e-Portfolio
Welcome to my e-Portfolio. I have included a list of links in the left menu that I have found useful.
The first link is to our ongoing class project NIResource, a new Nursing Informatics meta-site.
Below you will find a brief description of each of the classes I have taken so far. Direct links to
all papers and projects for each class are included. In order to view the docouments below, you will
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- N301- Population-Based Approaches to Health Care
This course provides an overview of population-based approaches to assessment and evaluation of health needs. Understanding the dynamics of population health enables the health care professional to make careful judgments about the kinds of programs or approaches for services in prevention, early detection and intervention, correction or prevention of deterioration, and the provision of palliative care. The content provides a foundation for using scientific evidence for the management of population-based care.
- N307- Research Methods
This graduate course focuses on the research methods needed for the systematic investigation and expansion of nursing knowledge. Methods of critically reading research, and developing and critiquing research proposals will also be emphasized.
Research Proposal - N308- Applied Statistics
This course emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistical procedures used in health care and nursing research. Data management and the relationship between research design and statistical techniques are also studied.
- N400- Organizational Theory for Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems
The course content includes theories, research, and applications that focus on managing organizational behavior within and across all units of an integrated health care delivery system. Content is presented so that students can comprehend how patient care system structures, processes, and outcomes are affected by the actions of health system leaders. Understanding organizational theory, organizational behavior theory, and research is the foundation for practical applications of managerial and leadership interventions in integrated health care systems.
Family Member Presence paper. - N409- Overview of Health Care Information Systems
This course provides an overview of historical, current, and emerging information systems in health care. Multiple systems, vendors, processes, and organizations will be studied. Students will learn features and functions that are common to most health care information systems. Criteria, tools, and methods for evaluating health care information systems will be explored. The course also explores the anticipated impact of a National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) for improving population-based health outcomes.
Team Evaluation Paper and Graphs.
CICU Domain Terminology Paper, MindManager Map, and Powerpoint.
Top 10 Evaluation Criteria paper.
- N410- Issues in Nursing Informatics
This course examines a variety of informatics standards and issues within complex healthcare systems. Content is directed toward assisting the student to understand relationships between the current state of patient care and complex issues involved in clinical informatics practice. Organizational, professional, policy, ethical, social, cultural, economic, and legal issues are among the many issues discussed.
Nursing issues, Trust and Health Literacy paper. - N411- Applied Theories in Nursing Informatics
This course is concerned with the intersection of clinical science, computer science, and information/decision science, and examines both theoretical and practical considerations that impact informatics applications in health care. Content builds upon important issues in informatics, and adds theoretical content that is directed toward assisting the student to understand data-information-knowledge processing as it relates to clinical expertise, decision-making, and patient care outcomes. Other theories that provide an organizational and software development context for clinical informatics are also covered. Change theory is pervasive in informatics practice and is covered with the project management course.
- N412- Health Systems Project Management
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 life cycle, and implements these skills in a health-related project to demonstrate and reinforce concepts learned.
Analysis Survey
Evaluation Survey
Project Plan
Strategic Plan - N413- Informatics Infrastructure for Safe Patient Care
This course is designed to facilitate the design and development of informatics solutions for real-world problems of providing safe patient care. Domain experts (health care providers) will learn tools and strategies for building data-to-outcome information systems that build on knowledge of informatics issues and standards, in developing a single-user (or small group) personal database application for tracking patient safety data in a real-world problem domain.
Use Case
Requirements Document
Users Manual
The Code Blue database created for this project is not posted here as it is in use and not available for public consumption. Should a prospective employer desire a peek at it, that can be arranged. - N417- Capstone Seminar in Clinical Informatics Practice
This final capstone seminar course is designed to help graduating students synthesize prior learning as they transition from the academic environment into new professional roles in nursing and clinical informatics. The course will simultaneously facilitate 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.
- N418- Nursing Informatics Residency
The residency course will develop independent problem solving skills in the synthesis of advanced practice nurse knowledge and informatics knowledge and skills. Residency experiences are completed with the guidance and mentoring of a practicing informatics specialist. The student's learning experiences and informatics project/s will be devised and supervised by the student in consultation with the preceptor and course professor. The major goal of the residency is to provide students with the opportunity to increase both competence and confidence in their ability to synthesize critical thinking skills, advanced practice nursing knowledge, and informatics tools to solve important nursing and health care problems.
