Nursing Informatics Competency 5

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Dr. Glenn
The nursing informatics competencies for the MSN described by AACN that I can securely say that I have mastered is competency five: the use of information and communication technologies, resources, and principles of learning to teach patients and others. When computer charting was introduced in my practice, our facility also introduce evidence based resource that we can teach to our patients. We have programs embedded within our electronic system that we can utilized and educate our patient regarding their diagnosis, diet, medication and other information needed to support our patient. An example of one of the program embedded in our electronic system is LexiComp. This is one of the main program we use to educate our patient. LexiComp

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