Name
Capella University
FPX6410
Instructor’s name
October 1st, 2024
Presentation to Informatics Staff
Slide 2: Hello everyone! I’m ______________, and today I will be sharing with the informatics team what ANA standards can do for the quality of a patient. More importantly, I will be examining the roles that data analysis plays in enhancing or at the very least, sustaining most of these outcomes. Nursing Informatics has a major responsibility of identifying and promoting the implementation of best practices for patient care as well as nursing research.
Why are Standards Important to Follow?
Slide 3: Professional practice standards that are put in place are critical to the provision of quality, standard, and enduring health care to patients. All of the above lists offer a framework that will help a nurse make the right decisions to promote safety and also offer filled accountability. If such standards are followed, then nurses can be able to deliver good quality care that is also patient-oriented (Thomas et al., 2023). It enhances the results of patient treatment and satisfaction since everyone receives equal or relatively equal quality care. Furthermore, they act as guides to measure the competence in practices of nursing. They also assist in legal compliance, maintaining that compliance within healthcare organizations and making certain that staff is providing the highest quality of safe patient care per best practices. These standards can help administrators raise awareness of other members of staff, optimize clinical processes, and promote consistent enhancement of sophisticated safety measures.
Examples of the Standards of Practice
Slide 4: ANA standards offer detailed information on various aspects from the admission of the patient to the release. This encompasses documenting certain aspects of the patient, assessing the findings to make a diagnosis, determine and executing patient-specific care interventions, organizing other aspects of the patient’s care as well as reviewing the results (MacPhee et al., 2020). For instance, when a nurse administers care to a diabetic patient it will require to input elaborate health information such as family history and lifestyle practices. The nurse would then from a range of options develop a plan of taking care of the patient with the diagnosis while taking into consideration the patient’s cultural or religious beliefs, and this may entail recommending a patient on a recommended diet or a physical activity, and about medication regime. Nursing information records all the help data in the EHR, so there will be references and updates if necessary in the future (Yip, 2021). Moreover, teamwork and communication skills with other colleagues and with patients are also very important factors in practicing adequate quality among healthcare professionals. The care plan’s best outcomes are assessed consistently, and changes occur depending on the patient’s improvement.
Applying Theoretical Frameworks or Models
Slide 5: The Empowerment Informatics Framework reveals that it is crucial to devise a supportive context where nurses and patients can weave a mutually supportive governance of health-enabling technology together. On one side, it centralizes power among nurses by offering them accurate data that enhances patient management as well as effective decision-making (Vaismoradi et al., 2020). It focuses on the individual and self-organized care as well as on the enhancement of health literacy. For instance, when dealing with a patient with diabetes this framework can serve as a checklist where the nurses can go through the patient data and also help the patient even in the management of the disease condition. It permits the patient to be in charge of his or her well-being while at the same time making sure that the nurse assists and directs the patient based on research findings.
Also, Lewin’s Change Theory can be applied when making changes in the development of healthcare facilities. The model, that was identified in this study is Lewin’s three-stage model that entails the following; unfreezing, which is a change of perspective to acknowledge that change is needed; moving is the change that has to occur; refreezing is freezing the change into practice (Roberts et al., 2023). Nursing benefits from Applying this theory, because it assists nurses who practice nursing informatics in implementing new standards and technologies. For instance, when adopting a new EHR system, Lewin’s Change Theory can be used whereby nurses adopt a when and how to approach when implementing the new system. This helps to ensure that the changeover alters promote long-term improvement in patient care and organizational functioning.
Distinguishing Between Validated Data & Invalidated Data
Slide 6: Nursing practice is dependent on validated data because it is accurate, reliable as well as comprehensive. For instance, writing the details of a diabetic patient’s blood sugar levels right after the test guarantees the accuracy of the data to be used in future decisions (Chiu et al., 2020). Accuracy of the data is essential to patient safety because such data creates the foundation for diagnosing patients, developing treatment regimens, and assessing the results. On the other hand, invalidated data could be incomplete or in some way inaccurate as a result of delayed or erroneous data feeds, and they can result in improper diagnoses or suboptimal medical treatments. For instance, should a nurse not input the patient data on time, then there is likely to be some level of error which may well materialize into a compromise of care.
How Validated Data Can Identify Gaps in Practice
Slide 7: Data validation apart from ensuring that the information provided to patients is accurate affords opportunities to recognize flawed practices in this field. The checked subjects can potentially be reviewed continuously and strains of weakness or inconsistency to pattern diabetic care, for example, could be recognized (Barnden et al., 2023). This way the practice is built to reflect the latest research evidence so that care practice is up to date. Moreover, there is an opportunity to use valid data for the correction of errors, improvement of effective procedures, and avoidance of negative consequences. For instance, valid data about Diabetic patients can be compared and then the nurses will be able to compare the data and decide on the kind of alteration to be done on the care plans to provide better results for the patients.
Analyzing the Specific Regulatory Bodies
Slide 8: Organizations such as the HIPAA and the HITECH Act are critical in protecting patients’ information and the right management of health information. HIPAA has rules that cover the privacy and security of such patient information where its divulgence to unauthorized personnel is prohibited (Orstad et al., 2021). This also includes; how to use encryption to protect data, how to protect an EHR, and how to avoid compromising the confidentiality of the data in an EHR. Healthcare providers need to adhere to these regulations to keep their patient’s confidence and stay out of trouble. The HITECH Act works hand in hand with HIPAA in that it incentivizes the usage of improved care delivery health IT solutions. These policies also safeguard patient information from misuse but also make sure that proper use of such data would enhance the patient’s care.
Evaluating Ethical & Legal Practices
Slide 9: The principles of ethical and legal behaviors in nursing are something that is of paramount importance because not only is it important to meet the increased standard that is required in diabetes care but it is also important to ensure that the legal standard of nursing is also met in the process. From an ethical point of view, nurses have the responsibility to guarantee that medication is delivered safely as well as touch on patient rights with admission to the many medication choices obtainable (Salehi et al., 2020). Patients should be included in most decisions and all conversations should be clear and honest. In legal terms, nurses are imparted with the responsibility of responding to medical mishaps proactively while being Equal Care to all Patients without Discrimination of the Status of the Patient. Compliance with such ethical and legal requirements promotes the provision of high quality, socially and economically just medical service to the patient and at the same time reduces and/or eliminates arguably unmerited risks of patients and healthcare practitioners.
NURS FPX 6410 Assessment 1 Conclusion
Slide 10: In conclusion, it is necessary to integrate ANA standards on the part of the NIC to guarantee the continuity of the adequate level of patient care. These standards help to underpin practice supported by research evidence, to make sure that nurses are responsible and patients receive good quality of care (Yip, 2021). It is thus critical in healthcare approaches to embrace validated data reduce gaps within practices, make sound decisions, and enhance healthcare improvements. Figures such as the Empowerment informatics framework coupled with Lewin’s Change theory aid in educating nursing professionals to assume new technology and steps. HIPAA and HITECH are bodies that govern use of the health information and oversee the security of the data.
NURS FPX 6410 Assessment 1 References
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Appendix
Journal Name: BMC Health Public
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