The project seeks to determine nurses’ informatics competencies. Through identifying their level of competencies, the project will point out areas of deficiencies that would then be targeted to improve nurses’ informatics competencies. With the improved competencies, nurses will be able to leverage informatics with a focus on making use of technologies to improve patient care efficiencies (Stanley, 2017). To be more precise, the improvement in the competencies will allow nurses to make the best use of health care information to provide better care. This will be evident in six key areas. Firstly, it will enhance continuity of care and end-to-end treatment through enabling nurses to create processes and protocols that ensure proper interactions and communications. Also, it will help nurses to have the insight and context from health care information with a view of the truth that ensures excellent continuity of care. Secondly, it will reduce medical costs and errors by ensuring that nurses communications have clear critical facts, deliver information to the right persons, and deliver complete information (Lau & Kuziemsky, 2016). Thirdly, it will improve the capacity of nurses to select and test new medical technologies as they will be well positioned to understand the true value of data and provide informed recommendations. Fourthly, it will determine and provide training and learning needs that will be integrated into external education, ongoing in-house training, or onboarding to deal with specific gaps between ability and expectations. Fifthly, it will improve clinical procedures, processes, protocols and policies. Nurses will be able to measure and analyze how the organization is performing with a focus on the patient outcomes. The nurses would then be able to make changes that improve care, avoid bottlenecks and streamline activities. Finally, it will align best practices with clinical care and workflows. It will allow nurses to be involved in process design, new diagnostics and treatment plans, and clinical workflow reviews with a focus on determining the actions that lead to most value-based, patient-centered care (Stewart & DeNisco, 2019).
Identify the technologies required to implement this project and explain why.
The project will engage nurses using questionnaires to collect information. It will require two technologies to implement. The first technology is a computer that will be used in preparing the project documents, questionnaires, and report. The second technology is a printer that will be used to prepare hard copies of the questionnaires and project report.
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