat Reader Required) 
N412 Health Systems Project Management (Fall 2004) This course is designed to leverage health care providers' expertise in facilitating both strategic planning and management of complex projects in health care organizations. Content focuses on project management throughout the systems lifecycle. A strategic plan for an eKardex Cardiothoracic Step-down Unit Charge Nurse Report for Duke University Medical Center was conceptualized utilizing a MindManager Map. The eKardex Executive Summary overviews the strategic plan and PDA application that was developed for use.
N409 Overview of Health Care Information Systems (Spring 2005) This course provides an overview of historical, current and emerging information systems in health care. Privacy and security issues are examined within the contexts of ethical behaviors and legal/regulatory requirements. Multiple systems, vendors, processes and organizations are studied. Features and functions that are common to most health care information systems are learned. Criteria, tools and methods for evaluating health care information systems are explored. Read " MICU Domain Terminology " and its associated MindManager Map and PowerPoint presentation. Examination of a Health Care Information System of Brigham & Women's Hospital was executed using the Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) application. Further analysis was done comparatively examining the CPOE applications at Duke University Medical Center and Brigham & Women's Hospital and development of a PDA tool to collect CPOE end-user data at both sites.
N410 Informatics Issues in Nursing Systems (Summer 2005) Focuses on the field of Nursing Informatics which combines nursing science, computer science, and information/decision science. Issues are examined in applying Nursing Informatics in complex health care organizations and administrative structures, and master problem-solving skills on selected issues. Research, ethical, social, cultural, economic, privacy/confidentiality, and legal issues are included. The selected issue for analysis was Electronic Personal Health Records (EPHR) factoring into consideration consumer literacy and trust.
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N411 Nursing Informatics Theory and Application (Summer 2005) Focuses on Nursing Informatics and examines both theoretical and practical issues for nursing. Theoretical knowledge and technology skills are developed through laboratory application of didactic content and a real world project involving systems analysis, information specification, and project management. Skills are acquired for the development of a health-related web site project to demonstrate and reinforce concepts learned. Content allowed for comparitive analysis of two health web sites leading to development of this current ePortfolio site and a peer coordinated development of a NI repository, www.NIResource.org .
N413 Informatics Infrastructure for Safe Patient Care (Fall 2005) This course is structured to facilitate the design and development of informatics solutions for real-world problems of providing safe patient care. Domain experts (health care providers) learn tools and strategies for building data-to-outcome information systems that build on teamwork concepts, as well as, knowledge of informatics issues and standards, in developing a database application for tracking safety data in real-world domain. Identified as a need, the Department of Nursing Professional Development of BWH sought to record the orientation and training of all newly hired clinical RNs. Inherent in patient safety is the skill level and competency of updated practices of the nursing clinicians. A Project Requirements Document was written to identify the requirements of the database; a comprehensive Nursing Orientation and Training and Evaluation Database (NOTED) was built to capture more than 500 competency variables associated with each newly hired RN at BWH. The NOTED User Manual was developed to assist with the data entry. The scope of the database was limited to the first 5 weeks of the orientation/training process.
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N417 Capstone Seminar in Clinical Informatics Practice (Spring 2006) A synthesis seminar designed to assist NI graduate candidates to transition from the academic environment into new professional roles in nursing and clinical informatics. The course simultaneously facilitates tools to assist with a new job search while focusing seminar discussion on relevant hot topics in informatics that require students to use critical and creative thinking skills that synthesize program content, clinical expertise, and personal values and recorded weekly in a blog format.
N418 Nursing Informatics Residency (Spring 2006) Within the context of advanced nursing practice, this clinical practicum built knowledge and promoted independent problem-solving skills in the synthesis of advanced practice nursing and informatics developed under the guidance and mentorship of a doctorally-prepared Nurse Informaticist, Dr. Christine Curran. Residency Objectives developed for this clinical practicum included: (1) the observation and discussion of the role of the NIS in the evolving lifecycles of the Acute Care Documentation and Paper Documentation Projects with the imposed end-user effects (Deliverable: Clinical Log); (2) the description of the clinical applications of the BWH enterprise with the effect on patient safety and ongoing quality improvement (Deliverable: Clinical Log); (3) the description of the role of emerging eMAR technology at BWH in relation to patient safety and nursing workload (Deliverable: Clinical Log); and (4) enhancement to the front end of the NOTED database for beta testing (Deliverable: Clinical Log, Poster Presentation, and revised/improved MS Access NOTED DB).
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