Interview with Nursing Information Expert

Interview with Nursing Information Expert

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Criteria Fill in the answers in this column.
Demographics: Provide initials of the RN, official job title of interviewee, and the date the interview was conducted. CF, RN, 08/08/2014

Required Questions
(answer EVERY question in this section)
1. Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences. I earn my Bachelor’s in Nursing degree in a basis regular program of 4 years that typically focuses on the sciences and principles of nursing career practice.

I have been a nurse for 22 years. My first 12 years were spent working in Labor and Delivery and I have spent the past 10 years on the Mother Baby unit.  This past December I took a Clinical Unit Leader (CUL) position on the Mother Baby Unit.  Our OB unit is very busy.

2. Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility. You can’t turn around in nursing without encountering the term

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP).
Many computer systems are now installed with software called Computerized Decision Support (CDS). In the very near future, we can expect to see more computers with hyperlinks or guidelines for evidence based practice. Nurses are so important in the development of CDS. We have the knowledge and skills to provide guidance to nurses in practice. Nursing informatics is a growing field and nurses are strongly recognized as vital to the information technology of the future!

Standardization goes a long way in not only meeting the financial needs of the organization, but also the improved patient safety and care objectives. We can all agree that the ultimate goal of standardization is, in fact, patient safety resulting from clear, concise communication of evidence-based clinician instructions.

Use of a standardized nursing language for documentation of nursing care is vital both to the nursing profession and to the bedside/direct care nurse. Some of the benefits and advantages for the direct care/bedside nurse would include: better communication among nurses and other health care providers, increased visibility of nursing interventions, improved patient care, enhanced data collection to evaluate nursing care outcomes, greater adherence to standards of care, and facilitated assessment of nursing competency.

3. What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility? Throughout the years technology has evolved  to shape the nursing profession by moving from manual applications to now technology driven.  Technology has evolved from nurses having to manually calculate IV drip rate to now using an IV pump when administering IV solution or certain medications , Nurses also had to manually calculate medications then go to the pharmacy and get the medications now with the EHR system in place most of the units the nurse uses the pic system  when administering medications.  Positive aspects of using the EHR and pic system when administering medications is when properly used this system help to prevent medication errors and provide clear and concise documentation from the physician order to the nurse charting what and how much medication was given .  Negative aspect is that a nurse can possible administer too much of the medication by not verifying the correct dosage or order or simple not following the 6 rights to medication administration.

4. Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility. Data from monitors of physiological processes can be integrated into an electronic record. Some monitoring systems require that the client be connected in some way to the device. For client assessments, nurses use ecg rhythms, cardiac output, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and other measurable data. This data can be integrated into the patient’s medical record.

Monitoring systems that use wireless technology enable automatic nurse-paging capabilities when client measurements fall outside normal parameters. For example, a patient connected to a centralized telemetry system experiences a run of multifocal premature ventricular contractions. The monitoring system immediately pages the nurse. If the nurse fails to respond in a specified time, the system sends pages to other nurses working on the unit.

This enables a faster response to abnormal findings. Advanced technology is improving healthcare by leaps and bounds.

5. What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high-quality information or data and how is it utilized? As we move to toward greater interoperability and sharing data within networks, it will become even more critical to involve the nursing staff in identifying and understanding the value and uses, as well as the input and other requirements, of information included in the record. Nurses are an essential part of the team and play critical role of the nurse in implementation of the EHR.

Optional Questions
(Answer only ONE question from the choices below.)
1. Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not “understand the needs of nurses/nursing?”
2. Please share an example of how GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) impacted a decision related to your information or data collection.
3. Please give me an example of how the lack of interprofessional collaboration impacted your role.
4. Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you.

Follow-Up Questions
(Answer all of these. Please do not ask them during the interview.
Instead, reflect and answer them afterwards.)
1. How will completing this interview impact your practice as a BSN-prepared nurse? Give specific examples.
2. Resources (scholarly articles or texts). Indicate 2 scholarly resources or texts used prior to the interview to familiarize yourself with the individual’s organization, role, or any of the questions you asked to make you a more knowledgeable interviewer. Resource #1:
Resource # 2:

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Interview with Nursing Information Expert

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